Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation

MR Kreider, PE Higuera, SA Parks, WL Rice… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally.
By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn …

Post-disturbance reorganization of forest ecosystems in a changing world

R Seidl, MG Turner - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - pnas.org
Forest ecosystems are strongly impacted by continuing climate change and increasing
disturbance activity, but how forest dynamics will respond remains highly uncertain. Here …

Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

JT Abatzoglou, DS Battisti, AP Williams… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has
heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories. As fires …

A comprehensive survey of research towards AI-enabled unmanned aerial systems in pre-, active-, and post-wildfire management

SPH Boroujeni, A Razi, S Khoshdel, F Afghah… - Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires have emerged as one of the most destructive natural disasters worldwide, causing
catastrophic losses. These losses have underscored the urgent need to improve public …

[HTML][HTML] Tamm review: A meta-analysis of thinning, prescribed fire, and wildfire effects on subsequent wildfire severity in conifer dominated forests of the Western US

KT Davis, J Peeler, J Fargione, RD Haugo… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increased understanding of how mechanical thinning, prescribed burning, and wildfire affect
subsequent wildfire severity is urgently needed as people and forests face a growing wildfire …

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive
changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over …

Rising wildfire risk to houses in the United States, especially in grasslands and shrublands

VC Radeloff, MH Mockrin, D Helmers, A Carlson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Wildfire risks to homes are increasing, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI),
where wildland vegetation and houses are in close proximity. Notably, we found that more …

Forest restoration and fuels reduction work: Different pathways for achieving success in the S ierra N evada

SL Stephens, DE Foster, JJ Battles… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fire suppression and past selective logging of large trees have fundamentally changed
frequent‐fire‐adapted forests in California. The culmination of these changes produced …