Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

KK McLauchlan, PE Higuera, J Miesel… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits,
population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling …

Integrating plant physiology into simulation of fire behavior and effects

LT Dickman, AK Jonko, RR Linn, I Altintas… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to
changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of …

WRF-Fire: coupled weather–wildland fire modeling with the weather research and forecasting model

JL Coen, M Cameron, J Michalakes… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
A wildland fire-behavior module, named WRF-Fire, was integrated into the Weather
Research and Forecasting (WRF) public domain numerical weather prediction model. The …

Current status and future needs of the BehavePlus Fire Modeling System

PL Andrews - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2013 - CSIRO Publishing
The BehavePlus Fire Modeling System is among the most widely used systems for wildland
fire prediction. It is designed for use in a range of tasks including wildfire behaviour …

Ecology and long-term history of fire in New Zealand

GLW Perry, JM Wilmshurst, MS McGlone - New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2014 - JSTOR
Fire is a complex physical and ecological process and one that has dramatically affected
New Zealand's landscapes and ecosystems in the post-settlement era. Prior to human …

Moving beyond the cambium necrosis hypothesis of post‐fire tree mortality: cavitation and deformation of xylem in forest fires

ST Michaletz, EA Johnson, MT Tyree - New Phytologist, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely assumed that post‐fire tree mortality results from necrosis of phloem and vascular
cambium in stems, despite strong evidence that reduced xylem conductivity also plays an …

Bark in woody plants: understanding the diversity of a multifunctional structure

JA Rosell - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Most biological structures carry out multiple functions. Focusing on only one function to
make adaptive inferences overlooks that manifold selection pressures and tradeoffs shape …

Advances in mechanistic approaches to quantifying biophysical fire effects

JJ O'Brien, JK Hiers, JM Varner, CM Hoffman… - Current Forestry …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The search for causal mechanisms in fire ecology has been
slow to progress for two main reasons. First, many fire ecology investigations often occur …

Integrating fire behavior models and geospatial analysis for wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning

AA Ager, NM Vaillant, MA Finney - Journal of Combustion, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the US are
complex problems that require state‐of‐the‐art fire behavior modeling and intensive …