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Historical Fire Regimes and Their Differential Responses to Driving Climatic Factors Across Ecoregions in the United States: A Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Analysis

Fire
Fire is a key driver of ecosystem dynamics under global change, and understanding its complex relationship with the climate system is crucial for regional wildfire risk management and the development of ecological adaptation strategies.
Maowei Bai, Hao Zhang, Lamei Shi
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A global outlook on increasing wildfire risk: Current policy situation and future pathways

Trees, Forests and People, 2023
Aim: to understand how wildfire risk policies are designed to mitigate11 The goal of the analysis here is not to promote wildfire exclusion, but to reduce the likelihood of fire ignition and manage the growth and intensity of wildfire events. the impacts
Pooja Pandey, Gabriela Huidobro, Luis Filipe Lopes, Anne Ganteaume, Davide Ascoli, Conceição Colaco, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Theodore M. Giannaros, Rob Gazzard, Georgios Boustras, Toddi Steelman, Valerie Charlton, Euan Ferguson, Judith Kirschner, Kerryn Little, Cathelijne Stoof, William Nikolakis, Carmen Rodriguez Fernández-Blanco, Claudio Ribotta, Hugo Lambrechts, Mariña Fernandez, Simona Dossi   +21 more
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Restoring Trust: Rebuilding the Forest Carbon Credit System Through Scientific Rigor

Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As pivotal nature‐based climate solutions (NbCS), forests are increasingly recognized for their climate mitigation potential. However, this potential is undermined by fundamental flaws in current carbon credit systems. Our analysis identifies four interconnected systemic challenges: (1) subjective additionality assessments arising from ...
Xiaoqian Chen, Shaokun Li
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
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Reconstructing Fire Progression from UAS Observations to Evaluate Bioaerosol Transport Sensitivity in Coupled Fire–Atmosphere Simulations

Fire
Bioaerosols released during wildland and prescribed fires may influence ecosystems, air quality, and microbial dispersal, yet their transport and deposition remain poorly understood.
Isaac Forrest, Ali Tohidi, Angel Farguell, Aurélien Costes, Leda N. Kobziar, Phinehas Lampman, Eric Rowell, Adam Kochanski   +7 more
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The distributional incidence of wildfire hazard in the western United States

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Increases in wildfire activity in the western United States in recent years have led to significant property loss in wildland-urban interface areas, raising difficult questions for policymakers regarding mitigation of wildfire damages and how mitigation ...
Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Molly Robertson
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
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Perceptions of Exposure and Mask Use in Wildland Firefighters

Toxics
Wildland firefighters are exposed to airborne particulates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and other hazardous substances. Respiratory protection is indicated, but information is lacking on the tasks and conditions for which mask wearing should
Tanis Zadunayski, Natasha Broznitsky, Drew Lichty, Nicola Cherry   +3 more
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Identifying opportunity hot spots for reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western US conifer forests

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests.
Jamie L Peeler, Lisa McCauley, Kerry L Metlen, Travis Woolley, Kimberley T Davis, Marcos D Robles, Ryan D Haugo, Karin L Riley, Philip E Higuera, Joseph E Fargione, Robert N Addington, Steven Bassett, Kori Blankenship, Michael J Case, Teresa B Chapman, Edward Smith, Randy Swaty, Nathan Welch   +17 more
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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen, Eric Owusu Boahen, Cuong Nguyen   +2 more
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