Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American
ecosystems. Euro–American settlement and 20th‐century fire suppression practices …

A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …

The 12-site National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS) was a multivariate experiment that
evaluated ecological consequences of alternative fuel-reduction treatments in seasonally …

Abstract Current Sierra Nevada forest management is often focused on strategically
reducing fuels without an explicit strategy for ecological restoration across the landscape …

Despite the challenges wildland fire poses to contemporary resource management, many
fire‐prone ecosystems have adapted over centuries to millennia to intentional landscape …

The distribution of fuels is recognised as a key driver of wildland fire behaviour. However,
our understanding of how fuel density heterogeneity affects fire behaviour is limited because …

There is considerable concern over the occurrence of stand-replacing fire in forest types
historically associated with low-to moderate-severity fire. The concern is largely over …

Understanding the natural mechanisms that control fire occurrence in terrigenous
ecosystems requires long and continuous records of past fires. Proxies, such as sedimentary …

We evaluated the utility of the composite burn index (CBI) for estimating fire severity in
Alaskan black spruce forests by comparing data from 81 plots located in 2004 and 2005 fire …

Although species differ in flammability, identifying the traits that influence flammability and
linking them to other axes of trait variation has yet to be accomplished. Leaf length may be a …