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Boreal forests are frequently subjected to disturbances, including wildfire and clear-cutting. While these disturbances can cause soil carbon (C) losses, the long-term accumulation dynamics of soil C stocks during subsequent stand development is…
Author(s): Michael J. Gundale, E. Petter Axelsson, Vincent Buness, TImon Callebaut, Thomas H. DeLuca, Stefan F. Hupperts, Theresa S. Ibáñez, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Matthias Peichl, Clydecia M. Spitzer, Zsofia R. Stangl, Joachim Strengbom, Maja K. Sundqvist, David A. Wardle, Björn D. Lindahl
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Satellite remote sensing plays a significant role in the detection of smoke from forest fires. However, existing methods for detecting smoke from forest fires based on remote sensing images rely solely on the information provided by the images,…
Author(s): Yunhong Ding, Mingyang Wang, Yujia Fu, Qian Wang
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Black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus Hook., Torr) is a native halophytic, resprouting shrub found on saline rangeland soils in the western United States, including the western Great Plains grasslands. Stands can become dense, with limited…
Author(s): Nathan M. Wade, Lance T. Vermeire, John Derek Scasta
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Ecosystems are frequently disturbed by fires that have an important impact on the soil environment and the composition of soil organisms. In order to provide a baseline for the current research and identify trends on the effects of wildland fire on…
Author(s): Zhichao Cheng, Song Wu, Dan Wei, Hong Pan, Xiaoyu Fu, Xinming Lu, Libin Yang
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Wildland fire dispatchers play a key role in wildland fire management and response organization; however, to date, wildland fire studies have largely focused on the physical hazards and, to a lesser extent, mental health hazards of wildland…
Author(s): Robin M. Verble, Rachel M. Granberg, Seth W. Pearson, Charlene Rogers, Roman Watson
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Increasing frequency of droughts and wildfire are sparking concerns that these compounded disturbance events are pushing forested ecosystems beyond recovery. An improved understanding of how compounded events affect tree physiology and mortality is…
Author(s): Aaron M. Sparks, Alexander S. Blanco, Lauren E Lad, Alistair M. S. Smith, Henry D. Adams, Wade T. Tinkham
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This data publication contains tree and nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) (soluble sugars, starch) data from an investigation of how fire affects NSCs based on fire-caused injury from a prescribed fire in a young ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa…
Author(s): Charlotte C. Reed, Sharon M. Hood
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Large and downed woody fuels remaining behind a wildfire’s flame front tend to burn in a smoldering regime, producing large quantities of toxic gases and particulate emissions, which deteriorates air quality and compromises human health. Smoldering…
Author(s): Luca Carmignani, Mohammadhadi Hajilou, J. Cobian-Iniguez, Mark A. Finney, Scott L. Stephens, Michael J. Gollner, A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello
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A study was carried out to investigate the effects of wildfires on lake water quality using a source dataset of 2024 lakes worldwide, covering different lake types and ecological settings. Satellite-derived datasets (Lakes_cci and Fire_cci) were…
Author(s): Rossana Caroni, Monica Pinardi, Gary Free, Daniela Stroppiana, Lorenzo Parigi, Giulio Tellina, Mariano Bresciani, Clément Albergel, Claudia Giardino
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Society is facing a wildfire crisis of ever-increasing risks to homes and communities in wildfire-prone areas. Current approaches to controlling wildfire are ineffective, costly, and inconsistent with the well-anchored notion that fire is a…
Author(s): Kimiko Barrett, David E. Calkin, Jack D. Cohen, Mark A. Finney, Stephen Pyne, Steve Quarles
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Fire ecology is a complex discipline that can only be understood by integrating biological, physical, and social sciences. The science of fire ecology explores wildland fire’s mechanisms and effects across all scales of time and space. However, the…
Author(s): Leda N. Kobziar, J. Kevin Hiers, Claire M. Belcher, William J. Bond, Carolyn Enquist, E. Louise Loudermilk, Jessica R. Miesel, Joseph J. O'Brien, Juli G. Pausas, Sharon M. Hood, Robert E. Keane, Penelope Morgan, Melissa R. A. Pingree, Karen L. Riley, Hugh Safford, Francisco Seijo, J. Morgan Varner, Tamara Wall, Adam C. Watts
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Conifer forest resilience may be threatened by increasing wildfire activity and compound disturbances in western North America. Fire refugia enhance forest resilience, yet may decline over time due to delayed mortality—a process that remains poorly…
Author(s): Sebastian U. Busby, Cody Evers, Andrés Holz
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Research on fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has generated significant insights and advancements across various fields of study. Environmental, agriculture, and social sciences have played prominent roles in understanding the impacts of…
Author(s): Hafsae Lamsaf, Asmae Lamsaf, Mounir A. Kerroum, Miguel Almeida
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Background Linear fuel breaks are being implemented to moderate fire behavior and improve wildfire containment in semiarid landscapes such as the sagebrush steppe of North America, where extensive losses in perennial vegetation and ecosystem…
Author(s): Matthew J. Germino, Samuel Price, Susan J. Prichard
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Scientists have spent decades trying to understand how to best promote resilient forests and reduce fuels. A golden endeavor certainly. Is the best approach using a series of prescribed burns? Or is it mechanically cutting trees? Or does the…
Author(s): Kirsten Healey, Sharon M. Hood, Justin S. Crotteau, Cory Cleveland
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Increased understanding of how mechanical thinning, prescribed burning, and wildfire affect subsequent wildfire severity is urgently needed as people and forests face a growing wildfire crisis. In response, we reviewed scientific literature for the…
Author(s): Kimberly T. Davis, Jamie L. Peeler, Joseph E Fargione, Ryan D. Haugo, Kerry L. Metlen, Marcos D. Robles, Travis J. Woolley
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This study is the first part of a larger investigation into the fire behaviour of green façades. In this study, the currently known international research status on this topic is presented and discussed. In addition, the flammability of green…
Author(s): Thomas Engel, Norman Werther
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Fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are an important issue globally. To understand the change of WUI, we develop a 9 km worldwide unified wildland-urban interface database for 2001–2020 with Random Forest models and satellite data. We find…
Author(s): Wenfu Tang, Cenlin He, Louisa K. Emmons, Junzhe Zhang
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Background: In Western Australia, the issue of bushfires (wildfires) poses a persistent health risk to both volunteer and career forestry firefighters, populations that have been historically understudied. Aims: This descriptive qualitative study…
Author(s): Kiam Padamsey, Ruth Wallace, Adelle Liebenberg, Martyn Cross, Jacques Oosthuizen
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The main population of ~5000 threatened Gunnison sage-grouse (GUSG; Centrocercus minimus) in Colorado depends on sagebrush plants that are killed by wildfires, with recovery taking decades, so frequent fire is a threat, but did it occur historically…
Author(s): William L. Baker
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