Climate change driven changes of vegetation fires in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/21:00118814 RIV/62156489:43210/21:43918485
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-020-03443-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-020-03443-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03443-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00704-020-03443-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Climate change driven changes of vegetation fires in the Czech Republic
Original language description
With rising temperatures and decreasing soil water, the frequency of vegetation fires is increasing globally. We analyzed the impact of climate change on the frequency of vegetation fires that required intervention by the Czech Fire Rescue Service in the Czech Republic between 1971 and 2015. We analyzed spatial patterns across administrative regions and evaluated the role of climate and other contributing factors that could explain spatiotemporal shifts during the study period. Our study has shown that the frequency of vegetation fires has increased most in the warmest and driest areas of the Czech Republic countryside. The increase between 1991 and 2015 is about 70% in comparison with the 1971-1990 period. In all administrative regions, a statistically significant relationship of the frequency of vegetation fires and weather conditions has been demonstrated. In all regions of the study area, extreme occurrences of vegetation fires were due to a combination of drought and heat waves. We conclude that population growth at the wildland-urban interface causes a greater frequency of vegetation fires. However, the main reason for the statistically significant increase in the frequency of vegetation fires is the ongoing climate change, manifested by an increase in values of the Fire Danger Index and heat wave occurrence.
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
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
ISSN
0177-798X
e-ISSN
1434-4483
Volume of the periodical
143
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
AT - AUSTRIA
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
691-699
UT code for WoS article
000583103100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85094868439