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Satellite data are effective for mapping wildfires, particularly in remote locations where monitoring is rare. Geolocated fire detections can be used for enhanced fire management and fire modelling through daily fire progression mapping. Here we…
Author(s): Quinn E. Barber, Piyush Jain, Ellen Whitman, Dan K. Thompson, Luc Guindon, Sean A. Parks, Xianli Wang, Matthew G. Hethcoat, Marc-Andre Parisien
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This study utilizes Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) data sourced by the OpenSky Network to curate a dataset aimed at enhancing the precision of aerial suppressant drop predictions in wildland firefighting. By amalgamating ADS-B…
Author(s): Shayne Magstadt, Yu Wei, David E. Calkin
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Prioritizing investments in restoration, risk reduction, and conservation programs is an important part of the planning process to develop strategies for a wide range of resource management issues in the US and elsewhere (Ball et al., 2009; Noss et…
Author(s): Alan A. Ager
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Wildfires cause severe consequences, including property loss, threats to human life, damage to natural resources, biodiversity, and economic impacts. Consequently, numerous wildland fire detection systems were developed over the years to identify…
Author(s): Rafik Ghali, Moulay A. Akhloufi
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The significant threat of wildfires to forest ecology and biodiversity, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, underscores the necessity for advanced predictive models amidst shifting climate patterns. There is a need to evaluate and…
Author(s): Harikesh Singh, Li-Minn Ang, Tom Lewis, Dipak Paudyal, Mauricio Acuna, Prashant K. Srivastava, Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava
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This study carries out a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of scientific production on wildfires, soil erosion and land degradation, with the aim of understanding trends, critical gaps in scientific knowledge and research patterns. A total of 1400…
Author(s): A. Bento-Gonçalves, António Vieira, Sarah Moura dos Santos
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Shrub volume is used to calculate numerous, essential ecological indicators in rangeland ecosystems such as biomass, fuel loading, wildlife habitat, site productivity, and ecosystem structure. Field techniques for biomass estimation, including…
Author(s): Eva K. Strand, Georgia R. Harrison
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Acquiring detailed 3D fuel data for advanced fire models remains challenging, particularly at large scales. To address this need, we present FastFuels, a novel platform designed to generate detailed 3D fuel data and accelerate the use of advanced…
Author(s): Anthony Marcozzi, Lucas Wells, Russell A. Parsons, Eric V. Mueller, Rodman Linn, J. Kevin Hiers
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Invasive forest pathogens, like Cronartium ribicola (Fisch), the fungus that causes white pine blister rust, threaten native tree species. Federally listed whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelmann) is highly susceptible and faces extensive…
Author(s): Vladimir Kovalenko, Lisa Bate, Diana L. Six
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Prescribed burns are used to maintain wildland ecosystems and decrease fuel loads and associated wildfire hazard. Prescribed burns may produce enough smoke to cause adverse health outcomes. The aim of this review is to understand what communication…
Author(s): Margaux Joe, Adrienne Cocci, Chioma Ihekweazu, Olorunfemi Adetona, Anna M. Adetona, Tanya Maslak, Luke P. Naeher
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Historical and contemporary policies and practices, including the suppression of lightning-ignited fires and the removal of intentional fires ignited by Indigenous peoples, have resulted in over a century of fire exclusion across many of the USA’s…
Author(s): Clare E. Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan Long, Jonathan D. Coop, Melanie Armstrong, Don L. Hankins
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Wildfires have short- and long-term impacts on the geoenvironment, including the changes to biogeochemical and mechanical properties of soils, landfill stability, surface- and groundwater, air pollution, and vegetation. Climate change has increased…
