pyrogeography

n.

The study of the past, present, and projected distribution of wildfires.

—pyrogeographer n.

—pyrogeographical adj.

Example Citations:

A key to understanding those consequences is the notion of the "fire regime", where different vegetation has characteristic fires in terms of recurrence, intensity, seasonality and biological effects. Indeed, fire can be thought of as an emergent property of vegetation in the same way that vegetation can be thought of as an emergent property of climates. In other words, Earth has a "pyrogeography".

—David Bowman, " Scorched earth: Wildfires will change the way we live: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427295.700-scorched-earth-wildfires-will-change-the-way-we-live.html?full=true," New Scientist, October 7, 2009

Researchers used thermal-infrared sensor data obtained between 1996 and 2006 from European Space Agency satellites in their study of pyrogeography — the distribution and behavior of wildfire — on a global scale.

—" Climate Change To Spur Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots, Analysis Finds: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407223642.htm," ScienceDaily, April 8, 2009

Earliest Citation:

—S. N. Sannikov, "Evolutionary pyroecology and pyrogeography of the natural regeneration of Scotch pine," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Forest Fire Research, November 1, 1994

Related Words:

a-geographic

neogeography

Categories:

Environment

Geography