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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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Radiological release incidents can potentially contaminate widespread areas with radioactive materials and decontamination efforts are typically focused on populated areas, which means radionuclides may be left in forested areas for long periods of…
Author(s): Kirk R. Baker, Sang Don Lee, Paul Lemieux, Scott Hudson, Benjamin N. Murphy, Jesse O. Bash, Shannon N. Koplitz, Thien Khoi V Nguyen, Wei Min Hao, Stephen P. Baker, Emily Lincoln
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In the near future, a higher occurrence of wildfires is expected due to climate change, carrying social, environmental, and economic implications. Such impacts are often associated with an increase of post‐fire hydrological and erosive responses,…
Author(s): Ana Rita Lopes, Antonio Girona-García, Sofia Corticeiro, Ricardo Martins, Jan J. Keizer
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Questions: Invasive‐plant treatments often target a single or few species, but many landscapes are diversely invaded. Exotic annual grasses (EAGs) increase wildfires and degrade native perennial plant communities in cold‐desert rangelands, and…
Author(s): Brynne E. Lazarus, Matthew J. Germino
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The ecosystem services provided by forests are under threat as wildfire frequency and severity increase throughout the western US. Severe wildfire can change physical environments and biogeochemical processes in watersheds with lasting effects on…
Author(s): Allison E. Rhea, Tim Covino, Charles C. Rhoades
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A long-term study at Lick Creek demonstrates how fuel treatments in dry forests provide benefits beyond mitigating the chance of a high-severity fire.
Author(s): Nehalem C. Clark
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Climate change is projected to exacerbate the intensity of heat-waves and drought, leading to greater incidences of large and high-intensity wildfires in forested ecosystems. While commonly-used remotely-sensed spectral assessments can provide…
Author(s): Alex W. Kirkpatrick
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Wildfires are a critical phenomenon in terrestrial ecosystems, and the intensity and frequency of these events have increased in recent years. High temperatures in the topsoil during wildfires can induce changes in soil physical, chemical, and…
Author(s): Sebastián A. Aedo, Carlos A. Bonilla
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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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Changing wildfire regimes are causing rapid shifts in forests worldwide. In particular, forested landscapes that burn repeatedly in relatively quick succession may be at risk of conversion when pre‐fire vegetation cannot recover between fires. Fire…
Author(s): William M. Downing, Garrett W. Meigs, Matthew J. Gregory, Meg A. Krawchuk
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