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Table 2 Empirical studies (n = 26 papers) identified in the systematic review of landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness and organized by evaluation method. Landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness is the ability of fuel treatments to affect wildfire outside of the treated footprint. Site-level studies address large wildfires and treatments within them, but only evaluate the effectiveness within the treated footprint. Other includes landscape-level studies, but that were not spatially explicit (Addington et al. 2015; Brewer and Rogers 2006), or a broad evaluation of fuel treatment effects when wildfires encountered these fuel treatments (Barnett et al. 2016)

From: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness

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Landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness

 Arkle et al. 2012

Pattern and process of prescribe fires influence effectiveness at reducing wildfire severity in dry coniferous forests

 Cochrane et al. 2012

Estimation of wildfire size and risk changes due to fuels treatments

 Cochrane et al. 2013

Fuel treatment effectiveness in the United States

 Finney et al. 2005

Stand- and landscape-level effects of prescribed burning on two Arizona wildfires

 Lydersen et al. 2017

Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event

 Parks et al. 2015

Wildland fire as a self-regulating mechanism: the role of previous burns and weather in limiting fire progression

 Prichard and Kennedy 2014

Fuel treatments and landform modify landscape patterns of burn severity in an extreme fire event

 Syphard et al. 2011a

Comparing the role of fuel breaks across southern California national forests

 Syphard et al. 2011b

Factors affecting fuel break effectiveness in the control of large fires on the Los Padres National Forest, California

 Tubbesing et al. 2019

Strategically placed landscape fuel treatments decrease fire severity and promote recovery in the northern Sierra Nevada

 Wimberly et al. 2009

Assessing fuel treatment effectiveness using satellite imagery and spatial statistics

 Yocom et al. 2019

Previous fires and roads limit wildfire growth in Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A.

Site-level fuel treatment effectiveness

 Briggs et al. 2017

Short-term ecological consequences of collaborative restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests of Colorado

 Cannon et al. 2018

Collaborative restoration effects on forest structure in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of Colorado

 Huffman et al. 2017

Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoration of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests in northern Arizona

 Hunter et al. 2011

Short- and long-term effects on fuels, forest structure, and wildfire potential from prescribed fire and resource benefit fire iin southwestern forests, USA

 Jain et al. 2007

Vegetation and soil effects from prescribed, wild, and combined fire events along a ponderosa pine grassland mosaic

 Kennedy and Johnson 2014

Fuel treatment prescriptions alter spatial patterns of fire severity around the wildland-urban interface during the Wallow Fire, Arizona, USA

 Parks et al. 2016

Wildland fire limits subsequent fire occurrence

 Safford et al. 2012

Fuel treatment effectiveness in California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

 Stevens-Rumann et al. 2013

Pre-wildfire fuel reduction treatments result in more resilient forest structure a decade after wildfire

 Waltz et al. 2014

Effectiveness of fuel reduction treatments: assessing metrics of forest resiliency and wildfire severity after the Wallow Fire, AZ

 Stevens-Rumann et al. 2016

Prior wildfires influence burn severity of subsequent large fires

Other

 Addington et al. 2015

Relationships among wildfire, prescribe fire, and drought in a fire-prone landscape in the south-eastern United States

 Barnett et al. 2016

Beyond fuel treatment effectiveness: Characterizing interactions between fire and treatments in the US

 Brewer and Rogers 2006

Relationships between prescribed burning and wildfire occurrence and intensity in pine-hardwood forests in norther Mississippi, USA