Human activity increases Arctic fire occurrence within and near lit areas

We thank Barbara and Urs Stampfli for their support to this study. This study made use of infrastructure services provided by the Science IT team of the University of Zurich (www.s3it.uzh.ch). We thank Vitalii Zemlianski for discussions related to fire occurrence near oil pipelines in the Russian Arctic. Map data copyrighted OpenStreetMap contributors and available from https://www.openstreetmap.org.

This research was supported by Barbara and Urs Stampfli through University of Zurich Foundation (No specific grant number). Open access funding provided by University of Zurich.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

   Cengiz Akandil, Ramona J. Heim, Elena Plekhanova, Nils Rietze & Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

2. Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

   Ramona J. Heim

3. Land Change Science Research Unit, Dynamic Macroecology group, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

   Elena Plekhanova

4. Earth Sciences Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

   Miguel O. Román

5. Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA

   Zhuosen Wang

6. Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA

   Zhuosen Wang

7. Department of Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

   Reinhard Furrer

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to
Cengiz Akandil or Gabriela Schaepman-Strub.

Author contributions

C.A., R.J.H., E.P., M.O.R., and G.S.S. conceptualized the study, C.A., R.J.H., E.P., M.O.R., Z.W., R.F., and G.S.S. have developed the methodology, C.A., E.P., N.R., and R.F. implemented the software code, C.A., R.J.H., E.P., and R.F. validated the study, C.A., E.P., N.R., and R.F. run the formal analysis, C.A., R.J.H., and G.S.S. investigated the study, C.A. and N.R. made the data curation, C.A. wrote the original draft, all authors wrote, reviewed and edited, C.A., E.P., N.R., and R.F. made the visualizations, G.S.S. supervised and administered the study, C.A. and G.S.S. acquired the funding.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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