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  1. Natural ecosystems provide beneficial goods and services to adjacent communities. However, these benefits also come with societal risks, among them wildfires. Kenyan ecosystems have faced increased wildfire ri...

    Authors: Mercy N. Ndalila, Fredrick Lala and Stanley M. Makindi
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:92
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  2. Following a century of fire suppression in western North America, managers use forest restoration treatments to reduce fuel loads and reintroduce key processes like fire. However, annual area burned by wildfir...

    Authors: Caden P. Chamberlain, Bryce N. Bartl-Geller, C. Alina Cansler, Malcolm P. North, Marc D. Meyer, Liz van Wagtendonk, Hannah E. Redford and Van R. Kane
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:91
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  3. Boreal forests cover vast areas of land in the northern hemisphere and store large amounts of carbon (C) both aboveground and belowground. Wildfires, which are a primary ecosystem disturbance of boreal forests...

    Authors: Dana B. Johnson, Kara M. Yedinak, Benjamin N. Sulman, Timothy D. Berry, Kelsey Kruger and Thea Whitman
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:90
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  4. The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum [Lindley] Buchholz) of California’s Sierra Nevada recently suffered historically unprecedented wildfires that killed an estimated 13–19% of seed-bearing sequoias across...

    Authors: Nathan L. Stephenson, David N. Soderberg, Joshua A. Flickinger, Anthony C. Caprio and Adrian J. Das
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:89
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  5. Extreme fire seasons in the Mediterranean basin have received international attention due to the damage caused to people, livelihoods, and vulnerable ecosystems. There is a body of literature linking increasin...

    Authors: Máire Kirkland, Philip W. Atkinson, Sara Aliácar, Deli Saavedra, Mark C. De Jong, Thomas P. F. Dowling and Adham Ashton-Butt
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:88
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  6. Fire hazards have a substantial impact on grassland ecosystems, and they are becoming more frequent and widespread because of global changes and human activities. However, there is still a lack of a widely acc...

    Authors: Liangliang Zhang, Renping Zhang, Junfeng Dai, Jianli Zhang, Jing Guo, Jiahui Zhou and Yuhao Miao
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:87
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  7. Understanding the role of fire in forested landscapes is fundamental to fire reintroduction efforts, yet few studies have examined how fire dynamics vary in response to interactions between local conditions, s...

    Authors: Michelle Coppoletta, Eric E. Knapp, Brandon M. Collins, Celeste S. Abbott, Hannah M. Fertel and Scott L. Stephens
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:86
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  8. Western forests in the United States are facing multiple threats that have the potential to permanently alter forest composition and structure. In particular, wildfire can either have beneficial or adverse eff...

    Authors: Kira L. Hefty, Jeffrey K. Gillan, Jena Trejo and John L. Koprowski
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:85
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  10. Forests are invaluable resources, and fire is a natural process that is considered an integral part of the forest ecosystem. Although fire offers several ecological benefits, its frequent occurrence in differe...

    Authors: Shubhangi Chaturvedi, Chandravanshi Shubham Arun, Poornima Singh Thakur, Pritee Khanna and Aparajita Ojha
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:83
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  11. Forest structural characteristics, the burning environment, and the choice of ignition pattern each influence prescribed fire behaviors and resulting fire effects; however, few studies examine the influences a...

    Authors: Sophie R. Bonner, Chad M. Hoffman, Rodman R. Linn, Wade T. Tinkham, Adam L. Atchley, Carolyn H. Sieg, J. Morgan Varner, Joseph J. O’Brien and J. Kevin Hiers
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:82
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  13. In fire-prone environments, some species store their seeds in canopy cones (serotiny), which provides seeds protection from the passage of fire before stimulating seed release. However, the capacity of serotin...

    Authors: Chika K. Tada, Ella S. Plumanns-Pouton, Trent D. Penman and Alexander I. Filkov
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:80
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  15. Wildfires have a substantial impact on air quality and ecosystems by releasing greenhouse gases (GHGs), trace gases, and aerosols into the atmosphere. These wildfires produce both light-absorbing and merely sc...

