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Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo, Kaila Witkowski, Ratna Dougherty, Christa Remington   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems

Oikos, EarlyView.
The flow of non‐living resources between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems can impact their ecosystem function. However, ecosystem size is similarly known to influence ecological properties and it is uncertain how the size of coupled ecosystems mediates the effect of resource flows.
Emanuele Giacomuzzo, Tianna Peller, Isabelle Gounand, Florian Altermatt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global lightning-ignited wildfires prediction and climate change projections based on explainable machine learning models

Scientific Reports
Wildfires pose a significant natural disaster risk to populations and contribute to accelerated climate change. As wildfires are also affected by climate change, extreme wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent.
Assaf Shmuel, Teddy Lazebnik, Oren Glickman, Eyal Heifetz, Colin Price   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Present and future interannual variability in wildfire occurrence: a large ensemble application to the United States

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Realistic projections of future wildfires need to account for both the stochastic nature of climate and the randomness of individual fire events. Here we adopt a probabilistic approach to predict current and future fire probabilities using a large ...
Theodore R. Keeping, Theodore R. Keeping, Boya Zhou, Wenjia Cai, Theodore G. Shepherd, I. Colin Prentice, I. Colin Prentice, Karin van der Wiel, Sandy P. Harrison, Sandy P. Harrison   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting Mediterranean shrub

Oikos, EarlyView.
Fire and drought increasingly co‐occur, exposing plants to greater drought stress during post‐fire resprouting. Yet, the effect of this combination of disturbances on plant fitness remains poorly understood. Here, we examine how post‐fire resprouting influences reproductive success under drought conditions in the Mediterranean shrub Anthyllis ...
Jaime Saiz‐ Blanco, Conchita Alonso, Juli G. Pausas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat‐based spatial patterns enable realistic reconstruction of plant spatial arrangements across complex landscapes

Oikos, EarlyView.
Spatially explicit individual‐based models provide a powerful way to explore spatial dynamics when direct observation is not feasible. But for many ecological applications, these models require detailed data on the initial spatial arrangement and traits of individuals – information rarely available in large, heterogeneous or novel landscapes.
Brayan Morera, Jose M. Fedriani, Thorsten Wiegand, Daniel Ayllón, Pedro J. Garrote   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The missing woodland story: Implications of 1700 years of stand‐scale change on ‘naturalness’ and managing remnant broadleaved woodlands

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Longer‐term perspectives—equivalent to the lifespans of long‐lived trees—are required to fully inform perceptions of ‘naturalness’ used in woodland conservation and management. Stand‐scale dynamics of an old growth temperate woodland are reconstructed using palaeoecological data.
Annabel Everard, J. Edward Schofield, Tim Mighall, Scott Timpany, Gill Plunkett   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling human–wildlife interactions in the context of livestock grazing abandonment and the return of large carnivores, ungulates and vultures: A stakeholder perspective

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Pastoral practices remain a widespread economic activity across European mountain regions. However, the viability of this activity may be threatened by the recovery of large wild vertebrates associated with passive rewilding, leading to the so‐called human–wildlife conflicts.
P. Acebes, F. J. Muñoz‐Gálvez, Z. Iglesias‐González, M. García‐Llorente, D. López‐García   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inference of Wildfire Causes From Their Physical, Biological, Social and Management Attributes

Earth's Future
Effective wildfire prevention includes actions to deliberately target different wildfire causes. However, the cause of an increasing number of wildfires is unknown, hindering targeted prevention efforts.
Yavar Pourmohamad, John T. Abatzoglou, Erica Fleishman, Karen C. Short, Jacquelyn Shuman, Amir AghaKouchak, Matthew Williamson, Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Mojtaba Sadegh   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities as stewards of biodiversity has brought to the fore the issues of knowledge and value pluralism in conservation policy and practice. Given their basis in practical and multi‐generational experience, Indigenous and local knowledges are highly relevant to managing human ...
Hanna Pettersson, Lou Lécuyer, Juliette Young, Lindsay Stringer, Simon Calla, Erika Juhász, Zsolt Molnár   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source