Background Fire creates habitats for many animals but changes in fire activity threaten
species worldwide. While conservation assessments routinely identify fire as a threat to …

Individual identification contributes significantly towards investigating behavioral
mechanisms of animals and understanding underlying ecological principles. Most studies …

Non‐linear and interacting effects of fire severity and time since fire may help explain how
pyrodiversity promotes biodiversity in fire‐adapted systems. We built on previous research …

The role of fire in the eastern broadleaf and Appalachian forest regions, until recently, was
poorly understood or minimally examined, as this region was long overlooked as a …

This book arose out of a need for a broad synthesis of fire ecology in US forests to aid in
their sustainable management under our changing climate. It addresses the past, present …

Fire is a key natural process that has shaped ecosystem distribution and composition for
hundreds of millions of years. Prescribed fire has become a common and important …

Fires, either natural or prescribed, are essential for conserving pyrogenic ecosystems;
however, climate change is predicted to increase fire severity possibly causing negative …

Fire can have diverse effects on ecosystems, including direct effects through injury and
mortality and indirect effects through changes to available resources within the environment …

Decades of fire exclusion in the Southern Appalachian Mountains led to fuel accumulation
and conversion from open oak-pine woodlands to closed-canopy mesic forests dominated …

Wildfire is a natural disturbance within many forest ecosystems and is rapidly becoming
more frequent and severe because of the combination of historical fire suppression and …