The earliest examples of alternative community states in the literature appear to be
descriptions of natural vegetation said to both depend on and promote fire. Nonetheless …

Tropical forest ecosystems are threatened by habitat conversion and other anthropogenic
actions. Timber production forests can augment the conservation value of primary forest …

Increasingly, natural resource management agencies and nongovernmental organizations
are sharing monitoring data across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Doing so …

Fire is a driver of ecosystem patterns and processes in forests globally, but natural fire
regimes have often been altered by decades of active fire management. Following almost a …

Background. The increased interest in why and how trees die from fire has led to several
syntheses of the potential mechanisms of fire-induced tree mortality. However, these …

Ecosystems have been shaped by fire for millions of years. Many oligotrophic ecosystems
rely on fire for biogeochemical cycling and maintenance of key processes. However, it is …

Fuel and wildfire management decisions related to fuel break construction, maintenance,
and use in fire suppression suffer from limited information on fuel break success rates and …

The emergence of affordable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) creates new opportunities to
study fire behavior and ecosystem pattern—process relationships. A rotor-wing UAS …

The abundance of Culex restuans and Culex pipiens in relation to ecological predictors is
poorly understood in regions of the United States where their ranges overlap. It is suspected …

The characterization of aboveground biomass is important in forest management planning,
with various objectives ranging from prevention of forest fires to restoration of burned areas …