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  1. Frequent-fire forests of the western United States have undergone remarkable changes in structure, composition, and function due to historical exclusion of naturally occurring fire. Mechanized tree thinning to...

    Authors: David W. Huffman, John Paul Roccaforte, Judith D. Springer and Joseph E. Crouse
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. In oak-dominated communities throughout eastern North America, fire exclusion and subsequent woody encroachment has replaced the “glitter” of once robust and diverse wildflower and grass layers with leaf-litte...

    Authors: Andrew L. Vander Yacht, Patrick D. Keyser, Seth A. Barrioz, Charles Kwit, Michael C. Stambaugh, Wayne K. Clatterbuck and Ryan Jacobs
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:17
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  3. The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program has been providing the fire science community with large fire perimeter and burn severity data for the past 14 years. As of October 2019, 22 969 fires have...

    Authors: Joshua J. Picotte, Krishna Bhattarai, Danny Howard, Jennifer Lecker, Justin Epting, Brad Quayle, Nate Benson and Kurtis Nelson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:16
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  4. Wildfires affect vegetation structure, functions, and other attributes of forest ecosystems. Among these attributes, bird assemblages may be influenced by the distance from undisturbed to fire-disturbed forest...

    Authors: Adriana Marisel Morales, Natalia Politi, Luis Osvaldo Rivera, Constanza Guadalupe Vivanco and Guillermo Emilio Defossé
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:15
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  5. Many Puerto Rican ecosystems evolved without a regular fire regime. As such, many native plants lack adaptations necessary to survive even low-intensity fires. Human-caused fires are increasing in frequency, i...

    Authors: Roberto Carrera-Martínez, Jorge Ruiz-Arocho, Laura Aponte-Díaz, David A. Jenkins and Joseph J. O’Brien
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:14
    Content type: Field note Published on:

  6. In fire-adapted ecosystems of the western USA, prescribed fire is an essential restoration and fuel reduction tool. There is general concern that, as the fire season lengthens, the window for conducting prescr...

    Authors: Randy Striplin, Stephanie A. McAfee, Hugh D. Safford and Michael J. Papa
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:13
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  7. In recent decades, as wildland fire occurrence has increased in the United States, concern about the emissions produced by wildland fires has increased as well. This growing concern is evidenced by an increase...

    Authors: Heath D. Starns, Douglas R. Tolleson, Robert J. Agnew, Elijah G. Schnitzler and John R. Weir
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:12
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  8. The realm of wildland fire science encompasses both wild and prescribed fires. Most of the research in the broader field has focused on wildfires, however, despite the prevalence of prescribed fires and demons...

    Authors: J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O’Brien, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Matthew Dickinson, James Furman, Michael Gallagher, David Godwin, Scott L. Goodrick, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew Hudak, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, E. Louise Loudermilk, Sarah McCaffrey, Kevin Robertson…
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:11
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  9. Resprouting is an effective strategy for persistence of perennial plants after disturbances such as fire. However, can disturbances be so frequent that they limit resprouting? We examined the effects of fire a...

    Authors: Eric S. Menges, Stacy A. Smith, Jose M. Olano, Jennifer L. Schafer, Gretel Clarke and Kevin Main
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:10
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  12. Following publication of the original article Quigley et al. 2019, the authors reported that an incorrect version of Additional 1 has been published. The corrected version of Additional file 1 is attached to t...

    Authors: K. M. Quigley, R. E. Wildt, B. R. Sturtevant, R. K. Kolka, M. B. Dickinson, C. C. Kern, D. M. Donner and J. R. Miesel
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:7
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Fire Ecology 2019 15:5

  13. Repeated use of prescribed fire in Southern US pine stands has the potential to alter litter quality as well as forest floor mineralization, which may reduce nutrient availability. There are few studies that h...

    Authors: Hal O. Liechty and Michele Reinke
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:6
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  14. A fire management strategy of deliberate patch-mosaic burning (PMB) is postulated to promote biodiversity by providing a range of habitat patches with different fire histories, habitat qualities, and vegetatio...

    Authors: Allan J. Wills, Graeme Liddelow and Verna Tunsell
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:5
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  15. Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of resource managers, fire scientists, and the general public...

