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Schoettle, Burns, McKinney, Krakowski, Waring, Tomback, Davenport
Tree mortality rates have been increasing globally with mountainous regions experiencing higher temperatures and impacts from the expansion and intensification of pests and invasion by non-native agents. Western North American high-elevation forests…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Snitker, Roos, Sullivan, Maezumi, Bird, Coughlan, Derr, Gassaway, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Loehman
Humans have influenced global fire activity for millennia and will continue to do so into the future. Given the long-term interaction between humans and fire, we propose a collaborative research agenda linking archaeology and fire science that…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Boisramé, Brown, Bachelet
Background: Recent increases in wildfire activity in the Western USA are commonly attributed to a confluence of factors including climate change, human activity, and the accumulation of fuels due to fire suppression. However, a shortage of long-term…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Barnes, Dwyer, Mojica, Petersen, Harness
Uncontrolled wildfires are occurring with increasing frequency across western North America due to a combination of wildfire suppression, climate change, impacts from mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae), alterations in range composition…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Simpson, Archibald, Osborne
Grasses fuel most fires on Earth and strongly influence local fire behaviour through traits that determine how flammable they are. Therefore, grass communities that differ in their species and trait compositions give rise to significant spatial…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Anderegg, Chegwidden, Badgley, Trugman, Cullenward, Abatzoglou, Hicke, Freeman, Hamman
Forests are currently a substantial carbon sink globally. Many climate change mitigation strategies leverage forest preservation and expansion, but rely on forests storing carbon for decades to centuries. Yet climate-driven disturbances pose…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Linley, Jolly, Doherty, Geary, Armenteras, Belcher, Bird, Duane, Fletcher, Giorgis, Haslem, Jones, Kelly, Lee, Nolan, Parr, Pausas, Price, Regos, Ritchie, Ruffault, Williamson, Wu, Nimmo
Background
‘Megafire’ is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term’s meaning remains ambiguous.
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We sought to resolve ambiguity surrounding the meaning of ‘…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Haghani, Kuligowski, Rajabifard, Kolden
Along with the increase in the frequency of disastrous wildfires and bushfires around the world during the recent decades, scholarly research efforts have also intensified in this domain. This work investigates divisions and trends of the domain of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Gollner
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Large wildfires of increasing frequency and severity threaten local populations and natural resources while contributing carbon emissions into the earth-climate system. Although…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Jones, Abatzoglou, Veraverbeke, Andela, Lasslop, Forkel, Smith, Burton, Betts, Van der Werf
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating climate change. Here we review current understanding of the impacts of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document