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Expand : Reread cited refs to see if anything was missed. Can expand/find more info on prevention, especially with reference to building codes for homes on the wildland-urban interface. Eventually, split sections into articles as needed (e.g.
Wildfire prevention and
Wildfire detection much like
Wildfire suppression).
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Please update with: "Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires"
Please add some info about and from this report to the article. It's currently featured in
2022 in science like so:
UN researchers publish a comprehensive study about climate change impacted
wildfires with projections (e.g. a 31–57% increase of extreme wildfires by 2100) and information about impacts and countermeasures.[1][2]
I think that only including the above info in section #"Climate change effects" may be insufficient and that it would be good to add information about e.g./especially countermeasures, including (but not only) from this report.
In this article no mention was made about the damage to oxygen production by wildfires. — Preceding
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142.255.38.69 (
talk) 23:59, 15 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Further reading list removed
I've just removed the further reading list. I don't see how this list is all that beneficial, given that the article already has plenty of in-line citations. Any of the important publications are likely those that have been cited multiple times in the in-line citations. Apart from that, the list of publication is rather Global North centric.
EMsmile (
talk) 13:14, 5 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Bond, William J., and Jon E. Keeley. "Fire as a global ‘herbivore’: the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems." Trends in ecology & evolution 20.7 (2005): 387-394.
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Bowman, David M.J.S. et al. "The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth." Journal of biogeography 38.12 (2011): 2223–2236.
online
Iglesias, Virginia, et al. "Fires that matter: reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment." Environmental Research Letters 17.4 (2022): 045014.
online
Moore, Peter F. "Global wildland fire management research needs." Current Forestry Reports 5 (2019): 210–225.
Pyne, Stephen J. Fire : a brief history (University of Washington Press, 2001).
excerpt
Pyne, Stephen J. ''World fire : the culture of fire on earth (1995)
online
Pyne, Stephen J. Tending fire : coping with America's wildland fires (2004)
online
Pyne, Stephen J. Awful splendour : a fire history of Canada (2007)
online
Pyne, Stephen J. Burning bush : a fire history of Australia (1991)
online
Pyne, Stephen J. Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America (2015)
Pyne, Stephen J. California: A Fire Survey (2016)
online
Safford, Hugh D., et al. "Fire ecology of the North American Mediterranean-climate zone." in Fire ecology and management: Past, present, and future of US forested ecosystems (2021): 337-392. re California and its neighbors
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Twidwell, Dirac, et al. "Advancing fire ecology in 21st century rangelands." Rangeland Ecology & Management 78 (2021): 201-212.
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Nikk Ogasa. “Air pollution helps wildfires create their own lightning” Science Magazine (2021)
onlineEMsmile (
talk) 13:14, 5 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Lead length
I've shortened the lead a little bit. I think it's now fine. Hi
User:Thenightaway, I think it was you who had added the "lead too long" tag? Do you agree that it's now OK? 387 words is a normal lead length. I'd say it could even be expanded to 500 words. Hi
User:Rjensen I don't agree with the
edit you made on 9 June: You seem to have made the lead very short and copied the old lead text to a section that you called "history". It wasn't actually content for a history section, also there is already a history section towards the lower part of the article. So I have re-instated the old lead but shortened it a bit.
EMsmile (
talk) 13:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Article too long?
I think the article is currently too long. It has 69 kB (10687 words) "readable prose size". I think it would be good to bring it down to around 50 kB. Looking at the section sizes (see at the top of the talk page), my initial feeling would be that the sections on "ecology" and on "human risk and exposure" should probably be condensed a bit.
EMsmile (
talk) 13:31, 5 July 2023 (UTC)reply
I've done some culling and condensing today. I got as far as the section "impacts on humans". Current length is now 55 kB. I found there was a lot of content that was overly detailed, too specific for the U.S., deviating from the main topic into the content area of sub-articles (I have moved some of that and brought it back through the use of the excerpt tool), student-added content which was sometimes difficult to understand, relying too much on a primary source, too detailed or not encyclopedic. (it seems like a lot of students have worked on this article). I will stop for now, to let those who are watching this page catch up, but the bottom part still needs to be scrutinised. I find the tool "
who wrote that?" very useful for this exercise.
EMsmile (
talk) 20:57, 5 July 2023 (UTC)reply
References need to be formatted better
This article uses the short ref style but without hyperlinks from the reference list to the sources list. This needs to be improved to make it more user friendly. I would opt to convert the article over to long ref style. I won't have time to tackle this straight away but eventually it needs doing, I think.
EMsmile (
talk) 08:09, 6 July 2023 (UTC)reply
évidences
There are no figures at all about the different raisons of wildfires. It seems to me that the more frequent are human ones.
37.174.41.65 (
talk) 12:10, 18 July 2023 (UTC)reply
This seems intuitive, but it has almost zero explanatory utility.
Australians are not uniquely prone to arson — Australia is uniquely prone to the spread of bushfires, regardless of their immediate cause.
Foxmilder (
talk) 02:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)reply
The topic distribution of article
the topics of the article aren't too much, but I would still suggest to combine the topics: "Impacts on ecosystems", "impacts on humans", and "health effects" into a single topic named "Impacts" and the the three current topics could be it's sub-topics...
Suryanshu Gupta (
talk) 10:33, 2 October 2023 (UTC)reply
I've now moved "health effects" into "impacts on humans" so that we have now two sections about impacts. I wouldn't merge them into one single section on impacts as it would get massive and the sub-structure would get too deep. Having two sections on impacts is already, I would say: one for the natural environment and one for humans. By the way the section on health impacts is rather large and might warrant splitting off into a sub-article or moving some of it to
Smoke#Health effects of wood smoke.
EMsmile (
talk) 09:23, 25 October 2023 (UTC)reply
Removed text block about surface air quality
I've removed this text block about surface air quality because it was rather wordy and didn't really fit in my opinion. Perhaps it fits better in a sub-article?
Surface air quality:
Whether transported smoke plumes are relevant for surface air quality depends on where they exist in the atmosphere, which in turn depends on the initial injection height of the convective smoke plume into the atmosphere. Smoke that is injected above the
planetary boundary layer (PBL) may be detectable from spaceborne satellites and play a role in altering the Earth's energy budget, but would not mix down to the surface where it would impact air quality and human health. Alternatively, smoke confined to a shallow PBL (through nighttime stable stratification of the atmosphere or terrain trapping) may become particularly concentrated and problematic for surface air quality. Wildfire intensity and smoke emissions are not constant throughout the fire lifetime and tend to follow a
diurnal cycle that peaks in late afternoon and early evening, and which may be reasonably approximated using a monomodal or
bimodalnormal distribution.[1]EMsmile (
talk) 09:20, 25 October 2023 (UTC)reply
I agree — that’s a long way removed from the basic concept of the wildfire; it belongs in an article about atmospheric phenomena.
Foxmilder (
talk) 02:54, 16 January 2024 (UTC)reply