    Authors: Jessica E. Halofsky, David L. Peterson and Brian J. Harvey
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Even though fire has been used extensively as part of conservation management in South Africa, its impact on the life history and mortality of fossorial reptiles is poorly documented. We conducted post-fire tr...

    Authors: Philip R. Jordaan, Johan C. A. Steyl, Catharine C. Hanekom and Xander Combrink
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:3
    Content type: Field note Published on:

  17. Prairie–forest ecotones are ecologically important for biodiversity and ecological processes. While these ecotones cover small areas, their sharp gradients in land cover promote rich ecological interaction and...

    Authors: Penelope Morgan, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Eva K. Strand, Stephen C. Bunting, James P. Riser II, John T. Abatzoglou, Max Nielsen-Pincus and Mara Johnson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:2
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  18. Prescribed fire is increasingly used to accomplish management goals in fire-adapted systems, yet our understanding of effects on non-target organisms remains underdeveloped. Terricolous lichens in the genus Clado...

    Authors: David G. Ray, Gabriel D. Cahalan and James C. Lendemer
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:1
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  19. High-severity fire in forested landscapes often produces a post-fire condition of high shrub cover and large loads of dead wood. Given the increasing patch size of high-severity fire and the tendency for these...

    Authors: Jamie M. Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins, Michelle Coppoletta, Melissa R. Jaffe, Hudson Northrop and Scott L. Stephens
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:43
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  21. Behavioral responses are the most immediate ways animals interact with their environment, and are primary mechanisms by which individuals mitigate mortality risk while ensuring reproductive success. In disturb...

    Authors: Bradley S. Cohen, Thomas J. Prebyl, Bret A. Collier and Michael J. Chamberlain
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:41
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  22. Fuel treatments are widely used to alter fuels in forested ecosystems to mitigate wildfire behavior and effects. However, few studies have examined long-term ecological effects of interacting fuel treatments (...

    Authors: Jessie M. Dodge, Eva K. Strand, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Darcy H. Hammond and Beth A. Newingham
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:40
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  26. Prescribed burning is used to reduce fire hazard in highly flammable vegetation types, including Banksia L.f. woodland that occurs on the Swan Coastal Plain (SCP), Western Australia, Australia. The 2016 census re...

    Authors: Valerie S. Densmore and Emma S. Clingan
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:36
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  29. Knowledge of historical fire regimes informs the restoration of woodland communities. In the Appalachian Plateau of Ohio and Kentucky, USA, little is known about the long-term history of fire in oak–pine commu...

    Authors: Todd F. Hutchinson, Michael C. Stambaugh, Joseph M. Marschall and Richard P. Guyette
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:33
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  30. Fire has historically been a primary control on succession and vegetation dynamics in boreal systems, although modern changing climate is potentially increasing fire size and frequency. Large, often remote fir...

    Authors: Darcy H. Hammond, Eva K. Strand, Andrew T. Hudak and Beth A. Newingham
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:32
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  31. In recent years, fire services in Mediterranean Europe have been overwhelmed by extreme wildfire behavior. As a consequence, fire management has moved to defensive strategies with a focus only on the known ris...

    Authors: Marc Castellnou, Núria Prat-Guitart, Etel Arilla, Asier Larrañaga, Edgar Nebot, Xavier Castellarnau, Jordi Vendrell, Josep Pallàs, Joan Herrera, Marc Monturiol, José Cespedes, Jordi Pagès, Claudi Gallardo and Marta Miralles
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:31
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  32. Prescribed burning plays an important role in the management of many ecosystems and can also be used to mitigate landscape-scale fire risk. Safe and effective application of prescribed fire requires that manag...

    Authors: G. Matt Davies, Colin J. Legg, A. Adam Smith and Angus MacDonald
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:30
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  33. Pacific Northwest USA oak woodlands and savannas are fire-resilient communities dependent on frequent, low-severity fire to maintain their structure and understory species diversity, and to prevent encroachmen...

