In a new review paper, Jones and a handful of other researchers revealed just how much fire has shaped ecosystems and the biology of animals. “It’s an important and critical piece of the health of our planet.” “Fire is a natural process,” Gavin Jones, a fire ecologist at the US Forest Service, told Vox. Some species are actually worse off without it.
Creatures in Canada and beyond have evolved along with wildfire over many millennia, acquiring clever adaptations to survive. They have destroyed homes, forced thousands of people to evacuate, and engulfed cities in Canada and the US in smoke, threatening public health.īut for many plants and animals, from birds to beetles, fire is not such a potent, existential threat.
These rampant fires are clearly bad for human communities. That’s an area larger than Ohio and close to double the previous record. Summer is only halfway over and wildfires in Canada have already burned roughly 12 million hectares of forest (about 30 million acres).
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