They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Naturally regenerating and restored second growth forests account for over 70% of tropical
forest cover and provide key ecosystem services. Understanding climate change impacts on …

As wildland fire activity continues to surge across the western US, it is increasingly important
that we understand and quantify the environmental drivers of fire and how they vary across …

The design and implementation of pre-fire management strategies in heterogeneous
landscapes requires the identification of the ecological conditions contributing to the most …

Abstract Context Wildfires in temperate Central Europe have traditionally been perceived as
a mere consequence of human activity without any relevance to natural forest development …

Increasingly detailed records of long‐term fire regime characteristics are needed to test
ecological concepts and inform natural resource management and policymaking. We …

Fire‐maintained ecosystems and associated species are becoming increasingly rare in the
southern Appalachian Mountains because of fire suppression policies implemented in the …

Wildfire ecosystems are thought to be self‐regulated through pattern–process interactions
between ignition frequency and location, and patterns of burned and recovering vegetation …

Wildfire is globally an important ecological disturbance affecting biochemical cycles and
vegetation composition, but also puts people and their homes at risk. Suppressing wildfires …

Following a late fall wildfire in 2016 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
pyrophilous fungi in burn zones were documented over a 2-y period with respect to burn …