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The 2018-2021 wildfire seasons were a glimpse of the future: deadly damaging fires in Mediterranean regions and high fire activity outside the typical fire season, also in temperate and boreal areas. This challenge cannot be solved with the…
Author(s): Cathelijine Stoof, Nick Kettridge
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The suggestion has been made within the wildland fire community that the rate of spread in the upper portion of the fire danger spectrum is largely independent of the physical fuel characteristics in certain forest ecosystem types. Our review and…
Author(s): Miguel G. Cruz, Martin E. Alexander, Paulo M. Fernandes
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Prescribed fire is an increasingly important tool in restoring ecological conditions and reducing uncontrolled wildfire. Prescribed burn techniques could reduce public health impacts associated with wildfire smoke exposure. However, there have been…
Author(s): Michelle C. Kondo, Colleen Reid, Miranda H. Mockrin, Warren Heilman, David Long
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Belowground bud bank regeneration is a successful strategy for plants in fire-prone communities. It depends on the number and location of dormant and viable buds stored on belowground organs. A highly diverse belowground bud-bearing organ system…
Author(s): Aline Bertolosi Bombo, Beatriz Appezzato-da-Glória, Alessandra Fidelis
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Fires are widespread disturbance events with many implications for different aspects of plant persistence and vegetation properties. Changing fire regimes can profoundly affect vegetation dynamics and ecosystem properties. Recent steep increases in…
Author(s): Fernando A. O. Silveira, Davi R. Rossatto, Hermann Heilmeier, Gerhard E. Overbeck
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Mechanical mastication is a fuel management strategy that modifies vegetation structure to reduce the impact of wildfire. Although past research has quantified immediate changes to fuel post-mastication, few studies consider longer-term fuel…
Author(s): Bianca J. Pickering, Jamie Burton, Trent D. Penman, Madeleine A. Grant, Jane G. Cawson
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The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multistate regional perspective using a variety of sources,…
Author(s): Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling
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In fire-dependent forest landscapes, frequent low- to moderate-severity fire maintained vegetation patterns that limited the severity of droughts, wildfires, and insect and pathogen activity. More than a century of fire exclusion, in combination…
Author(s): R. Keala Hagmann, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Brion Salter, Andrew G. Merschel, Matthew J. Reilly
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Ancient giant sequoias Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J. Buchholz are highly valued trees with limited distribution. They are the most massive trees on earth, and they have exceptional longevity (>3,000 years). Given their extraordinary…
Author(s): Kristen L. Shive, Amarina Wuenschel, Linnea J. Hardlund, Sonia Morris, Marc D. Meyer, Sharon M. Hood
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Composition of pyrolysis gases for wildland fuels is often determined using ground samples heated in non-oxidising environments. Results are applied to wildland fires where fuels change spatially and temporally, resulting in variable fire behaviour…
Author(s): David R. Weise, Wei Min Hao, Stephen P. Baker, M. Princevac, Amir-Hessam Aminfar, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Roger D. Ottmar, Andrew T. Hudak, Joseph C. Restaino, Joseph O’Brien
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Wildland fire behavior models are often initiated using the detection information listed in incident reports. This information carries an unknown amount of uncertainty, though it is often the most readily available ignition data. To determine the…
Author(s): Amy L. DeCastro, Amanda Siems-Anderson, Ebone Smith, Jason C. Knievel, Branko Kosović, Barbara G. Brown, Jennifer Balch
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Recent increases in fire frequency and severity across the western US are triggering abrupt changes in ecosystem structure and composition, especially in lower montane forests, but consequences of fire-regime change for mesic, mixed-conifer forests…
Author(s): Tyler J. Hoecker, Monica G. Turner
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Numerous research works, numerical simulations and real experiments have been dedicated to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) before, during and after wildfire occurrences, for multiple purposes including terrain and vegetation mapping for…
Author(s): Carlos Viegas, Babak Chehreh, José Andrade, João Lourenço
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Wildfires often exhibit complex and dynamic behaviour arising from interactions between the fire and surrounding environment that can create a rapid fire advance and result in loss of containment and critical fire safety concerns. A series of…
Author(s): Carlos Ribeiro, Luís Carlos Duarte Reis, Jorge R. Raposo, André Rodrigues, Domingos Xavier Viegas, J. Sharples
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Post-fire remote sensing provides a promising tool for assessing building damage, destruction, and defensive actions from wildland fire. However, limited studies exist to guide image acquisitions. Consequently, we compare remotely piloted aircraft…
Author(s): Derek McNamara, William E. Mell
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In recent decades, wildfires in many areas of the United States (U.S.) have become larger and more frequent with increasing anthropogenic pressure, including interactions between climate, land-use change, and human ignitions. We aimed to…
Author(s): Megan E. Cattau, Adam L. Mahood, Jennifer Balch, Carol A. Wessman
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This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and…
Author(s): David L. Peterson, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Toral Patel-Weynand
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The future of dry forests around the world is uncertain given predictions that rising temperatures and enhanced aridity will increase drought-induced tree mortality. Using forest management and ecological restoration to reduce density and…
Author(s): John Bradford, Robert K. Shriver, Marcos D. Robles, Lisa McCauley, Travis J. Woolley, Caitlin M. Andrews, Michael A. Crimmins, David M. Bell
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Spatial variation in species interactions (interaction β-diversity) and its ecological drivers are poorly understood, despite their relevance to community assembly, conservation and ecosystem functioning. We investigated effects of wildfire severity…
Author(s): Laura A. Burkle, R. Travis Belote, Jonathan A. Myers
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In fire-adapted ponderosa pine forests of western North America, fire suppression policies during much of the 19th century gradually resulted in high stem densities undesirable for fire risk management. To restore desirable forest structures,…
Author(s): Ryleigh V. Gelles, Thomas S. Davis, Camille Stevens-Rumann
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