Temperate and boreal forest mega‐fires: characteristics and challenges

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2014-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/120332
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: Response to Williams and Baker

  2014cited by this paper
• Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

  2013cited by this paper
• Early forest dynamics in stand-replacing fire patches in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

  2013cited by this paper
• Exploring the onset of high-impact mega-fires through a forest land management prism

  2013cited by this paper
• Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: Managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future

  2013cited by this paper
• Previous Fires Moderate Burn Severity of Subsequent Wildland Fires in Two Large Western US Wilderness Areas

  2013cited by this paper
• Prescribed burning in southwestern Australian forests

  2013cited by this paper
• The worldwide "wildfire" problem.

  2013cited by this paper
• Trends in Wildfire Severity: 1984 to 2010 in the Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau, and Southern Cascades, California, USA

  2012cited by this paper
• Using Fire to Increase the Scale, Benefits, and Future Maintenance of Fuels Treatments

  2012cited by this paper
• The Effects of Forest Fuel-Reduction Treatments in the United States

  2012influential reference
• Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

  2012cited by this paper
• Differences in wildfires among ecoregions and land management agencies in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA

  2012influential reference
• Factors Associated with the Severity of Intersecting Fires in Yosemite National Park, California, USA

  2012cited by this paper
• Do thinning and/or burning treatments in western USA ponderosa or Jeffrey pine-dominated forests help restore natural fire behavior?

  2012cited by this paper
• Landscape--wildfire interactions in southern Europe: implications for landscape management.

  2011influential reference
• Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century

  2011cited by this paper
• Quantifying the fire regime distributions for severity in Yosemite National Park, California, USA

  2011cited by this paper
• FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM A COARSE-SCALE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF RECENT SELECTED MEGA-FIRES

  2011cited by this paper
• Review of fuel treatment effectiveness in forests and rangelands and a case study from the 2007 megafires in central, Idaho, USA

  2011cited by this paper
• Wildfires in Russia in 2000–2008: estimates of burnt areas using the satellite MODIS MCD45 data

  2011cited by this paper
• Variation in fire interval sequences has minimal effects on species richness and composition in fire-prone landscapes of south-west Western Australia

  2011cited by this paper
• Mapping burn severity and burning efficiency in California using simulation models and Landsat imagery

  2010cited by this paper
• Change trends of forest fire danger in Yunnan Province in 1957-2007.

  2009cited by this paper
• Changes in the Occurring Date of Forest Fires in the Inner Mongolia Daxing'anling Forest Region Under Global Warming

  2009influential reference
• Somatic embryogenesis and plantlet regeneration of hypocotyl explants of Callistephus chinensis 'Bouquet Scarlet'.

  2009cited by this paper
• Interactions Among Wildland Fires in a Long-Established Sierra Nevada Natural Fire Area

  2009cited by this paper
• Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires : evidence from 50 years of active fire management in SW Australian forests

  2009cited by this paper
• Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage

  2009cited by this paper
• Key findings from the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative and their impact on policy development in Australia

  2008cited by this paper
• Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity?

  2008cited by this paper
• Densification, stand-replacement wildfire, and extirpation of mixed conifer forest in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, southern California

  2008cited by this paper
• Ecological effects of large fires on US landscapes: benefit or catastrophe?

  2008influential reference
• The historical range of variability of fires in the Andean-Patagonian Nothofagus forest region.

  2008cited by this paper
• Objectives and considerations for wildland fuel treatment in forested ecosystems of the interior western United States

  2008cited by this paper
• Wildfire and Spatial Patterns in Forests in Northwestern Mexico: The United States Wishes It Had Similar Fire Problems

  2008cited by this paper
• Large fires as agents of ecological diversity in the North American boreal forest

  2008cited by this paper
• Are wildfires a disaster in the Mediterranean basin? – A review

  2008influential reference
• Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems

  2007cited by this paper
• Fire in California's Ecosystems

  2007cited by this paper
• People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science

  2007cited by this paper
• Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 - Report on fires in the Central Asian Region and adjacent countries

  2006cited by this paper
• Patch Mosaic Burning for Biodiversity Conservation: a Critique of the Pyrodiversity Paradigm

  2006cited by this paper
• Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity

  2006cited by this paper
• Seasonality and fire severity in savanna landscapes of monsoonal northern Australia

