Hello Reddit,
I’m Jeff Atkins, an ecosystem ecologist, a Postdoctoral Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University and a PLOS Ecology Community Editor. Today’s PLOS Science Wednesday comes live from the Ecological Association of America (#ESA2016) annual meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, a conference bringing together some 3000 practicing ecologists all this week. I’m joined for this AMA by our five PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellows, all early career ecologists, to talk about a PLOS ONE article featured in the PLOS Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection which looks at effects of human activity and climate change on wildfires in CA.
Titled “Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models” by Michael Mann & colleagues, incorporates human activity and demographics into forecasting fire probabilities, showing reductions in model uncertainty and highlighting the human contribution to the increased prevalence and occurrence of wildfires. Here is my blog post discussing these findings.
Because the theme of how anthropogenic (human) influences are changing ecosystems is the main topic of this year’s ESA we’re also happy to take your questions on any related topics – Ask Us Anything!
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We will be back at 1 pm ET to answer your questions, ask us anything!
Read and Review the full paper at TheWinnower.com