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Classification of forest fuels in selected fire-prone ecosystems of Alberta, Canada—implications for crown fire behaviour prediction and fuel management
Key messageWe used clustering to construct fuel classes from fuel inventory data based on three stand attributes relevant to crown fire behaviour:...
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A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data
BackgroundAn accurate understanding of wildfire impacts is critical to the success of any post-fire management framework. Fire severity maps are...
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Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers
BackgroundAccurate estimates of available live crown fuel loads are critical for understanding potential wildland fire behavior. Existing crown fire...
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Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather
BackgroundThe capacity of forest fuel treatments to moderate the behavior and severity of subsequent wildfires depends on weather and fuel conditions...
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Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States
BackgroundIncreases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in recent decades across the western United States. Climate...
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Genetic variation in fire recovery and other fire-related traits in a global eucalypt species
To understand the potential of forests to adapt to wildfire, we studied the genetic architecture of fire-related structural, damage and...
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Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire
BackgroundSnags, standing dead trees, are becoming more abundant in forests as tree mortality rates continue to increase due to fire, drought, and...
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Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval
BackgroundIn ecosystems where fire has been excluded, pyrosilviculture can restore some processes historically maintained by fire while mitigating...
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Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas
BackgroundThe eastern Edwards Plateau supports a mosaic of woodlands, savannas, and shrubland in which native plant and animal species are often...
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Cyclone–Fire Interactions Enhance Fire Extent and Severity in a Tropical Montane Pine Forest
Interactions between tropical cyclones and wildfires occur widely and can tip closed forests into open-canopy structures that initiate a ‘grass–fire’...
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Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades
BackgroundSix synchronous, wind-driven, high severity megafires burned over 300,000 hectares of mesic temperate forest in the western Cascades of NW...
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Fuel treatments in shrublands experiencing pinyon and juniper expansion result in trade-offs between desired vegetation and increased fire behavior
BackgroundNative pinyon ( Pinus spp.) and juniper ( Juniperus spp.) trees are expanding into shrubland communities across the Western United States....
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Principles of fire ecology
Fire ecology is a complex discipline that can only be understood by integrating biological, physical, and social sciences. The science of fire...
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Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form
BackgroundsPlant-plant interactions are among the most important factors affecting the natural recovery of vegetation. While the impacts of nurse...
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Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes
BackgroundWhen fire intervals are shorter than the time required for plants to reproduce, plant populations are threatened by “immaturity risk.”...
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Fire regime and climate determine spatial variation in level of serotiny and population structure in a fire-killed conifer
Fire-killed serotinous trees are often dominant species in fire-prone regions with contrasting wet and dry seasons. We studied a serotinous...
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Forest fire, thinning, and flood in wildland-urban interface: UAV and lidar-based estimate of natural disaster impacts
ContextWildland-urban interface (WUI) areas are facing increased forest fire risks and extreme precipitation events due to climate change, which can...
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Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.
BackgroundSagebrush ecosystems are experiencing increases in wildfire extent and severity. Most research on vegetation treatments that reduce fuels...
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Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research
BackgroundManaging landscape fire is a complex challenge because it is simultaneously necessary for, and increasingly poses a risk to, societies and...
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Assessing changes in global fire regimes
BackgroundThe global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and...
