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1. Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

   Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov, et al. · 2019 · Earth s Future · 1,090 cites

   Abstract Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During 1972–2018, California experienced a fivefold increase in annual burned area, mainly due to more than an eightfold increase in summer forest‐fire extent. Increased summer forest‐fire area very likely occurred due to increased atmospheric aridity caused by warming. Since the early 1970s, warm‐season days warmed by approximately 1.4 °C as part of a centennial warming trend, significantly increasing the atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD). These trends are consistent with anthropogenic trends simulated by

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2. Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

   Tania L. Schoennagel, Jennifer K. Balch, Hannah Brenkert–Smith, et al. · 2017 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 769 cites

   Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, the wildland–urban interface is projected to experience substantially higher risk of climate-driven fires in the coming decades. Although many plants, animals, and ecosystem services benefit from fire, it is unknown how ecosystems will respond to increased burning and warming. Policy and management have focused primarily on specified resilience approaches aimed at resistance to wildfire and restoration of areas burned by wildfire through fire suppression and fuels management. These strategies are inadequate to add

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3. Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

   Jessica E. Halofsky, David L. Peterson, Brian J. Harvey · 2020 · Fire Ecology · 640 cites

   Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of resource managers, fire scientists, and the general public. This paper synthesizes understanding of the potential effects of changing climate and fire regimes on Pacific Northwest forests, including effects on disturbance and stress interactions, forest structure and composition, and post-fire ecological processes. We frame this information in a risk assessment context, and conclude with management implications and future research needs. Results Large and severe fires in the Pacific Northwest are associated with warm and dr

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4. Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health

   Rongbin Xu, Pei Yu, Michael John Abramson, et al. · 2020 · New England Journal of Medicine · 609 cites

   Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health Wildfires are increasingly common and projected to worsen with climate change. Health consequences include burns and mental health effects, as wel...

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5. Climate Warming, Wildfire Hazard, and Wildfire Occurrence in Coastal Eastern Spain

   Josep Piñol, Jaume Terradas, Francisco Lloret · 1998 · Climatic Change · 503 cites

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6. Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function

   Amelia R. Nelson, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Charles C. Rhoades, et al. · 2022 · Nature Microbiology · 259 cites

   Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires have increased owing to climate change. Fires affect ecosystem recovery and modify soil microbiomes and microbially mediated biogeochemical processes. To study wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiomes, we characterized functional shifts in the soil microbiota (bacteria, fungi and viruses) across burn severity gradients (low, moderate and high severity) 1 yr post fire in coniferous forests in Colorado and Wyoming, USA. We found severity-dependent increases of Actinobacteria encoding genes for heat resistance, f

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7. The Impact of Climate Change on Wildfire Severity: A Regional Forecast for Northern California

   Jeremy S. Fried, Margaret S. Torn, Evan Mills · 2004 · Climatic Change · 249 cites

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8. ENSO's Changing Influence on Temperature, Precipitation, and Wildfire in a Warming Climate

   John Fasullo, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Samantha L. Stevenson · 2018 · Geophysical Research Letters · 191 cites

   Abstract On interannual to decadal time scales, the climate mode with many of the strongest societal impacts is the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). However, quantifying ENSO's changes in a warming climate remains a formidable challenge, due to both the noise arising from internal variability and the complexity of air‐sea feedbacks in the tropical Pacific Ocean. In this work, we use large (≥30‐member) ensembles of climate simulations to show that anthropogenic climate change can produce systematic increases in ENSO teleconnection strength over many land regions, driving increased interannual variability in regional temperature extremes and wildfire frequency. As the spatial character of

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