Response to concerns about the African fire trends controlled by precipitation over recent decades

Glob Chang Biol. 2022 Feb;28(4):e4-e6. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16020. Epub 2021 Dec 9.

Fangli Wei^{1

2}, Shuai Wang³, Bojie Fu^{1

2}, Martin Brandt⁴, Naiqing Pan^{1

2

5}, Cong Wang^{1

2}, Rasmus Fensholt⁴

¹ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
⁴ Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.

Abstract

Croplands expanded in Africa over recent decades, even though the increasing trends are spatially heterogeneous.