{"id":2946,"date":"2014-09-08T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:52:58","slug":"resistance-of-the-boreal-forest-to-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/resistance-of-the-boreal-forest-to-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance of the boreal forest to fire<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows that the boreal forest could be more resilient to forest fire than previously thought. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Using climate projections, scientists estimate that forest fire in the Boreal forest in Canada will be bigger and happen more frequently by the end of the 21st century. However, a careful study of the past 200 years of a 190-km long region in Northern Quebec shows that the most fire-prone areas are resistant to extreme forest fire, where more than 2% of the forest is burned, because of a an overabundance of young trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/09\/03\/1409316111.abstract?sid=4f98cc83-2909-47d0-af39-388665a06f1d\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>September 8, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cen.ulaval.ca\/en\/membre.aspx?id=951414&amp;membre=darseneault\" target=\"_blank\">Dominique Arseneault<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Quebec in Rimouski, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that the boreal forest could be more resilient to forest fire than previously thought. Using climate projections, scientists estimate that forest fire in the Boreal forest in Canada will be bigger and happen more frequently by the end of the 21st century. However, a careful study of the past 200 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,1445,215,1831,849],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-natural-disaster","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}