    Authors: Deborah G. Nemens, J. Morgan Varner and Peter W. Dunwiddie
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:29
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  34. Understanding the temporal patterns of fire occurrence and their relationships with fuel dryness is key to sound fire management, especially under increasing global warming. At present, no system for predictio...

    Authors: Daniel Jose Vega-Nieva, Maria Guadalupe Nava-Miranda, Eric Calleros-Flores, Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano, Jaime Briseño-Reyes, Carlos López-Sánchez, Jose Javier Corral-Rivas, Eusebio Montiel-Antuna, Maria Isabel Cruz-Lopez, Rainer Ressl, Martin Cuahtle, Ernesto Alvarado-Celestino, Armando González-Cabán, Citlali Cortes-Montaño, Diego Pérez-Salicrup, Enrique Jardel-Pelaez…
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:28
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  37. Wildfire is an important ecological process in mixed conifer forests of the Intermountain West region of the USA. However, researchers and managers are concerned because climate warming has led to increased fi...

    Authors: Eva K. Strand, Kevin L. Satterberg, Andrew T. Hudak, John Byrne, Azad Henareh Khalyani and Alistair M. S. Smith
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:25
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  39. Following publication of the original article (Hyde et al., 2015), the authors have noticed two errors in the summarizing of our results and wish to point out the following corrections:

    Authors: Josh Hyde, Eva K. Strand, Andrew T. Hudak and Dale Hamilton
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:23
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Fire Ecology 2015 11:Art9

  40. Increasingly frequent and severe drought in the western United States has contributed to more frequent and severe wildfires, longer fire seasons, and more frequent bark beetle outbreaks that kill large numbers...

    Authors: Chris Ray, Daniel R. Cluck, Robert L. Wilkerson, Rodney B. Siegel, Angela M. White, Gina L. Tarbill, Sarah C. Sawyer and Christine A. Howell
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:21
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  41. Straw mulching is one of the most common treatments applied immediately post fire to reduce soil erosion potential and mitigate post-fire effects on water quality, downstream property, and infrastructure, but ...

    Authors: Jonathan D. Bontrager, Penelope Morgan, Andrew T. Hudak and Peter R. Robichaud
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:22
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  42. In the Inland Pacific Northwest of the United States, fire is a dominant driver of ecological change. Within wildfire perimeters, fire effects often vary considerably and typically include remnant patches of u...

    Authors: Anthony J. Martinez, Arjan J. H. Meddens, Crystal A. Kolden, Eva K. Strand and Andrew T. Hudak
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:20
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  43. Endangered species management has been criticized as emphasizing a single-species approach to conservation and, in some cases, diverting resources from broad-based, land management objectives important for ove...

    Authors: Shelby A. Weiss, Eric L. Toman and R. Gregory Corace III
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:19
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  44. Some have proposed that fire return intervals lengthen with elevation in montane tropical coniferous forests, such as those found in central Mexico. This would generate patterns of synchronous tree establishme...

    Authors: Jesús E. Sáenz-Ceja and Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:18
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  45. Evaluating fuel treatment effectiveness is challenging when managing a landscape for diverse ecological, social, and economic values. We used a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) to understand ...

    Authors: Monique D. Wynecoop, Penelope Morgan, Eva K. Strand and Fernando Sanchez Trigueros
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:17
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  46. Surface fuel loadings are some of the most important factors contributing to fire intensity and fire spread. In old-growth forests where fire has been long excluded, surface fuel loadings can be high and can i...

    Authors: C. Alina Cansler, Mark E. Swanson, Tucker J. Furniss, Andrew J. Larson and James A. Lutz
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:16
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  49. There is broad recognition that fire management in the United States must fundamentally change and depart from practices that have led to an over-emphasis on suppression and limited the presence of fire in for...

    Authors: Courtney A. Schultz, Matthew P. Thompson and Sarah M. McCaffrey
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:13
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  50. Short-term post-fire field studies have shown that native shrub cover in chaparral ecosystems negatively affects introduced cover, which is influenced by burn severity, elevation, aspect, and climate. Using th...

    Authors: April G. Smith, Beth A. Newingham, Andrew T. Hudak and Benjamin C. Bright
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:12
    Content type: Original research Published on:
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