    Authors: Arpit Tiwari, Preethi Nanjundan, Ravi Ranjan Kumar and Vijay Kumar Soni
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:78
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  16. Prescribed burning is a beneficial fire management practice used by practitioners worldwide to meet multiple land management objectives, including reduction of wildfire hazard, promotion of biodiversity, and m...

    Authors: Erica A. H. Smithwick, Hong Wu, Kaitlyn Spangler, Mahsa Adib, Rui Wang, Cody Dems, Alan Taylor, Margot Kaye, Katherine Zipp, Peter Newman, Zachary D. Miller and Anthony Zhao
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:77
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  17. Historical and contemporary policies and practices, including the suppression of lightning-ignited fires and the removal of intentional fires ignited by Indigenous peoples, have resulted in over a century of f...

    Authors: Clare E. Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan W. Long, Jonathan D. Coop, Melanie Armstrong and Don L. Hankins
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:76
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  19. Enactment of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), three of the primary federal environmental laws, all coincided with the height of fire suppress...

    Authors: Sara A. Clark, Jenna N. Archer, Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins and Don L. Hankins
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:74
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  20. In central Texas, re-sprouting oaks (Quercus spp.) co-occur with non-resprouting Ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei) in a mosaic of fire-dependent (oak savanna) and fire-sensitive (oak-juniper woodland) habitats. The ...

    Authors: Charlotte M. Reemts, Carla Picinich and Jinelle H. Sperry
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:73
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  21. Ecosystem management, community restoration, and managing for climate resilience have become major priorities of land management in recent decades. For woodlands and savannas (i.e., “open forests”), this trans...

    Authors: Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Daniel C. Dey, Michael C. Stambaugh, Frank R. Thompson III and J. Morgan Varner
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:72
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. Crown scorch—the heating of live leaves, needles, and buds in the vegetative canopy to lethal temperatures without widespread combustion—is one of the most common fire effects shaping post-fire canopies. Despi...

    Authors: Adam L. Atchley, Chad M. Hoffman, Sophie R. Bonner, Scott M. Ritter, Joseph O’Brien and Rodman R. Linn
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:71
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  23. Decades of fire suppression caused drastic changes to community structure and composition across ecosystems, including in Ozark woodlands in Missouri, USA. Reintroducing fire can restore ground flora by reduci...

    Authors: Carolyn A. Stephen, Dan G. Drees, Jamie H. Ladner and Lauren L. Sullivan
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:70
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  27. This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00216-0.

    Authors: Khubab Ahmad, Muhammad Shahbaz Khan, Fawad Ahmed, Maha Driss, Wadii Boulila, Abdulwahab Alazeb, Mohammad Alsulami, Mohammed S. Alshehri, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi and Jawad Ahmad
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:66
    Content type: Retraction Note Published on:

  29. Fire significantly transforms ecology and landscapes worldwide, impacting carbon cycling, species interactions, and ecosystem functions. In the Brazilian Cerrado, a fire-dependent savanna, the interaction betw...

    Authors: Vera Laísa da Silva Arruda, Ane Auxiliadora Costa Alencar, Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Júnior, Fernanda de Figueiredo Ribeiro, Filipe Viegas de Arruda, Dhemerson Estevão Conciani, Wallace Vieira da Silva and Julia Zanin Shimbo
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:64
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  30. Following decades of fire exclusion, many open pine and oak forests across the central and eastern US are shifting to closed-canopy forests that are increasingly dominated by shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive spe...

    Authors: Luiza Gonçalves Lazzaro, Heather D. Alexander, Jeffery B. Cannon and Michael J. Aspinwall
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:63
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  31. The wildfire issue in the western United States presents a complex challenge that impacts both society and the environment. Implementing K-12 education programs focused on wildfire can play a significant role ...

    Authors: Christina Restaino, Spencer Eusden and Megan Kay
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:62
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  32. Disturbance-regime shifts are often a manifestation related to climate change. In Mediterranean ecosystems, summer-drought lengthening and high fire-severity may be among the most detrimental processes for pla...

    Authors: David Salesa, M. Jaime Baeza and Victor M. Santana
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:61
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  33. Serotiny, or pyriscence, refers to delayed seed dissemination within plants and plays an important role in the population dynamics of species following fire. Accurately understanding the variation in serotiny ...

