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Boreal forest regions, including East Siberia, have experienced elevated fire activity in recent years, leading to record\uffe2\uff80\uff90breaking greenhouse gas emissions and severe air pollution. However, our understanding of the factors that eventually halt fire spread and thus limit fire growth remains incomplete, hindering our ability to model their dynamics and predict their impacts. We investigated the locations and timing of 2.2 million fire stops\uffe2\uff80\uff94defined as 300\uffe2\uff80\uff89m unburned pixels along fire perimeters\uffe2\uff80\uff94across the vast East Siberian taiga. Fire stops were retrieved from remote sensing data covering over 27,000 individual fires that collectively burned 80 Mha between 2012 and 2022. Several geospatial datasets, including hourly fire weather data and landscape variables, were used to identify the factors contributing to individual fire stops. Our analysis attributed 87% of all fire stops to a statistically significant (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89<\uffe2\uff80\uff890.01) change in one or more of these drivers, with fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90weather drivers limiting fire growth over time and landscape drivers constraining it across space. We found clear regional and temporal variations in the importance of these drivers. For instance, landscape drivers\uffe2\uff80\uff94such as less flammable land cover and the presence of roads\uffe2\uff80\uff94were key constraints on fire growth in southeastern Siberia, where the landscape is more populated and fragmented. In contrast, fire weather was the primary constraint on fire growth in the remote northern taiga. Additionally, in central Yakutia, a major fire hotspot in recent years, fuel limitations from previous fires increasingly restricted fire spread. The methodology we present is adaptable to other biomes and can be applied globally, providing a framework for future attribution studies on global fire growth limitations. In northeast Siberia, we found that with increasing droughts and heatwaves, remote northern fires could potentially grow even larger in the future, with major implications for the global carbon cycle and climate.\u00a0120%. MCE confuses drying and flaming, and has significant variations during the ignition stage. As a result, MCE is not valid as a universal fire mode indicator used in the field. This work fills the knowledge gap between moisture and emissions, and provides a better understanding which can help mitigate peat fires.", "keywords": ["Energy", "biomass", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "624", "Wildfire", "15. Life on land", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "moisture", "11. Sustainability", "pollution", "0204 chemical engineering", "fire", "0913 Mechanical Engineering", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.07.046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Combustion%20and%20Flame", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.07.046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.07.046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.07.046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/cli2.19", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-24T16:14:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-21", "title": "An alert system for Seasonal Fire probability forecast for South American Protected Areas", "description": "Abstract

Timely spatially explicit warning of areas with high fire occurrence probability is an important component of strategic plans to prevent and monitor fires within South American (SA) Protected Areas (PAs). In this study, we present a five\uffe2\uff80\uff90level alert system, which combines both climatological and anthropogenic factors, the two main drivers of fires in SA. The alert levels are: High Alert, Alert, Attention, Observation and Low Probability. The trend in the number of active fires over the past three years and the accumulated number of active fires over the same period were used as indicators of intensification of human use of fire in that region, possibly associated with ongoing land use/land cover change (LULCC). An ensemble of temperature and precipitation gridded output from the GloSea5 Seasonal Forecast System was used to indicate an enhanced probability of hot and dry weather conditions that combined with LULCC favour fire occurrences. Alerts from this system were first issued in August 2020, for the period ranging from August to October (ASO) 2020. Overall, 50% of all fires observed during the ASO 2017\uffe2\uff80\uff932019 period and 40% of the ASO 2020 fires occurred in only 29 PAs were all categorized in the top two alert levels. In categories mapped as High Alert level, 34% of the PAs experienced an increase in fires compared with the 2017\uffe2\uff80\uff932019 reference period, and 81% of the High Alert false alarm registered fire occurrence above the median. Initial feedback from stakeholders indicates that these alerts were used to inform resource management in some PAs. We expect that these forecasts can provide continuous information aiming at changing societal perceptions of fire use and consequently subsidize strategic planning and mitigatory actions, focusing on timely responses to a disaster risk management strategy. Further research must focus on the model improvement and knowledge translation to stakeholders.

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Fundamental understanding of smouldering fire spread is essential for the development of mitigating technologies. In this paper, we have systematically conducted 63 experiments studying the individual and combined influence of two key factors affecting multidimensional smouldering spread in organic soils: moisture content (MC) and inorganic content (IC). Both lateral and in-depth smouldering spread were investigated using a novel shallow reactor. This shallow depth allows a greater number of experiments to be performed in a short period of time compared to deeper samples. Lateral spread was found to decrease linearly with moisture content (R2 > 90%); while in-depth spread rate increased linearly up to 300% from moisture content of 0% to 140%. Increased inorganic content linearly decreased the lateral spread rate but had little influence on in-depth spread in drier samples. Interestingly, in wetter samples, in-depth spread was in fact sensitive to inorganic content. A novel approach combining lateral and in-depth spread rates as vector components, revealed that the global spread is independent of moisture content, with an average spread rate of 8.7 and 8.4\u00a0cm/h for 2.5 and 40% IC, with changes in direction according to moisture content; going in-depth for wet soils, and laterally for dry soils. Similarly, increasing the IC encouraged downward spread for wet samples. We also report observations of a bifurcation of lateral spread, where spread would locally extinguish where the in-depth spread was greater than the lateral spread. These findings provide previously unknown insight into the relationship between lateral and in-depth spread in smouldering fires, ultimately improving the fundamental understanding of such fires.", "keywords": ["Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Engineering", " Multidisciplinary", "TRANSIENT GAS", "Chemical", "02 engineering and technology", "Wildfire", "MOISTURE", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "01 natural sciences", "0201 civil engineering", "Engineering", "Smouldering", "Heat transfer", "Biomass", "PEAT FIRES", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Multidisciplinary", "Science & Technology", "Energy", "CONSUMPTION", "15. Life on land", "Mechanical", "Fire", "Engineering", " Mechanical", "IGNITION", "13. 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Climate change in the western United States has increased the frequency of extreme fire weather events and is projected to increase the area burned by wildfire in the coming decades. This changing fire regime, coupled with increased high\uffe2\uff80\uff90severity fire risk from a legacy of fire exclusion, could destabilize forest carbon (C), decrease net ecosystem exchange (NEE), and consequently reduce the ability of forests to regulate climate through C sequestration. While management options for minimizing the risk of high\uffe2\uff80\uff90severity fire exist, little is known about the longer\uffe2\uff80\uff90term carbon consequences of these actions in the context of continued extreme fire weather events. Our goal was to compare the impacts of extreme wildfire events on carbon stocks and fluxes in a watershed in the Sierra National Forest. We ran simulations to model wildfire under contemporary and extreme fire weather conditions, and test how three management scenarios (no\uffe2\uff80\uff90management, thin\uffe2\uff80\uff90only, thin and maintenance burning) influence fire severity, forest C stocks and fluxes, and wildfire C emissions. We found that the effects of treatment on wildfire under contemporary fire weather were minimal, and management conferred neither significant reduction in fire severity nor increases in C stocks. However, under extreme fire weather, the thin and maintenance burning scenario decreased mean fire severity by 25%, showed significantly greater C stability, and unlike the no\uffe2\uff80\uff90management and thin\uffe2\uff80\uff90only management options, the thin and maintenance burning scenario showed no decrease in NEE relative to the contemporary fire weather scenarios. Further, under extreme fire weather conditions, wildfire C emissions were lowest in the thin and maintenance burning scenario, (reduction of 13.7\uffc2\uffa0Mg\uffc2\uffa0C/ha over the simulation period) even when taking into account the C costs associated with prescribed burning. Including prescribed burning in thinning operations may be critical to maintaining C\uffc2\uffa0stocks and reducing C emissions in the future where extreme fire weather events are more frequent.

