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Climate change in concert with fire suppression is increasing the size, severity and frequency of fires globally. At the same time, insects, an exceptionally biodiverse group that provide essential ecosystem services such as pollination and…
Author(s): Stephen C. Mason Jr., Vaughn Shirey, Lauren C. Ponisio, Jon K. Gelhaus
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Firebrands are a widely observed phenomenon in wildland fires, which can transport for a long distance, cause spot ignition in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) and increase the rate of wildfire spread. The flame attached to a moving firebrand…
Author(s): Caiyi Xiong, Yanhui Liu, Cangsu Xu, Xinyan Huang
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Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency globally, prompting new efforts to mitigate risk. The ecological appropriateness of risk mitigation strategies, however, depends on what factors are driving these increases. While regional syntheses…
Author(s): Erin J. Hanan, Jianning Ren, Christina Tague, Crystal A. Kolden, John T. Abatzoglou, Ryan R. Bart, Maureen C. Kennedy, Mingliang Liu, Jennifer C. Adam
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The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter: Cohesive Strategy) mandates the restoration and maintenance of landscapes, with the goal that “landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances in…
Author(s): Sharon M. Hood, Donald A. Falk, Martin Nie
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Fire frequency and severity in southern California and across the western United States is increasing, posing a concern to the safety and well-being of communities and ecosystems. Increased aridity coupled with water stressed vegetation from…
Author(s): Alicia M. Kinoshita, Brenton A. Wilder
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Numerous studies have linked outdoor levels of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3, SO2, and other air pollutants to significantly higher rates of Covid 19 morbidity and mortality, although the rate in which specific concentrations of pollutants increase Covid 19…
Author(s): Luke Curtis
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Smoke, as a prominent character of combustion, is widely regarded as a signal of forest fire. Existing in a video-based smoke root detection methods on rely the distance between smoke and the lens, which is one of the most challenging parts. In…
Author(s): Yu Gao, Pengle Cheng
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Recent increases in destructive wildfires are driving a need for empirical research documenting factors that contribute to structure loss. Existing studies show that fire risk is complex and varies geographically, and the role of vegetation has been…
Author(s): Alexandra D. Syphard, Heather Rustigian-Romsos, Jon E. Keeley
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The advancement of three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour models is best supported by publicly available, co-located, synchronised, quality-assured measures of pre-fire, active fire and post-fire conditions (i.e. integrated datasets).…
Author(s): Derek McNamara, William E. Mell
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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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Ventenata (Ventenata dubia L.) is an invasive annual grass that has rapidly expanded its range across temperate grassland and shrub-steppe ecosystems in western North America. However, there is little published regarding its ecology, especially its…
Author(s): Luke W. Ridder, JoAnna M. Perren, Lesley R. Morris, Bryan A. Endress, Robert V. Taylor, Bridgett J. Naylor
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Wildfire is a growing global concern for rural and urban areas [1]. Statistics show that the intensity and negative consequences of wildfire have increased in recent decades creating serious challenges for fire and emergency services, as well as…
Author(s): Xilei Zhao, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Erica D. Kuligowski, Daniel Nilsson
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Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we…
Author(s): Brett B. Palm, Qiaoyun Peng, Samuel R. Hall, Kirk Ullmann, Teresa L. Campos, Andrew J. Weinheimer, Denise D. Montzka, Geoffrey S. Tyndall, Wade Permar, Lu Hu, Frank Flocke, Emily V. Fischer, Joel A. Thornton
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The increasing number of wildfires in southern Europe is making our ecosystem more vulnerable to water erosion; i.e., the loss of vegetation and subsequent runoff increase cause a shift in large quantities of sediment. Fire severity has been…
Author(s): Ilenia Argentiero, Giovanni Francesco Ricci, Mario Elia, Marina D'Este, Vincenzo Giannico, Francisco Vito Ronco, Francesco Gentile, Giovanni Sanesi
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The wildland firefighter exposure and health effect (WFFEHE) study was a 2-year repeated-measures study to investigate occupational exposures and acute and subacute health effects among wildland firefighters. This manuscript describes the study…
Author(s): Kathleen M. Navarro, Corey Butler, Kenneth Fent, Christine Toennis, Deborah Sammons, Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas, Kathleen A. Clark, David C. Byrne, Pamela S. Graydon, Christa Hale, Andrea F. Wilkinson, Denise L. Smith, Marissa C. Alexander-Scott, Lynne E. Pinkerton, Judith Eisenberg, Joseph W. Domitrovich
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Subalpine forests that historically burned every 100–300 yr are expected to burn more frequently as climate warms, perhaps before trees reach reproductive maturity or produce a serotinous seedbank. Tree regeneration after short‐interval (<30‐yr)…
Author(s): Nathan S. Gill, Tyler J. Hoecker, Monica G. Turner
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Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests are increasingly experiencing high-severity, stand-replacing fires. Whereas alterations to aboveground ecosystems have been extensively studied, little is known about soil fungal responses in fire-adapted…
Author(s): M. Fabiola Pulido-Chavez, Ernesto Alvarado, Thomas H. DeLuca, Robert L. Edmonds, Sydney I. Glassman
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Objectives: To determine the impact of bushfires on children’s physical activity. Design: Natural experiment comparing device-measured physical activity and air quality index data for schools exposed and not exposed to the Australian bushfires.…
Author(s): Borjadel Pozo Cruz, Timothy B. Hartwig, Taren Sanders, Michael Noetel, Philip Parker, Devan Antczak, Jane Lee, David R. Lubans, Adrian Bauman, Ester Cerin, Chris Lonsdale
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In recent years wildland fires in the United States have had significant impacts on local and regional air quality and negative human health outcomes. Although the primary health concerns from wildland fires come from fine particulate matter (PM2:5…
Author(s): Russell W. Long, Andrew Whitehill, Andrew Habel, Shawn P. Urbanski, Hannah Halliday, Maribel Colón, Surender Kaushik, Matthew S. Landis
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Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit fires are stochastic and extreme in nature, the speed, intensity,…
Author(s): Andrea Duane, Marc Castellnou, Lluis Brotons
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