Boshoff Daniel S
Disaster Risk Science, Unit for Environmental Science and Management, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.
Jamba. 2024 Jul 26;16(1):1673. doi: 10.4102/jamba.v16i1.1673. eCollection 2024.
Fire regimes are often considered to be either driven by climate, fuel load or human activities. A significant proportion of fires across various ecosystems occur via large fire events. Recently, suggestions have been made that fires are becoming more severe and frequent as a consequence of current climate change. Although there are many factors influencing fire events, scientists have not found a suitable framework that can provide for understanding fires at the macroscale level. This review article proposes a new conceptual framework to better understand fire regimes. The proposed framework relies on a biogeographical perspective of fire regimes that include characteristics that have been underestimated in previous frameworks and to mitigate time as well as spatial scale issues at the macrolevel.
火灾动态通常被认为是由气候、燃料负荷或人类活动驱动的。各种生态系统中相当一部分火灾是通过大型火灾事件发生的。最近，有人提出，由于当前的气候变化，火灾正变得更加严重和频繁。尽管有许多因素影响火灾事件，但科学家尚未找到一个合适的框架来在宏观层面理解火灾。这篇综述文章提出了一个新的概念框架，以更好地理解火灾动态。所提出的框架依赖于火灾动态的生物地理学视角，其中包括在以前的框架中被低估的特征，并缓解宏观层面的时间以及空间尺度问题。
