Results Mean summer temperature across the study area decreased by 3 C per degree of increasing latitude (6 C across the study area). In the northern part of the study area, where seed viability was low, alder was less dominant than at southern sites where seed viability was high. The age structure of alder populations across the temperature gradient was highly variable, except in the northern ...

Russian boreal forests contain around 25% of all global terrestrial carbon, some of which is released to the atmosphere when the forests burn. Whilst it is well known that fire is widespread in the boreal environment, there is a lack of good quality quantitative data on the extent of fire activity in Russian forests and on its interannual variation. This study provides one of the first comprehe...

Accurate burned area information is needed to assess the impacts of wildfires on people, communities, and natural ecosystems. Various detection methods have been developed using satellite remote sensing measurements with wide coverage frequent revisits. Our study aims expound capability deep learning (DL) models for automatically mapping areas from uni-temporal multispectral imagery. Specifical...

Recent studies have linked the Atlantic Mdtidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) with drought occurrence in the interior United States. This study evaluates the influence of AM0 and PDO phases on interannual relationships between climate and wildfire-burned area during the 20th century. Palmer's Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is strongly related to burned area at b...

The two major Brazilian biomes, the Amazonia and Cerrado (savanna), are increasingly exposed to fires. Amazonian Forest is a fire sensitive ecosystem where fires typically rare disturbance while naturally fire-dependent. Human activities, such as landscape fragmentation land-use management, have modified regime of introduced into Forest. There limited understanding role on occurrence in biomes....

There is an intense debate about the effects of postfire salvage logging versus nonintervention policies on regeneration of forest communities, but scant information from experimental studies is available. We manipulated a burned forest area on a Mediterranean mountain to experimentally analyze the effect of salvage logging on bird-species abundance, diversity, and assemblage composition. We us...

We monitored the riparian bird community for two years following the 1995 Vision Fire in the Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS), Marin County, Cal i for nia. We compare bird and vegetation data on burned and unburned sites within PRNS and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Bird abundance, as indexed by fi xed-radius point counts, was higher for sev er al shrub-nesting species at burned...

Rangelands are complex systems that occupymore than 50% of the land area in theworld. Carbon cycling on rangelands is generally understood, but details concerning agricultural management practices of prescribed fire and grazing are not well defined. Field experiments were conducted on northern mixedgrass prairie in eastern Montana with undisturbed, burned, and grazed treatments established in 2...