Factors other than solely climate also interact in enhancing the danger of tropical forest fires. For instance, the extent of burned area of rainforests in Borneo has shown that subsurface hydrology, , interacts with meteorological drought and, hence, fires have become more intense in recent decades following the progressive desiccation of the island over the past century . Bornean forest fire risk also increased through the interaction of drought with land use conversion for logging, oil palm and tree plantations, and human settlements . Similarly, simulations of future fire risks in the Amazon show that extensive land use change under the RCP 8.5 scenario results in 4- to 28-fold enhanced area of forest burned by fire by 2080-2100, as compared with 1990-2010, whereas in an RCP 4.5 scenario, the area burned would be enhanced by 0.9- to 5.4-fold .
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