The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society
Session ID#: 279870
Session Description:
Wildfires are a critical component of the Earth system. Global fire frequency, severity, and size are increasingly shaped by climate warming and land use changes. As fire regimes shift, extreme fire behavior poses unprecedented challenges to ecosystems and communities. This session explores interactions between fire, ecosystems, climate, and humans across local to global scales, and how these dynamics will evolve in a warming world. We encourage submissions using remote sensing, in situ observations, modeling, or integrated approaches, with an emphasis on: (1) the role of fires in biogeochemistry and carbon cycling; (2) the influence of climate and humans on fire; (3) post-fire effects on hydrology, soils, and ecosystems; (4) impacts of changing fire regimes on human health, livelihoods, and ecosystem services; (5) fire-driven shifts in biodiversity and ecosystem state transitions, including ecological tipping points; and (6) the changing nature of fire over millennia and predictions for the future.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Rebecca Scholten, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners: Tempest Diana McCabe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Xiulin Gao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Marta Basso, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Student/Early Career Convener: Qian He, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
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