Author(s): Arvin Farid, Md Khorshed Alam, Venkata Siva Naga Sai Goli, Idil Deniz Akin, Taiwo Akinleye, Xiaohui Chen, Qing Cheng, Peter Cleall, Sabatino Cuomo, Vito Foresta, Shangqi Ge, Luca Iervolino, Pierrette Iradukunda, Charles H. Luce
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We assembled the first gridded burned area (BA) database of national wildfire data (ONFIRE), a comprehensive and integrated resource for researchers, non-government organisations, and government agencies analysing wildfires in various regions of the…
Author(s): Andrina Gincheva, Juli G. Pausas, Andrew Edwards, Antonello Provenzale, Artemi Cerda, Chelene Hanes, Dominic Roye, Emilio Chuvieco, Florent Mouillot, Gabriele Vissio, Jesus Rodrigo, Joaquin Bedia, John T. Abatzoglou, Jose Maria Senciales Gonzalez, Karen C. Short, Mara Baudena, Maria Carmen Llasat, Marta Magnani, Matthais M. Boer, Mauro E. Gonalez, Miguel Angel Torres-Vazquez, Paolo Fiorucci, Peter Jacklyn, Renata Libonati, Ricardo M. Trigo, Sixto Herrera, Sonia Jerez, Xianli Wang, Marco Turco
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Wildfire is an increasing concern throughout the world, with wildfires increasing in size, frequency, suppression cost, and loss of lives and resources. Targeted grazing has been suggested as a tool to establish and maintain strategic fuel breaks by…
Author(s): Christopher L. Schachtschneider, Eva K. Strand, Karen Launchbaugh, Scott Jensen
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Background: Fires release large pulses of nitrogen (N), which can be taken up by recovering plants and microbes or exported to streams where it can threaten water quality. Aims: The amount of N exported depends on the balance between N…
Author(s): Maxwell Kay Strain, Mary K. Brady, Erin J. Hanan
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Wildfires are increasingly impacting social and environmental systems in the United States (US). The ability to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfires increases with understanding of the social, physical, and biological conditions that co-…
Author(s): Yavar Pourmohamad, John T. Abatzoglou, Erin J. Belval, Erica Fleishman, Karen C. Short, Matthew C. Reeves, Nicholas J. Nauslar, Philip E. Higuera, Eric Henderson, Sawyer Ball, Amir AghaKouchak, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Julia Olszewski, Mojtaba Sadegh
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Globe-LFMC 2.0, an updated version of Globe-LFMC, is a comprehensive dataset of over 280,000 Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) measurements. These measurements were gathered through field campaigns conducted in 15 countries spanning 47 years. In…
Author(s): Marta Yebra, Gianluca Scortechini, Karine Adeline, Nursema Aktepe, Turkia Almoustafa, Avi Bar-Massada, María Eugenia Beget, Matthias M. Boer, Ross A. Bradstock, Tegan Brown, Francesc Xavier Castro, Rui Chen, Emilio Chuvieco, Mark Danson, Cihan Unal Degirmenci, Ruth Delgado-Davila, Phillip E. Dennison, Carlos Di Bella, Oriol Domenech, Jean-Baptiste Feret, Greg Forsyth, Eva Gabriel, Zisis Gagkas, Fatma Gharbi, Elena Granda, Anne Griebel, Binbin He, William Matt Jolly
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Background: Forest structural characteristics, the burning environment, and the choice of ignition pattern each influence prescribed fire behaviors and resulting fire effects; however, few studies examine the influences and interactions of these…
Author(s): Sophie R. Bonner, Chad M. Hoffman, Rodman Linn, Wade T. Tinkham, Adam L. Atchley, Carolyn Sieg, J. Morgan Varner, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin Hiers
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Spotting ignition by firebrands is a significant fire spread pathway at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where mulch products are commonly used as landscaping materials. Mulch is typically organic in nature, thus it may be easily ignited into a…
Author(s): Shaorun Lin, Chengze Li, Mackenzie Conkling, Xinyan Huang, Steve Quarles, Michael J. Gollner
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Background: Predicting fire behaviour is an ongoing challenge in temperate peatlands and heathlands, where live fuels can form the dominant fuel load for wildfire spread, and where spatial heterogeneity in fuel moisture is important but not…
Author(s): K. Little, Nick Kettridge, Claire M. Belcher, L. J. Graham, C. R. Stoof, K. Ivison, Adrián Cardil
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