Spectral indices derived from optical remote sensing data have been widely used for fire-
severity classification in forests from local to global scales. However, comparative analyses …

Question Frequent severe wildfires have the potential to alter the structure and composition
of forests in temperate biomes. While temperate forests dominated by resprouting trees are …

Wildfires have increased in size and frequency in recent decades in many biomes, but have
they also become more severe? This question remains under-examined despite fire severity …

Aim Forest carbon storage is the result of a multitude of interactions among biotic and abiotic
factors. Our aim was to use an integrative approach to elucidate mechanistic relationships of …

Aim The increasing availability of regional and global climate data presents an opportunity
to build better ecological models; however, it is not always clear which climate dataset is …

Understanding spatial variation in wildland fuel is central to predicting wildfire behaviour as
well as current and future fire regimes. Vegetation (plant material)–both live (biomass) and …

Aim Canopy structural complexity, which describes the degree of heterogeneity in
vegetation density, is strongly tied to a number of ecosystem functions, but the community …

Beta diversity, which measures the variation in community composition along environmental
gradients, has great significance for biodiversity conservation and nature reserve …

Structural features of the overstorey in managed and unmanaged forests can significantly
influence plant community composition. Native Acacia species are common in temperate …

Wildfires in forested ecosystems are increasing in severity and extent. The adaptations many
plants have acquired in response to their natural fire regime may not be sufficient to allow …