Space and airborne sensors have been used to map area burned, assess characteristics of
active fires, and characterize post-fire ecological effects. Confusion about fire intensity, fire …

Our motivation for assembling this book came from the escalating debate in both scientific
forums and the public media about the need to emulate natural disturbance in forest …

In the last three decades, over 4.1 million hectares have burned in Arizona and New Mexico
and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. Changes …

As the climate changes, drought may reduce tree productivity and survival across many
forest ecosystems; however, the relative influence of specific climate parameters on forest …

This document has two main sections: one on historical conditions and trends, and the other
on future conditions as simulated by climate models. The historical section concentrates on …

The purpose of this paper is to promote a broad and flexible perspective on ecological
restoration of Southwestern (US) ponderosa pine forests. Ponderosa pine forests in the …

Understanding the relative influence of fuels and climate on wildfires across the Rocky
Mountains is necessary to predict how fires may respond to a changing climate and to define …

Climatic variability is a dominant factor affecting large wildfires in the western United States,
an observation supported by palaeoecological data on charcoal in lake sediments and …

International Journal of Wildland Fire Page 1 P ublishing Address manuscripts and editorial
enquiries to: International Journal of Wildland Fire Editor in Chief Dr Gwynfor Richards …

Humans have altered natural patterns of fire for millennia, but the impact of human-set fires
is thought to have been slight in wet closed-canopy forests. In the South Island of New …