Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States
TN Wasserman, SE Mueller - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …
Ecological effects of large fires on US landscapes: benefit or catastrophe? A
The perception is that today's large fires are an ecological catastrophe because they burn
vast areas with high intensities and severities. However, little is known of the ecological …
vast areas with high intensities and severities. However, little is known of the ecological …
High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests
SA Parks, LM Holsinger, MH Panunto… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Wildland fire is a critical process in forests of the western United States (US). Variation in fire
behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type …
behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type …
Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006
Fire is a keystone process in many ecosystems of western North America. Severe fires kill
and consume large amounts of above‐and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting …
and consume large amounts of above‐and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting …
Challenges of assessing fire and burn severity using field measures, remote sensing and modelling
Comprehensive assessment of ecological change after fires have burned forests and
rangelands is important if we are to understand, predict and measure fire effects. We …
rangelands is important if we are to understand, predict and measure fire effects. We …
Change detection techniques with synthetic aperture radar images: Experiments with random forests and Sentinel-1 observations
This work aims to clarify the potential of incoherent and coherent change detection (CD)
approaches for detecting and monitoring ground surface changes using sequences of …
approaches for detecting and monitoring ground surface changes using sequences of …
Climate, fire size, and biophysical setting control fire severity and spatial pattern in the northern Cascade Range, USA
CA Cansler, D McKenzie - Ecological Applications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Warmer and drier climate over the past few decades has brought larger fire sizes and
increased annual area burned in forested ecosystems of western North America, and …
increased annual area burned in forested ecosystems of western North America, and …
Factors influencing fire severity under moderate burning conditions in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA
BL Estes, EE Knapp, CN Skinner, JD Miller… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Topography, weather, and fuels are known factors driving fire behavior, but the degree to
which each contributes to the spatial pattern of fire severity under different conditions …
which each contributes to the spatial pattern of fire severity under different conditions …
Variability and drivers of burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest
Burn severity (ecological impacts of fire on vegetation and soils) influences post‐fire stand
structure and species composition. The spatial pattern of burn severity may compound the …
structure and species composition. The spatial pattern of burn severity may compound the …
The relationship of multispectral satellite imagery to immediate fire effects
Abstract The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the US
Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center produce …
Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center produce …