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Fire Ecology
| Research | Brief Description |
|---|---|
| Assessment of community wildfire exposure in the western US |
The first comprehensive assessment of where public wildlands in the Western US potentially contribute wildfire exposure to communities. |
| BCM-PVT - Bioclimatic modeling of potential vegetation types |
Predicting plant species shifts under changing climates using bioclimatic modeling of potential vegetation types |
| California tree mortality |
Changes in fuel loading and conifer mortality risk factors due to bark beetles and drought in California. |
| Central Oregon Fire History |
Fire and forest histories of central Oregon from tree rings |
| Climate Change on Global Fire Danger |
Wildfires occur at the intersection of dry weather, available fuel, and ignition sources. Weather is the most variable and largest driver of regional burned area. |
| DAYLIGHT - Restoration release cuttings |
Effects of new restoration technique called Daylighting is evaluated on various whitebark pine stands in the Northern Rocky Mountains. |
| Describing Wildland Fuels |
Describing and Scaling Physio-chemical Properties of Live and Dead Fuels to Parameterize Physics-based Fire Behavior Models |
| Douglas-fir and Fire | Predicting Post-fire Douglas-fir Beetle Attacks and Tree Mortality in the Northern Rocky Mountains |
| Duff Mounds | Prescribed Burning: Can We Do It Without Killing the Trees We Are Trying to Save? |
| Evaluating Fuel Treatment Effectiveness |
Using STANDFIRE to test whether fuel treatments are effective in changing fire behavior |
| Fire and Invasive Plants |
Characterizing Information on Fire and Invasive Plants |
| Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) |
The Fire Effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States |
| Fire Management, Zambia |
Fire Management and Fire Use Assessment of Eastern Province, Zambia |
| Fire Severity Classification | Classifying Fire Severity Based on simulated surface fuel combustion and heat transfer |
| Fire-Induced Tree Mortality |
Mortality reconsidered: Testing and extending models of fire–induced tree mortality across the United States |
| Fire: A Vaccine for the Forest? |
The impact of fire on conifer defenses . |
| FireBGCv2 - landscape fire model |
FireBGCv2 is a computer modeling program and platform that mechanistically simulates fire, vegetation, climate, and fuels dynamics across multiple space and time scales. |
| FIREHARM - Fire hazard and risk model |
Mapping fire hazard and risk across multiple spatial scales. |
| Fires in Northern Eurasia |
Impacts of Black Carbon from Fires in Northern Eurasia |
| FIRESEV - Modeling and mapping fire severity |
A fire severity mapping system for real time fire management application and long-term planning. |
| FireStem |
Often fires are managed to support or reduce the presence of specific plant species or sizes. FireStem is a computer model designed to aid fire managers in predicting tree mortality based on fire behavior and intensity. |
| FLEAT - Wildfire benefits model |
Evaluating the ecological benefits of wildfire by integrating fire and ecosystem simulation models |
| GNLCC - Whitebark Pine restoration in climate change |
Restoring whitebark pine in the face of climate change |
| GRAD - Growth Release After Daylighting |
Diameter and height release of small whitebark pine trees ten years after two daylighting treatments |
| Incomplete Fuel Treatments |
Learning from Incomplete Fuel Treatments |
| LANDFIRE Prototype - Mapping fuels |
Development of the tools, protocols, methods, and data products for the National LANDFIRE Project. |
| LANDFIRE ReMap |
LANDFIRE After Action Review and Scoping In Preparation for Comprehensive Remapping |
| Lodgepole fire history |
Lodgepole pine-dominated forest is the third most extensive forest type in western North America, covering 15 million acres in the western United States. |
| Lodgepole Pine Restoration |
Using silvicultural treatments and prescribing burning to restore multi-aged lodgepole pine forests |
| Long-term restoration synergies |
This research uses agent-based landscape forest modelling to explore synergies between wildfire and forest and fuels management to create fire resilient forests, conserve carbon, and reduce future high severity fire. |
| LSim forest landscape management model |
We integrated the Forest Vegetation Simulator with the FSim wildfire simulation model to conduct research on long term management and wildfire feedbacks. |
| Lubrecht Fire-Fire Surrogate Study |
Fuel treatment impacts in ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir forests in the Northern Rockies. |
| Mapping and modeling fuels and fire at the Sycan Marsh, Oregon |
Mapping, modeling, and connecting fuels and fire behavior effects at the Sycan Marsh, Oregonp An ongoing research project focused on multi-scale integration of fire and fuel datasets collected before, during, and following management prescribed fires. |
| Mountain Pine Beetle |
Quantifying the Potential Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on Wildland Fire Behavior |
| Northern Rockies Fire History |
Climate Drivers of Fire in the Northern Rockies: Past, Present and Future |
| Ponderosa pine recovery after fire: A photoguide |
Sometimes it is difficult to determine if a tree will live or die after fire. This project will create a photoguide to to assist forest managers and field crews in accurately assessing post-fire crown injury and recovery in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa). |
| Ponderosa Pine Restoration at Lick Creek |
Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest: 25-year fire and cutting effects on vegetation and fuels |
| Post-Fire Ponderosa Pine Mortality |
Assessing ponderosa pine mortality in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area after successive fires Over 14 Years |
| Post-fire Tree Mortality |
Delayed Tree Mortality Following Fire in Western Conifers |
| Prairie-Forest Edge Fire History |
Fires are widespread in prairies globally. Fire often perpetuates grasslands by counteracting tree encroachment, yet there is often little record of this fire preserved in the grasslands. |
| Predicting tree growth and beetle susceptibility after fire |
We are creating tools to inform post-fire decisions that predict post-fire growth rates and mortality levels due to fire alone or fire+beetle for ponderosa pine (PP) and Douglas-fir (DF). The models in the tools will account for tree size, fire injury, site productivity, changes in competition, and beetle pressure. The project will also validate and update current FVS post-fire growth predictions. |
| Reconstructing U.S. Wildland Fire Trends |
The ecological, economic and health and safety concerns surrounding wildland fires are driving the need to better understand climate-fire interactions. |
| Reintroducing Fire |
Mitigating old tree mortality in long-unburned, fire-dependent forests |
| RWPE - Restoring Whitebark Pine Ecosystems |
Evaluating effects of various prescribed burning and silvicultural techniques used for restoring whitebark pine ecosystems (RWPE) |
| Spring Dip |
Physiological Drivers of the ‘Spring Dip’ in Red Pine and Jack Pine Foliar Moisture Content and Its Relationship to Crown Fire in the Great Lakes |
| Tracking Climate, Wildland Fires, and Native Trout |
Tracking Climate, Wildland Fires, and Native Trout |
| Utah Fire History |
Fire regimes & forest structure of Utah & eastern Nevada: A multi-scale history from tree rings |
| WBP - Release after daylighting |
Whitebark pine populations are declining across their entire range due to the combined effects of mountain pine beetle, whitebark pine blister rust, and changing fire regimes. |
| WBPCC - Whitebark pine and climate |
Stand composition, health, and annual diameter growth were recorded and compared against climate patterns for the past 100 years. |
| WEST - Whitebark Pine Encroachment STudy |
Whitebark pine encroachment into lower elevation sagebrush grasslands in southwest Montana, USA |
| Western Spruce Budworm |
Western Spruce Budworm Alters Crown Fire Behavior through Reduced Canopy Density |
| Wildfire effects in grand fir-hemlock forests |
Grand fir and western hemlock mortality and regeneration dynamics after wildfire and salvage. |
| WPGA - Whitebark Pine Growth Analysis |
Growth response of whitebark pine trees to thinning and prescribed burn treatments. |