This study explored and applied the concepts of Fire Regulation Capacity (FRC) and Fire
Protection Ecosystem Service (FPES) in the assessment of the effects of landscape change …

Abstract Context The Canadian boreal forest provides valuable ecosystem services that are
regionally and globally significant. Despite its importance, the future of the Canadian boreal …

Fire and land management in fire-prone areas can be greatly enhanced by estimating the
likelihood of fire at every point on the landscape. In recent years, powerful fire simulation …

Ecological integrity of managed forests includes the ability of an ecosystem to support a
community of organisms with a similar species composition and functional organization as …

Boreal forests form the largest terrestrial biome globally. Climate change is expected to
induce large changes in vegetation of high latitude ecosystems, but there is considerable …

Fire regimes depend on climate, vegetation structure and human influences. Climate
determines the water content in fuel and, in the longer term, the amount of biomass. Humans …

Natural disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, and windthrow are important
processes sha** the structure and functioning of boreal forests. Disturbances are …

Emulating natural forest disturbance is an increasingly popular forest management
paradigm that is considered a means of achieving forest sustainability. Adopting this goal …

Fire weather indices predict fire extent from meteorological conditions assuming a
monotonic function; this approach is frequently used to predict future fire patterns under …

This paper reports the porting of raster type fire propagation models to graphical processing
unit (GPU) architectures. Two known fire growth model algorithms were ported and a new …