Mike Flannigan

Research interests

Publications

• Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

  Nature Climate Change · 2021 · 10.1038/s41558-021-01224-1

• Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture

  Global Change Biology · 2021 · 10.1111/gcb.16006

• Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0085-3

• Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century

  Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 2018 · 10.1139/cjfr-2018-0293

• Potential climate change impacts on fire intensity and key wildfire suppression thresholds in Canada

  Environmental Research Letters · 2017 · 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7e6e

• Fuel moisture sensitivity to temperature and precipitation: climate change implications

  Climatic Change · 2015 · 10.1007/s10584-015-1521-0

• Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems

  Environmental Reviews · 2013 · 10.1139/er-2013-0042

• Global wildland fire season severity in the 21st century

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2013 · 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.10.022

• An introduction to Canada’s boreal zone: ecosystem processes, health, sustainability, and environmental issues

  Environmental Reviews · 2013 · 10.1139/er-2013-0040

• Forest fire occurrence and climate change in Canada

  International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2010 · 10.1071/wf09002

• Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire

  International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1071/wf08187

• Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2009 · 10.1029/2008jd010966

• Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest

  Global Change Biology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01660.x

• Assessing the response of area burned to changing climate in western boreal North America using a Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) approach

  Global Change Biology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01679.x

• Forest Fires and Climate Change in the 21ST Century

  Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · 2006 · 10.1007/s11027-005-9020-7

• Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience?

  Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 2006 · 10.1139/x06-132

• Future Area Burned in Canada

  Climatic Change · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-5935-y

• FIRE REGIMES AT THE TRANSITION BETWEEN MIXEDWOOD AND CONIFEROUS BOREAL FOREST IN NORTHWESTERN QUEBEC

  Ecology · 2004 · 10.1890/02-0716

• Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl020876

• Large forest fires in Canada, 1959–1997

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2001jd000484

• Direct carbon emissions from Canadian forest fires, 1959-1999

  Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 2001 · 10.1139/x00-197

• Climate change and forest fires

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2000 · 10.1016/s0048-9697(00)00524-6

• Canadian boreal forest ecosystem structure and function in a changing climate: impact on fire regimes

  Environmental Reviews · 1997 · 10.1139/a97-008

• Climate change and wildfire in Canada

  Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 1991 · 10.1139/x91-010

• A Study of the Relation of Meteorological Variables to Monthly Provincial Area Burned by Wildfire in Canada (1953–80)

  Journal of applied meteorology · 1988 · 10.1175/1520-0450(1988)027<0441:asotro>2.0.co;2

Current projects

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