Fire Ecology is the official journal of the Association for Fire Ecology.
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Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11030149
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Faunal Responses to Fire in Chaparral and Sage Scrub in California, USA
Impact of fire on California shrublands has been well studied but nearly all of this work has focused on plant communities. Impact on and recovery of the chaparral fauna has received only scattered attention; ...
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A Case Study Comparison of LANDFIRE Fuel Loading and Emissions Generation on a Mixed Conifer Forest in Northern Idaho, USA
The use of fire as a land management tool is well recognized for its ecological benefits in many natural systems. To continue to use fire while complying with air quality regulations, land managers are often t...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11030108 -
Recovery of Tall Open Eucalypt Forest in South-Western Australia following Complete Crown Scorch
We investigated the response of overstorey and mid-storey trees in tall open forest of Eucalyptus diversicolor F. Muell., Eucalyptus jacksonii Maiden, and Corymbia calophylla (Lindl.) K.D. Hill & L.A.S. Johnson o...
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Approximation of Fire-Return Intervals with Point Samples in the Southern Range of the Coast Redwood Forest, California, USA
A legacy of past fires is evident in the form of blackened basal hollows found throughout the southern range of the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens [D. Don] Endl.) forest. A deeper look reveals cambial scars ...
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Variability in Fire Prescriptions to Promote Wildlife Foods in the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
Prescribed fire is commonly used to restore and maintain the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystem (LLPE). A key function of the LLPE is the provisioning of food for wildlife. Despite the plethora of li...
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Soil Carbon and Nutrient Recovery after High-Severity Wildfire in Mexico
Fire severity can increase above historical levels due to factors such as human-derived fire suppression and climate change. Studies about the effects of high-severity fires on soil carbon and nutrients in pin...
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Simulating Grassland Prescribed Fires Using Experimental Approaches
Small-scale fire approaches, like burn boxes, burn tables, and propane burners, are often used to facilitate experimental control over fire and allow greater replication. We compared characteristics of grassla...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11030034 -
Lichen Community Response to Prescribed Burning and Thinning in Southern Pine Forests of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA
The effects of prescribed burning and thinning on lichen communities is a poorly understood aspect of biodiversity conservation, despite the widespread use of these practices to achieve conservation-oriented l...
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Introduction to Leonidas G. Liacos’ Article
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Impacts of Fire on Snowshoe Hares in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Forest fires fundamentally shape the habitats available for wildlife. Current predictions for fire under a warming climate suggest larger and more severe fires may occur, thus challenging scientists and manage...
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Pile Burning Effects on Soil Water Repellency, Infiltration, and Downslope Water Chemistry in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA
Thinning of conifers followed by pile burning has become a popular treatment to reduce fuel loads in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA. However, concern has been voiced about burning within or near riparian areas beca...
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Fire Enhances Whitebark Pine Seedling Establishment, Survival, and Growth
Periodic fire is thought to improve whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) regeneration by reducing competition and creating openings, but the mechanisms by which fire affects seedling establishment are poorly...
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Principles of Effective USA Federal Fire Management Plans
Federal fire management plans are essential implementation guides for the management of wildland fire on federal lands. Recent changes in federal fire policy implementation guidance and fire science informatio...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11020059 -
Vegetation Response to Burn Severity, Native Grass Seeding, and Salvage Logging
As the size and extent of wildfires has increased in recent decades, so has the cost and extent of post-fire management, including seeding and salvage logging. However, we know little about how burn severity, ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11020031 -
Calibration and Validation of Immediate Post-Fire Satellite-Derived Data to Three Severity Metrics
Since 2007, the USDA Forest Service’s Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) has been producing fire severity data within the first 30 to 45 days after wildfire containment (i.e., initial assessments [IA]),...
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The Desert Grassland, Past and Present
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Introduction to Robert R. Humphrey’s Article
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The Effects of Ash and Black Carbon (Biochar) on Germination of Different Tree Species
Forest fires generate large amounts of ash and biochar, or black carbon (BC), that cover the soil surface, interacting with the soil’s constituents and its seedbank. This study concerns reproductive ecology as...
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Predicting Burned Areas of Forest Fires: an Artificial Intelligence Approach
Forest fires importantly influence our environment and lives. The ability of accurately predicting the area that may be involved in a forest fire event may help in optimizing fire management efforts. Given the...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010106 -
Assessment of Experiential Education in Prescribed Burning for Current and Future Natural Resource Managers
Acquiring experiential prescribed fire education is difficult for college students. In order to evaluate the effects of instruction on students, we surveyed those who were taking or had completed Oklahoma Stat...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010088 -
Relative Bark Thickness is Correlated with Tree Species Distributions along a Fire Frequency Gradient
The probability of stem survival after fire is strongly influenced by energy allocation to bark because bark thickness affects heat transfer during fire. Greater relative investment in inner bark versus outer ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010074 -
Fire Regime, Climate, and Vegetation in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina
Wildfires are a primary disturbance in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina, with approximately 2 152 000 ha burned between 1993 and 2012. However, little is known about the spatial and temporal patterns of fires...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010055 -
Fire Emissions and Carbon Uptake in Severely Burned Lenga Beech (Nothofagus pumilio) Forests of Patagonia, Argentina
Forest wildfires are recognized as sources of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHG) that, altering the dynamics between terrestrial and atmospheric carbon (C) exchange, influence global climate. In central Andean ...
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Ecological Implications of Fine-Scale Fire Patchiness and Severity in Tropical Savannas of Northern Australia
Understanding fine-scale fire patchiness has significant implications for ecological processes and biodiversity conservation. It can affect local extinction of and recolonisation by relatively immobile fauna a...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010010 -
The Characterization of Fires in Relation to Ecological Studies
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010003 -
Introduction to McArthur and Cheney’s Article
Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010001 -
Making a World of Difference in Fire and Climate Change
Together with other stressors, interactions between fire and climate change are expressing their potential to drive ecosystem shifts and losses in biodiversity. Closely linked to human well-being in most regio...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030090 -
Historical Pyrogeography of Texas, USA
Synthesis of multiple sources of fire history information increases the power and reliability of fire regime characterization. Fire regime characterization is critical for assessing fire risk, identifying clim...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030072 -
Minimal Persistence of Native Bunchgrasses Seven Years after Seeding following Mastication and Prescribed Fire in Southwestern Oregon, USA
Seeding of native grasses is widely used to restore plant communities and prevent establishment of introduced species following wildfire and prescribed burns. However, there is a lack of long-term data to eval...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030063 -
Vegetation Response after Post-Fire Mulching and Native Grass Seeding
Post-fire mulch and seeding treatments, often applied on steep, severely burned slopes immediately after large wildfires, are meant to reduce the potential of erosion and establishment of invasive plants, espe...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030049 -
Vegetation Recovery and Fuel Reduction after Seasonal Burning of Western Juniper
The decrease in fire activity has been recognized as a main cause of expansion of North American woodlands. Piñon-juniper habitat in the western United States has expanded in area nearly 10-fold since the late...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030027 -
Quaking Aspen Regeneration Following Prescribed Fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, USA
Prescribed fire is commonly used for restoration, but the effects of reintroducing fire following a century of fire exclusion are unknown in many ecosystems. We assessed the effects of three prescribed fires, ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030014 -
The Ecological Role of Fire in Natural Conifer Forests of Western and Northern North America—Introduction
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030004 -
Introduction to the Article by H.E. Wright Jr. and M.L. Heinselman
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030001 -
Student Wildland Fire Groups: Common Challenges and Shared Solutions
Student fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-orien...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020092 -
A Comparison of Rangeland Monitoring Techniques for Modeling Herbaceous Fuels and Forage in Central Arizona, USA
While fire and rangeland managers frequently have different land management roles and objectives, their data needs with regards to herbaceous biomass (fuel loads and forage) often overlap, and can be served wi...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020076 -
Modeling Climate-Fire Connections within the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States
The specific temporal patterns of antecedent conditions associated with fire occurrence in the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin are poorly understood. Using 25 years of combined fire and climate data...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020064 -
Changes in Severity Distribution after Subsequent Fires on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA
Understanding the distribution of fire severity patches across a landscape is of critical importance to managers and researchers. Of particular interest are those areas that burn multiple times. Understanding ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020048 -
Characteristics of Burns Conducted under Modified Prescriptions to Mitigate Limited Fuels in a Semi-Arid Grassland
In semi-arid grasslands of the North American Great Plains, fire has traditionally been viewed as having few management applications, and quantitative measurements of fire behavior in the low fuel loads charac...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020036 -
Modeling Wildfire Spread in Mountain Pine Beetle-Affected Forest Stands, British Columbia, Canada
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; MPB) has killed lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.) across 20 million hectares of central British Columbia, Canada, since the late 1990s, ch...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020010 -
Barriers to Understanding the Influence of Use of Fire by Aborigines on Vegetation
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020004 -
Introduction to Omer C. Stewart’s Article
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Fire on Earth: An Introduction. 2014. By A.C. Scott, D.M.J.S. Bowman, W.J. Bond, S. J. Pyne, and M.E. Alexander. Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. 434 pages. Paperback, US$89.95; hardcover, US$149.95. ISBN 978-1-119-95356-2
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010088 -
Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management. 2012. By J.E. Keeley, W.J. Bond, R.A. Bradstock, J.G. Pausas, and P.W. Rundel. Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. 515 pages. Hardback. US$127. ISBN 978-0-521-82491-0
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010086 -
Vegetation Fires and Global Change. 2013. By Johann G. Goldammer and 58 contributing authors. Kessel Publishing House, Remagen-Oberwinter, Germany. 398 pages. Soft-cover. |US$48 (€35). ISBN 978-3-941300-78-1
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010084 -
Intercomparison of Fire Size, Fuel Loading, Fuel Consumption, and Smoke Emissions Estimates on the 2006 Tripod Fire, Washington, USA
Land managers rely on prescribed burning and naturally ignited wildfires for ecosystem management, and must balance trade-offs of air quality, carbon storage, and ecosystem health. A current challenge for land...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010056 -
Post-Fire Seeding in Western United States Forests: Perspectives of Resource Managers
Recent reviews have brought into question the effectiveness of post-fire seeding in mitigating soil erosion and non-native plant invasions, yet millions of dollars continue to be spent annually on post-fire se...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010031 -
Fire as an Ecological and Silvicultural Factor in the Ponderosa Pine Region of the Pacific Slope
This article presents evidence in support of the author’s belief that complete prevention of forest fires in the ponderosa pine region of the Pacific Slope1 has certain undesirable ecological and silvicultural ef...
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Introduction to H. Weaver’s Article
Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010001
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