Are Wildfires in the Wildland-Urban Interface Increasing Temperatures? A Land Surface Temperature Assessment in a Semi-Arid Mexican City

High rates of land conversion due to urbanization are causing fragmented and dispersed spatial patterns in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) worldwide. The occurrence of anthropogenic fires in the WUI represents an important environmental and social issue, threatening not only vegetated areas but a...

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Main Authors: Mariana Ayala-Carrillo, Michelle Farfán, Anahí Cárdenas-Nielsen, Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/12/2105