The world's rangelands and drylands are undergoing rapid change, and consequently are
becoming more difficult to manage. Big data and digital technologies (digital tools) provide …

Dry conifer forests in the western US historically experienced frequent fire prior to European
American colonization. Mean fire return interval ranged from about 5–35 years, with the …

Accurate forest density estimates based on United States Public Land Surveys have long
been questioned because of doubts about randomness of both the surveyors' selection of …

Background Wildland fires are fundamentally landscape phenomena, making it imperative
to evaluate wildland fire strategic goals and fuel treatment effectiveness at large spatial and …

To remove vegetation bias (VB) from the global DEMs (GDEMs), an artificial neural network
(ANN)-based method with the consideration of elevation spatial autocorrelation is …

Background Historically, reburn dynamics from cultural and lightning ignitions were central
to the ecology of fire in the western United States (wUS), whereby past fire effects limited …

Background Sagebrush shrublands in the Great Basin, USA, are experiencing widespread
increases in wildfire size and area burned resulting in new policies and funding to …

Abstract Study region Heihe River Basin (HRB), Northwest China. Study focus The study
proposes an analytical scheme to identify trend, periodicity, and scale-correlation in climate …

Background Remotely sensed burned area products are critical to support fire modelling,
policy, and management but often require further processing before use. Aim We calculated …

Fire-adapted dry forests and nearby communities both need to be sustained as climate
changes. Wildfires have increased in the~ 25.5 million ha of dry forests in the western US …