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Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain
BackgroundDesigning effective land management actions addressed to increase ecosystem resilience requires us to understand how shifting fire regimes...
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Fire season and time since fire determine arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal trait responses to fire
Background and aimsArbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are common mutualists in grassland and savanna systems that are adapted to recurrent fire...
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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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Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests
BackgroundFire-adapted forests in western North America are experiencing rapid changes to fire regimes that are outside the range of historic norms....
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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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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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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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Post-fire forest recovery at high latitudes: tree regeneration dominated by fire-adapted, early-seral species increases with latitude
Key messageAbove 40° N/S, increasing latitude is linked to greater post-fire tree regeneration. However, species dominance shifts from conifers to...
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A theoretical framework for improved fire suppression by linking management models with smart early fire detection and suppression technologies
Bushfires are devastating to forest managers, owners, residents, and the natural environment. Recent technological advances indicate a potential for...
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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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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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Forest fire hotspot identification and assessment of forest fire impact on AOD over Simlipal biosphere reserve, Odisha (India)
The periodic forest fire incident adversely impacts the function and services of ecologically fragile forest regions and the worst air quality...
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Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?
BackgroundLinear fuel breaks are being implemented to moderate fire behavior and improve wildfire containment in semiarid landscapes such as the...
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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...
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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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Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience
BackgroundClimate change is eroding forest resilience to disturbance directly through warming climate and indirectly through increasing disturbance...
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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...
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Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire
BackgroundPredators and fire shape ecosystems across the globe and these two forces can interact to impact prey populations. This issue is...
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Vegetation type and fire severity mediate short-term post fire soil microbial responses
BackgroundWildfire severity mediates key dynamics, such as nutrient pulses, that regulate the recovery of ecosystem functioning. Large shifts in...
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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...
