Fire activity increasing as climate changes

The Fire-Climate Connection

Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California.

The costly interactions between humans and wildfires throughout California demonstrate the need to understand the relationships between them, especially in the face of a changing climate and expanding human communities. Although a number of statistical and process-based wildfire models exist for California, there is enormous uncertainty about the location and number of future fires, with previo...

As climate changes, so do glaciers.

Understanding abrupt climate changes requires detailed spatial/temporal records of such changes, and to make these records, we need rapidly responding, geographically widespread climate trackers. Glacial systems are such trackers, and recent additions to the stratigraphic record show overall synchronous response of glacial systems to climate change reflecting global atmosphere conditions.

Fire, Fire, Kill: Changes in Terror Leadership

Personnel management at the top of terrorist groups presents a puzzle. Sub-commanders act off message reasonably often, angering powerful backers. When this happens terrorist group leaders have every incentive—and typically the means—to kill the offending subcommander. Yet we often observe group leaders firing sub-commanders instead, despite the fact that doing so allows the sub-commanders an o...

Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org D this century, climate change is projected to cause profound plant species losses and migrations – and shifts in ecosystem structure and function – in many parts of the world (including several biodiversity hotspots; Malcolm et al. 2006). However, such assessments are based almost entirely on empirical niche (or climate envelope) m...