Human activity augments lightning ignitions to reshape fire seasonality across all biomes on Earth

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• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Nature Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2025-09-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41559-025-02862-wPMID 40983697
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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