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Landcover-categorized fires respond distinctly to precipitation anomalies in the South-Central United States

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Satellite detection of active fires has contributed to advance our understanding of fire ecology, fire and climate dynamics, fire emissions, and how to better manage the use of fires as a tool.
Katia Fernandes, Sean G. Young
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Mixed-severity fire regimes: Lessons and hypotheses from the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion [PDF]

, 2011
Although mixed-severity fires are among the most widespread disturbances influencing western North American forests, they remain the least understood.
Kayes, L.J., Hibbs, D.E., Campbell, J.L., Donaghy Cannon, M., Donato, D.C., Bormann, B.T., Spies, T.A., Fontaine, J.B., Halofsky, J.E., Law, B.E., Peterson, D.L., Thompson, J.R., Anthony, R.G.   +12 more
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Disproportionately large impacts of wildland-urban interface fire emissions on global air quality and human health

Science Advances
Fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are a global issue with growing importance. However, the impact of WUI fires on air quality and health is less understood compared to that of fires in wildland.
Wenfu Tang, L. Emmons, C. Wiedinmyer, Debatosh B. Partha, Yaoxian Huang, Cenlin He, Junzhe Zhang, K. Barsanti, B. Gaubert, D. S. Jo, Jun Zhang, R. Buchholz, S. Tilmes, F. Vitt, C. Granier, H. Worden, P. Levelt   +16 more
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Inducing Private Wildfire Risk Mitigation: Experimental Investigation of Measures on Adjacent Public Lands [PDF]

Increasing private wildfire risk mitigation is an important part of the larger forest restoration policy challenge. Data from an economic experiment are used to evaluate the effectiveness of providing fuel treatments on public land adjacent to private ...
Joseph M. Little, Michael McKee, Robert P. Berrens, Michael L. Jones, Tyler Prante   +4 more
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Forest fires: Evaluation of government intervention measures [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between government measures, volunteer participation, climate variables and forest fires. A number of studies have related forest fires to causes of ignition, to fire history in one area, to the type ...
Clara Riba, Xavier Ballart
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Dendrocaustology – the science of wildland fires [PDF]

, 2014
Wildland fires are a generalised and recurrent problem. However, due to the high number of natural and human variables directly and indirectly involved, the study of Wild land fires is extremely complex and difficult.
Vieira, António, Leite, Flora Ferreira, Lourenço, Luciano, Gonçalves, António Bento   +3 more
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Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface

Nature Communications
The destructive impacts of wildfires on people, property and the environment have dramatically increased, especially in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) in California.
Maryam Zamanialaei, Daniel San Martín, Maria F. Theodori, D. M. Purnomo, Ali Tohidi, Chris Lautenberger, Yiren Qin, Arnaud Trouvé, Michael J. Gollner   +8 more
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Fiscal Year 2011 vs 2012: Wildland Fire and Weather Data Summary

, 2012
The Wildland Fire Management RD&A gathered statistics from the Wildland Fire Management Decision Support System (WFDSS) and other sources to build a comparative summary of the 2011 and 2012 fire seasons.

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The relationship between well-being and wildfire [PDF]

, 2006
In this study, the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, was used to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two hypothetical wildfire scenarios ...
Kaval, Pamela
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Health and Economic Burden of the 2017 Portuguese Extreme Wildland Fires on Children. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Barbosa JV, Nunes RAO, Alvim-Ferraz MCM, Martins FG, Sousa SIV.   +4 more
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