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Fire Effects and Fire Ecology

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Long-term sensitivity of ponderosa pine axial resin ducts to harvesting and prescribed burning

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Forest restoration treatments primarily aimed at reducing fuel load and preventing high-severity wildfires can also influence resilience to other disturbances. Many pine forests in temperate regions are subject to tree-killing bark beetle outbreaks (e.g., Dendroctonus, Ips), whose frequency and intensity are expected to increase with future climatic changes.

Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades. Here, we quantify the carbon emissions from these fires from May to September 2023 on the basis of inverse modelling of satellite carbon monoxide observations.

State of Wildfires 2023–2024

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally, with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the global distribution of extreme fires remains skewed, primarily influenced by media coverage and regionalised research efforts.

Moderating effects of past wildfire on reburn severity depend on climate and initial severity in Western US forests

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Rising global fire activity is increasing the prevalence of repeated short-interval burning (reburning) in forests worldwide. In forests that historically experienced frequent-fire regimes, high-severity fire exacerbates the severity of subsequent fires by increasing prevalence of shrubs and/or by creating drier understory conditions.