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Harris, Taylor, Kassa, Leta, Powell
Background: Fire occurrence is influenced by interactions between human activity, climate, and fuels that are difficult to disentangle but crucial to understand, given fire’s role in carbon dynamics, deforestation, and habitat maintenance,…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Díaz, Quezada, Álvarez, Loján-Córdova, Carrión-Paladines
Background: The Indigenous Kichwa Saraguro people of southern Ecuador have long relied on traditional burning to manage their environment. However, their traditional use of fire in one of the most important ecosystems in southern Ecuador, the…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Povak, Hessburg, Salter, Gray, Prichard
Background: Climate is a main driver of fire regimes, but recurrent fires provide stabilizing feedbacks at several spatial scales that can limit fire spread and severity-potentially contributing to a form of self-regulation. Evaluating the strength…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Prichard, Salter, Hessburg, Povak, Gray
Background: Historically, reburn dynamics from cultural and lightning ignitions were central to the ecology of fire in the western United States (wUS), whereby past fire effects limited future fire growth and severity. Over millennia, reburns…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Markwith, Paudel
Government agencies in the United States (US) adopted a prescribed burning policy based in part on paleo-environmental evidence of pre-Columbian Native American burning regimes. However, biomass collection by Native Americans in the pre-Columbian…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Hagmann, Hessburg, Salter, Merschel, Reilly
In fire-dependent forest landscapes, frequent low- to moderate-severity fire maintained vegetation patterns that limited the severity of droughts, wildfires, and insect and pathogen activity. More than a century of fire exclusion, in combination…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Chavardes, Danneyrolles, Portier, Girardin, Gaboriau, Gauthier, Drobyshev, Cyr, Wallenius, Bergeron
Warning: This article contains terms, descriptions, and opinions used for historical context that may be culturally sensitive for some readers.
Background: Understanding drivers of boreal forest dynamics supports adaptation strategies in the context…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Cleveland
As Hawaiʻi land managers know all too well, natural and cultural resource stewardship can be a daunting undertaking involving many stakeholders from different backgrounds taking into account complex social, cultural, and ecological considerations.…
Type: Media
Year: 2022
Magalhães Neto, Evangelista
The Pantanal natural region in South America is the largest wetland worldwide. Due to floods and a diverse lithology, this wetland area exhibits high plant and animal biodiversity levels and encompasses more than 185,000 km2. In 2020, the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Silverio, Oliveira, Flores, Brando, Almada, Furtado, Moreira, Heckenberger, Ono, Macedo
The contemporary fire regime of southern Amazonian forests has been dominated by interactions between droughts and sources of fire ignition associated with deforestation and slash-and-burn agriculture. Until recently, wildfires have been…
Type: Document
Year: 2022