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Background Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses of intact big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities and declines in sagebrush obligate wildlife species. In recent decades, fire return intervals have…
Author(s): Martin C. Holdrege, Daniel Schlaepfer, Kyle Palmquist, Michele R. Crist, Kevin E. Doherty, William Lauenroth, Thomas E. Remington, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short, John C. Tull, Lief A. Wiechman, John B. Bradford
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Wildfires in forested ecosystems are increasing in severity and extent. The adaptations many plants have acquired in response to their natural fire regime may not be sufficient to allow some species to persist. This could impact the forest…
Author(s): Emily Duivenvoorden, Benjamin Wagner, Craig R. Nitschke, Sabine Kasel
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Extreme wildfire is an increasing threat to lives, property, and ecosystems across the United States and many parts of the world. Family forest owners (FFOs) own a large percentage of forestland in the United States, and actions and behaviors on…
Author(s): Sarah M. Butler, Brett J. Butler, Emma M. Sass
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Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stands throughout the western United States provide valuable ecosystem services but can be lost via succession from aspen to conifer. Forest managers are cutting conifers, but disposal of cut wood can be…
Author(s): John-Pascal Berrill, Christa M. Dagley, Yoon G. Kim, J. Morgan Varner
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Background: As fire regimes are changing and wildfire disasters are becoming more frequent, the term megafire is increasingly used to describe impactful wildfires, under multiple meanings, both in academia and popular media. This has resulted in a…
Author(s): Cathelijine Stoof, Jasper R. de Vries, Marc Castellnou Ribau, María Fernandez-Fernandez, David Flores, Julissa Galarza Villamar, Nick Kettridge, Desmond Lartey, Peter F. Moore, Fiona Newman-Thacker, Susan J. Prichard, Pepijn Tersmette, Sam Tuijtel, Ivo Verhaar, Paulo M. Fernandes
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Piñon–juniper (PJ) woodlands are a dominant community type across the Intermountain West, comprising over a million acres and experiencing critical effects from increasing wildfire. Large PJ mortality and regeneration failure after catastrophic…
Author(s): Michala Phillips, Cara Lauria, Tova Spector, John B. Bradford, Catherine A. Gehring, Brooke B. Osborne, Armin Howell, Edmund E. Grote, Renee J. Rondeau, Gillian M. Trimber, Ben A. Robinson, Sasha C. Reed
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Fuel treatments are commonly applied to increase resilience to wildfire in dry and historically frequent-fire forests of western North America. The long-term effects of fuel treatments on forest structure, fuel profiles (amount and configuration of…
Author(s): Don C. Radcliffe, Jonathan D. Bakker, Derek J. Churchill, Ernesto Alvarado, David L. Peterson, Madison M. Laughlin, Brian J. Harvey
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Invasions by non-native plant species after fire can negatively affect important ecosystem services and lead to invasion-fire cycles that further degrade ecosystems. The relationship between fire and plant invasion is complex, and the risk of…
Author(s): Janet S. Prevéy, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Ian S. Pearse, Seth Munson, Jens T. Stevens, Kevin J. Barrett, Jonathan D. Coop, Michelle A. Day, David H. Firmage, Paula J. Fornwalt, Katharine Haynes, James D. Johnston, Becky K. Kerns, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky A. Miller, Ty Nietupski, Jacquilyn Roque, Judith D. Springer, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard, Claire Tortorelli
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Comprehensive pyrolysis models describe solid phase reaction rates with respect to the material temperature and the concentrations of components. In theory, this aspect of comprehensive pyrolysis models allows for true predictive capabilities for…
Author(s): Mark B. McKinnon, Holli Knight
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Background The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions. Aims The Warn-on-Forecast System for…
Author(s): Thomas Jones, Ravan Ahmadov, Eric James, Gabriel Pereira, Saulo Freitas, Georg Grell
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Wildland fire is a major global driver in the exchange of aerosols between terrestrial environments and the atmosphere. This exchange is commonly quantified using emission factors or the mass of a pollutant emitted per mass of fuel burned. However,…
Author(s): Leda N. Kobziar, Phinehas Lampman, Ali Tohidi, Adam K. Kochanski, Antonio Cervantes, Andrew T. Hudak, T. Ryan McCarley, Brian K. Gullett, Johanna Aurell, Rachel Moore, David C. Vuono, Brent C. Christner, Adam C. Watts, James Cronan, Roger D. Ottmar
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The development of a high-quality wildfire occurrence model is an essential component in mapping present wildfire risk, and in projecting future wildfire dynamics with climate and land-use change. Here, we develop a new model for predicting the…
Author(s): Theodore Keeping, Sandy P. Harrison, Iain Colin Prentice
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Trees use nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) to support many functions, including recovery from disturbances. However, NSC’s importance for recovery following fire and whether NSC depletion contributes to post-fire delayed mortality are largely…
Author(s): Charlotte C. Reed, Sharon M. Hood
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Amidst the increasing frequency and severity of forest fires globally, the imperative of effective post-fire forest restoration has gained unprecedented significance. This study outlines a comprehensive approach to post-fire forest restoration and…
Author(s): Rahaf Ahmad Alayan, Zoltán Lakner
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Background: The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use,…
Author(s): Sayedeh Sara Sayedi
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Background: The capacity of forest fuel treatments to moderate the behavior and severity of subsequent wildfires depends on weather and fuel conditions at the time of burning. However, in-depth evaluations of how treatments perform are limited…
Author(s): Emily G. Brodie, Eric E. Knapp, Wesley R. Brooks, Stacy Drury, Martin W. Ritchie
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Background: A clear understanding of the connectivity, structure, and composition of wildland fuels is essential for effective wildfire management. However, fuel typing and mapping are challenging owing to a broad diversity of fuel conditions and…
Author(s): Jennifer N. Baron, Paul F. Hessburg, Marc-Andre Parisien, Gregory A. Greene, Sarah E. Gergel, Lori D. Daniels
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Background: Wildland firefighters are likely to experience heightened risks to safety, health, and overall well-being as changing climates increase the frequency and intensity of exposure to natural hazards. Working at the intersection of natural…
Author(s): M. Bryan Held, Miranda Rose Ragland, Sage Wood, Amelia Pearson, Seth W. Pearson, Olivia Chenevert, Rachel M. Granberg, Robin M. Verble
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Federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management face increasing needs for personnel as fire seasons lengthen and fire size continues to grow, yet federal agencies have struggled to recruit and retain firefighting personnel. While many have…
Author(s): Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, Shayne Magstadt
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Sagebrush shrublands in the Great Basin, USA, are experiencing widespread increases in wildfire size and area burned resulting in new policies and funding to implement fuel treatments. However, we lack the spatial data needed to optimize the types…
Author(s): Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, Matthew C. Reeves, Eva K. Strand, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Claire Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza, Karen C. Short
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