  2006cited by this paper
• Fire as an Ecological Process

  2006cited by this paper
• Modelling the effect of fire-exclusion and prescribed fire on wildfire size in Mediterranean ecosystems

  2005cited by this paper
• ENSO AND PDO VARIABILITY AFFECT DROUGHT-INDUCED FIRE OCCURRENCE IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN SUBALPINE FORESTS

  2005cited by this paper
• Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

  2004cited by this paper
• Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective

  2004cited by this paper
• Topography and forest composition affecting the variability in fire severity and post-fire regeneration occurring after a large fire in the Mediterranean basin

  2004cited by this paper
• Intense wildfire in southeastern Arizona: transformation of a Madrean oak-pine forest to oak woodland

  2002cited by this paper
• What Is the Price of Catastrophic Wildfire?

  2001cited by this paper
• Mongolian tree-rings, temperature sensitivity and reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperature

  2000cited by this paper
• Recent changes (1930s–1990s) in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests, USA

  2000cited by this paper
• Are Large, Infrequent Disturbances Qualitatively Different from Small, Frequent Disturbances?

  1998cited by this paper
• Assessment of Biomass Burning in the Conterminous United States

  1998cited by this paper
• An Evaluation of Integrated Climate Protection Policies for theUnited States

  1998cited by this paper
• Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia: Ecological Impacts and Links to the Global System

  1996cited by this paper
• The Relative Importance of Fuels and Weather on Fire Behavior in Subalpine Forests

  1995cited by this paper
• Forest fires in Russia: carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere

  1993cited by this paper
• Fire-Southern Oscillation Relations in the Southwestern United States

  1990cited by this paper
• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

  1981cited by this paper

• Shaped by Fire: Unravelling the Impact of Fire on Lizard Gut Microbiome

  2026cites this paper
• Post-fire vegetation regeneration patterns under climatic and topographic constraints in the Moroccan High Atlas

  2026cites this paper
• Tree trunks do not bias estimates of surface fuels by aerial lidar in southern Sweden

  2026cites this paper
• BCWildfire: A Long-term Multi-factor Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmark for Boreal Wildfire Risk Prediction

  2025cites this paper
• Divergent responses of native predators to severe wildfire and biological invasion are mediated by life history

  2025cites this paper
• Impacts of novel wildfire disturbance on landcover and wildlife in boreal North America

  2025cites this paper
• I want to help too! Information demands on Instagram during the media coverage of the 2024 Chile mega-fires

  2025cites this paper
• Cascading Impacts of Wildfire Emissions on Air Quality, Human Health, and Climate Change Based on Literature Review

  2025cites this paper
• Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire

  2025cites this paper
• Modelling multi-layer fine fuel loads in temperate eucalypt forests using airborne LiDAR and inventory data

  2025cites this paper
• Spatial Featuring of Animal Rabies Outbreaks in Maranhão State, Brazil (from 1992 to 2022)

  2025cites this paper
• Understanding the labor supply for conducting wildfire hazardous fuel reduction treatments

  2025cites this paper
• Extreme fire severity interacts with seed traits to moderate post‐fire species assemblages

  2025cites this paper
• Tradeoffs in growth and fuel reduction when using prescribed fire in young mixed conifer stands

  2025cites this paper
• Wildfire in rainforest margins is associated with variation in mammal diversity and habitat use

  2025cites this paper
• Multifactorial interactions contribute to contrasting wildfire trends at mid–high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere

  2025cites this paper
• Grounding fire: From climate affect to imperfect alliance in La Chiquitania

  2025cites this paper
• Interactions of fire and forest structure in a relict mesic forest of north Africa

  2025cites this paper
• Increasing boreal fires reduce future global warming and sea ice loss

  2025cites this paper
• Use of charred vertebrate carcasses by carrion beetles: Implications of controlled burns and wildfires for the American burying beetle, Nicrophorus americanus

  2025cites this paper
• Managing for heterogeneity reduces fire risk in boreal forest landscapes—A model analysis

  2025cites this paper
• A multi-level, multi-scale comparison of LiDAR- and LANDSAT-based habitat selection models of Mexican spotted owls in a post-fire landscape

  2025cites this paper
• The automated temporal burn index (ATBI) for accurate and scalable burned area mapping

