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Current and future wildfire risk in the peri-urban Acadian Forest Region

, 2013
The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and the peri-urban has grown simultaneously, creating new Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where development comes into contact – and intermingles with – wildlands.
Whitman, Ellen M.
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Proactive responses to increasing wildfire risk: the (mis)alignment of public preferences and management priorities

Environmental Research Letters
Wildfire management strategies in the United States historically have focused on suppression activities, but recent work in wildfire policy and ecology has called for a shift in the management paradigm towards prevention.
Peri M Brimley, Todd L Cherry
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Land management to mitigate the risks of future fire in the Mediterranean region: strategies and barriers to their adoption

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Extreme wildfires are becoming more frequent in the Mediterranean region and already frequently exceed controllable thresholds, leading to large impacts on natural and social systems.
Sandy P. Harrison, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, I. Colin Prentice, Davide Ascoli, Enrico Biffis, Enrico Biffis, Sophy Greenhalgh, Sophy Greenhalgh, Manolis Grillakis, Olivia Haas, Olivia Haas, Yiannis Kountouris, Yiannis Kountouris, Regina M. O’Kelley, Paulo M. Fernandes, Imma Oliveras Menor, Imma Oliveras Menor, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Apostolos Voulgarakis   +21 more
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Croatia - Management of Wildfire Risk

Wildfire risk is increasing in Croatia. Between 2010 and 2021, the cost of damage due to wildfires across the country totaled over Euro 249 million; the 2017 fire season burned 67,666 ha of land and caused an estimated Euro 109 million in losses; and the 2022 season recorded 149 fires. Even within the span of one year, in 2024, 21 percent more open-air
openaire   +3 more sources

From traditional practice to unsustainable exploitation: Fruit overharvesting on the endangered relict palm Jubaea chilensis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero, Francisca Gálvez, Marisol Arriagada‐Honores, Andrés Jesús Garrido, Daniela Paredes‐Muñoz, Bastián Fuentes‐Valdés, Fernanda Torres‐Cifuentes, Francisco E. Fontúrbel   +7 more
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Increased utilitarian value of invasive species in regions with long invasion history may limit public engagement for invasion control

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Positive perceptions of invasive species can hinder effective management, especially if management efforts that are rooted in scientific theories are misaligned with local ecological knowledge. We documented local ecological knowledge about land invasibility as predicted by invasion biology theories. Participants with greater local ecological knowledge
Laurel Mael Philpott, Orou G. Gaoue
wiley   +1 more source

Woody Cover Fuels Large Wildfire Risk in the Eastern US

Geophysical Research Letters
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern United States; however, what factors are heightening large wildfire risk remains unclear. Increases in fuel loads from woody encroachment and canopy infilling have been associated with increasing wildfire ...
Michaella A. Ivey, Carissa L. Wonkka, Noah C. Weidig, Victoria M. Donovan   +3 more
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Characterizing Risks for Wildfires and Prescribed Fires in the Great Plains

Fire
Increasing wildfire activities across the Great Plains has raised concerns about the effectiveness and safety of prescribed fire as a land management tool.
Zifei Liu, Izuchukwu Oscar Okafor, Mayowa Boluwatife George   +2 more
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CSRcalculator: A reproducible framework for understanding plant ecological strategies

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how plants respond to environmental change is essential for conserving biodiversity and managing ecosystems under climate change. We developed CSRcalculator, an open‐source platform that brings together major competitor, stress‐tolerator, ruderal (CSR) models to make ecological strategy classification accessible, reproducible and scalable.
Teddy Gaskin, Ben Crick, Manny Wright, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Katharina Huber, Zoran Nikoloski, John N. Ferguson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An extinction‐emergency metacollection: Maximising future recovery options for Rhodomyrtus psidioides (Myrtaceae), threatened by Myrtle Rust

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
A challenge for wild plant conservation is the rising incidence of plant pathogens that are difficult to interdict, contain and manage. Invasive, fast‐moving, broad‐spectrum pathogens impose societal costs through losses of intrinsically valuable wild biodiversity, ecosystem function, current and potential genetic and biological assets, culturally ...
Robert O. Makinson, Veronica Viler, Amelia J. Martyn Yenson, Craig Stehn, Fiona R. Giblin, Catherine A. Offord, Philippa Walsh, Chantelle A. T. Doyle   +7 more
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