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The immediate effect of low and high severity wildfires on the main soil properties, as well as their short\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and medium\uffe2\uff80\uff90term evolution under field conditions, was examined. The study was performed with three pine forest soils (two Leptosols and one Humic Cambisol, developed over granite and basic schist, respectively), located in the Atlantic humid temperate zone (Galicia, NW Spain). Samples were collected from the A\uffe2\uff80\uff90horizon (0\uffe2\uff80\uff935\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm depth) of the burnt and the corresponding unburnt soils, immediately and 3, 6 and 12 months after the wildfires. Most properties analysed exhibit immediate fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced changes and different evolution depending on fire severity and soil type. In general, immediately after the fire pH and soil properties related to nutrients availability increased and cation exchange capacity decreased, whereas properties related to soil organic matter content (C, N, Fe and Al oxides) had a variable effect depending mainly on the soil studied; all these modifications were accentuated by fire severity. These effects were attenuated in the short term in the soil affected by a low severity wildfire, but they lasted for at least 1 year in the soils affected by high severity wildfires, particularly in the Leptosols. The results showed the importance of the fire as a disturbance agent in the dynamic of nutrients and soil organic matter that is directly related with soil quality in the Galician forest ecosystems. Copyright \uffc2\uffa9 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

", "keywords": ["Low\u2010 and high\u2010severity forest wildfires", "Leptosol", "Spain", "13. Climate action", "Pine stands", "Soil fire impact", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Soil properties recovery", "15. Life on land", "Cambisols"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.1078"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Land%20Degradation%20%26amp%3B%20Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/ldr.1078", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/ldr.1078", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/ldr.1078"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.09.005", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-24T16:16:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-11-03", "title": "Wildfire Effects On Soil Organic Matter Quantity And Quality In Two Fire-Prone Mediterranean Pine Forests", "description": "Open AccessFinancial support was supplied by the Institut National des Science d'Univers of the Centre National de Recherche Scienti\ufb01que (France), under the framework of the ECCO program 'QUANTICHAR'.", "keywords": ["570", "Soil organic matter (SOM)", "Mediterranean pine forests", "Wildfires", " Mediterranean pine forests", " Soil organic matter (SOM)", " Lignin", " Charcoal.", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Lignin", "630", "Wildfires", "13. Climate action", "Charcoal", "[SDE.ES] Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "14. Life underwater", "Soil organic matter (SOM);", "[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.09.005"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.09.005", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.09.005", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.09.005"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10533-023-01091-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-24T16:14:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-15", "title": "Global observation gaps of peatland greenhouse gas balances: needs and obstacles", "description": "Abstract

Greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions from peatlands contribute significantly to ongoing climate change because of human land use. To develop reliable and comprehensive estimates and predictions of GHG emissions from peatlands, it is necessary to have GHG observations, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), that cover different peatland types globally. We synthesize published peatland studies with field GHG flux measurements to identify gaps in observations and suggest directions for future research. Although GHG flux measurements have been conducted at numerous sites globally, substantial gaps remain in current observations, encompassing various peatland types, regions and GHGs. Generally, there is a pressing need for additional GHG observations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean regions. Despite widespread measurements of CO2 and CH4, studies quantifying N2O emissions from peatlands are scarce, particularly in natural ecosystems. To expand the global coverage of peatland data, it is crucial to conduct more eddy covariance observations for long-term monitoring. Automated chambers are preferable for plot-scale observations to produce high temporal resolution data; however, traditional field campaigns with manual chamber measurements remain necessary, particularly in remote areas. To ensure that the data can be further used for modeling purposes, we suggest that chamber campaigns should be conducted at least monthly for a minimum duration of one year with no fewer than three replicates and measure key environmental variables. In addition, further studies are needed in restored peatlands, focusing on identifying the most effective restoration approaches for different ecosystem types, conditions, climates, and land use histories.Approximately 40% of earth's carbon (C) stored in land vegetation and soil is within the boreal region. This large C pool is subjected to substantial removals and transformations during periodic wildfire. Fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90altered C, commonly known as pyrogenic carbon (PyC), plays a significant role in forest ecosystem functioning and composes a considerable fraction of C transport to limnic and oceanic sediments. While PyC stores are beginning to be quantified globally, knowledge is lacking regarding the drivers of their production and transport across ecosystems. This study used the chemo\uffe2\uff80\uff90thermal oxidation at 375\uffc2\uffb0C (CTO\uffe2\uff80\uff90375) method to isolate a particularly refractory subset of PyC compounds, here called black carbon (BC), finding an average increase of 11.6\uffc2\uffa0g BC m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 at 1\uffc2\uffa0year postfire in 50 separate wildfires occurring in Sweden during 2018. These increases could not be linked to proposed drivers, however BC storage in 50 additional nearby unburnt soils related strongly to soil mass while its proportion of the larger C pool related negatively to soil C:N. Fire approximately doubled BC stocks in the mineral layer but had no significant effect on BC in the organic layer where it was likely produced. Suppressed decomposition rates and low heating during fire in mineral subsoil relative to upper layers suggests potential removals of the doubled mineral layer BC are more likely transported out of the soil system than degraded in situ. Therefore, mineral soils are suggested to be an important storage pool for BC that can buffer short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (production in fire) and long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90ecosystem transport) BC cycling.Smouldering fires in peatland are different from the flames in wildland fires. Smouldering peat fire is slow, low-temperature and more persistent, releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. In this work, we experimentally and computationally investigate the vertical downward spread of smouldering fire in a column of 30cm-tall moss peat under variable moisture content (MC) and bulk density. The measured downward spread rate decreases with depth and wet bulk density, and is ~1cmh\uffe2\uff88\uff921 equivalent to a carbon emission flux of 200 tonnesday\uffe2\uff88\uff921ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921. We observe that downward spread increases as MC increases substantially at least inside the range from 10 to 70%, which is not intuitive and goes against the trend observed for the horizontal spread in the same peat. We also conduct one-dimensional computational simulations to successfully reproduce the experimental observations. The analysis shows that the spread rate increases with MC and decreases with density because smouldering spread is controlled by the oxygen supply. The volume of the porous peat expands when absorbing water, which reduces the density of organic matter and decreases the heat release rate. This shows that the widely assumed conclusion that the spread rate of wildfire decreases with MC is not universal when applied to smouldering fires.

