All Episodes

Episode 100: Bark traits and fire vulnerability in three California foothill oak species

Episode 99: Complex effects of fire severity on a serotinous conifer

Episode 98: Projected fire weather intensification across the Mediterranean: implications for management and restoration

Episode 97: Characterizing windows of opportunity for prescribed pile and broadcast burning in Northern California

Episode 96: Fire history and tree invasion in an Ozark glade, barrens, and woodland complex

Episode 95: Prescribed fire drives divergent invasive annual grass responses in a dry forest-mosaic landscape

Episode 94: The state of the giant sequoias: losses, risks, and opportunities

Episode 93: Epiphytic lichens as ladder fuels: an experimental study on flammability in Southern Chile

Episode 92: Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to Western United States forests

Episode 91: Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action

Episode 90: Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability

Episode 89: Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire

Episode 88: Tree trunks do not bias estimates of surface fuels by aerial lidar in southern Sweden

Episode 87: Vegetation response varies by season of burning in pine woodlands across the southeastern US

Episode 86: Environmental health hazards and wildland firefighting: a qualitative analysis

Episode 85: Three-decade record of contiguous-U.S. national forest wildfires indicates increased density of ignitions near roads

Episode 84: Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US

Episode 83: Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire

Episode 82: When the wilderness burns: an analysis of current fire management and the case for prescribed fire in designated wilderness in the United States

Episode 81: Yosemite’s Merced Grove of giant sequoias: critical restoration continues despite legal challenges

Episode 80: A tale of two fire systems: indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California

Episode 79: High-resolution burn prioritization models enhance fire management decisions in heterogeneous landscapes

Episode 78: Terrestrial lidar scanning provides efficient measurements of fire-caused crown scorch in longleaf pine

Episode 77: Power and planning: a critical discourse analysis of tribal and non-tribal Oregon wildfire protection plans

Episode 76: Innovation to support wildfire risk-based decision-making: examining the incident strategic alignment process

Episode 75: Towards predicting flammability of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests: drought stress and fuel moisture are strongly linked in angiosperms but decoupled in gymnosperms

Episode 74: Wildfire impact on the soil Funga associated to Nothofagus forests from central-western Patagonia, Argentina

Episode 73: Fire gives avian populations a rapid and enduring boost in protected forests of California

Episode 72: Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking

Episode 71: Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands

Episode 70: Multi-scale assessment of wildfire use on carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, CA

Episode 69: Assessing fuel treatments and burn severity using global and local analyses

Episode 68: Representing 3-dimensional fuels for physics-based fire behavior models: a general framework and case study in a type-converted post-fire shrubfield

Episode 67: Synergistic effects on fire hazard from combined linear fuel breaks and mosaic fuel treatments

Episode 66: Drone-based, multispectral photogrammetric point clouds to classify fire severity at differing canopy height strata

Episode 65: Topographic conditions dominate tree species recovery over 15 years post-fire in a temperate Pinus sylvestris forest

Episode 64: Bucking the suppression status quo: incentives to shift the wildfire management paradigm around natural ignitions

Episode 63: Being there: effectiveness of a 360-degree virtual tour for increasing understanding of forest treatments for fire hazard reduction in California, USA

Episode 62: Realignment of federal environmental policies to recognize fire’s role

Episode 61: Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire

Episode 60: Inside AFE: Fire Ecology Journal Committee

Episode 59: Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration

Episode 58: Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020

Episode 57: Wildfire management decisions outweigh mechanical treatment as the keystone to forest landscape adaptation

Episode 56: Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al.

Episode 55: Long-term influence of prescribed burning on subsequent wildfire in an old-growth coast redwood forest

Episode 54: Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management

Episode 53: Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits to predict conifer live fuel moisture content: a pyro-ecophysiological approach

Episode 52: Complexities in post-wildfire governance: lessons from Colorado’s 2020 wildfires

Episode 51: Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire

Episode 50: When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?

Episode 49: Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration

Episode 48: Fire, land use, and the long-term dynamics of a pitch pine woodland in coastal Maine, USA

Episode 47: Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia

Episode 46: Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest

Episode 45: Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration

Episode 44: Fire versus herbivory for oak woodland restoration

Episode 43: Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival

Episode 42: Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas

Episode 41: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades

Episode 40: Crown fires remove a fire-sensitive canopy dominant from oak-juniper woodlands: results from long-term monitoring of wildfires

Episode 39: Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States

Episode 38: Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire

Episode 37: Overstory and fuel traits drive moisture dynamics of mesophytic and pyrophytic leaf litter and 10-h woody debris fuels in a mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodland

Episode 36: Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data

Episode 35: Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas

Episode 34: Coexisting with wildfire: strengthening collective capacity by changing the status quo

Episode 33: Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States

Episode 32: Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

Episode 31: Changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas: opportunities and challenges for indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes

Episode 30: Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room

Episode 29: Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia

Episode 28: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds

Episode 27: The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana

Episode 26: Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada

Episode 25: Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas

Episode 24: Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America

Episode 23: New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation

Episode 22: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness

Episode 21: Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau

Episode 20: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

Episode 19: Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types

Episode 18: Pre-Columbian red pine fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA

Episode 17: Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds

Episode 16: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity

Episode 15: Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment

Episode 14: Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California

Episode 13: Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Podcast Episode 12: Detecting Shrub Recovery in Sagebrush Steppe

Podcast Episode 11: Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes

Podcast Episode 10: Spectral Indices and Soil Burn Severity

Podcast Episode 9: Fire Management, Policies, and Change

Podcast Episode 8: Post-fire Tree Mortality Models

Podcast Episode 7: Tree Regeneration in the Western US

Podcast Episode 6: Communicating Fire Science through Art

Podcast Episode 4: Incorporating Traditional Knowledge into Fuels Treatments

Podcast Episode 3: Whitebark Pine Encroachment

Podcast Episode 2: Changing wildfire, changing forests

Podcast Episode 1: Prescribed Fire Science