@article{ref1,
title="Climatic influences on interannual variability in regional burn severity across western US forests",
journal="International journal of wildland fire",
year="2017",
author="Abatzoglou, John T. and Kolden, Crystal A. and Williams, A. Park and Lutz, James A. and Smith, Alistair M. S.",
volume="26",
number="4",
pages="269-275",
abstract="Interannual variability in burn severity is assessed across forested ecoregions of the western United States to understand how it is influenced by variations in area burned and climate during 1984-2014. Strong correlations (|r| > 0.6) between annual area burned and climate metrics were found across many of the studied regions. The burn severity of individual fires and fire seasons was weakly, but significantly (P < 0.05), correlated with burned area across many regions. Interannual variability in fuel dryness evaluated with fuel aridity metrics demonstrated weak-to-moderate (|r| >0.4) relationships with regional burn severity, congruent with but weaker than those between climate and area burned for most ecoregions. These results collectively suggest that irrespective of other factors, long-term increases in fuel aridity will lead to increased burn severity in western United States forests for existing vegetation regimes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-8001",
doi="10.1071/WF16165",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF16165"
}