Context More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has
transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many …

Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are to
restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and …

Forest fires may have devastating consequences for the environment and for human lives.
The prediction of forest fires is vital for preventing their occurrence. Currently, there are fewer …

This paper proposes and validates a novel hybrid artificial intelligent approach, named as
Particle Swarm Optimized Neural Fuzzy (PSO-NF), for spatial modeling of tropical forest fire …

Refugia have long been studied from paleontological and biogeographical perspectives to
understand how populations persisted during past periods of unfavorable climate. Recently …

Natural resource managers have used natural variability concepts since the early 1960s and
are increasingly relying on these concepts to maintain biological diversity, to restore …

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

In the context of ongoing climatic warming, certain landscapes could be near a tip** point
where relatively small changes to their fire regimes or their postfire forest recovery dynamics …

Climatic variability is a dominant factor affecting large wildfires in the western United States,
an observation supported by palaeoecological data on charcoal in lake sediments and …

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 …