  2025cites this paper
• Reconciling species conservation and ecosystem resilience: Northern spotted owl habitat sustainability in a fire-dependent forest landscape

  2024cites this paper
• Atmospheric dryness removes barriers to the development of large forest fires

  2024cites this paper
• Floral richness drives pollinator diversity after fire in upland forests and meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California

  2024cites this paper
• Digital soil mapping of soil burn severity

  2024cites this paper
• Exploring the use of satellite Earth observation active wildland fire hotspot data via open access web platforms

  2024cites this paper
• Movement behavior in a dominant ungulate underlies successful adjustment to a rapidly changing landscape following megafire

  2024cites this paper
• Severe and Short Interval Fires Rearrange Dry Forest Fuel Arrays in South-Eastern Australia

  2024cites this paper
• Short-Interval, High-Severity Wildfire Depletes Diversity of Both Extant Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks in Fire-Tolerant Eucalypt Forests

  2024cites this paper
• Influence of wildfire emissions to carbon dioxide (CO2) observed at the Mt. Cimone station (Italy, 2165 m asl): A multi-year investigation

  2024cites this paper
• From fire to recovery: temporal-shift of predator–prey interactions among mammals in Mediterranean ecosystems

  2024cites this paper
• Effects of a severe wildfire on a bat community in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

  2024cites this paper
• The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

  2024cites this paper
• Canopy active fuel loads estimation with C-band PolSAR by combining polarization decomposition and vegetation scattering model: a case study in Southwestern China

  2024cites this paper
• Limited spatial co-occurrence of wildfire and prescribed burning on moorlands in Scotland

  2024cites this paper
• NEIVAv1.0: Next-generation Emissions InVentory expansion of Akagi et al. (2011) version 1.0

  2024cites this paper
• Vegetation, Soil, and Livelihoods: The Complex Effects of Forest Fires on Eastern India's Dry Deciduous Forests

  2024cites this paper
• Ventenata dubia projected to expand in the western United States despite future novel conditions

  2024cites this paper
• Impacts of fire and prospects for recovery in a tropical peat forest ecosystem

  2024cites this paper
• Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather

  2024cites this paper
• Monitoring soil quality of different land use systems: a case study in Suha watershed, northwestern highlands of Ethiopia

  2024cites this paper
• A landscape scale model to predict post-fire debris flow impact zones

  2024cites this paper
• How to define the wildland-urban interface? Methods and limitations: towards a unified protocol

  2024cites this paper
• Contrasting state land and fire use policies condition fire regime seasonality and size in two Central Spain forest landscapes

  2024cites this paper
• Fire severity drives understory community dynamics and the recovery of culturally significant plants

  2024cites this paper
• RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE OF SONORA SUCKERS (CATOSTOMUS INSIGNIS) TO EXTREME WILDFIRE DISTURBANCES IN THE GILA RIVER, NEW MEXICO

  2023cites this paper
• Decolonizing wildfire risk management: indigenous responses to fire criminalization policies and increasingly flammable forest landscapes in Lomerío, Bolivia

  2023cites this paper
• Metrics and Considerations for Evaluating How Forest Treatments Alter Wildfire Behavior and Effects

  2023cites this paper
• Estimating the effects of meteorology and land cover on fire growth in Peru using a novel difference equation model

  2023cites this paper
• Do Fire Cues Enhance Germination of Soil Seed Stores across an Ecotone of Wet Eucalypt Forest to Cool Temperate Rainforest in the Central Highlands of South-Eastern Australia?

  2023cites this paper
• Incorporating pyrodiversity into wildlife habitat assessments for rapid post-fire management: a woodpecker case study.

  2023cites this paper
• Mosaic forest management at landscape scale to enhance fungal diversity and production, in a context of forest fire-prevention in Mediterranean ecosystems

  2023cites this paper
• Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval

  2023cites this paper
• Emission factors for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from laboratory biomass-burning and their chemical transformations during aging in an oxidation flow reactor

  2023cites this paper
• UAV Multispectral Imagery Predicts Dead Fuel Moisture Content

  2023cites this paper
• Mammalian resistance to megafire in western U.S. woodland savannas

  2023cites this paper
• The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale

  2023cites this paper
• Disasters collide at the intersection of extreme weather and infectious diseases.

