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Context: Proximity of landcover elements to each other will enable or constrain fire spread. Assessments of potential fire propagation across landscapes typically involve empirical or simulation models that estimate probabilities based on complex…
Author(s): Jennifer L. Beverly, Neal McLoughlin, Elizabeth Chapman
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Great Basin shrublands in the United States are rapidly converting to annual grass- dominated ecosystems, driven primarily by increased wildfire activity. Post-fire vegetation recovery trajectories vary spatially and temporally and are influenced by…
Author(s): Jody Vogeler, Eric Jensen, Beth A. Newingham
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Increased wildfire activity and climate change have intensified disturbance regimes globally and have raised concern among scientists and land managers about the resilience of disturbed landscapes. Here we test the effects of climate, topographic…
Author(s): Jaclyn Guz, Nathan S. Gill, Dominik Kulakowski
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The increasing occurrence of severe wildfires, coupled with the expansion of the wildland urban interface has increased the number of structures in danger of being destroyed by wildfires. Ignition by firebrands is a significant avenue for fire…
Author(s): Derek Bean, David L. Blunck
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Sediment delivery following post-fire logging is a concern relative to water quality. While studies have assessed the effect of post-fire logging on sediment yields at dif-ferent spatial scales, none have explicitly identified sediment sources. Our…
Author(s): Will H. Olsen, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Peter R. Robichaud
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Background: Fire strongly affects animals’ behavior, population dynamics, and environmental surroundings, which in turn are likely to affect their immune systems and exposure to pathogens. However, little work has yet been conducted on the effects…
Author(s): Gregory F. Albery, Isabella Turilli, Maxwell B. Joseph, Janet E. Foley, Celine H. Frere, Shweta Bansal
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Restoration of fire-prone forests is a common practice intended to increase resilience to wildfire, drought, and bark beetles. However, the long-term effects of restoration treatments on understory species, particularly non-native species, are…
Author(s): Woongsoon Jang, Justin S. Crotteau, Yvette K. Ortega, Sharon M. Hood, Christopher R. Keyes, Dean E. Pearson, Duncan C. Lutes, Anna Sala
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This work provides a detailed overview of existing investigations into the fire–wind interaction phenomena. Specifically, it considers: the fanning effect of wind, wind direction and slope angle, and the impact of wind on fire modelling, and the…
Author(s): Maryam Ghodrat, Farshad Shakeriaski, David James Nelson, Albert Simeoni
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Across the globe, aircraft that apply water and suppressants during active wildfires play key roles in wildfire suppression, and these suppression resources can be highly effective. In the United States, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service (…
Author(s): Crystal S. Stonesifer, David E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval
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The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it involves complex interacting systems of people and nature. Here, we…
Author(s): Christopher I. Roos, Thomas W. Swetnam, T. J. Ferguson, Matthew J. Liebmann, Rachel A. Loehman, John R. Welch, Ellis Q. Margolis, Christopher H. Guiterman, William C. Hockaday, Michael J. Aiuvalasit, Jenna Battillo, Josh Farella, Christopher A. Kiahtipes
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The Rothermel fire spread model provides the scientific basis for the US National Fire Danger Rating System(NFDRS) and several other important fire management applications. This study proposes a new perspective of the model that partitions the…
Author(s): Francis M. Fujioka, David R. Weise, Shyh-Chin Chen, Seung Hee Kim, Menas C. Kafatos
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Fire ecology has a long history of empirical investigation in rangelands. However, the science is inconclusive and incomplete, sparking increasing interest on how to advance the discipline. Here, we introduce a new framework for qualitatively and…
Author(s): Dirac Twidwell, Christine H. Bielski, Rheinhardt Scholtz, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
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Identifying the number of firebrands generated during wildfires is an important aspect of understanding their propagation. A key challenge in quantifying the number of firebrands released is to distinguish those that are ‘hot’ and could lead to…
Author(s): Sampath Adusumilli, Tyler R. Hudson, Nathan Gardner, David L. Blunck
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Forested ecosystems cover nearly one-third of Earth’s land surface and can perform an essential function as one of the globe’s largest terrestrial carbon sinks, absorbing more carbon than they release, lowering the concentration of carbon dioxide in…
Author(s): Alex W. Kirkpatrick
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Elevated fuel loads represent a wildfire hazard in a landscape. Reducing fuel load is one mitigation strategy commonly employed to decrease the severity and impact of wildfires. The planning of such fuel management operations, however, represents a…
Author(s): Federico Liberatore, Javier Leon, John W. Hearne, Begoña Vitoriano
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Whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis) is a critical keystone species of U.S. Northern Rocky Mountain subalpine ecosystems. There is growing concern that WBP may be eliminated from its current habitat over the next century due to cumulative impacts…
Author(s): Nickolas E. Kichas
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Although ecological disturbances can have a strong influence on pollinators through changes in habitat, virtually no studies have quantified how characteristics of wildfire influence the demography of essential pollinators. Nevertheless, evaluating…
Author(s): Sara M. Galbraith, James H. Cane, James W. Rivers
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Human and natural disturbances are key drivers of change in forest ecosystems. Yet, the direct and indirect mechanisms which underpin these changes remain poorly understood at the ecosystem level. Here, using structural equation modelling across a…
Author(s): Elle J. Bowd, Sam C. Banks, Andrew Bissett, Tom W. May, David B. Lindenmayer
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Wildland fire activity and associated emission of particulate matter air pollution is increasing in the United States over the last two decades due primarily to a combination of increased temperature, drought, and historically high forest fuel…
Author(s): Jonathan Krug, Russell W. Long, Maribel Colón, Andrew Habel, Shawn P. Urbanski, Matthew S. Landis
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Northern Eurasia is currently highly sensitive to climate change. Fires in this region can have significant impacts on regional air quality, radiative forcing and black carbon deposition in the Arctic which can accelerate ice melting. Using a MODIS-…
Author(s): Wei Min Hao, Matthew C. Reeves, L. Scott Baggett, Yves Balkanski, Philippe Ciais, Bryce L. Nordgren, Alexander P. Petkov, Rachel E. Corley, Florent Mouillot, Shawn P. Urbanski, Chao Yue
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