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What is the color when black is burned? Quantifying (re)burn severity using field and satellite remote sensing indices
BackgroundTrends of increasing area burned in many regions worldwide are leading to more locations experiencing short-interval reburns (i.e., fires...
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Wetland Successional State Affects Fire Severity in a Boreal Shield Landscape
Boreal peatland ecosystems are generally resilient to low severity wildfire. However, climate change may increase wildfire intensity and frequency,...
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Assessing fire severity in Turkey’s forest ecosystems using spectral indices from satellite images
Fire severity classifications determine fire damage and regeneration potential in post-fire areas for effective implementation of restoration...
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Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam
BackgroundIn recent decades, fire has increasingly occurred in the tropical montane rainforests of northern Vietnam. However, there are few studies...
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Using a trait-based approach to asses fire resistance in forest landscapes of the Inland Northwest, USA
ContextSeveral plant traits are associated with resistance to fire, thus fire-resistant species may give rise to more fire-resistant landscapes....
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Management strategy influences landscape patterns of high-severity burn patches in the southwestern United States
ContextSpatial patterns of high-severity wildfire in forests affect vegetation recovery pathways, watershed dynamics, and wildlife habitat across...
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Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires
BackgroundThe northern spotted owl ( Strix occidentalis caurina ) is an Endangered Species Act-listed subspecies that requires coniferous forests with...
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Exploring the use of spectral indices to assess alterations in soil properties in pine stands affected by crown fire in Spain
BackgroundForest fires have increased in extent and intensity in the Mediterranean area in recent years, threatening forest ecosystems through loss...
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Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands
BackgroundPrescribed burning (PB) is becoming relevant in fuel reduction and thus fire hazard abatement in fire-prone ecosystems of southern Europe....
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Improving forest burn severity estimations with partial least squares regression and orthogonal signal correction methods in Daxing’an Mountains, China
Several indices and simple empirical models and ratios of single band from pre- and post-fire Landsat images have been developed to estimate and/or...
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Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US
BackgroundFire regimes are shifting in ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson)-dominated forests, raising concern regarding future...
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Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin
BackgroundFire-vegetation feedbacks can modulate the global change effects conducive to extreme fire behavior and high fire severity of subsequent...
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Changes to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program map** production procedures and data products
BackgroundThe Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program has been providing the fire science community with large fire perimeter and burn...
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Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States
A steady rise in fires in the Western United States, coincident with intensifying droughts, imparts substantial modifications to the underlying...
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Strong Legacy Effects of Prior Burn Severity on Forest Resilience to a High-Severity Fire
Legacy effects from one disturbance may influence successional pathways by amplifying or buffering forest regeneration after the next disturbance. We...
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Remote Sensing Techniques for Monitoring Fire Damage and Recovery of Mediterranean Pine Forests: Pinus pinaster and Pinus halepensis as Case Studies
Current predictions of global change effects in the Mediterranean Basin include an increase in the number, severity and recurrence of wildfires that...
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Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape
BackgroundIn seed-obligate conifer forests of the western US, land managers need a better understanding of the spatiotemporal variability in...
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On the limited consensus of mountain pine beetle impacts on wildfire
ContextThe mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae ) is a native bark beetle whose outbreaks leads to widespread conifer forest mortality....
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Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada
BackgroundIn California’s mixed-conifer forests, fuel reduction treatments can successfully reduce fire severity, bolster forest resilience, and make...
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The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes
BackgroundMediterranean ecosystems dominated by Pinus pinaster Ait. (maritime pine) are subject to a shift from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire...
