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With wildfires reaching unprecedented levels of severity, size and frequency, their impact on soil microbial communities is an important concern. Commencing just weeks following a wildfire in a Douglas-fir-Ponderosa pine forest, we collected surface…
Author(s): Erica E. Packard, Daniel M. Durall, Melanie D. Jones
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Patterns of spatial heterogeneity in forests and other fire-prone ecosystems are increasingly recognized as critical for predicting fire behavior and subsequent fire effects. Given the difficulty in sampling continuous spatial patterns across scales…
Author(s): Chad M. Hoffman, Justin P. Ziegler, Wade T. Tinkham, J. Kevin Hiers, Andrew T. Hudak
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One of the worst environmental catastrophes that endanger the Australian community is wildfire. To lessen potential fire threats, it is helpful to recognize fire occurrence patterns and identify fire susceptibility in wildfire-prone regions. The use…
Author(s): Abolfazl Abdollahi, Biswajeet Pradhan
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Prescribed fires are an important management tool for reducing fuels and returning fire to the landscape. However, rarely are changes in fuels fully quantified using pre- to post-prescribed fire measurements and those studies that do exist show…
Author(s): Scott M. Ritter, Kat E. Morici, Camille Stevens-Rumann
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Many wildfire behaviour modeling studies have focused on fires during extreme conditions, where the dominant processes are resolved and smaller-scale variations have less influence on fire behaviour. As such, wildfire behaviour models typically…
Author(s): Ginny A. Marshall, Rodman Linn, Marlin J. Holmes, Scott L. Goodrick, Dan K. Thompson, A. Hemmati
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Leaders are crucial to ensuring the well-being of their subordinates. This study aims to understand the effects of two leadership styles (empowering vs. directive) on subordinates’ well-being in an emergency situation (i.e., rural fire). A…
Author(s): Luis Curral, Laura Carmona, Raquel Pinheiro, Vitor Reis, Maria Jose Chambel
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Throughout communities and ecosystems both within and downstream of mountain forests, there is an increasing risk of wildfire. After a wildfire, stakeholder management will vary depending on the rate and spatial heterogeneity of forest re-…
Author(s): Ryan W. Webb, Marcy E. Litvak, Paul D. Brooks
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In recent years, the state of Colorado has experienced extreme wildfire events that have degraded forest and watershed health and devastated human communities. With expanding human development and a changing climate, wildfire activity is likely to…
Author(s): Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson
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Background: Canadian fire management agencies track drought conditions using the Drought Code (DC) in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. The DC represents deep organic layer moisture. Aims: To determine if electronic soil moisture probes…
Author(s): Chelene C. Krezek-Hanes, B. Mike Wotton, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Douglas G. Woolford, Stephane Belair, David L. Martell, Michael D. Flannigan
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Wilderness areas are important natural laboratories for scientists and managers working to understand fire. In the last half-century, shifts in the culture and policy of land management agencies have facilitated the management practice of letting…
Author(s): Mark R. Kreider, Melissa Jaffe, Julia Berkey, Sean A. Parks, Andrew J. Larson
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As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has reclassified wildland…
Author(s): Jooyeon Hwang, Ngee Sing Chong, Mengliang Zhang, Robert J. Agnew, Chao Xu, Zhuangjie Li, Xin Xu
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Forest wildfire impact is widely believed to increase with time since disturbance, presenting a dilemma for the persistence of fire-sensitive species. However, in south-western Australia, disturbance has been shown to increase wildfire likelihood…
Author(s): Philip Zylstra, Grant W. Wardell-Johnson, Daniel S. Falster, Melissa Howe, Nathan McQuoid, Simon Neville
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Background: Accurately estimating burned area from satellites is key to improving biomass burning emission models, studying fire evolution and assessing environmental impacts. Previous studies have found that current methods for estimating burned…
Author(s): Melinda T. Berman, XinXin Ye, Laura H. Thapa, David A. Peterson, Edward J. Hyer, Amber J. Soja, Emily Gargulinski, Ivan A. Csiszar, Christopher Schmidt, Pablo E. Saide
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Facing an increase in the size and complexity of wildland interface fires, water utilities must pay more attention to protecting vital infrastructures during potentially catastrophic wildfires. Water utilities can mitigate the impacts of wildfires…
Author(s): Robert Gutierrez, Esaud Lagunas
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Many fire management agencies aim to detect and suppress all ignitions within their jurisdiction and may benefit from understanding the causes of year-to-year variation. Ignition variation is likely to be associated with climatically driven changes…
Author(s): Nicholas Wilson, Marta Yebra
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Downslope wind-driven fires have resulted in many of the wildfire disasters in the western United States and represent a unique hazard to infrastructure and human life. We analyze the co-occurrence of wildfires and downslope winds across the western…
Author(s): John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, A. Park Williams, Mojtaba Sadegh, Jennifer Balch, Alex Hall
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Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating…
Author(s): Antonio Girona-García, Carola Cretella, Cristina Fernández, Peter R. Robichaud, Diana C.S. Vieira, Jan J. Keizer
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Fire and grazing play an important role in managed rangeland ecosystems. These disturbances interact to shape plant communities and outcomes for rangeland biodiversity and livestock production. However, managers have a limited toolbox to reach…
Author(s): Hailey Wilmer, Devan A. McGranahan, Corey A. Moffet, J. Bret Taylor
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Background: Previous work by the author and others has examined weather associated with growth of exceptionally large fires (‘Fires of Unusual Size’, or FOUS), looking at three of four factors associated with critical fire weather patterns:…
Author(s): Brian E. Potter
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Studies showed that tobacco use and excessive alcohol consumption frequently occur, and both are significant causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. Data were collected as part of a national online study of the health of women in the fire…
Author(s): Nattinee Jitnarin, Christopher K. Haddock, Christopher M. Kaipust, Walker S. C. Poston, Sara A. Jahnke
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