Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

KK McLauchlan, PE Higuera, J Miesel… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits,
population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling …

Advances in infrared thermography: Surgical aspects, vascular changes, and pain monitoring in veterinary medicine

A Casas-Alvarado, D Mota-Rojas… - Journal of Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the main functions of infrared thermography (IRT) consists in detecting temperature
changes in organisms caused by variations in surface blood circulation. IRT is a useful tool …

Advances in mechanistic approaches to quantifying biophysical fire effects

JJ O'Brien, JK Hiers, JM Varner, CM Hoffman… - Current Forestry …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The search for causal mechanisms in fire ecology has been
slow to progress for two main reasons. First, many fire ecology investigations often occur …

Multifidelity prediction in wildfire spread simulation: Modeling, uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis

MM Valero, L Jofre, R Torres - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Wildfire behavior predictions typically suffer from significant uncertainty. However, wildfire
modeling uncertainties remain largely unquantified in the literature, mainly due to computing …

Wildland fire smoke alters the composition, diversity, and potential atmospheric function of microbial life in the aerobiome

LN Kobziar, D Vuono, R Moore… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The atmosphere contains a diverse reservoir of microbes but the sources and factors
contributing to microbial aerosol variability are not well constrained. To advance …

Measurements relating fire radiative energy density and surface fuel consumption–RxCADRE 2011 and 2012

AT Hudak, MB Dickinson, BC Bright… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Small-scale experiments have demonstrated that fire radiative energy is linearly related to
fuel combusted but such a relationship has not been shown at the landscape level of …

Measurements, datasets and preliminary results from the RxCADRE project–2008, 2011 and 2012

RD Ottmar, JK Hiers, BW Butler… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
The lack of independent, quality-assured field data prevents scientists from effectively
evaluating and advancing wildland fire models. To rectify this, scientists and technicians …

Overstory‐derived surface fuels mediate plant species diversity in frequently burned longleaf pine forests

JE Dell, LA Richards, JJ O'Brien, EL Loudermilk… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Frequently burned low‐latitude coniferous forests maintain a high‐diversity understory.
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) forests and woodlands have exceptionally high diversity …

Fire intensity and ecosystem oligotrophic status drive relative phosphorus release and retention in freshwater marshes

A Nocentini, JS Kominoski, JJ O'Brien, J Redwine - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems have been shaped by fire for millions of years. Many oligotrophic ecosystems
rely on fire for biogeochemical cycling and maintenance of key processes. However, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Reconciling the total carbon budget for boreal forest wildfire emissions using airborne observations

KL Hayden, SM Li, J Liggio, MJ Wheeler… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Wildfire impacts on air quality and climate are expected to be exacerbated by climate
change with the most pronounced impacts in the boreal biome. Despite the large …