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In wildland–urban interface areas, firefighters balance wildfire suppression and structure protection. These tasks are often performed under resource limitations, especially when many structures are at risk. To address this problem, wildland…
Author(s): Alexander Joseph Heeren, Philip E. Dennison, Michael J. Campbell, Matthew P. Thompson
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Standing dead tree stems (snags) become abundant following disturbances like bark beetle outbreaks and stand-replacing fire. Snags are an important element of wildlife habitat, and when they eventually fall can injure or damage people and…
Author(s): Nathan G. Kiel, William H. Romme, Monica G. Turner
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Smouldering and flaming of solid fuels both originate after the pyrolysis reaction, and fires often transition between the two types of combustion. Smouldering-to-flaming (StF) transition introduces a sudden increase of the fire hazard in terms of…
Author(s): Muhammad A. Santoso, Eirik G. Christensen, Guillermo Rein
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Many nations administer national forest inventory programs for unbiased estimation of forest attributes over broad spatial and temporal extents. However, management and conservation decisions often demand reliable estimates for finer spatiotemporal…
Author(s): David L.R. Affleck, George C. Gaines III
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The use of masticated tree debris to protect burned soil from post-fire erosion is not common and very little is known about its effectiveness in reducing the risk of erosion after fire. The main objective of this research was to assess the effects…
Author(s): Cristina Fernández
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Background: Wildfire often shows complex dynamic behaviour due to the inherent nature of ambient conditions, vegetation and ignition patterns. Merging fire is one such dynamic behaviour that plays a critical role in the safety of structures and…
Author(s): Rahul Wadhwani, Duncan Sutherland, K. A. M. Moinuddin, Xinyan Huang
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Although the threat of forest fires is prevalent across the globe, there exists limited empirical evidence on how such environmental disasters influence access and equity in educational outcomes through economic channels. In this article, I combine…
Author(s): Jayash Paudel
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Background 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…
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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Mulch application following wildfire is increasingly being used to mitigate hillslope runoff and erosion. A mulch coverage of 70% has been proven to be effective in reducing sediment losses; however, most previous studies test only a single slope…
Author(s): Lindsey A. Hayter, Peter A. Nelson
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Background With the increase in forest fire emissions, an increasing amount of nitrogen is released from combustibles and taken up by plant leaves in the form of PM2.5 smoke deposition. Concurrently, the stress from PM2.5 also disrupts the…
Author(s): Haichuan Lin, Yuanfan Ma, Pingxin Zhao, Ziyan Huang, Xiaoyu Zhan, Mulualem Tigabu, Futao Guo
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There is a dire need to improve our prediction capabilities of wildland fire behavior in a range of conditions from marginal burning to the most extreme. In order to develop a more physically-based operational wildland fire behavior model, we need…
Author(s): Sara S. McAllister, Torben Grumstrup
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The use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by the fire service is becoming more common, especially for large outdoor fires where it is difficult to understand the state of the fire conditions or efficiently suppress the fire. The focus of this paper…
Author(s): Brian Y. Lattimer, Xinyan Huang, Michael Delichatsios, Yiannis A. Levendis, Kevin Kochersberger, Sam Manzello, Peter Frank, Tombo Jones, Jordi Salvador, Conrad Delgado, Eduard Angelats, M. Eulàlia Parés, David Martín, Sara S. McAllister, Sayaka Suzuki
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Predicting current and future wildfire frequency and size is central to wildfire control and management. Multiple fire danger indices (FDIs) that incorporate weather and fuel conditions have been developed and utilized to support wildfire…
Author(s): Guo Yu, Yan Feng, Jiali Wang, Daniel B. Wright
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This systematic literature review focused on the following questions: 1. What is Indigenous fire stewardship and how has it been represented in peer reviewed literature? 2. What are the salient social issues, debates, and concerns about IFS and its…
Author(s): Michael R. Coughlan, Naomi Serio, Harper Loeb, David G. Lewis, Sally Thompson
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We developed and applied a spatial optimization algorithm to prioritize forest and fuel management treatments within a proposed linear fuel break network on a 0.5 million ha Western US national forest. The large fuel break network, combined with the…
Author(s): Pedro Belavenutti, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Woodam Chung
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Background: Native pinyon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) trees are expanding into shrubland communities across the Western United States. These trees often outcompete with native sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) associated species, resulting in…
Author(s): Claire Williams, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Eva K. Strand, Matthew C. Reeves, Scott E. Shaff, Karen C. Short, Jeanne C. Chambers, Beth A. Newingham, Claire Tortorelli
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The severe effects of extreme wildfire events in recent years have shown that the fire suppression approach is not enough to solve the problem. An alternative to dealing with this issue is to accept the impossibility of eliminating wildfire hazards…
Author(s): Erica Arango, Maria Nogal, Ming Yang, Hélder S. Sousa, Mark G. Stewart, Jose C. Matos
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The stochastic nature of environmental factors that govern the behavior of fire, such as wind and fuel, exposes wildfire modeling to a degree of uncertainty. In order to produce more realistic wildfire predictions, it is, therefore, necessary to…
Author(s): Sahar Masoudian, J. Sharples, Zlatko Jovanoski, Isaac N. Towers, Simon Watt
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Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical…
Author(s): Amy East, Amir AghaKouchak, Graziella Caprarelli, Gabriel Filippelli, Fabio Florindo, Charles H. Luce, Harihar Rajaram, Lynn M. Russell, Cristina Santin, Isaac Santos
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Changes in wildfire frequency and severity are altering conifer forests and pose threats to biodiversity and natural climate solutions. Where and when feedbacks between vegetation and fire could mediate forest transformation are unresolved. Here,…
Author(s): Tyler J. Hoecker, Sean A. Parks, Meade Krosby, Solomon Z. Dobrowski
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