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Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) is an ecologically important subalpine and treeline forest tree of the western U.S. and Canada. It is categorized as endangered by the IUCN and by Canada under the Species at Risk Act and was recently…
Author(s): Diana F. Tomback, Robert E. Keane, Anna W. Schoettle, Richard A. Sniezko, Melissa Jenkins, Cara R. Nelson, A. D. Bower, Clay R. DeMastus, Emily Guiberson, Jodie Krakowski, Michael P. Murray, Elizabeth R. Pansing, Julee Shamhart
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Background: Mountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native disturbance agent across most pine forests in the western US. Climate changes will directly and indirectly impact frequencies and severities of MPB outbreaks, which can then alter fuel…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Barbara J. Bentz, Lisa M. Holsinger, Victoria A. Saab, Rachel A. Loehman
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Fire is a natural ecosystem process that helps maintain and revitalize healthy landscapes, but wildfires can pose significant threats to public and firefighter safety, property, water and air quality, and other values. Finding an appropriate balance…
Author(s): Matthew P. Thompson, David L. Martell, Erin J. Belval
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Ecological resilience is the capacity of a system to maintain function following disturbance. With the frequency and severity of wildfire activity increasing due to warmer and drier global climate conditions, there are increasing reports of declines…
Author(s): Rebecca K. Gibson, Laura White, Samuel Hislop, Rachael H. Nolan, Josh Dorrough
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Wildfires are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem, yet the expansion of the wildland-urban interface, combined with climatic changes and other anthropogenic activities, have led to the rise of wildfire hazards in the past few decades. Managing…
Author(s): Negar Elhami-Khorasani, Hamed Ebrahimian, Lawrence Buja, Susan L. Cutter, Branko Kosović, Neil P. Lareau, Brian J. Meacham, Eric Rowell, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Matthew P. Thompson, Adam C. Watts
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Wildfire-mediated changes to forests have prompted numerous studies on post-fire forest recovery of coniferous forests. Given climate change, a growing body of work demonstrates that conifer regeneration in temperate and boreal forests is declining…
Author(s): Camille Stevens-Rumann, Susan J. Prichard, Ellen Whitman, Marc-Andre Parisien, Arjan J. H. Meddens
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Rapidly scaling up the use of prescribed fire is being promoted as an important pathway for reducing the growing damages of wildfire events in the United States, including limiting the health impacts from smoke emissions. However, we do not…
Author(s): Benjamin A. Jones, Shana McDermott, Patricia A. Champ, Robert P. Berrens
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The precipitous decline of the keystone species whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) has resulted in dramatic changes to many high elevation ecosystems in the western U.S. and Canada. To restore these ecosystems, there is a need to establish…
Author(s): M. B. Jenkins, Anna W. Schoettle, Jessica W. Wright, Karl A. Anderson, Joseph Fortier, Linh Hoang, Tony Incashola, Robert E. Keane, Jodie Krakowski, Dawn M. LeFluer, Sabine Mellmann-Brown, Elliot D. Meyer, ShiNaasha Pete, Katherine M. Renwick, Robert Sissons
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Purpose of Review: Climate change will continue to alter spatial and temporal variation in fire characteristics, or pyrodiversity. The causes of pyrodiversity and its consequences for biological communities are emerging as a promising research area…
Author(s): Gavin M. Jones, J. Ayars, Sean A. Parks, Helen E. Chmura, Samuel A. Cushman, Jamie Sanderlin
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(1) Background: Federal land managers in the US are charged with risk-based decision-making which requires them to know the risk and to direct resources accordingly. Without understanding the specific factors that produce risk, it is difficult to…
Author(s): Erin Noonan-Wright, Carl A. Seielstad
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Wildfires have become an increasing threat for Mediterranean ecosystems, due to increasing climate change induced wildfire activity and changing land management practises. In addition to the initial risk, wildfires can alter the soil in various ways…
Author(s): Dante Follmi, J. E. M. Baartman, Akli Benali, João Pedro Nunes
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Remote sensing techniques are of particular interest for monitoring wildfire effects on soil properties, which may be highly context-dependent in large and heterogeneous burned landscapes. Despite the physical sense of synthetic aperture radar (SAR…
Author(s): José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga, Elena Marcos, Susana Suárez-Seoane, Leonor Calvo
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Background: Virtually every decision within wildland fire management includes substantial ethical dimensions. As pressures increase with ever-growing fires, it is becoming increasingly important to develop tools for assessing and acting on the…
Author(s): Dyllan Goldstein, Eric B. Kennedy
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Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.), a high-elevation five-needle white pine (Genus Pinus, Subgenus Strobus), inhabits the higher mountains of western U.S. and Canada, across about 32.6 million ha (about 80.6 million acres), with 70% of its…
Author(s): Diana F. Tomback, Eric Sprague
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Forested watersheds provide many ecosystem services, such as the filtration of sediment, pollutants, and nutrients, which are increasingly threatened by wildfire. Stream nutrient concentrations often increase following wildfire and can remain…
Author(s): Allison E. Rhea, Tim Covino, Charles C. Rhoades, Alexander C. Brooks
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Fire location and burning area are essential parameters for estimating fire emissions. However, ground-based fire data (such as fire perimeters from incident reports) are often not available with the timeliness required for real-time forecasting.…
Author(s): Amy Marsha, Narasimhan K. Larkin
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Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using…
Author(s): Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal, Jessica Li, Anne Driscoll, Patrick Baylis, Matthieu Stigler, Joakim A. Weill, Jennifer Burney, Marissa L. Childs, Carlos F. Gould
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Background: Model simulations of wildfire spread and assessments of their accuracy are needed for understanding and managing altered fire regimes in semiarid regions. The accuracy of wildfire spread simulations can be evaluated from post hoc…
Author(s): Samuel Price, Matthew J. Germino
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There remains a high level of ambiguity around post-fire grazing management. The Lodgepole Complex fire burned 109,346 ha in east-central Montana in July 2017, including areas previously burned in 2003 by the Bureau of Land Management for fuels…
Author(s): Amanda R. Williams, Lance T. Vermeire, Richard C. Waterman, Clayton B. Marlow
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Background: Adverse effects of wildfires can be mitigated within fuel treatments, but empirical evidence of their effectiveness across large areas is needed to guide design and implementation at the landscape level. We conducted a systematic…
Author(s): Shawn T. McKinney, Ilana L. Abrahamson, Theresa B. Jain, Nathaniel Anderson
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