Impact of human population density on fire frequency at the global scale

Human impact on wildfires, a major earth system component, remains poorly understood. While local studies have found more fires close to settlements and roads, assimilated charcoal records and analyses of regional fire patterns from remote-sensing observations point to a decline in fire freq...

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Main Authors: W. Knorr, T. Kaminski, A. Arneth, U. Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-02-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/1085/2014/bg-11-1085-2014.pdf