Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; South African Environmental Observation Network, National Research Foundation, Claremont, South Africa.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2024 Jan;39(1):1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.015. Epub 2023 Oct 14.
Afforesting grassy systems for carbon gain using flammable plantation trees could shift the fire regime from lower intensity grass-fuelled fires to high-intensity crown fires. Future changes in climate will worsen this. We highlight the fire risk of trees planted for carbon and costs of fire protection using African examples.
通过易燃种植林来绿化草原系统以获取碳增益，可能会使火的生态系统从低强度的草火转变为高强度的树冠火。未来气候的变化将使这种情况恶化。我们以非洲的例子为例，强调了为碳而种植的树木的火灾风险和防火成本。
