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Wildland fires can emit substantial amounts of air pollution that may pose a risk to those in proximity (e.g., first responders, nearby residents) as well as downwind populations. Quickly deploying air pollution measurement capabilities in response…
Author(s): Matthew S. Landis, Russell W. Long, Jonathan Krug, Maribel Colón, Robert Vanderpool, Andrew Habel, Shawn P. Urbanski
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Fuel reduction projects are designed to reduce wildfire hazard, but goals can also include ecological restoration, wildlife habitat enhancement, and forest health improvement. In the U.S. northern Rocky Mountains, ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests…
Author(s): Sharon M. Hood, Duncan C. Lutes, Christopher R. Keyes, Anna Sala
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How fuel influences fire spread at different spatial scales has been broadly studied but it is still under research. Although prior research has generally explored fuel effects at the stand scale, there is increasing recognition that forest…
Author(s): Andrea Duane, Marcelo D. Miranda, Lluis Brotons
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After fire, bark beetles pose a significant threat to trees. Resin duct characteristics in trees can increase resistance to bark beetles. However, little is known about how intra- and interspecific variations in resin ducts due to tree…
Author(s): Teresa Valor, Sharon M. Hood, Míriam Piqué, Asier Larrañaga, Pere Casals
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Planet Earth is entering the age of megafire, pushing ecosystems to their limits and beyond. While fire causes mortality of animals across vast portions of the globe, scientists are only beginning to consider fire as an evolutionary force in animal…
Author(s): Dale G. Nimmo, Alexandra J. R. Carthey, Chris J. Jolly, Daniel T. Blumstein
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Lightning-caused fires (LCFs) and fire environments influenced by thunderstorms are increasingly implicated in extreme wildfire events around the world, with devastating consequences to society and the environment. However, the disaster potential…
Author(s): Paulo A. Martins Fernandes, João A. Santos, Fernando Castedo-Dorado, Rui Almeida
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Evacuation of residents during wildfire is a highly time-sensitive process. Available time may be limited. Previous research on other types of incident demonstrate that individuals delay their evacuation by first undertaking actions in response to…
Author(s): Sandra Vaiciulyte, Lynn M. Hulse, Anand Veeraswamy, Edwin R. Galea
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Climate warming is expected to increase fire frequency in many productive obligate seeder forests, where repeated high-intensity fire can initiate stand conversion to alternative states with contrasting structure. These vegetation–fire interactions…
Author(s): Tegan P. Brown, Assaf Inbar, Thomas J. Duff, Jamie Burton, Philip J. Noske, Patrick N. J. Lane, Gary J. Sheridan
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Knowledge of how factors such as climate, plant regeneration traits and fire characteristics influence the rate and pattern of post-fire habitat change is crucial for strategic fire management and biodiversity conservation in fire-affected areas.…
Author(s): Frederick W. Rainsford, Luke T. Kelly, Steven W.J. Leonard, Andrew F. Bennett
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Background: The importance of achieving an adequate amount of sleep to optimize health and athletic performance is well recognized. Yet, a systematic evidence compilation of the risk for sport-related injury in adult athletic populations due to poor…
Author(s): Devon A. Dobrosielski, Lisa Sweeney, Peter J. Lisman
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No single factor produces wildfires; rather, they occur when fire thresholds (ignitions, fuels, and drought) are crossed. Anomalous weather events may lower these thresholds and thereby enhance the likelihood and spread of wildfires. Climate change…
Author(s): Juli G. Pausas, Jon E. Keeley
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In recent years, wildland fires have occurred more frequently and with increased intensity in many fire-prone areas. In addition to the direct life and economic losses attributable to wildfires, the emitted smoke is a major contributor to ambient…
Author(s): Hao Chen, James M. Samet, Philip A. Bromberg, Haiyan Tong
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This preview extrapolates the future increase in burn area predicted by Chao Wu et al. in this issue of One Earth to consider the inevitable increase in fire-derived pollution and implication to human health. Although these global-scale predictions…
Author(s): Nancy H. F. French, Tatiana V. Loboda, Robin Puett
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Increased fire frequency in semi-arid ecosystems can alter biochemical soil properties and soil processes that underpin ecosystem structure and functioning, thus threatening native plant communities and the species that rely on them. However, there…
Author(s): Leslie Nichols, Douglas J. Shinneman, Susan K. McIlroy, Marie-Anne de Graaff
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Improving the accuracy of fire behavior prediction requires better understanding of live fuel, the dominant component of tree crowns, which dictates the consumption and energy release of the crown fire flame-front. Live fuel flammability is not well…
Author(s): Oleg M. Melnik, Stephen A. Paskaluk, Mark Y. Ackerman, Katharine O. Melnik, Dan K. Thompson, Sara S. McAllister, Michael D. Flannigan
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Various classifications of fuel accumulation models are used to describe the complex temporal relationship between fuel loads and vegetation dynamics. Fuel accumulation models are an important tool in wildfire management as fuel is the only…
Author(s): Hilyati H. Zazali, Isaac N. Towers, J. Sharples
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Evaluating the impact of wildland fires on landscapes, a pursuit increasingly supported by remote sensing techniques, requires an understanding of wildfire dynamics. This research highlights the main insights from the literature related to “…
Author(s): Sarah Moura Batista dos Santos, A. Bento-Gonçalves, A. Vieira
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Environmental models involve inherent uncertainties, the understanding of which is required for use by practitioners. One method of uncertainty quantification is global sensitivity analysis (GSA), which has been extensively used in environmental…
Author(s): Ujjwal KC, Jagannath Aryal, Saurabh Garg, J. E. Hilton
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Highlights: A review of active fire remote sensing using EO satellites is presented. Different approaches for fire detection and characterization are compared and contrasted. Main satellite active fire products and their applications are summarised…
Author(s): Martin J. Wooster, Gareth Roberts, Louis Giglio, David P. Roy, Patrick H. Freeborn, Luigi Boschetti, Christopher O. Justice, Charles Ichoku, Wilfrid Schroeder, Diane Davies, Alistair M. S. Smith, Alberto Setzer, Ivan A. Csiszar, Tercia Strydom, Philip Frost, Tianran Zhang, Weidong Xu, Mark C. de Jong, Joshua M. Johnston, Luke Ellison, Krishna P. Vadrevu, Jessica L. McCarty, Veerachai Tanpipat, Christopher Schmidt, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz
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The evaluation of the effect of burn severity on forest soils is essential to determine the impact of wildfires on a range of key ecological processes, such as nutrient cycling and vegetation recovery. The main objective of this study was to assess…
Author(s): David Beltrán-Marcos, Susana Suárez-Seoane, José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga, Víctor Fernández-García, Rayo Pinto, Paula García-Llamas, Leonor Calvo
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