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Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Canadian Forests

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Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

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Conclusion

Recently the climate has been warming over most of Canada (Gullett and Skinner 1992), and the warming is expected to continue throughout the twenty-first century (IPCC 2001). This warming and changes in other meteorological variables will alter the fire regime. Significant increases in fire weather indexes are anticipated over central sections of Canada where much of the current fire activity occurs. We believe that this increase in fire weather indexes will translate into significant increases in area burned in this century. Changes in the fire regime may have a significant impact on the composition, structure, and functioning of Canadian forests. Because the fire regime responds almost immediately to changes in the climate, the fire regime may act as a catalyst for change in Canadian forests. Therefore the rate and magnitude of fire-induced changes to Canadian forests could greatly exceed changes due directly to a changing climate. These changes would be most pronounced over regions where fire is prominent, such as in the boreal forest.

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Flannigan, M., Stocks, B., Weber, M. (2003). Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Canadian Forests. In: Veblen, T.T., Baker, W.L., Montenegro, G., Swetnam, T.W. (eds) Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies, vol 160. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21710-X_4

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