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Fire in the western U.S. poses one of the greatest threats to human and ecological communities alike. In fact, fire management is the largest single expenditure of land management funds on federal lands. Now, climate change is altering wildfire patterns. Climate change in the West is creating warmer and drier conditions, resulting in an increase in the amount of dead vegetation available to fuel fires. This project sought to assess the vulnerability of forests in the southwestern U.S. to climate change and wildfire, in order to understand how these ecosystems might become altered as a result. Researchers (a) examined how climate change impacts wildfires in the region, to better understand fire risk; (b) identified...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2012,
CA,
CASC,
CO,
Completed, All tags...
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
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Plants,
Plants,
Projects by Region,
Southwest,
Southwest,
Southwest CASC,
Southwest US,
UT,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
adaptive capacity,
assessment,
climate change,
connectivity,
ecosystem,
ensemble,
exposure,
fire,
forests,
forests,
management,
model,
multiple,
prism,
sensitivity,
trees,
vegetation,
vulnerability,
vulnerability assessment,
wildfire,
woodlands,
woodlands, Fewer tags
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