Increased fire activity under high atmospheric oxygen concentrations is compatible with the presence of forests

This study shows that fire activity under high atmospheric oxygen concentrations does not remove or prevent regeneration of present-day global forests, contradicting a long-term assumption used to define the upper limit of oxygen through time.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rayanne Vitali, Claire M. Belcher, Jed O. Kaplan, Andrew J. Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35081-z