Key message Fuel moisture and chemical content affecting live plant flammability can be
measured through laboratory and field techniques, or remotely assessed. Standardization of …

Increased wildfire frequency and size has led to a surge in flammability research, most of
which investigates landscape-level patterns and wildfire dynamics. There has been a recent …

Motivation The propensity of plant tissues to burn (ie their flammability) is a key trait to
understand fire regimes in many ecosystems across the globe. Measuring plant flammability …

Diversity effects on many aspects of ecosystem function have been well documented.
However, fire is an exception: fire experiments have mainly included single species, bulk …

Leaves from three species of Eucalyptus were combusted in a mass-loss calorimeter to
characterise the effect of fuel moisture on energy release and combustion products for this …

Wildfires spread rapidly and cause considerable ecological and socioeconomic losses.
Inner Mongolia is among the regions in China that suffer the most from wildfires. A simple …

Introduction The abandonment of rural areas has led to an increase of the fire-prone
European gorse (Ulex europaeus L.) communities in some regions, where prescribed …

Accurate determination of flammability is required in order to improve knowledge about
vegetation fire risk. Study of the flammability of different plant species is essential for the …

The present study proposes a new method in order to evaluate the flammability of live plant
parts at bench-scale. Flammability parameters were estimated by the use of a mass loss …

The stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) has thick bark as an adaptation to wildfire. In this study,
laboratory tests were carried out to quantify the influence of bark thickness on flammability …