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A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx
Alice Hsu,
Matthew W. Jones 
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Jane R. Thurgood,
Adam J. P. Smith,
Rachel Carmenta,
John T. Abatzoglou ,
Liana O. Anderson ,
Hamish Clarke,
Stefan Doerr ,
Paulo M. Fernandes ,
Crystal A. Kolden ,
Cristina Santin Nuno,
Tercia Strydom,
Corinne Le Quéré ,
Davide Ascoli ,
Marc Castellnou,
Johann G. Goldammer,
Nuno Ricardo Gracinhas Nunes Guiomar ,
Elena A. Kukavskaya ,
Eric Rigolot,
Veerachai Tanpipat,
Morgan Varner,
Youhei Yamashita ,
Johan Baard,
Ricardo Barreto,
Javier Becerra,
Egbert Brunn,
Niclas Bergius,
Julia Carlsson,
Chad Cheney,
Dave Druce,
Andy Elliot,
Jay Evans,
Rodrigo De Moraes Falleiro,
Nuria Prat-Guitart,
J. Kevin Hiers,
Johannes W. Kaiser ,
Lisa Macher,
Dave Morris,
Jane Park ,
César Robles,
Rosa María Román-Cuesta,
Gernot Rücker ,
Francisco Senra,
Lara Steil,
Jose Alejandro Lopez Valverde,
Emma Zerr
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Jane R. Thurgood,
Adam J. P. Smith,
Rachel Carmenta,
John T. Abatzoglou ,
Liana O. Anderson ,
Hamish Clarke,
Stefan Doerr ,
Paulo M. Fernandes ,
Crystal A. Kolden ,
Cristina Santin Nuno,
Tercia Strydom,
Corinne Le Quéré ,
Davide Ascoli ,
Marc Castellnou,
Johann G. Goldammer,
Nuno Ricardo Gracinhas Nunes Guiomar ,
Elena A. Kukavskaya ,
Eric Rigolot,
Veerachai Tanpipat,
Morgan Varner,
Youhei Yamashita ,
Johan Baard,
Ricardo Barreto,
Javier Becerra,
Egbert Brunn,
Niclas Bergius,
Julia Carlsson,
Chad Cheney,
Dave Druce,
Andy Elliot,
Jay Evans,
Rodrigo De Moraes Falleiro,
Nuria Prat-Guitart,
J. Kevin Hiers,
Johannes W. Kaiser ,
Lisa Macher,
Dave Morris,
Jane Park ,
César Robles,
Rosa María Román-Cuesta,
Gernot Rücker ,
Francisco Senra,
Lara Steil,
Jose Alejandro Lopez Valverde,
Emma Zerr
Scientific Data, Volume: 12, Start page: 1083
Swansea University Authors:
Stefan Doerr , Cristina Santin Nuno
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DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s41597-025-04941-w
Abstract
Prescribed burning (RxB) is a land management tool used widely for reducing wildfire hazard, restoring biodiversity, and managing natural resources. However, RxB can only be carried out safely and effectively under certain seasonal or weather conditions. Under climate change, shifts in the frequency...
| Published in: | Scientific Data |
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| ISSN: | 2052-4463 |
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Springer Nature
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69896 |
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Prescribed burning (RxB) is a land management tool used widely for reducing wildfire hazard, restoring biodiversity, and managing natural resources. However, RxB can only be carried out safely and effectively under certain seasonal or weather conditions. Under climate change, shifts in the frequency and timing of these weather conditions are expected but analyses of climate change impacts have been restricted to select few regions partly due to a paucity of RxB records at global scale. Here, we introduce GlobalRx, a dataset including 204,517 RxB records from 1979–2023, covering 16 countries and 209 terrestrial ecoregions. For each record, we add a comprehensive suite of meteorological variables that are regularly used in RxB prescriptions by fire management agencies, such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed. We also characterise the environmental setting of each RxB, such as land cover and protected area status. GlobalRx enables the bioclimatic range of conditions suitable for RxB to be defined regionally, thus unlocking new potential to study shifting opportunities for RxB planning and implementation under future climate. |
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UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/V01417X/1); Critical Decade for Climate Change Leverhulme Doctoral Scholars (DS-2020-028); European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) VERIFY project (no. 776810); Natural Environment Research Council grant IDEAL Fire (NE/X005143/1); project FirEURisk, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003890); US Department of Agriculture NIFA (award 2022-67019-36435); Marie Curie Network Grant (award 101086416); Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; Westpac Scholars Trust via a Westpac Research Fellowship; KAKENHI (no. JP22H03714 and JP23K24969); ZIM program of the German Ministry of Economy, grant number 16KN052420; State Assignment Project # FWES-2024-0040; São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (projects: 2021/07660-2 and 2020/16457-3); National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (project 409531/2021-9 and productivity scholarship process: 314473/2020-3); National Funds from FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UIDB/04033/2020; European Union through the European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the Interreg V-A Spain–Portugal program (POCTEP) under the FIREPOCTEP+ (Ref. 0139_FIREPOCTEP_MAS_6_E) project; National Funds through FCT under the projects UIDB/05183/2020, UIDP/05183/2020 and LA/P/0121/2020 (doi: 10.54499/UIDB/05183/2020; doi: 10.54499/UIDP/05183/2020; European Union, Marie Curie Staff Exchange Grant (FIRE-ADAPT 101086416); Pau Costa Foundation [Prat-Guitart]. |
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