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Soils play an essential role in supporting and sustaining life on this planet. In fire-impacted environments, fire causes considerable changes to the soil, especially in the various elements. The present work provides a comprehensive and up-to-date…
Author(s): Ajmal Roshan, Ashis Biswas
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Increasing wildfire activity, decreasing workforce capacity, and growing systemic strain may result in an interagency wildfire-response system less capable of protecting landscapes and communities. Further, increased workloads will likely increase…
Author(s): Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, David E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, David Flores
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Numerous hectares of land are destroyed by wildfires every year, causing harm to the environment, the economy, and the ecology. More than fifty million acres have burned in several states as a result of recent forest fires in the Western United…
Author(s): Doaa Rjoub, Ahmad Alsharoa, Ala’eddin Masadeh
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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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Increasing global temperatures and variability in the timing, quantity, and intensity of precipitation and wind have led to longer fire season lengths, greater fuel availability, and more intense and severe wildfires [1]. These broad-scale shifts…
Author(s): Wade T. Tinkham, Lauren E. Lad, Alistair M. S. Smith
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This paper describes a dataset mined from the public archive (1999-2020) of the US National Incident Management System Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) forms (a total of 187,160 reports for 35,170 incidents, including 34,478 wildland fires). This…
Author(s): Lise A. St. Denis, Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland, Jennifer Balch
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Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for…
Author(s): Morgan A. Crowley, Christopher A. Stockdale, Joshua M. Johnston, Michael A. Wulder, Tianjia Liu, Jessica L. McCarty, Jesse T. Rieb, Jeffrey A. Cardille, Joanne C. White
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A key uncertainty of empirical models of post-fire tree mortality is understanding the drivers of elevated post-fire mortality several years following fire, known as delayed mortality. Delayed mortality can represent a substantial fraction of…
Author(s): Timothy M. Shearman, J. Morgan Varner, Sharon M. Hood, Phillip J. van Mantgem, C. Alina Cansler, Micah Wright
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Wildfires in the western United States are concerning in part because conifer forests may not regenerate under increasingly warm, dry climate conditions and severe burning. This study compared the relative importance of differences in fire-caused…
Author(s): Kimberly T. Davis
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Wildfires are common occurrences worldwide that can destroy vast forest areas and kill numerous animals in a few hours. Climate change, rising global temperatures, precipitation, the introduction of exotic species of plants (e.g., eucalyptus),…
Author(s): Andreia Garcês, Isabel Pires
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Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stands have historically been referred to as “firebreak” forest types that can reduce fire activity, but high-intensity and high-severity fires have been observed to burn through aspen stands. Clearly, fire…
Author(s): Kristin A. Nesbit, Larissa L. Yocom, Allison M. Trudgeon, R. Justin DeRose, Paul C. Rogers
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Invasive annual grasses are a growing global concern because they facilitate larger and more frequent fires in historically fuel-limited ecosystems. Forests of the western United States have remained relatively resistant to invasion by annual…
Author(s): Claire Tortorelli, John B. Kim, Nicole M. Vaillant, Karen L. Riley, Alex W. Dye, Ty Nietupski, Kevin C. Vogler, Rebecca Lemons, Michelle A. Day, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky K. Kerns
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Salvage logging is a controversial tool for post-wildfire management that removes fire-killed trees. We use a generalized randomized experimental design to fulfill two main objectives: (1) quantify the immediate (1-year post-harvest) effects of…
Author(s): Morris C. Johnson, Maureen C. Kennedy, Sarah C. Harrison, Ernesto Alvarado, Cody Desautel, Joseph Holford, Shay Logue
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Soil moisture conditions are represented in fire danger rating systems mainly through simple drought indices based on meteorological variables, even though better sources of soil moisture information are increasingly available. This review…
Author(s): Erik S. Krueger, Matthew R. Levi, Kevin O. Achieng, John D. Bolten, J. D. Carlson, Nicholas C. Coops, Zachary A. Holden, Brian I. Magi, Angela J. Rigden, Tyson Ochsner
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Wildfires are increasing in scale and impact on the landscape, altering large amounts of wildlife habitat and forest ecosystems. The reduction of fuels through forest management is considered a primary way to reduce the extent and severity of…
Author(s): Lucretia E. Olson, Justin S. Crotteau, Shelagh Fox, Gary Hanvey, Joseph D. Holbrook, Scott Jackson, John Squires
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The authors are a team of fire whirl researchers who have been actively studying whirls and large-scale wildland fires by directly observing them through fire-fighting efforts and applying theory, scale modeling, and numerical simulations in fire…
Author(s): Adnan Darwish Ahmad, Nelson K. Akafuah, Jason M. Forthofer, Manabu Fuchihata, Taro Hirasawa, Kazunori Kuwana, Yuji Nakamura, Kozo Sekimoto, Kozo Saito, Forman A. Williams
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The behaviour of wildland fires and the dispersion of smoke from those fires can be strongly influenced by atmospheric turbulent flow. The science to support that assertion has developed and evolved over the past 100+ years, with contributions from…
Author(s): Warren Heilman
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Firebrand showers are known to result in massive destruction in large outdoor fires. A key missing piece is how these ignition scenarios may be influenced by firebrand showers in conjunction with external radiant heat that would be generated by…
Author(s): Sayaka Suzuki, Sam Manzello
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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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Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of vegetation dynamics to fire behavior, and the advent of next…
Author(s): L. Turin Dickman, Alexandra K. Jonko, Rodman Linn, Ilkay Altintas, Adam L. Atchley, Andreas Bär, Adam D. Collins, Jean-Luc Dupuy, Michael R. Gallagher, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad M. Hoffman, Sharon M. Hood, Matthew D. Hurteau, William Matt Jolly, Alexander J. Josephson, E. Louise Loudermilk, Wu Ma, Sean T. Michaletz, Rachael H. Nolan, Joseph J. O'Brien, Russell A. Parsons, Raquel Partelli Feltrin, F. Pimont, Víctor Resco de Dios, Joseph C. Restaino, Zachary J. Robbins, Karla A. Sartor, Emily Schultz-Fellenz, Shawn P. Serbin, Sanna Sevanto, Jacquelyn Kremper Shuman, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Nick Skowronski, David R. Weise, Molly Wright, Chonggang Xu, Marta Yebra, Nicolas Younes
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