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Fire Effects and Fire Ecology

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Comparing modeled soil temperature and moisture dynamics during prescribed fires, slash-pile burns and wildfires

Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type

Background: Wildfires, prescribed fires and slash-pile burns are disturbances that occur in many terrestrial ecosystems. Such fires produce variable surface heat fluxes causing a spectrum of effects on soil, such as seed mortality, nutrient loss, changes in microbial activity and water repellency. Accurately modeling soil heating is vital to predicting these second-order fire effects.

Changing fire regimes in the Great Basin USA

Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type

Wildfire is a natural disturbance in landscapes of the Western United States, but the effects and extents of fire are changing. Differences between historical and contemporary fire regimes can help identify reasons for observed changes in landscape composition.