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Fire is a powerful environmental disturbance with the ability to shape many biomes worldwide. However, global warming, land-use changes and other anthropogenic factors have strongly altered natural fire regimes worldwide. Despite the growing number…
Author(s): Amanda Gomes dos Anjos, Mirco Solé, Maíra Benchimol
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Common land-surface disturbances in rangelands with potential to influence the resistance and resilience of the ecosystem include livestock grazing and fire. The impact of these land-use disturbances on the soil microbial community is important to…
Author(s): Jacob Comer, Lora Perkins
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Fires, among other forms of natural and anthropogenic disturbance, play a central role in regulating the location, composition and biomass of forests. Understanding the role of fire in global forest loss is crucial in constraining land‐use change…
Author(s): Dave van Wees, Guido R. Van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Niels Andela, Yang Chen, Douglas C. Morton
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Pyrodiversity – spatiotemporal variation of characteristics within a fire regime – plays an important role in structuring wildlife communities after fire, yet there is a need to better incorporate pyrodiversity into predictive models of animal…
Author(s): Morgan W. Tingley, Andrew N. Stillman, Rodney B. Siegel, Sarah C. Sawyer
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Non‐native, invasive Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is pervasive in sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin ecoregion of the western United States, competing with native plants and promoting more frequent fires. As a result, cheatgrass invasion likely…
Author(s): R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, Jennifer Balch, John T. Finn, Adam L. Mahood, Jenica M. Allen, Bethany A. Bradley
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Aim: Pyrodiversity is the spatial or temporal variability in fire effects across a land- scape. Multiple ecological hypotheses, when applied to the context of post- fire sys- tems, suggest that high pyrodiversity will lead to high biodiversity. This…
Author(s): Gavin M. Jones, Morgan W. Tingley
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The impacts of wildfires on the health of children are becoming a more urgent matter as wildfires become more frequent, intense and affecting, not only forested areas, but also urban locations. It is important that medical professionals be prepared…
Author(s): Deborah L. McBride
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A recent numerical simulation study by Moinuddin et al. (2018) determined that over a specific range of Froude numbers defined by them as ‘plume mode’, grass fuel height has a strong inverse effect on the rate of fire spread in grasslands. They then…
Author(s): Miguel G. Cruz, Andrew L. Sullivan, James S. Gould
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The world´s forests are one of the largest carbon sinks, making a substantial contribution to counterbalance the increase in atmospheric carbon from anthropogenic sources (Bastin et al., 2019). For this reason, there is broad support to forest…
Author(s): Virgilio Hermoso, Adrián Regos, Alejandra Morán-Ordoñez, Andrea Duane, Lluis Brotons
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Heat accumulation from wearing personal protective equipment can result in the development of heat-related illnesses. This study aimed to investigate factors of heat stress with and without a US standard issue wildland firefighter helmet. Ten male…
Author(s): Shae Gurney, Katherine Christison, Tyler Stenersen, Charles L. Dumke
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Understanding tree physiological responses to fire is needed to accurately model post‐fire carbon processes and inform management decisions. Given trees can die immediately or at extended time periods after fire, we combined two experiments to…
Author(s): Raquel Partelli Feltrin, Alistair M. S. Smith, Henry D. Adams, Crystal A. Kolden, Daniel M. Johnson
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In our paper titled, ‘Mean Composite Fire Severity Metrics Computed with Google Earth Engine Offer Improved Accuracy and Expanded Mapping Potential’ (Parks et al., 2018, [1]) (https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/56293), we incorrectly executed…
Author(s): Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Morgan A. Voss, Rachel A. Loehman, Nathaniel P. Robinson
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Increasing drought and changing temperatures drive researchers to seek more efficient and effective means to aid management of coniferous forests across the western United States. Thinning allows for effective removal of biomass, but with few…
Author(s): Christine M. Mott, Richard Hofstetter, Anita Antoninka
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Forest fires are a well-known source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), playing an important role on their formation and redistribution across the terrestrial and aquatic compartments. Fire-induced inputs of PAHs to the environment are of…
Author(s): Isabel Campos, Nelson Abrantes
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Fire spread occurs via radiation, flame contact, and firebrands. While firebrand showers are known to be a cause of spot fires which ignite fuels far from the main fire front, in the case of short distance spot fires, radiation from the main fire…
Author(s): Sayaka Suzuki, Sam Manzello
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National forests in the western United States are divided roughly in half between lands without roads managed for wilderness characteristics and lands with an extensive road system managed for multiple uses including resource extraction. We…
Author(s): James D. Johnston, John B. Kilbride, Garrett W. Meigs, Christopher J. Dunn, Robert E. Kennedy
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Highlights: A review of active fire remote sensing using EO satellites is presented. Different approaches for fire detection and characterization are compared and contrasted. Main satellite active fire products and their applications are summarised…
Author(s): Martin J. Wooster, Gareth Roberts, Louis Giglio, David P. Roy, Patrick H. Freeborn, Luigi Boschetti, Christopher O. Justice, Charles Ichoku, Wilfrid Schroeder, Diane Davies, Alistair M. S. Smith, Alberto Setzer, Ivan A. Csiszar, Tercia Strydom, Philip Frost, Tianran Zhang, Weidong Xu, Mark C. de Jong, Joshua M. Johnston, Luke Ellison, Krishna P. Vadrevu, Jessica L. McCarty, Veerachai Tanpipat, Christopher Schmidt, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz
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Woody plant expansions are altering ecosystem structure and function, as well as fire regimes, around the globe. Tree‐reduction treatments are widely implemented in expanding woodlands to reduce fuel loads, increase ecological resilience, and…
Author(s): Stephanie M. Freund, Beth A. Newingham, Jeanne C. Chambers, Alexandra K. Urza, Bruce A. Roundy, J. Hall Cushman
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Forest residues and logging slash from pre-commercial forest thinning and regeneration harvests are a potential feedstock for bioenergy production but there has been a concern about the impact of residue removal on forest soil C and N. This study…
Author(s): Jason James, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Matt Busse, Brian J. Palik, Jainwei Zhang, Bob Eaton, Robert A. Slesak, Joanne M. Tirocke, Hoyoung Kwon
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Decision support systems (DSSs) are increasingly common in forest and wildfire planning and management in the United States. Recent policy direction and frameworks call for collaborative assessment of wildfire risk to inform fuels treatment…
Author(s): Melanie M. Colavito
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