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n the Western US, area burned and fire size have increased due to the influences of climate change, long-term fire suppression leading to higher fuel loads, and increased ignitions. However, evidence is less conclusive about increases in fire…
Author(s): Rutherford Vance Platt, Teresa B. Chapman, Jennifer Balch
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Wildfires and fire seasons are commonly rated largely on the simple metric of area burned (more hectares: bad). A seemingly paradoxical narrative frames large fire seasons as a symptom of a forest health problem (too much fire), while simultaneously…
Author(s): Daniel C. Donato, Joshua S. Halofsky, Derek J. Churchill, Ryan D. Haugo, C. Alina Cansler, Annie Smith, Brian J. Harvey
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Increasing area burned across western North America raises questions about the precedence and magnitude of changes in fire activity, relative to the historical range of variability (HRV) that ecosystems experienced over recent centuries and…
Author(s): Kyra Clark-Wolf, Philip E. Higuera, Bryan N. Shuman, Kendra K. McLauchlan
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This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the transition towards a new paradigm of wildfire risk management in Victoria that incorporates Aboriginal fire knowledge. We show the suitability of cultural burning in the transformed landscapes…
Author(s): Amos Atkinson, Cristina Montiel-Molina
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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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All wildfires in the United States are managed, but the strategies used to manage them vary by region and season. “Managed wildfire” is a response strategy to naturally ignited wildfires; it does not prioritize full suppression and allows the fire…
Author(s): Rachel Bean, Alexander M. Evans
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The structure and fire regime of pre-industrial (historical) dry forests over ~26 million ha of the western USA is of growing importance because wildfires are increasing and spilling over into communities. Management is guided by current conditions…
Author(s): William L. Baker, Chad T. Hanson, Mark A. Williams, Dominick A. DellaSala
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Anticipating consequences of disturbance interactions on ecosystem structure and function is a critical management priority as disturbance activity increases with warming climate. Across the Northern Hemisphere, extensive tree mortality from recent…
Author(s): Jenna E. Morris, Michele S. Buonanduci, Michelle Agne, Michael A. Battaglia, Daniel C. Donato, Brian J. Harvey
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This study 1) identifies the seasons and biomes that exhibit significant (1980–2019) changes in fire danger potential, as quantified by the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI); 2) explores what types of fire behavior potentials may be contributing to…
Author(s): Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, Phong V. V. Le, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Tirtha Banerjee
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Indigenous land stewardship and mixed-severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900-ha…
Author(s): Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, Lori D. Daniels, Shannon M. Hagerman
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Background: Remotely sensed burned area products are critical to support fire modelling, policy, and management but often require further processing before use. Aim: We calculated fire history metrics from the Landsat Burned Area Product (1984-2020…
Author(s): Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Todd J. Hawbaker, Casey Teske, Joe Nobel, Jim Smith
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Motivation: Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these climate shifts, accumulating evidence suggests that disturbance could not only modify…
Author(s): Joseph D. Napier, Melissa L. Chipman
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Background: Fire is a multifaceted force. Fire activity and risk of fire incidence across US forested ecosystems have accelerated over the last two decades. At the same time, human land-use choices and climate change interacted with fire, in an era…
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Worldwide, Indigenous peoples are leading the revitalization of their/our cultures through the restoration of ecosystems in which they are embedded, including in response to increasing “megafires.” Concurrently, growing Indigenous-led movements are…
Author(s): Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, Ronald E. Ignace, Marianne B. Ignace, Shannon M. Hagerman, Lori D. Daniels
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Fire is a natural agent with a paramount role in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity maintenance. Still, it can also act as a negative force against many ecosystems. Despite some knowledge of the interactions of fire and vegetation, there is no…
Author(s): Tania Marisol González, Juan David González-Trujillo, Alberto Muñoz, Dolors Armenteras
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The boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e., covering the USA, Canada and Russia) are the grandest carbon sinks of the world. A significant increase in wildfires could cause disequilibrium in the Northern boreal forest’s capacity as a carbon…
Author(s): Victor M. Velasco Hererra, Willie Soon, César Pérez-Moreno, Graciela Velasco Herrera, Raúl Martell-Dubois, Laura Rosique-de la Cruz, Valery M. Fedorov, Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada, Eric Bongelli, Emmanuel Zúñiga
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Harold Biswell first learned about the benefits of prescribed fire in forest management when he was a Forest Service researcher in Georgia, USA. After he accepted a professorship in the School of Forestry at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Author(s): Scott L. Stephens, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, James K. Agee, Ronald H. Wakimoto
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Wildfires in many western North American forests are becoming more frequent, larger, and severe, with changed seasonal patterns. In response, coniferous forest ecosystems will transition toward dominance by fire-adapted hardwoods, shrubs, meadows,…
Author(s): Henriette I. Jager, Jonathan Long, Rachel L. Malison, Brendan P. Murphy, Ashley J. Rust, Luiz G. M. Silva, Rahel Sollmann, Zachary L. Steel, Mark D. Bowen, Jason B. Dunham, Joseph L. Ebersole, Rebecca L. Flitcroft
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Recent wildfires in the western United States have led to substantial economic losses and social stresses. There is a great concern that the new climatic state may further increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of wildfires. To examine…
Author(s): Emily K. Brown, Jiali Wang, Yan Feng
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Climate change is expected to increase fire activity in many regions of the globe, but the relative role of human vs. lightning-caused ignitions on future fire regimes is unclear. We developed statistical models that account for the spatiotemporal…
Author(s): Ana M. G. Barros, Michelle A. Day, Haiganoush K. Preisler, John T. Abatzoglou, Meg A. Krawchuk, Rachel M. Houtman, Alan A. Ager
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