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South American fires and their impacts on ecosystems increase with continued emissions by Burton, Chantelle (author);Kelley, Douglas I. (author);Jones, Chris D. (author);Betts, Richard A. (author);Cardoso, Manoel (author);Anderson, Liana (author) is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract Unprecedented fire events in recent years are leading to a demand for improved understanding of how climate change is already affecting fires, and how this could change in the future. Increased fire activity in South America is one of the most concerning of all the recent events, given the potential impacts on local ecosystems and the global climate from the loss of large carbon stores under future socio‐environmental change. However, due to the complexity of interactions and feedbacks, and lack of complete representation of fire biogeochemistry in many climate models, there is currently low agreement on whether climate change will cause fires to become more or less frequent in the future, and what impact this will have on ecosystems. Here we use the latest climate simulations from the UK Earth System Model UKESM1 to understand feedbacks in fire, dynamic vegetation, and terrestrial carbon stores using the JULES land surface model, taking into account future scenarios of change in emissions and land use. Based on evaluation of model performance for the present day, we address the specific policy‐relevant question: how much fire‐induced carbon loss will there be over Sout
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- Author
- Burton, Chantelle (author);Kelley, Douglas I. (author);Jones, Chris D. (author);Betts, Richard A. (author);Cardoso, Manoel (author);Anderson, Liana (author)
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)