Drylands
Drylands
Drylands, characterized by water scarcity, comprise 83% of DOI-managed lands. Drylands are highly vulnerable to erosion by wind and water and are affected by land use (e.g., grazing) and disturbance (e.g., fire). The Ecosystems Land Change Science Program conducts research to understand the primary drivers of change in dryland soils and vegetation to inform management decisions.
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Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change: Fire, climate and humans
Large wildfires have raged across the western Americas in the past decade including the Las Conchas, New Mexico fire that burned 44,000 acres in a single day in 2011 (Orem and Pelletier, 2015, Geomorphology 232: 224-238, and references therein), the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta fire that required evacuating an entire city, and the 2015 Alaskan fire season that burned more than 5 million acres...