A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands

JV Roces‐Díaz, C Santín… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a primary disturbance in the world's forested ecosystems and its impacts are
projected to increase in many regions due to global climate change. Fire impacts have been …

Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes

AFA Pellegrini, PB Reich, SE Hobbie… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The determinants of fire-driven changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) across broad
environmental gradients remains unclear, especially in global drylands. Here we combined …

Effects of prescribed burning on ecophysiological, anatomical and stem hydraulic properties in Pinus pinea L.

G Battipaglia, T Savi, D Ascoli, D Castagneri… - Tree …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Prescribed burning (PB) is a widespread management technique for wildfire hazard
abatement. Understanding PB effects on tree ecophysiology is key to defining burn …

Impacts of fire radiative flux on mature Pinus ponderosa growth and vulnerability to secondary mortality agents

AM Sparks, AMS Smith, AF Talhelm… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Recent studies have highlighted the potential of linking fire behaviour to plant ecophysiology
as an improved route to characterising severity, but research to date has been limited to …

Repeated fall prescribed fire in previously thinned Pinus ponderosa increases growth and resistance to other disturbances

DJ Westlind, BK Kerns - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In western North America beginning in the late 19th century, fire suppression and
other factors resulted in dense ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests that are now …

Prescribed fire regimes subtly alter ponderosa pine forest plant community structure

BK Kerns, MA Day - Ecosphere, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Prescribed fire is an active management tool used to address wildfire hazard and ecological
concerns associated with fire exclusion and suppression over the past century. Despite …

Iron reductive dissolution in vadose zone soils: Implication for groundwater pollution in landfill impacted sites

AB Oppong-Anane, KYD Quiñones, W Harris… - Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
Iron (Fe) contamination of groundwater has become a problem of concern at a number of
landfill impacted locations, and long-term monitoring studies suggest that the reductive …

Recovering lost ground: Effects of soil burn intensity on nutrients and ectomycorrhiza communities of ponderosa pine seedlings

AD Cowan, JE Smith, SA Fitzgerald - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Fuel accumulation and climate shifts are predicted to increase the frequency of high-severity
fires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of central Oregon. The combustion of fuels …

The importance of disturbance by fire and other abiotic and biotic factors in driving cheatgrass invasion varies based on invasion stage

BK Kerns, MA Day - Biological Invasions, 2017 - Springer
Disturbances create fluctuations in resource availability that alter abiotic and biotic
constraints. Exotic invader response may be due to multiple factors related to disturbance …

Effects of season and interval of prescribed burns on pyrogenic carbon in ponderosa pine stands in the southern Blue Mountains, Oregon, USA

LM Matosziuk, Y Alleau, BK Kerns, J Bailey… - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
In ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the western United States, prescribed burns
are used to reduce fuel loads and restore historical fire regimes. The season of and interval …