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A perspective and survey on the implementation and uptake of tools to support decision-making in Canadian wildland fire management

The Forestry Chronicle
The level of implementation and uptake of specific tools used to support wildland fire management decision-making has received little attention in Canada.
Colin B. McFayden, Lynn M. Johnston, Leah MacPherson, Meghan Sloane, Emily Hope, Morgan Crowley, Mark C. de Jong, Heather Simpson, Chris Stockdale, Brian Simpson, Joshua M. Johnston   +10 more
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Revisiting methods of vegetation fuel mapping

Emergency Management Science and Technology
This paper presents methods of multi-scale mapping of vegetation fuels (VFs). It has been developed based on long-term fundamental pyrological (fire/fuel-related) studies in different regions of Russia, which have helped create a detailed VF ...
Aleksandra Volokitina, Tatiana Sofronova, Mikhail Korets   +2 more
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Distribution and frequency of wildfire in California riparian ecosystems

Environmental Research Letters, 2017
Although wildfire has been recognized as having important ecological impacts on California’s riparian environments, understanding of its occurrence is largely anecdotal, based on studies of fire impacts in scattered locations.
Jacob Bendix, Michael G Commons
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Distribution, Dynamics and Drivers of Asian Active Fire Occurrences

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
As the world’s most populous and geographically diverse continent, active fire occurrence in Asia exhibits pronounced spatiotemporal heterogeneity, driven by climactic and anthropogenic factors. However, systematic analyses of Asian fire occurrence characteristics are still scarce, the quantitative and spatial relationship between fire dynamics and ...
Xu Gao, Wenzhong Shi, Min Zhang 0032
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A Combination of Human Activity and Climate Drives Forest Fire Occurrence in Central Europe: The Case of the Czech Republic

Fire
Central Europe is not a typical wildfire region; however, an increasingly warm and dry climate and model-based projections indicate that the number of forest fires are increasing.
Roman Berčák, Jaroslav Holuša, Jiří Trombik, Karolina Resnerová, Tomáš Hlásny   +4 more
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Regional High-Rise Building Fire Risk Assessment Based on the Spatial Markov Chain Model and an Indicator System

Fire
High-rise buildings (HRBs) are prone to high fire hazards due to their high occupant density, limited evacuation routes, and high fire load. The indicator system method, as a systematic evaluation method, is widely applied to assess HRB fire risk ...
Yan Zhang, Guru Wang, Xuehui Wang, Xin Kong, Hongchen Jia, Jinlong Zhao   +5 more
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Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
Fusco EJ, Finn JT, Balch JK, Nagy RC, Bradley BA.   +4 more
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The Influence of Land Use on the Grassland Fire Occurrence in the Northeastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2017
Li Y, Zhao J, Guo X, Zhang Z, Tan G, Yang J.   +5 more
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Factor contribution to fire occurrence, size, and burn probability in a subtropical coniferous forest in East China. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2017
Ye T, Wang Y, Guo Z, Li Y.
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Historical fire occurrence on the territory Historical wildland fires in the Guadiato Valley (Cordova)

Anales de Geografía de la Universidad Complutense, 2011
This paper aims at making a reconstruction of the historical records of wildland fires in the territory of the Guadiato Valley and the municipality of Cordova, as well as at analysing the influence of fire on the evolution of forest landscape.
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