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Wildfires are crucial in shaping forest ecosystems globally, influencing structure, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. However, the interaction of climate change, reduced grazing, fuel accumulation, and human-caused ignitions has led to a…
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Wildland fire smoke has long been recognized as primarily a mixture of gases and particulate matter with the potential to impact air quality and human health. New research has revealed that smoke also carries elevated concentrations of viable…
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Wildfires have burned large areas of forest in Central Europe in recent years, and the risk of fires is predicted to increase. However, this region is still underrepresented in fire ecology research. To help to fill this knowledge gap, we…
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To restore ecosystem health and reduce the negative impacts of wildfire, scientists and land managers argue that more prescribed fire is needed on the land. However, a lack of effectively trained personnel in the role of “burn boss” is a barrier to…
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As wildfire activity increases globally, understanding how soil microbial communities vary in young postfire forests and the effect of short fire-return intervals on these communities becomes increasingly important for anticipating postfire…
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Background: In response to record-breaking wildfire seasons worldwide, wildfire researchers are increasingly called upon to conduct research to better understand the drivers and impacts of “megafires.” However, there is limited attention to the…
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Decades of fire suppression have increased fuel loads and fire severity, leading to the “fire suppression paradox”—by suppressing fires, we potentially make fires harder to put out in the future. However, in a new paper, the authors show a separate…
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Experimental forests present unrivaled opportunities to understand the factors influencing vegetation structure many decades after silvicultural treatments or natural disturbances. In this study, we use the western larch-dominated moist…
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Silvicultural treatments that modify forest structure and reduce fuel loads can help mitigate future wildfire effects, but treatment efficacy declines over time. In 2021, we remeasured a southern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest 13…
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Climate change is expected to alter fire return intervals in cold and wet forests in the northwestern United States. This coupled with an expected rise in prescribed fires to restore healthy forests, disproportionately increases risk to…
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Multi-stakeholder planning and prioritization for ecosystem management and wildfire risk mitigation are complicated by the need to balance a multitude of values, goals, viewpoints, and interests across large landscapes. Doing so requires quantifying…
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Wildfires have increasingly affected human and natural systems across the western United States (WUS) in recent decades. Given that the majority of ignitions are human-caused and potentially preventable, improving the ability to predict fire…
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Wildland fuels are fundamental variables in modeled predictions of fire behavior and effects. In forest ecosystems, accumulated forest floor layers, including recently fallen litter and highly decomposed organic material (i.e., duff),…
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Extreme wildfires are escalating in frequency and intensity as climate change, land abandonment, and decades of fire suppression create landscapes primed to burn. Yet wildfire management remains largely absent from the global nature-based solutions…
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Forest fires present significant global risks, leading to loss of life, community displacement, and extensive damage to property and the environment, with substantial economic and social consequences. Propagation of wildland fires can be divided…
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Spot-fire generation from embers blown ahead of a wildfire front is one of the leading causes of home destruction in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. It is, therefore, important to be able to model wind-driven ember flight accurately. This…
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Background: Despite progress in reducing industrial air pollution, rising wildfire frequency and intensity, driven in part by climate change, pose significant health risks. Accurate estimates of wildfire-generated fine particulate matter with an…
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The intensity of wildfires is projected to increase with the rising frequency of droughts due to climate change. Management practices following forest fires must include restoring the appropriate species composition. This study was performed within…
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Lightning is the primary natural cause of wildfires in mid- to high-latitude forests, and it is increasing in frequency under climate change. Traditional fire danger forecasts, reliant on standard meteorological data, often fail to capture extreme…
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Biological legacies (i.e., materials that persist following disturbance; “legacies”) shape ecosystem functioning and feedbacks to future disturbances, yet how legacies are driven by pre-disturbance ecosystem state and disturbance severity is poorly…
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