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Ott, Kilkenny, Jain
Background: The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from wildfire damage. The question of how to maximize the effectiveness…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Sathishkumar, Cho, Subramanian, Naren
Background: Forests are an essential natural resource to humankind, providing a myriad of direct and indirect benefits. Natural disasters like forest fires have a major impact on global warming and the continued existence of life on Earth. Automatic…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Tian, Yue, Zhu, Liao, Yang, Chen, Zhou, Lei, Zhou, Cao
Fire is a major source of atmospheric aerosols and trace gases. Projection of future fire activities is challenging due to the joint impacts of climate, vegetation, and human activities. Here, we project global changes of fire-induced particulate…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Cullen, Prichard, Abatzoglou, Dolk, Kessenich, Bloem, Bukovsky, Humphrey, McGinnis, Skinner, Mearns
We apply a convergence research approach to the urgent need for proactive management of long-term risk associated with wildfire in the United States. In this work we define convergence research in accordance with the US National Science Foundation—…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Shinneman, Strand, Pellant, Abatzoglou, Brunson, Glenn, Heinrichs, Sadegh, Vaillant
Sagebrush ecosystems in the United States have been declining since EuroAmerican settlement, largely due to agricultural and urban development, invasive species, and altered fire regimes, resulting in loss of biodiversity and wildlife habitat. To…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Dickman, Jonko, Linn, Altintas, Atchley, Bär, Collins, Dupuy, Gallagher, Hiers, Hoffman, Hood, Hurteau, Jolly, Josephson, Loudermilk, Ma, Michaletz, Nolan, O'Brien, Parsons, Feltrin, Pimont, de Dios, Restaino, Robbins, Sartor, Schultz-Fellenz, Serbin, Sevanto, Shuman, Sieg, Skowronski, Weise, Wright, Xu, Yebra, Younes
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of vegetation dynamics to fire behavior, and the advent of next…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Shirk, Jones, Yang, Davis, Ganey, Gutiérrez, Healey, Hedwall, Hoagland, Maes, Malcolm, McKelvey, Vynne, Sanderlin, Schwartz, Seamans, Wan, Cushman
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Recent increases in ecological disturbances driven by climate change and our expanding human footprint make it challenging for natural resource managers to keep apprised of current conditions and adjust management plans accordingly. To…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Manzello, Suzuki
Large outdoor fires have become commonplace all over the world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines large outdoor fires as an urban fire, tsunami-generated fire, volcano-generated fire, wildland-urban interface (WUI)…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Liang, Hurteau
1. Climate, disturbance, vegetation response, and their interaction are key factors in predicting the distribution and function of ecosystems across landscapes. A range of factors, operating through different pathways, are amplifying the feedbacks…
Year: 2023
Type: Document