  2023cites this paper
• Distinct Fungal and Bacterial Responses to Fire Severity and Soil Depth Across a Ten-Year Wildfire Chronosequence in Beetle-Killed Lodgepole Pine Forests

  2023cites this paper
• The Relationship between Socioeconomic Factors at Different Administrative Levels and Forest Fire Occurrence Density Using a Multilevel Model

  2023cites this paper
• Effects of forest management practices on carbon dynamics of China's boreal forests under changing climates.

  2023cites this paper
• Natural disturbances as drivers of tipping points in forest ecosystems under climate change – implications for adaptive management

  2023cites this paper
• Climatic and vegetational controls of Holocene wildfire regimes in the boreal forest of northern Fennoscandia

  2023cites this paper
• 2021 Turkey Mega Forest Fires: Biodiversity measurements of the IUCN Red List wildlife mammals in Sentinel-2 based burned areas

  2023cites this paper
• Forest microbiome and global change

  2023cites this paper
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Silvicultural Treatments on Fire Behavior in the Hyrcanian Temperate Forests of Northern Iran

  2023cites this paper
• Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds

  2023cites this paper
• Assessing the Effects of Fuel Moisture Content on the 2018 Megafires in California

  2023cites this paper
• Allometric scaling and allocation patterns: Implications for predicting productivity across plant communities

  2023cites this paper
• Response of pollinator taxa to fire is consistent with historic fire regimes in the Sierra Nevada and mediated through floral richness†

  2023cites this paper
• Identifying and managing disturbance‐stimulated flammability in woody ecosystems

  2023cites this paper
• Fire Regimes of Utah: The Past as Prologue

  2023cites this paper
• A roadmap for pyrodiversity science

  2023cites this paper
• Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s

  2023cites this paper
• Does large area burned mean a bad fire year? Comparing contemporary wildfire years to historical fire regimes informs the restoration task in fire-dependent forests

  2023cites this paper
• Increase in Arctic Oscillations explains most interannual variability in Russia’s wildfires

  2023cites this paper
• An innovative tool for mapping forest fire risk and danger: case studies from eastern Mediterranean

  2023cites this paper
• Megafire: An ambiguous and emotive term best avoided by science

  2023cites this paper
• Ecosystem Conditions That Influence the Viability of an Old-Forest Species with Limited Vagility: The Red Tree Vole

  2023cites this paper
• Evaluating pathways to social and ecological landscape resilience

  2022cites this paper
• Modeling the impact of climate change and wildfire on the Dusky Grouse ( Dendragapus obscurus ) in the American Southwest: implications for conservation

  2022cites this paper
• Dinámica espaciotemporal, causas y efectos de los megaincendios forestales en México

  2022cites this paper
• Mixed-severity wild fi re and salvage logging affect the populations of a forest-dependent carnivoran and a competitor

  2022cites this paper
• Changes in tree growth synchrony and resilience in Siberian Pinus sylvestris forests are modulated by fire dynamics and ecohydrological conditions

  2022cites this paper
• Will drought exacerbate the decline in the sustainability of plantation forests relative to natural forests?

  2022cites this paper
• Technological employment of fire-fighting adapter to increase the efficiency of extinguishing forest fires

  2022cites this paper
• Managing nature-based solutions in fire-prone ecosystems: Competing management objectives in California forests evaluated at a landscape scale

  2022cites this paper
• Pyrodiversity in a Warming World: Research Challenges and Opportunities

  2022cites this paper
• A Protocol for Collecting Burned Area Time Series Cross-Check Data

  2022cites this paper
• Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses

  2022cites this paper
• Effects of fire danger indexes and land cover on fire growth in Peru

  2022cites this paper
• Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California

  2022influential citation
• Small mammal responses to fire severity mediated by vegetation characteristics and species traits

  2022cites this paper
• Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management

  2022cites this paper
• Drivers of Extreme Wildfire Years in the 1965–2019 Fire Regime of the Tłchǫ First Nation Territory, Canada

  2022cites this paper
• Comparison of Wildfire Meteorology and Climate at the Adriatic Coast and Southeast Australia

  2022cites this paper
• Food webs for three burn severities after wildfire in the Eldorado National Forest, California

  2022cites this paper
• Wildfires cause rapid changes to estuarine benthic habitat.

  2022cites this paper