Sentences with phrase «global vegetation fires»

During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.

Global vegetation fire emissions typically constitute a third of total releases of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission, annually (1).

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Scientists developed global model on the role of human activity and weather on vegetation fires

González - Cabán, A. Vegetation Fires and Global Change: Challenges for Concerted International Action Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)(2013).

As Arctic and sub-Arctic regions warm more than the global average, the increase in temperature could lead to more regular fire damage to vegetation and soils and carbon release.

The director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Andy Pitman, said global warming meant warmer winters, which would create vegetation conditions suitable for fires.

However, global - scale vegetation model development has strongly focused on productivity processes whereas, apart from major disturbances such as fire, the dynamics of carbon turnover have been largely ignored.

Net CO2 flux combining effects of vegetation and fires over land (in blue) and net fluxes of CH4 (in purple) and N2O (in green) associated with different regions of the globe and presented as percentages to the net global flux into the atmosphere shown in the preceding figure.

Considering forest - threatening factors such as fires, deforestation, and the emission of greenhouse gases, the research found if the regions of the Amazon most crucial to maintaining the biome's climate are lost, large sections of the once lush rainforest may be reduced to a virtual desert.According to a report from Globo Amazônia, the study conducted by Gilvan Sampaio of National Institute of Special Research (INPE) found that the vegetation of the Amazon will be particularly impacted by rising global temperatures in the years to come, in addition to the continued threats posed by deforestation and fires.