PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE / 2020-05
Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
Paper investigating if decades of aggressive fire suppression in the boreal biome of Canada has reduced the proportion of recently burned forests (RBF; <30 years) near human communities, and thereby inadvertently increased the risk of wildfire.
Authors
- Marc-André Parisien
- Sean A. Parks
- Christopher A. Stockdale
- Dominique Arseneault
- Quinn E. Barber
- Sandy Erni
- Kelvin G. Hirsch
- Xianli Wang
Organizations
- Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
- Natural Resources Canada
- Université du Québec à Rimouski