Published March 21, 2022 | Version v1
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Data from: Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas

Authors/Creators

  • 1. 1. Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 2. 2. School of Natural Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Bangor University, UK
  • 3. 3. Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 4. 4. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 5. 5. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 6. 6. Department of Geography, Universite d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar – Environmental Sciences Department, Ohio University, USA.
  • 7. 7. École Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • 8. 8. Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK

Description

Related article: Johanna Eklund, Julia P G Jones, Matti Räsänen, Jonas Geldmann, Ari-Pekka Jokinen, Adam Pellegrini, Domoina Rakotobe, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Tuuli Toivonen, and Andrew Balmford. Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas. Nature Sustainability (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00884-x.

In this dataset:

This dataset contains information about monthly fire incidence and precipitation for the protected areas of Madagascar from January 2012 to December 2020. The fire data is sourced from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) 375 m active fire product and the precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission (for years 2016-2020) and its predecessor The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) (for years 2011-2015) at spatial resolution 10 km. The fire and precipitation data was overlayed with the protected area polygons of the June 2020 release of the World Database of Protected Areas. For sources and more details on how the data was compiled see the related article. The data can be used to inspect temporal dynamics of wildfires inside protected areas and for informing adaptive protected area management and planning.

Please cite this dataset as:

Johanna Eklund, Julia P G Jones, Matti Räsänen, Jonas Geldmann, Ari-Pekka Jokinen, Adam Pellegrini, Domoina Rakotobe, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Tuuli Toivonen, and Andrew Balmford. Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas. Nature Sustainability (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00884-x.

Column names

NAME: Name of protected area

Fires_sum: Number of observed fires (VIIRS)

Month: Month

Year: Year

Precipitation: Precipitation (mm)

Plag_1:Plag_12: Precipitation during previous month; 2 months ago; 3 months ago…12 months ago

YEAR_CREAT: Year of establishment of protected area

Biome: Biome

REP_AREA: Area of protected area (km2)

Fires_per_km2: Fires per km2

Prec_acc_12m: Accumulated precipitation during the last 12 months

fBiome: Biome as factor

fNAME: Name as factor

sPrecipitation: Precipitation (scaled; see Methods section of article)

sPlag_1: Precipitation in previous month (scaled; see Methods section of article)

sPrec_acc_12m: Accumulated precipitation during the last 12 months (scaled; see Methods section of article)

Pred_Zinb_1a: Predicted fires (see Methods section of article)

Diff_Zinb_1a: Difference: Observed fires - predicted fires

Year_pred: Year for prediction

License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Notes

This work was funded by the Academy of Finland (grant no. 333518), the Helsinki Institute for Sustainability Science, and the Kone foundation (JE), the Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki (APJ), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (AB), the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Climate and Resilience Framework Programme (JPGJ and OSR), and the Independent Research Fund Denmark's Sapere Aude programme (grant no. 0165-00018B) (JG).

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Funding

Research Council of Finland
The interplay between funding and governance factors in achieving sustainable conservation outcomes for protected areas 333518