Data from: Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas

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) doi.org. 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) doi.org. 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. 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).