Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate

M Sample, AE Thode, C Peterson, MR Gallagher… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle
existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with …

Temperature Thresholds of Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter in Heating Experiments Simulating Forest Fires

Q Zhang, Y Wang, P Guan, P Zhang, X Mo… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heating temperature (HT) during forest fires is a critical factor in regulating the quantity and
quality of pyrogenic dissolved organic matter (DOM). However, the temperature thresholds …

Can restoration of fire‐dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick‐borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?

MR Gallagher, JK Kreye, ET Machtinger… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past century, fire suppression has facilitated broad ecological changes in the
composition, structure, and function of fire‐dependent landscapes throughout the eastern …

Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire

V Fernández-García, E Marcos, S Huerta, L Calvo - Forest Ecosystems, 2021 - Springer
Background Wildfires are one of the major environmental concerns in Mediterranean
ecosystems. Thus, many studies have addressed wildfire impacts on soil and vegetation in …

Place, loss, and landowner response to the restoration of a rapidly changing forest landscape

PH Gobster, E Weber, KM Floress, IE Schneider… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Landscape change occurs as a result of both human and natural forces. When changes are
abrupt and drastic, they can negatively impact people who had become attached to a …

Describing a landscape mosaic: Forest structure and composition across community types and management regimes in inland northeastern pitch pine barrens

EAK Jamison, AW D'Amato, KJ Dodds - Forest Ecology and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) barrens are a globally rare, fire-dependent ecosystem
of great ecological, social, and cultural significance found primarily in the northeastern US …

Soil Heating in Fire (SheFire): A model and measurement method for estimating soil heating and effects during wildland fires

MK Brady, MB Dickinson, JR Miesel… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire has transformative effects on soil biological, chemical, and physical properties in
terrestrial ecosystems around the world. While methods for estimating fire characteristics …

Landowner acceptability of silvicultural treatments to restore an open forest landscape

A Arnberger, PH Gobster, IE Schneider, KM Floress… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study examined the acceptability of different silvicultural treatments to restore pine
barrens, an open, fire-dependent forest landscape type globally imperiled across the …

Insect community response following wildfire in an Eastern North American pine barrens

HM Thompson, MR Lesser, L Myers, TB Mihuc - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ecosystem recovery following wildfire is heavily dependent upon fire severity and frequency,
as well as factors such as regional topography and connectivity to unburned patches …

Land use and management effects on soil carbon in US Lake States, with emphasis on forestry, fire, and reforestation

LE Nave, K DeLyser, GM Domke… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing need to quantify and communicate how land use and management
activities influence soil organic carbon (SOC) at scales relevant to, and in the tangible …