PIE # 111 - Wildland fires - threat to people and ecosystems
(28.01.2017) Andrzej Bytnerowicz
Wildland fires - Threat to people and ecosystems
In his talk “Wildland fires – threat to people and ecosystems” Andrzej will discuss distribution of fires at the global and California scales; catastrophic “mega-fires”; interactions between climate change and fires; causes of increasing occurrence of fires; fire hazards to human health and lives; fire impacts on forests and other ecosystems; fire detection and suppression; and prognoses of future fires.