A Review of the Occurrence and Causes for Wildfires and Their Impacts on the Geoenvironment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F24%3A43925570" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/24:43925570 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7080295" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7080295</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire7080295" target="_blank" >10.3390/fire7080295</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Review of the Occurrence and Causes for Wildfires and Their Impacts on the Geoenvironment
Original language description
Wildfires have short- and long-term impacts on the geoenvironment, including the changes to biogeochemical and mechanical properties of soils, landfill stability, surface- and groundwater, air pollution, and vegetation. Climate change has increased the extent and severity of wildfires across the world. Simultaneously, anthropogenic activities-through the expansion of urban areas into wildlands, abandonment of rural practices, and accidental or intentional fire-inception activities-are also responsible for a majority of fires. This paper provides an overall review and critical appraisal of existing knowledge about processes induced by wildfires and their impact on the geoenvironment. Burning of vegetation leads to loss of root reinforcement and changes in soil hydromechanical properties. Also, depending on the fire temperature, soil can be rendered hydrophobic or hydrophilic and compromise soil nutrition levels, hinder revegetation, and, in turn, increase post-fire erosion and the debris flow susceptibility of hillslopes. In addition to direct hazards, wildfires pollute air and soil with smoke and fire suppression agents releasing toxic, persistent, and relatively mobile contaminants into the geoenvironment. Nevertheless, the mitigation of wildfires' geoenvironmental impacts does not fit within the scope of this paper. In the end, and in no exhaustive way, some of the areas requiring future research are highlighted.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Fire
ISSN
2571-6255
e-ISSN
2571-6255
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
295
UT code for WoS article
001305857200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85202592441