Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916-2003

The purpose of this paper is to quantify climatic controls on the area burned by fire in different vegetation types in the western United States. We demonstrate that wildfire area burned (WFAB) in the American West was controlled by climate during the 20th century (1916–2003). Persistent ecosystem-s...

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Published in:	Ecological applications 2009-06, Vol.19 (4), p.1003-1021
Main Authors:	Littell, Jeremy S, McKenzie, Donald, Peterson, David L, Westerling, Anthony L
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	adaptation air temperature antecedent climate Climate Climate change Climate models climatic factors Climatic zones drought ecoprovinces Ecosystem ecosystem management ecosystems fire Fire ecology fire regime Fires Fires - history forest forest ecosystems Forest fires Forest service forests fuels fuels (fire ecology) gamma distribution grasses history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Modeling Paleoclimatology precipitation Regression Analysis resilience shrubs United States Vegetation vegetation types Western United States wildfire area burned Wildfires
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