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Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale accumulation of smoke at low altitudes in the atmosphere. It decreases air quality, disrupts transportation and causes health emergencies. Research on peat emissions and haze is modest at best and many key aspects remain poorly understood. Here, we compile an up-to-date inter-study of peat fire emission factors (EFs) found in the literature both from laboratory and from field studies. Tropical peat fires yield larger EFs for the prominent organic compounds than boreal and temperate peat fires, possibly due to the higher fuel carbon content (56.0 vs 44.2%). In contrast, tropical peat fires present slightly lower EFs for particulate matter with diameter \uffe2\uff89\uffa42.5\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffce\uffbcm (PM2.5) for unknown reasons but are probably related to combustion dynamics. An analysis of the modified combustion efficiency, a parameter widely used for determining the combustion regime of wildfires, shows it is partially misunderstood and highly sensitive to unknown field variables. This is the first review of the literature on smouldering peat emissions. Our integration of the existing literature allows the identification of existing gaps in knowledge and is expected to accelerate progress towards mitigation strategies.

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Forest fires alter soil microbial communities that are essential to support ecosystem recovery following land burning. These alterations have different responses according to soil abiotic pre- and post-fire conditions and fire severity, among others, and tend to decrease along vegetation recovery over time. Thus, understanding the effects of fires on microbial soil communities is critical to evaluate ecosystem resilience and restoration strategies in fire-prone ecosystems. We studied the state of community-level physiological profiles (CLPPs) and the prokaryotic community structure of rhizosphere and bulk soils from two fire-affected sclerophyll forests (one surveyed 17 months and the other 33 months after fire occurrence) in the Mediterranean climate zone of central Chile. Increases in catabolic activity (by average well color development of CLPPs), especially in the rhizosphere as compared with the bulk soil, were observed in the most recently affected site only. Legacy of land burning was still clearly shaping soil prokaryote community structure, as shown by quantitative PCR (qPCR) and Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene, particularly in the most recent fire-affected site. The qPCR copy numbers and alpha diversity indexes (Shannon and Pielou\uffe2\uff80\uff99s evenness) of sequencing data decreased in burned soils at both locations. Beta diversity analyses showed dissimilarity of prokaryote communities at both study sites according to fire occurrence, and NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93 was the common variable explaining community changes for both of them. Acidobacteria and Rokubacteria phyla significantly decreased in burned soils at both locations, while Firmicutes and Actinobacteria increased. These findings provide a better understanding of the resilience of soil prokaryote communities and their physiological conditions in Mediterranean forests of central Chile following different time periods after fire, conditions that likely influence the ecological processes taking place during recovery of fire-affected ecosystems.Siberian boreal forests have experienced increases in fire extent and intensity in recent years, which may threaten their role as carbon (C) sinks. Larch forests (Larix spp.) cover approximately 2.6 million km2 across Siberia, yet little is known about the magnitude and drivers of carbon combustion in these ecosystems. To address the paucity of field\uffe2\uff80\uff90based estimates of fuel load and consumption in Siberian larch forests, we sampled 41 burned plots, one to two years after fire, in Cajander larch (Larix cajanderi) forests in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. We estimated pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire carbon stocks and combustion with the objective of identifying the main drivers of carbon emissions. Pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire aboveground (trees and woody debris) and belowground carbon stocks at our study plots were 3.12\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff891.26\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 (mean\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff89standard deviation) and 3.50\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.93\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922. We found that combustion averaged 3.20\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.75\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922, of which 78% (2.49\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.56\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922) stemmed from organic soil layers. These results suggest that severe fires in Cajander larch forests can result in combustion rates comparable to those observed in North American boreal forests and exceeding those previously reported for other forest types and burning conditions in Siberia. Carbon combustion was driven by both fire weather conditions and landscape variables, with pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire organic soil depth being the strongest predictor across our plots. Our study highlights the need to better account for Siberian larch forest fires and their impact on the carbon balance, especially given the expected climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increase in fire extent and severity in this region.Increases in the emissions and associated atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) have the potential to cause significant changes to the structure and function of N\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited ecosystems. Here, we present the results of a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (13\uffc2\uffa0year) experiment assessing the impacts of N addition (30\uffc2\uffa0kg\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffa0yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) on a UK lowland heathland under a wide range of environmental conditions, including the occurrence of prolonged natural drought episodes and a severe summer fire. Our findings indicate that elevated N deposition results in large, persistent effects on Calluna growth, phenology and chemistry, severe suppression of understorey lichen flora and changes in soil biogeochemistry. Growing season rainfall was found to be a strong driver of inter\uffe2\uff80\uff90annual variation in Calluna growth and, although interactions between N and rainfall for shoot growth were not significant until the later phase of the experiment, N addition exacerbated the extent of drought injury to Calluna shoots following naturally occurring droughts in 2003 and 2009. Following a severe wildfire at the experimental site in 2006, heathland regeneration dynamics were significantly affected by N, with a greater abundance of pioneering moss species and suppression of the lichen flora in plots receiving N additions. Significant interactions between climate and N were also apparent post fire, with the characteristic stimulation in Calluna growth in +N plots suppressed during dry years. Carbon (C) and N budgets demonstrate large increases in both above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground stocks of these elements in N\uffe2\uff80\uff90treated plots prior to the fire, despite higher levels of soil microbial activity and organic matter turnover. Although much of the organic material was removed during the fire, pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90existing treatment differences were still evident following the burn. Post fire accumulation of below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground C and N stocks was increased rapidly in N\uffe2\uff80\uff90treated plots, highlighting the role of N deposition in ecosystem C sequestration.

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Western United States forest wildfire activity is widely thought to have increased in recent decades, yet neither the extent of recent changes nor the degree to which climate may be driving regional changes in wildfire has been systematically documented. Much of the public and scientific discussion of changes in western United States wildfire has focused instead on the effects of 19th- and 20th-century land-use history. We compiled a comprehensive database of large wildfires in western United States forests since 1970 and compared it with hydroclimatic and land-surface data. Here, we show that large wildfire activity increased suddenly and markedly in the mid-1980s, with higher large-wildfire frequency, longer wildfire durations, and longer wildfire seasons. The greatest increases occurred in mid-elevation, Northern Rockies forests, where land-use histories have relatively little effect on fire risks and are strongly associated with increased spring and summer temperatures and an earlier spring snowmelt.

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Comme les chutes de liti\u00e8re repr\u00e9sentent un flux majeur de carbone de la v\u00e9g\u00e9tation vers le sol, les changements dans les apports de liti\u00e8re sont susceptibles d'avoir des cons\u00e9quences de grande port\u00e9e sur la dynamique du carbone du sol. De telles perturbations du bilan carbone peuvent \u00eatre particuli\u00e8rement importantes sous les tropiques, car les for\u00eats tropicales stockent pr\u00e8s de 30\u00a0% du carbone mondial du sol, ce qui en fait une composante essentielle du cycle mondial du carbone\u00a0; n\u00e9anmoins, les effets de l'augmentation de la production de liti\u00e8re a\u00e9rienne sur la dynamique du carbone souterrain sont mal compris. Nous avons utilis\u00e9 des traitements mensuels \u00e0 long terme et \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle d'enl\u00e8vement et d'ajout de liti\u00e8re dans une for\u00eat tropicale de plaine pour \u00e9valuer les cons\u00e9quences de l'augmentation des chutes de liti\u00e8re sur la production souterraine de CO(2). Au cours de la deuxi\u00e8me \u00e0 la cinqui\u00e8me ann\u00e9e de traitement, l'ajout de liti\u00e8re a augment\u00e9 la respiration du sol plus que l'enl\u00e8vement de la liti\u00e8re ne l'a diminu\u00e9\u00a0; la respiration du sol \u00e9tait en moyenne 20\u00a0% plus faible dans l'enl\u00e8vement de la liti\u00e8re et 43\u00a0% plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e dans le traitement d'ajout de liti\u00e8re par rapport aux t\u00e9moins, mais l'ajout de liti\u00e8re n'a pas modifi\u00e9 la biomasse microbienne. Nous avons pr\u00e9dit une augmentation de 9% de la respiration du sol dans les parcelles d'ajout de liti\u00e8re, bas\u00e9e sur la diminution de 20% des parcelles d'enl\u00e8vement de la liti\u00e8re et une r\u00e9duction de 11% due \u00e0 une biomasse racinaire fine plus faible dans les parcelles d'ajout de liti\u00e8re. L'augmentation mesur\u00e9e de 43\u00a0% de la respiration du sol \u00e9tait donc 34\u00a0% plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e que pr\u00e9vu et il est possible que ce CO \u00ab\u00a0suppl\u00e9mentaire\u00a0\u00bb (2) soit le r\u00e9sultat d'effets d'amor\u00e7age, c'est-\u00e0-dire la stimulation de la d\u00e9composition de la mati\u00e8re organique du sol plus ancienne par l'ajout de mati\u00e8re organique fra\u00eeche. Nos r\u00e9sultats montrent que l'augmentation de la production de liti\u00e8re a\u00e9rienne en raison du changement global a le potentiel de provoquer des pertes consid\u00e9rables de carbone du sol dans l'atmosph\u00e8re dans les for\u00eats tropicales.", "keywords": ["570", "Atmospheric sciences", "Science", "Atmosphere (unit)", "Soil Science", "Carbon Loss", "630", "Environmental science", "Plant litter", "Trees", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Impact of Climate Change on Forest Wildfires", "Soil", "Meteorology", "Litter", "Biomass", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Tropical Climate", "Global and Planetary Change", "Ecology", "Geography", "Atmosphere", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Tropics", "Water", "Life Sciences", "Geology", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "13. 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The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the windthrow and fire disturbances on soil microbial activity. Basal and potential soil respiration, N-mineralisation, catalase activity, soil microbial biomass, and cellulase activity were measured in soil samples taken from the A-horizon (depth of 0-10 cm) along 100 m transects established on 4 plots (reference site, burnt, non-extracted, and extracted sites) in October 2006. Some soil microbial characteristics exhibited a high spatial variability, especially microbial biomass and N-mineralisation. Significant differences in soil microbial characteristics (especially basal soil respiration and catalase activity) between plots were found. Generally, the highest microbial activity was revealed on the plot affected by fire. Soil microbial activity was similar on the extracted and non-extracted sites.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "windthrow", "S", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "forest soil", "microbial activity", "01 natural sciences", "wildfire", "spruce stands"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.17221/9/2008-swr"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20and%20Water%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.17221/9/2008-swr", "name": "item", "description": "10.17221/9/2008-swr", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.17221/9/2008-swr"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-12-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/ffgc.2023.1136354", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-24T16:20:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-03-31", "title": "Climate and forest properties explain wildfire impact on microbial community and nutrient mobilization in boreal soil", "description": "

The boreal landscape stores an estimated 40% of the earth's carbon (C) found in terrestrial vegetation and soils, with a large portion collected in thick organic soil layers. These ground stores are subject to substantial removals due to the centurial return of wildfire, which has strong impacts on the soil microbial community and nutrient cycling, which in turn can control ecosystem recovery patterns and process rates, such as C turnover. Currently, predictive knowledge used in assessing fire impacts is largely focused on ecosystems that experience only superficial burning and few robust observations exist regarding the effect that smoldering combustion in deeper active soil layers has on post-fire soil activity. This study provided a highly replicated and regionally extensive survey of wildfire impact on microbial community structure (using fatty acid biomarkers) and nutrient cycling (using in situ ionic resin capsules) across broad gradients of climate, forest properties and fire conditions within 50 separate burn scars and 50 additional matched unburnt boreal forest soils. The results suggest a strong metabolic shift in burnt soils due to heat impact on their structure and a decoupling from aboveground processes, releasing ecosystem N limitation and increasing mobilization of N, P, K, and S as excess in conjunction with an altered, C-starved microbial community structure and reduced root uptake due to vegetation mortality. An additional observed climatic control over burnt soil properties has implications for altered boreal forest function in future climate and fire regimes deserving of further attention.

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Due to their volcanic nature, these soils have traditionally been considered highly resistant to water erosion processes in undisturbed conditions, but are also highly susceptible to environmental disturbances. In addition, volcanic terrains often underlie heavily-populated, steep areas where torrential rains are frequent, increasing the threat to the population and infrastructures down-slope. Numerous hydrological and erosional catastrophic events in disturbed Andosols in the Canary Islands and worldwide, leading to major losses to lives and properties, have been historically and recently reported. The impact of environmental alterations such as land use change on hydrological and erosional response of Andosols has been widely studied in the Canary Islands and worldwide. However, the effect on this soil type of wildfires, generally considered one of the main geomorphological agents, and historically connected to the forested fire-prone Andosols of the islands, has had scant attention to date. This review seeks to redress this knowledge gap by: (i) evaluating the factors affecting the susceptibility of Andosols to catastrophic hydrological and erosional events; (ii) summarizing the published studies on the impact of fire and the post-fire response of this soil type and the specific restoration measures developed to date; and (iii) identifying research gaps and suggesting new lines of investigation in order to reduce the hydrological and erosional risks in these particular terrains.", "keywords": ["Volcanic Ash Soils", "2. Zero hunger", "Disaster Risk Reduction", "Post-fire Restoration", "Forestry", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "SD1-669.5", "15. Life on land", "Wildfires", "13. Climate action", "Erosion Mitigation", "11. 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Abstract. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires globally, with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the global distribution of extreme fires remains skewed, primarily influenced by media coverage and regional research concentration. This inaugural State of Wildfires report systematically analyses fire activity worldwide, identifying extreme events from the March 2023\u2013February 2024 fire season. We assess the causes, predictability, and attribution of these events to climate change and land use, and forecast future risks under different climate scenarios. During the 2023\u201324 fire season, 3.9 million km2 burned globally, slightly below the average of previous seasons, but fire carbon (C) emissions were 16 % above average, totaling 2.4 Pg C. This was driven by record emissions in Canadian boreal forests (over 9 times the average) and dampened by reduced activity in African savannahs. Notable events included record-breaking wildfire extent and emissions in Canada, the largest recorded wildfire in the European Union (Greece), drought-driven fires in western Amazonia and northern parts of South America, and deadly fires in Hawai\u2019i (100 deaths) and Chile (131 deaths). Over 232,000 people were evacuated in Canada alone, highlighting the severity of human impact. Our analyses revealed that multiple drivers were needed to cause areas of extreme fire activity. In Canada and Greece a combination of high fire weather and an abundance of dry fuels increased the probability of fires by 4.5-fold and 1.9\u20134.1-fold, respectively, whereas fuel load and direct human suppression often modulated areas with anomalous burned area. The fire season in Canada was predictable three months in advance based on the fire weather index, whereas events in Greece and Amazonia had shorter predictability horizons. Formal attribution analyses indicated that the probability of extreme events has increased significantly due to anthropogenic climate change, with a 2.9\u20133.6-fold increase in likelihood of high fire weather in Canada and a 20.0\u201328.5-fold increase in Amazonia. By the end of the century, events of similar magnitude are projected to occur 2.22\u20139.58 times more frequently in Canada under high emission scenarios. Without mitigation, regions like Western Amazonia could see up to a 2.9-fold increase in extreme fire events. For the 2024\u201325 fire season, seasonal forecasts highlight moderate positive anomalies in fire weather for parts of western Canada and South America, but no clear signal for extreme anomalies is present in the forecast. This report represents our first annual effort to catalogue extreme wildfire events, explain their occurrence, and predict future risks. By consolidating state-of-the-art wildfire science and delivering key insights relevant to policymakers, disaster management services, firefighting agencies, and land managers, we aim to enhance society\u2019s resilience to wildfires and promote advances in preparedness, mitigation, and adaptation.

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Abstract. Climate\u00a0change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally, with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the global distribution of extreme fires remains skewed, primarily influenced by media coverage and regionalised research efforts. This inaugural State of Wildfires report systematically analyses fire activity worldwide, identifying extreme events from the March 2023\u2013February 2024 fire season. We assess the causes, predictability, and attribution of these events to climate change and land use and forecast future risks under different climate scenarios. During the 2023\u20132024 fire season, 3.9\u00d7106\u2009km2 burned globally, slightly below the average of previous seasons, but fire carbon (C) emissions were 16\u2009% above average, totalling 2.4\u2009Pg\u2009C. Global fire C emissions were increased by record emissions in Canadian boreal forests (over 9 times the average) and reduced by low emissions from African savannahs. Notable events included record-breaking fire extent and emissions in Canada, the largest recorded wildfire in the European Union (Greece), drought-driven fires in western Amazonia and northern parts of South America, and deadly fires in Hawaii (100 deaths) and Chile (131 deaths). Over 232\u2009000 people were evacuated in Canada alone, highlighting the severity of human impact. Our analyses revealed that multiple drivers were needed to cause areas of extreme fire activity. In Canada and Greece, a combination of high fire weather and an abundance of dry fuels increased the probability of fires, whereas burned area anomalies were weaker in regions with lower fuel loads and higher direct suppression, particularly in Canada. Fire weather prediction in Canada showed a mild anomalous signal 1 to 2 months in advance, whereas events in Greece and Amazonia had shorter predictability horizons. Attribution analyses indicated that modelled anomalies in burned area were up to 40\u2009%, 18\u2009%, and 50\u2009% higher due to climate change in Canada, Greece, and western Amazonia during the 2023\u20132024 fire season, respectively. Meanwhile, the probability of extreme fire seasons of these magnitudes has increased significantly due to anthropogenic climate change, with a 2.9\u20133.6-fold increase in likelihood of high fire weather in Canada and a 20.0\u201328.5-fold increase in Amazonia. By the end of the century, events of similar magnitude to 2023 in Canada are projected to occur 6.3\u201310.8 times more frequently under a medium\u2013high emission scenario (SSP370). This report represents our first annual effort to catalogue extreme wildfire events, explain their occurrence, and predict future risks. By consolidating state-of-the-art wildfire science and delivering key insights relevant to policymakers, disaster management services, firefighting agencies, and land managers, we aim to enhance society's resilience to wildfires and promote advances in preparedness, mitigation, and adaptation. New datasets presented in this work are available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11400539 (Jones et al., 2024) and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11420742 (Kelley et al., 2024a).

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Abstract. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires globally, yet our understanding of these high-impact events remains uneven and shaped by media attention and regional research biases. The State of Wildfire Project systematically tracks and analyses global fire activity and this, its second annual report, covers the March 2024 to February 2025 fire season. During the 2024\u201325 fire season, fire-related carbon (C) emissions were totalled 2.2 Pg C, 9 % above average and the 6th highest on record since 2003, despite below-average global burned area (BA; 3.7 million km2). Extreme fire seasons in South America\u2019s rainforests, dry forests and wetlands, and in Canada\u2019s boreal forests pushed up the global C emissions total. Fire C emissions were over four times above average in Bolivia, three times above average in Canada, and ~50 % above average in Brazil and Venezuela. Wildfires in 2024\u201325 caused 100 fatalities in Nepal, 34 in South Africa, and 30 in Los Angeles, with additional fatalities reported in Canada, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Portugal, and Turkey. The Eaton and Palisades fires in Southern California caused 150,000 evacuations and US$140 billion in damages. Communities in Brazil, Bolivia, Southern California, and Northern India were exposed to fine particulate matter at concentrations 13\u201360 times WHO\u2019s daily air quality standards. We evaluated the causes and predictability of four extreme wildfire episodes from the 2024\u201325 fire season, including in Northeast Amazonia (January\u2013March 2024), the Pantanal-Chiquitano border regions of Brazil and Bolivia (July\u2013September 2024), Southern California (January 2025), and the Congo Basin (July\u2013August 2024). Anomalous weather created conditions for these regional extremes, while fuel availability and human ignitions shaped spatial patterns and temporal fire dynamics. In the three tropical regions, prolonged drought was the dominant fire enabler, whereas in California, extreme heat, wind, and antecedent fuel build-up were the dominant enablers. Our attribution analyses show that climate change made extreme fire weather in Northeast Amazonia 30\u201370 times more likely, increasing burned area roughly fourfold compared to a scenario without climate change. In the Pantanal\u2013Chiquitano, fire weather was 4\u20135 times more likely, with up to 35-fold increases in burned area. In Southern California, climate change made larger burned area 89 % more likely, with burned area up to 25 times higher. The Congo Basin\u2019s fire weather was 3\u20138 times more likely with climate change, with a 2.7-fold increase in burned area. Socioeconomic changes since the pre-industrial period, including land-use change, also likely increased burned area in Northeast Amazonia. Our models project that events on the scale of 2024\u201325 will become up to 57 %, 34 %, and 50 % more frequent than in the modern era in Northeast Amazonia, the Pantanal-Chiquitano, and the Congo Basin, respectively, under a middle-of-the-road scenario (SSP370). Climate action can limit the added risk, with frequency increases kept below 15 % in all three regions under a strong mitigation scenario (SSP126). In Southern California, the future trajectory of extreme fire likelihood remains highly uncertain due to poorly constrained climate-vegetation-fire interactions influencing fuel moisture, though our models suggest that risk may decline in future. This annual report from the State of Wildfires Project integrates and advances cutting-edge fire observations and modelling with regional expertise to track changing global wildfire hazard, guiding policy and practice towards improved preparedness, mitigation, adaptation, and societal benefit. Thirteen new datasets and model codebases presented in this work are available from the State of Wildfires Project\u2019s Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/stateofwildfiresproject, last access: 11 August 2025).

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Dataset also includes climate, weather, topography, physical and chemical soil characteristics, and land cover attributes of each burned pixel at the time of fire. This effort provided a table of 16.3 million burned pixels and their associated characteristics including dNBR, SBS, and 94 biological and physical covariates. After removing correlated features, the final data includes 18 fire covariates namely: dNBR, elevation, slope, aspect, land cover type, wind speed, energy release component, vapor pressure deficit, annual precipitation, and annual average daily max temperature, as well as the clay, sand and silt content of the soil and volumetric fraction of coarse fragments and soil organic carbon content. We also included spatial coherence metrices for dNBR, including DVAR, SHADE and SAVG. This data is provided as CSV files in Xtrain, Xvalidation, Xtest, as well as Ytrain, Yvalidation, and Ytest; in which X files (model input) provide all features except for SBS and Y files (model output) include SBS. We also provided this data for an additional 16 large fires across the western US ('Extra Test' folder, including Dataset \u2013 X file \u2013 and Label \u2013 Y file). Finally, the trained XGBoost model to translate dNBR to SBS using the associated features is also provided in this folder.", "keywords": ["Remote Sensing", "Soil Burn Severity Metrics", "13. Climate action", "Vegetation Burn Severity", "Climate", "DEM", "15. 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We used a coupled human and natural systems framework and an agent-based landscape model to examine how alternative management scenarios affect fire and ecosystem services metrics in a fire-prone multiownership landscape in the eastern Cascades of Oregon. Our model incorporated existing models of vegetation succession and fire spread and information from original empirical studies of landowner decision making. Our findings indicate that alternative management strategies can have variable effects on landscape outcomes over 50 years for fire, socioeconomic, and ecosystem services metrics. For example, scenarios with federal restoration treatments had slightly less high-severity fire than a scenario without treatment; exposure of homes in the wildland-urban interface to fire was also slightly less with restoration treatments compared to no management. Treatments appeared to be more effective at reducing high-severity fire in years with more fire than in years with less fire. Under the current management scenario, timber production could be maintained for at least 50 years on federal lands. Under an accelerated restoration scenario, timber production fell because of a shortage of areas meeting current stand structure treatment targets. Trade-offs between restoration outcomes (e.g., open forests with large fire-resistant trees) and habitat for species that require dense older forests were evident. For example, the proportional area of nesting habitat for northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) was somewhat less after 50 years under the restoration scenarios than under no management. However, the amount of resilient older forest structure and habitat for white-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) was higher after 50 years under active management. More carbon was stored on this landscape without management than with management, despite the occurrence of high-severity wildfire. Our results and further applications of the model could be used in collaborative settings to facilitate discussion and development of policies and practices for fire-prone landscapes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "QH301-705.5", "adaptation", "landscape", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "wildfire", "13. Climate action", "11. 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While this has resulted in large ecological changes aboveground such as altered tree species composition and increased forest density, little is known about the long-term, belowground implications of altered, ecologically novel fire regimes, especially on soil biological processes. To better understand the long-term implications of ecologically novel, high-severity fire, we used a 44-y high-severity fire chronosequence in the Sierra Nevada where forests were historically adapted to frequent, low-severity fire, but were fire suppressed for at least 70 years. High-severity fire in the Sierra Nevada resulted in a long-term (44+ y) decrease (>50%, p < 0.05) in soil extracellular enzyme activities, basal microbial respiration (56-72%, p < 0.05), and organic carbon (>50%, p < 0.05) in the upper 5 cm compared to sites that had not been burned for at least 115 y. However, nitrogen (N) processes were only affected in the most-recent fire site (4 y post-fire). Net nitrification increased by over 600% in the most recent fire site (p < 0.001), but returned to similar levels as the unburned control in the 13-y site. Contrary to previous studies, we did not find a consistent effect of plant cover type on soil biogeochemical processes in mid-successional (10-50 y) forest soils. Rather, the 44-y reduction in soil organic carbon (C) quantity correlated positively with dampened C cycling processes. Our results show the drastic and long-term implication of ecologically novel, high-severity fire on soil biogeochemistry and underscore the need for long-term fire ecological experiments.", "keywords": ["soil organic carbon", "soil biogeochemistry", "microbial biomass", "microbial respiration", "13. Climate action", "fire suppression", "15. Life on land", "extracellular enzyme activity", "Sierra Nevada", "mixed-conifer forest", "Nitrogen cycle", "Nitrification", "wildfire"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Dove, Nicholas, Hart, Stephen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.6071/M3C09W"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.6071/M3C09W", "name": "item", "description": "10.6071/M3C09W", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.6071/M3C09W"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10871/137179", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-24T16:24:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-08-13", "title": "State of Wildfires 2023\u20132024", "description": "

Abstract. Climate\u00a0change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally, with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the global distribution of extreme fires remains skewed, primarily influenced by media coverage and regionalised research efforts. This inaugural State of Wildfires report systematically analyses fire activity worldwide, identifying extreme events from the March 2023\u2013February 2024 fire season. We assess the causes, predictability, and attribution of these events to climate change and land use and forecast future risks under different climate scenarios. During the 2023\u20132024 fire season, 3.9\u00d7106\u2009km2 burned globally, slightly below the average of previous seasons, but fire carbon (C) emissions were 16\u2009% above average, totalling 2.4\u2009Pg\u2009C. Global fire C emissions were increased by record emissions in Canadian boreal forests (over 9 times the average) and reduced by low emissions from African savannahs. Notable events included record-breaking fire extent and emissions in Canada, the largest recorded wildfire in the European Union (Greece), drought-driven fires in western Amazonia and northern parts of South America, and deadly fires in Hawaii (100 deaths) and Chile (131 deaths). Over 232\u2009000 people were evacuated in Canada alone, highlighting the severity of human impact. Our analyses revealed that multiple drivers were needed to cause areas of extreme fire activity. In Canada and Greece, a combination of high fire weather and an abundance of dry fuels increased the probability of fires, whereas burned area anomalies were weaker in regions with lower fuel loads and higher direct suppression, particularly in Canada. Fire weather prediction in Canada showed a mild anomalous signal 1 to 2 months in advance, whereas events in Greece and Amazonia had shorter predictability horizons. Attribution analyses indicated that modelled anomalies in burned area were up to 40\u2009%, 18\u2009%, and 50\u2009% higher due to climate change in Canada, Greece, and western Amazonia during the 2023\u20132024 fire season, respectively. Meanwhile, the probability of extreme fire seasons of these magnitudes has increased significantly due to anthropogenic climate change, with a 2.9\u20133.6-fold increase in likelihood of high fire weather in Canada and a 20.0\u201328.5-fold increase in Amazonia. By the end of the century, events of similar magnitude to 2023 in Canada are projected to occur 6.3\u201310.8 times more frequently under a medium\u2013high emission scenario (SSP370). This report represents our first annual effort to catalogue extreme wildfire events, explain their occurrence, and predict future risks. By consolidating state-of-the-art wildfire science and delivering key insights relevant to policymakers, disaster management services, firefighting agencies, and land managers, we aim to enhance society's resilience to wildfires and promote advances in preparedness, mitigation, and adaptation. New datasets presented in this work are available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11400539 (Jones et al., 2024) and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11420742 (Kelley et al., 2024a).

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Greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions from peatlands contribute significantly to ongoing climate change because of human land use. To develop reliable and comprehensive estimates and predictions of GHG emissions from peatlands, it is necessary to have GHG observations, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), that cover different peatland types globally. We synthesize published peatland studies with field GHG flux measurements to identify gaps in observations and suggest directions for future research. Although GHG flux measurements have been conducted at numerous sites globally, substantial gaps remain in current observations, encompassing various peatland types, regions and GHGs. Generally, there is a pressing need for additional GHG observations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean regions. Despite widespread measurements of CO2 and CH4, studies quantifying N2O emissions from peatlands are scarce, particularly in natural ecosystems. To expand the global coverage of peatland data, it is crucial to conduct more eddy covariance observations for long-term monitoring. Automated chambers are preferable for plot-scale observations to produce high temporal resolution data; however, traditional field campaigns with manual chamber measurements remain necessary, particularly in remote areas. To ensure that the data can be further used for modeling purposes, we suggest that chamber campaigns should be conducted at least monthly for a minimum duration of one year with no fewer than three replicates and measure key environmental variables. In addition, further studies are needed in restored peatlands, focusing on identifying the most effective restoration approaches for different ecosystem types, conditions, climates, and land use histories.Boreal forest regions, including East Siberia, have experienced elevated fire activity in recent years, leading to record\uffe2\uff80\uff90breaking greenhouse gas emissions and severe air pollution. However, our understanding of the factors that eventually halt fire spread and thus limit fire growth remains incomplete, hindering our ability to model their dynamics and predict their impacts. We investigated the locations and timing of 2.2 million fire stops\uffe2\uff80\uff94defined as 300\uffe2\uff80\uff89m unburned pixels along fire perimeters\uffe2\uff80\uff94across the vast East Siberian taiga. Fire stops were retrieved from remote sensing data covering over 27,000 individual fires that collectively burned 80 Mha between 2012 and 2022. Several geospatial datasets, including hourly fire weather data and landscape variables, were used to identify the factors contributing to individual fire stops. Our analysis attributed 87% of all fire stops to a statistically significant (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89<\uffe2\uff80\uff890.01) change in one or more of these drivers, with fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90weather drivers limiting fire growth over time and landscape drivers constraining it across space. We found clear regional and temporal variations in the importance of these drivers. For instance, landscape drivers\uffe2\uff80\uff94such as less flammable land cover and the presence of roads\uffe2\uff80\uff94were key constraints on fire growth in southeastern Siberia, where the landscape is more populated and fragmented. In contrast, fire weather was the primary constraint on fire growth in the remote northern taiga. Additionally, in central Yakutia, a major fire hotspot in recent years, fuel limitations from previous fires increasingly restricted fire spread. The methodology we present is adaptable to other biomes and can be applied globally, providing a framework for future attribution studies on global fire growth limitations. In northeast Siberia, we found that with increasing droughts and heatwaves, remote northern fires could potentially grow even larger in the future, with major implications for the global carbon cycle and climate.Siberian boreal forests have experienced increases in fire extent and intensity in recent years, which may threaten their role as carbon (C) sinks. Larch forests (Larix spp.) cover approximately 2.6 million km2 across Siberia, yet little is known about the magnitude and drivers of carbon combustion in these ecosystems. To address the paucity of field\uffe2\uff80\uff90based estimates of fuel load and consumption in Siberian larch forests, we sampled 41 burned plots, one to two years after fire, in Cajander larch (Larix cajanderi) forests in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. We estimated pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire carbon stocks and combustion with the objective of identifying the main drivers of carbon emissions. Pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire aboveground (trees and woody debris) and belowground carbon stocks at our study plots were 3.12\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff891.26\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 (mean\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff89standard deviation) and 3.50\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.93\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922. We found that combustion averaged 3.20\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.75\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922, of which 78% (2.49\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.56\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922) stemmed from organic soil layers. These results suggest that severe fires in Cajander larch forests can result in combustion rates comparable to those observed in North American boreal forests and exceeding those previously reported for other forest types and burning conditions in Siberia. Carbon combustion was driven by both fire weather conditions and landscape variables, with pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire organic soil depth being the strongest predictor across our plots. Our study highlights the need to better account for Siberian larch forest fires and their impact on the carbon balance, especially given the expected climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increase in fire extent and severity in this region.Climate teleconnections modulate regional wildfire occurrence. Understanding the underlying mechanisms is critical for sub\uffe2\uff80\uff90seasonal to annual wildfire predictions since the magnitude of certain teleconnection climate modes (TCMs) intensifies or they may undergo phase shifts. Here, we study how TCMs govern wildfire activity and compare the effects of weather and fuels in mediating the influence of TCMs on wildfires. Globally, burned area (BA) is predictable by a single TCM in 25.4% of the burnable (vegetated) regions, with Australia and eastern Siberia identified as the two hot spots with the highest probability out of a total of 10. Tropical oceans are the primary sources of teleconnection\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven variability in global BA. Our study finds that in dryland hot spots such as Australia, the Horn of Africa, and the northern Middle East, the lagged mediating effects of fuels outweigh the immediate mediating effects of weather. Whereas in hot spots with dense vegetation, like northeastern South America and Southeast Asia, the immediate mediating effects of weather are generally more dominant. In other hot spots, fuels can still serve as a key pathway through which specific TCMs influence wildfire activity. This study highlights the important role of fuels in transmitting the delayed impacts of TCMs\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced weather anomalies on regional wildfire activity. This study also underlines the importance of refining fuel management strategies and integrating fuel conditions in teleconnection\uffe2\uff80\uff90related wildfire attribution and prediction frameworks, which is crucial given the projected changing patterns of teleconnections.Forest fires alter soil microbial communities that are essential to support ecosystem recovery following land burning. These alterations have different responses according to soil abiotic pre- and post-fire conditions and fire severity, among others, and tend to decrease along vegetation recovery over time. Thus, understanding the effects of fires on microbial soil communities is critical to evaluate ecosystem resilience and restoration strategies in fire-prone ecosystems. We studied the state of community-level physiological profiles (CLPPs) and the prokaryotic community structure of rhizosphere and bulk soils from two fire-affected sclerophyll forests (one surveyed 17 months and the other 33 months after fire occurrence) in the Mediterranean climate zone of central Chile. Increases in catabolic activity (by average well color development of CLPPs), especially in the rhizosphere as compared with the bulk soil, were observed in the most recently affected site only. Legacy of land burning was still clearly shaping soil prokaryote community structure, as shown by quantitative PCR (qPCR) and Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene, particularly in the most recent fire-affected site. The qPCR copy numbers and alpha diversity indexes (Shannon and Pielou\uffe2\uff80\uff99s evenness) of sequencing data decreased in burned soils at both locations. Beta diversity analyses showed dissimilarity of prokaryote communities at both study sites according to fire occurrence, and NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93 was the common variable explaining community changes for both of them. Acidobacteria and Rokubacteria phyla significantly decreased in burned soils at both locations, while Firmicutes and Actinobacteria increased. These findings provide a better understanding of the resilience of soil prokaryote communities and their physiological conditions in Mediterranean forests of central Chile following different time periods after fire, conditions that likely influence the ecological processes taking place during recovery of fire-affected ecosystems.Approximately 40% of earth's carbon (C) stored in land vegetation and soil is within the boreal region. This large C pool is subjected to substantial removals and transformations during periodic wildfire. Fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90altered C, commonly known as pyrogenic carbon (PyC), plays a significant role in forest ecosystem functioning and composes a considerable fraction of C transport to limnic and oceanic sediments. While PyC stores are beginning to be quantified globally, knowledge is lacking regarding the drivers of their production and transport across ecosystems. This study used the chemo\uffe2\uff80\uff90thermal oxidation at 375\uffc2\uffb0C (CTO\uffe2\uff80\uff90375) method to isolate a particularly refractory subset of PyC compounds, here called black carbon (BC), finding an average increase of 11.6\uffc2\uffa0g BC m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 at 1\uffc2\uffa0year postfire in 50 separate wildfires occurring in Sweden during 2018. These increases could not be linked to proposed drivers, however BC storage in 50 additional nearby unburnt soils related strongly to soil mass while its proportion of the larger C pool related negatively to soil C:N. Fire approximately doubled BC stocks in the mineral layer but had no significant effect on BC in the organic layer where it was likely produced. Suppressed decomposition rates and low heating during fire in mineral subsoil relative to upper layers suggests potential removals of the doubled mineral layer BC are more likely transported out of the soil system than degraded in situ. Therefore, mineral soils are suggested to be an important storage pool for BC that can buffer short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (production in fire) and long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90ecosystem transport) BC cycling.