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Do relationships between leaf traits and fire behaviour of leaf litter beds persist in time? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Wildland fires are a dominant disturbance on Earth. On the local scale, fire activity is also influenced by species-specific fire behaviour of leaf litter beds. Thus, researchers strive to identify plant functional traits governing fire behaviour.
Zorica Kauf +2 more
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Tisova Fire Test – Fire behaviours and lessons learnt [PDF]
Fire Safety Journal, 2021 Abstract One of the largest unknowns in structural fire engineering design is the fire itself, particularly in large internal environments, where real fires have been observed to travel around the floor plate. Several methodologies have been proposed to characterise these fires, most of which rely on the separation of the fire exposure into two so ...
Rush, David, Dai, Xu, Lange, David
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ABWiSE v1.0: toward an agent-based approach to simulating wildfire spread [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2021 Wildfires are a complex phenomenon emerging from interactions between air, heat, and vegetation, and while they are an important component of many ecosystems’ dynamics, they pose great danger to those ecosystems, as well as human life and property ...
J. Katan, L. Perez
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The Portuguese Large Wildfire Spread database (PT-FireSprd) [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2023 Wildfire behaviour depends on complex interactions between fuels, topography, and weather over a wide range of scales, being important for fire research and management applications.
A. Benali +16 more
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Wildfire Rates of Spread in Grasslands under Critical Burning Conditions
Fire, 2022 An analysis of a dataset (n = 58) of high-intensity wildfire observations in cured grasslands from southern Australia revealed a simple relationship suitable for quickly obtaining a first approximation of a fire’s spread rate under low dead fuel moisture
Miguel G. Cruz +2 more
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Linking fire behaviour and its ecological effects to plant traits, using FRaME in R
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Floral fire ecology incorporates a feedback loop in which plants influence fire behaviour and fire behaviour influences the flora. Recent advances in fire behaviour modelling have quantified many plant‐based drivers of fire behaviour, but the consequent ...
Philip Zylstra
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Fire, 2021 An increase in the frequency of severe fire events, as well as a growing interest in wildfire mitigation strategies, has created a demand for skilled managers of landscape fire and a better community understanding of fire behaviour.
Rohan Fisher +2 more
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Annals of Forest Science, 2022 Key message We used clustering to construct fuel classes from fuel inventory data based on three stand attributes relevant to crown fire behaviour: surface fuel load (SFL), canopy base height (CBH) and canopy bulk density (CBD).
Nathan Phelps, Jennifer L. Beverly
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Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 The science of fire spread modelling has traditionally focused on providing predictive tools using empirically derived rate of spread calculations. However, fire spread prediction is difficult and whilst it can be a helpful tool for emergency management
Rohan Fisher
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Wildfire–atmosphere interaction index for extreme-fire behaviour [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022 During the last 20 years extreme wildfires have challenged firefighting capabilities. Often, the prediction of the extreme behaviour is essential for the safety of citizens and firefighters. Currently, there are several fire danger indices routinely used
T. Artés +3 more
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