Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large
wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of …

Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower
temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often …

Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience.
Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed …

Background Wildfires, like many disturbances, can be catalysts for ecosystem change. Given
projected climate change, tree regeneration declines and ecosystem shifts following severe …

Reliable fire severity map** is a vital resource for fire scientists and land management
agencies globally. Satellite derived pre-and post-fire differenced severity indices (∆ FSI) …

Fire refugia are landscape elements that remain unburned or minimally affected by fire,
thereby supporting postfire ecosystem function, biodiversity, and resilience to disturbances …

Disturbance refugia–locations that experience less severe or frequent disturbances than the
surrounding landscape–provide a framework to highlight not only where and why these …

The vast boreal biome plays an important role in the global carbon cycle but is experiencing
particularly rapid climate warming, threatening the integrity of valued ecosystems and their …

The increasing incidence of wildfires across the southwestern United States (US) is altering
the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests …