Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

Moritz, Max A., Marc-André Parisien, Enric Batllori, Meg A. Krawchuk, Jeff Van Dorn, David J. Ganz, and Katharine Hayhoe. 2012. Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity. Ecosphere 3:art49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES11-00345.1

"Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well-being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs). Here we integrate global fire datasets and environmental covariates to build spatial statistical models of fire probability at a 0.5° resolution and examine environmental controls on fire activity."