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Using paleo-fire to improve our understanding of future landscape flammability in Landes de Gasogne area: a data-model integration approach.
© Cyril Fésillon / Fire-landes / CNRS Images
View the mediaThe global climate is rapidly warming, increasing the likelihood that most terrestrial ecosystems will face new patterns of precipitation and temperature and increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
A more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between area burned and atmospheric warming is required to improve our ability to forecast how climate and wildfire will interact to shape ecosystems and impact society.
The main objective of FIRE-LANDES project is to improve our ability to project future climate-wildfire interactions in the Landes de Gascogne area by leveraging paleo-data and modelling to improve our understanding of how a wider range of past climatic changes altered ecosystem flammability.
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