    Authors: Carolyn F. van Mantgem
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:60
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  35. Mediterranean forests are increasingly threatened by wildfires, with fuel load playing a crucial role in fire dynamics and behaviors. Accurate fuel load determination contributes substantially to the wildfire ...

    Authors: Di Lin, Vincenzo Giannico, Raffaele Lafortezza, Giovanni Sanesi and Mario Elia
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:58
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  36. Vegetation fires have major impacts on the ecosystem and present a significant threat to human life. Vegetation fires consists of forest fires, cropland fires, and other vegetation fires in this study. Current...

    Authors: Fahad Shahzad, Kaleem Mehmood, Khadim Hussain, Ijlal Haidar, Shoaib Ahmad Anees, Sultan Muhammad, Jamshid Ali, Muhammad Adnan, Zhichao Wang and Zhongke Feng
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:57
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  37. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to catalyze forest conversion to grass and shrublands due to more extreme fire behavior and hotter and drier post-fire conditions. However, field surveys in the Norther...

    Authors: Margaret D. Epstein, Carl A. Seielstad and Christopher J. Moran
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:56
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  39. Climate change has increased wildfire activity in the western USA and limited the capacity for forests to recover post-fire, especially in areas burned at high severity. Land managers urgently need a better un...

    Authors: Joe V. Celebrezze, Madeline C. Franz, Robert A. Andrus, Amanda T. Stahl, Michelle Steen-Adams and Arjan J. H. Meddens
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:54
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  43. Over the last four decades, wildfires in forests of the continental western United States have significantly increased in both size and severity after more than a century of fire suppression and exclusion. Man...

    Authors: Malcolm P. North, Sarah M. Bisbing, Don L. Hankins, Paul F. Hessburg, Matthew D. Hurteau, Leda N. Kobziar, Marc D. Meyer, Allison E. Rhea, Scott L. Stephens and Camille S. Stevens-Rumann
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:50
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  44. Abies pinsapo Clemente ex Boiss. is a species classified as endangered and currently occupies a very small and fragmented area of distribution in the southwest of the Baetic System. The uniqueness of these relict...

    Authors: José Gómez-Zotano, Rubén Pardo-Martínez, José Antonio Olmedo-Cobo and Javier Martos-Martín
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:49
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  46. Designing effective land management actions addressed to increase ecosystem resilience requires us to understand how shifting fire regimes are shaping landscapes. In this study, we aim to assess the link betwe...

    Authors: David Beltrán-Marcos, Susana Suárez-Seoane, José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga, João C. Azevedo and Leonor Calvo
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:47
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  47. The southeastern United States consists of diverse ecosystems, many of which are fire-dependent. Fires were common during pre-European times, and many were anthropogenic in origin. Understanding how prescribed...

    Authors: Katherine E. Golden, Benjamin L. Hemingway, Amy E. Frazier, Wade Harrell, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf and Craig A. Davis
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:46
    Content type: Field note Published on:

  48. Increased use of visualizations as wildfire communication tools with public and professional audiences—particularly 3D videos and virtual or augmented reality—invites discussion of their ethical use in varied ...

    Authors: Catrin M. Edgeley, William H. Cannon, Scott Pearse, Branko Kosović, Gabriele Pfister and Rajesh Kumar
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:45
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  49. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems are recognized as biodiversity hotspots, and their sustainability is tightly coupled to a complex nexus of feedbacks between fire, composition, and structure. While prev...

    Authors: C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O’Brien, Steven A. Flanagan, Jennifer McDaniel, Doug P. Aubrey, Tripp Lowe, J. Kevin Hiers and Nicholas S. Skowronski
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:44
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  50. Chir pine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forests are distributed in the dry valleys of Bhutan Himalaya. In the past, these forests have been heavily influenced by human activities such as grazing, burning, resin tappin...

    Authors: Karma Tenzin, Craig R. Nitschke, Kathryn J. Allen, Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook, Thiet V. Nguyen and Patrick J. Baker
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2024 20:43
    Content type: Original research Published on:
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