Colloquium: Rebecca Scholten
Institutsseminar
- Datum: 09.03.2026
- Uhrzeit: 11:00
- Vortragende(r): Rebecca Scholten
- University of California, Irvine
What Governs Fire Extremes and Their Global Impacts?
Fire
behavior is changing globally, but we lack fundamental understanding of
the controls and consequences of these changes. In my talk I will
discuss three key questions to address these gaps:
1. What are the environmental rules that govern fire behavior across Earth's biomes?
2. How do climate-fire-vegetation feedbacks create regime shifts in fire dynamics?
3. What are the impacts on ecosystems?
I will illustrate these questions with case studies from boreal and temperate ecosystems, as well as global fire patterns derived from a novel global fire tracking system.
1. What are the environmental rules that govern fire behavior across Earth's biomes?
2. How do climate-fire-vegetation feedbacks create regime shifts in fire dynamics?
3. What are the impacts on ecosystems?
I will illustrate these questions with case studies from boreal and temperate ecosystems, as well as global fire patterns derived from a novel global fire tracking system.