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Frontiers in Fire Ecology

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Edited by: Karin L. Riley, Leda Kobziar, Andrew T. Hudak

Association for Fire Ecology celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2017 at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. More than 350 research presentations highlighted advances in fire ecology and fire management science, policy, and practice. A select group of presentations was identified by the Editors of this collection as being especially integral to the advancement of our discipline; presenters were invited to submit manuscripts for the Association’s Frontiers in Fire Ecology collection.

Not only does this compilation of articles reflects an ever-increasing understanding of the role of fire in our world today, it also celebrates the novel contributions of young scientists in charting the future of fire ecology and management. Together, these manuscripts reflect advances in technology, theory, ecology, modeling, workforce social dynamics, and the application of each of these to furthering the integration of fire as a driving force into the human-environment relationship.

Frontiers in Fire Ecology represents current advances and directions for the future of fire ecology and related research.


  1. 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...

    Authors: Haichuan Lin, Yuanfan Ma, Pingxin Zhao, Ziyan Huang, Xiaoyu Zhan, Mulualem Tigabu and Futao Guo
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2023 19:69
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  2. In recent decades, as wildland fire occurrence has increased in the United States, concern about the emissions produced by wildland fires has increased as well. This growing concern is evidenced by an increase...

    Authors: Heath D. Starns, Douglas R. Tolleson, Robert J. Agnew, Elijah G. Schnitzler and John R. Weir
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:12
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  3. The realm of wildland fire science encompasses both wild and prescribed fires. Most of the research in the broader field has focused on wildfires, however, despite the prevalence of prescribed fires and demons...

    Authors: J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O’Brien, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Matthew Dickinson, James Furman, Michael Gallagher, David Godwin, Scott L. Goodrick, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew Hudak, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, E. Louise Loudermilk, Sarah McCaffrey, Kevin Robertson…
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2020 16:11
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  4. In recent years, fire services in Mediterranean Europe have been overwhelmed by extreme wildfire behavior. As a consequence, fire management has moved to defensive strategies with a focus only on the known ris...

    Authors: Marc Castellnou, Núria Prat-Guitart, Etel Arilla, Asier Larrañaga, Edgar Nebot, Xavier Castellarnau, Jordi Vendrell, Josep Pallàs, Joan Herrera, Marc Monturiol, José Cespedes, Jordi Pagès, Claudi Gallardo and Marta Miralles
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:31
    Content type: Forum Published on:

  5. Straw mulching is one of the most common treatments applied immediately post fire to reduce soil erosion potential and mitigate post-fire effects on water quality, downstream property, and infrastructure, but ...

    Authors: Jonathan D. Bontrager, Penelope Morgan, Andrew T. Hudak and Peter R. Robichaud
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:22
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. In the Inland Pacific Northwest of the United States, fire is a dominant driver of ecological change. Within wildfire perimeters, fire effects often vary considerably and typically include remnant patches of u...

    Authors: Anthony J. Martinez, Arjan J. H. Meddens, Crystal A. Kolden, Eva K. Strand and Andrew T. Hudak
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:20
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  8. