Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 10:42
in Earth & Climate
The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the number of wildfires. But a new study in the May issue of Ecological Monographs shows that in some cases, changes in the types of plants growing in an area could override the effects of climate change on wildfire frequency...
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