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The surge of extreme wildfires around the world, most recently in Canada, provides a frightening glimpse of the potential for intense fires driven by climate change to cause remarkable damage to human and environmental life. From 2019 to 2020,…
Author(s): David M. J. S. Bowman, J. Sharples
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Background: Medical services for wildland fire incidents are vital and fire personnel need to be comfortable seeking care and have adequate access to care. Aims: The aim of this study was to examine wildland firefighters’ (WLFFs) attitudes towards,…
Author(s): Mark Hoffman, Valerie J. Moody, Viktor E. Bovbjerg, Isabella Callis, Zachary Snauer
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Surface fuel information is an essential input for models of fire behaviour and fire effects. However, spatially explicit, continuous information on surface fuel loads and fuelbed depth is scarce because the collection of field data is laborious,…
Author(s): Pia Labenski, Michael Ewald, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Faith A. Heinsch, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht
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Structure loss is an acute, costly impact of the wildfire crisis in the western conterminous United States (“West”), motivating the need to understand recent trends and causes. We document a 246% rise in West-wide structure loss from wildfires…
Author(s): Philip E. Higuera, Maxwell C. Cook, Jennifer Balch, E. Natasha Stavros, Adam L. Mahood, Lise A. St. Denis
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Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to exacerbate impacts to forested ecosystems by increasing the…
Author(s): Tzeidle N. Wasserman, Stephanie E. Mueller
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Biodiversity is in chronic decline, and extreme events - such as wildfires - can add further episodes of acute losses. Fires of increasing magnitude will often overwhelm response capacity, and decision-makers need to make choices about what to…
Author(s): John C. Z. Woinarski, Phillipa C. McCormack, Jan McDonald, Sarah Legge, Stephen T. Garnett, Brendan A. Wintle, Libby Rumpff
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As the 2023 fire season rages with unprecedented intensity in Canada, millions of people and countless animals across North America are exposed to wildfire smoke. Its harmful effects on human and animal health are only beginning to be explored in…
Author(s): Michael Gross
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Interactions between vegetation and sediment in post-fire landscapes play a critical role in sediment connectivity. Prior research has focused on the effects of vegetation removal from hillslopes, but little attention has been paid to the effects of…
Author(s): Kailey V. Adams, Jean L. Dixon, Andrew C. Wilcox, Dave McWethy
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There are approximately 1.2 million firefighters in the United States. In addition to fighting fires, they also participate in various tasks including emergency rescues, providing emergency medical care, driving, operating and maintaining fire…
Author(s): Crystal D. Forester, Jay Tarley
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Fire–vegetation feedbacks potentially maintain global savanna and forest distributions. Accordingly, vegetation in savanna and forest ecosystems should have differential responses to fire, but fire response data for herbaceous vegetation have yet to…
Author(s): Zachary J. Gold, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Tyler Refsland, Romina J. Andrioli, Marlin L. Bowles, Dale G. Brockway, Neil D. Burrows, Augusto C. Franco, Stephen W. Hallgren, Sarah E. Hobbie, William A. Hoffmann, Kevin P. Kirkman, Peter B. Reich, Patrice Savadogo, Divino V. Silverio, Kirsten Stephan, Tercia Strydom, J. Morgan Varner, Dale D. Wade, Allan J. Wills, A. Carla Staver
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An atmospheric river (AR) is a strong filamentary water vapor transport that plays a critical role in regional hydroclimate systems. While climate conditions can affect wildfire activities, the process by which ARs are associated with wildfire…
Author(s): Ju-Mee Ryoo, Taejin Park
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Large outdoor fires such as wildfires, wildland urban interface (WUI) fires, urban fires, and informal settlement fires have received increased attention in recent years. In order to develop effective emergency plans to protect people from threats…
Author(s): Negar Elhami-Khorasani, Max Kinateder, Vincent Lemiale, Sam Manzello, Ido Marom, Leorey Marquez, Sayaka Suzuki, Maria Theodori, Yu Wang, Steven Wong
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Fire regimes are changing dramatically worldwide due to climate change, habitat conversion, and the suppression of Indigenous landscape management. Although there has been extensive work on plant responses to fire, including their adaptations to…
Author(s): Alice Michel, Jacob R. Johnson, Richard Szeligowski, Euan G. Ritchie, Andrew Sih
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Burn severity is commonly assessed using Burn Ratios and field measurements to provide land managers with estimates of the degree of burning in an area. However, less commonly studied is the ability of spectral indices and Burn Ratios to estimate…
Author(s): David M. Szpakowski, Jennifer L. Rooker Jensen, T. Edwin Chow, David R. Butler
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Firebrands generated from wildfires can contribute to wildfire spread and are a threat to structures in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Understanding the characteristics such as the firebrand size, mass and heat flux to the recipient fuel are…
Author(s): Sampath Adusumilli, David L. Blunck
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High-severity fires and short-interval reburns strongly influence forest structure and composition and may overwhelm forest ecosystem resilience and catalyze persistent shifts to non-forest conditions. Recent increases in annual area burned and…
Author(s): Melissa Jaffe, Mark R. Kreider, David L.R. Affleck, Philip E. Higuera, Carl A. Seielstad, Sean A. Parks, Andrew J. Larson
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Sagebrush ecosystems in the United States have been declining since EuroAmerican settlement, largely due to agricultural and urban development, invasive species, and altered fire regimes, resulting in loss of biodiversity and wildlife habitat. To…
Author(s): Douglas J. Shinneman, Eva K. Strand, Michael L. Pellant, John T. Abatzoglou, Mark W. Brunson, Nancy F. Glenn, Julie A. Heinrichs, Mojtaba Sadegh, Nicole M. Vaillant
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Historical logging practices and fire exclusion have reduced the proportion of pine in mixed-conifer forests of the western United States. To better understand pine’s decline, we investigate the impact of historical logging on the tree regeneration…
Author(s): Emily G. Brodie, Eric E. Knapp, Andrew Latimer, Hugh Safford, Marissa Vossmer, Sarah M. Bisbing
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Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid, fire-driven adaptive animal evolution in the Pyrocene. Fire…
Author(s): Gavin M. Jones, Joshua F. Goldberg, Taylor M. Wilcox, Lauren B. Buckley, Catherine L. Parr, Ethan B. Linck, Emily D. Fountain, Michael K. Schwartz
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Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Author(s): Michele R. Crist, Rick Belger, Kirk W. Davies, Dawn Davis, James R. Meldrum, Douglas J. Shinneman, Thomas E. Remington, Justin L. Welty, Kenneth E. Mayer
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