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Fire Effects and Fire Ecology
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
A Negative Fire–Vegetation Feedback Substantially Limits Reburn Extent Across the North American Boreal Biome
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
The North American boreal biome (NAB) is warming at 2–4 times the mean global rate, contributing to increasing wildfire activity. The degree to which this trend alters biome-level feedbacks to global climate depends on how strongly bottom-up feedbacks between fire and vegetation dampen the effects of climate drivers.
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Rising temperatures may disrupt reproduction before becoming lethal; thus mating traits could define species vulnerability to warming.
Projections of Lightning-Ignited Wildfire Risk in the Western United States
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning is a major source of summer wildfire ignition in the western United States (WUS). However, future projections of lightning are uncertain since lightning is not directly simulated by most global climate models. To address this issue, we use convolutional neural network (CNN)-based parameterizations of daily June-September CG lightning.
Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Despite widespread concern over increases in wildfire severity, the mechanisms underlying this trend remain unclear, hampering our ability to mitigate the severity of future fires.
Intensifying Fire Season Aridity Portends Ongoing Expansion of Severe Wildfire in Western US Forests
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests and elsewhere over recent decades coincident with warmer and drier fire seasons. However, high–severity fire—fire that kills all or most trees—is arguably a more important metric of fire activity given its destabilizing influence on forest ecosystems and direct and indirect impacts to human communities.
Human Mediation of Wildfires and Its Representation in Terrestrial Ecosystem Models
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Increasing wildfires are causing global concerns about ecosystem functioning and services. Although some wildfires are caused by natural ignitions, it is also important to understand how human ignitions and human-related factors can contribute to wildfires.
Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open- vs. closed-canopy forests
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Wildfire activity has accelerated with climate change, sparking concerns about uncharacteristic impacts on mature and old-growth forests containing large trees.
Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia, Canada
Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type
Warming and drying conditions are driving increases in wildfire size and annual area burned across the forests of British Columbia, Canada. The impact of increasing fire activity on these forests remains unclear as examination of concurrent changes to fire severity is lacking.
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