Authors:Kendall M. L. Becker; James A. Lutz Abstract: Snags, standing dead trees, are becoming more abundant in forests as tree mortality rates continue to increase due to fire, drought, and bark beetles. Snags provide habitat for birds and small mammals, and whe... PubDate: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
Authors:Jeanne C. Chambers; Jessi L. Brown, Matthew C. Reeves, Eva K. Strand, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Claire M. Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza Karen C. Short Abstract: Sagebrush shrublands in the Great Basin, USA, are experiencing widespread increases in wildfire size and area burned resulting in new policies and funding to implement fuel treatments. However, we lack the spa... PubDate: 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z
Authors:Haichuan Lin; Yuanfan Ma, Pingxin Zhao, Ziyan Huang, Xiaoyu Zhan, Mulualem Tigabu Futao Guo Abstract: With the increase in forest fire emissions, an increasing amount of nitrogen is released from combustibles and taken up by plant leaves in the form of PM2.5 smoke deposition. Concurrently, the stress from PM2.5 a... PubDate: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
Authors:Miguel Ángel Blanco-Rodríguez; Aitor Ameztegui, Pere Gelabert, Marcos Rodrigues Lluís Coll Abstract: Climate change is altering the fire regime and compromising the post-fire recovery of vegetation worldwide. To understand the factors influencing post-fire vegetation cover restoration, we calculated the recov... PubDate: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
Authors:Tom Le Breton; Laura Schweickle, Craig Dunne, Mitchell Lyons Mark Ooi Abstract: Climate change is driving global fire regimes toward greater extremes, potentially threatening plant species that are adapted to historic fire regimes. Successful conservation of threatened plant species depen... PubDate: 2023-11-02T00:00:00Z