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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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In the mountainous regions of the Western United States, increasing wildfire activity and climate change are putting forests at risk of regeneration failure and conversion to non-forests. During periods with unfavorable climatic conditions,…
Author(s): Grace Peven, Mary Engels, Jan U. H. Eitel, Robert A. Andrus
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Aspen forests are threatened by the impacts of a changing climate and are showing large-scale mortality with meager natural regeneration to restore these loses. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for high-quality aspen seedlings to assist with…
Author(s): Aalap Dixit, Owen Burney
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We evaluated the post-fire sediment dynamics in beaver ponds to examine these ponds' contributions to sediment storage following disturbance. Beaver dams and beaver mimicry structures impound water and sediment, a function that is of growing…
Author(s): Sarah B. Dunn, Sara Rathburn, Ellen Wohl
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The Australian megafires of 2019–2020 were considered catastrophic for flora and fauna, yet little is known about their impacts on reptiles. We investigated the impacts of the 2019–2020 megafires on reptiles in Morton National Park, New South Wales…
Author(s): Maddison L. Archer, Mike Letnic, Brad R. Murray, Jonathan K. Webb
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Understanding causes of insect population declines is essential for the development of successful conservation plans, but data limitations restrict assessment across spatial and temporal scales. Museum records represent a source of historical data…
Author(s): Kayla I. Perry, Christie A. Bahlai, Timothy J. Assal, Christopher B. Riley, Katherine J. Turo, Leo Taylor, James Radl, Yvan A. Delgado de la flor, Frances S. Sivakoff, Mary M. Gardiner
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This work presents a study on the formation of laboratory- scale fire whirls using forest fuels to replicate real-world fire whirls. A total of 48 experiments are conducted using three distinct types of forest fuels, namely Pinus Roxburghii, Shorea…
Author(s): Pushpendra Kumar Vishwakarma, Kirti Bhushan Mishra, A. Aravind Kumar
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Fire is a powerful tool for conservation management at a landscape scale, but a rigorous evidence base is often lacking for understanding its impacts on biodiversity in different biomes. Fire-induced changes to habitat openness have been identified…
Author(s): François Brassard, Brett P. Murphy, Alan N. Andersen
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Destructive wildfires pose a serious threat to ecosystems, economic development, and human life and property safety. If wildfires can be extinguished in a relatively short period of time after they occur, the losses caused by wildfires will be…
Author(s): Hongtao Xiao, Yingfang Zhu, Yurong Sun, Gui Zhang, Zhiwei Gong
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Background: Ecosystem management, community restoration, and managing for climate resilience have become major priorities of land management in recent decades. For woodlands and savannas (i.e., “open forests”), this transition has meant moving fire-…
Author(s): Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Daniel C. Dey, Michael C. Stambaugh, Frank R. Thompson III, J. Morgan Varner
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To understand the impacts of changing climate and wildfire activity on conifer forests, we studied how wildfire and post-fire seasonal climate conditions influence western larch (Larix occidentalis) regeneration across its range in the northwestern…
Author(s): Spencer Vieira, Kimberly Davis, Zachary A. Holden, Andrew J. Larson, Philip E. Higuera
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Cameras, especially those carried by drones, are the main tools used to detect wildfires in forests because cameras have much longer detection ranges than smoke sensors. Currently, deep learning is main method used for fire detection in images, and…
Author(s): Wei Yuan, Lei Qiao, Liu Tang
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Background Enactment of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), three of the primary federal environmental laws, all coincided with the height of fire suppression and exclusion in the…
Author(s): Sara A. Clark, Jenna N. Archer, Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Don L. Hankins
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Background: Characterisation of fuel consumption provides critical insights into fire behaviour, effects, and emissions. Stand-replacing prescribed fire experiments in central Utah offered an opportunity to generate consumption estimates in…
Author(s): T. Ryan McCarley, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, J.B. Cronan, Paige C. Eagle, Roger D. Ottmar, Adam C. Watts
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Previous works have shown the effectiveness of EfficientNet - a convolutional neural network built upon the concept of compound scaling - in automatically detecting smoke plumes at a distance of several kilometres in visible camera images. Building…
Author(s): Armando Fernandes, Andrei Utkin, Paulo Chaves
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Background: Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS) is contested within settler-colonial contexts, where its development is shaped by complex and dynamic socio-cultural, legal, and political factors. This manuscript draws from the policy sciences to…
Author(s): William Nikolakis, Russell Myers Ross, Victor Steffensen
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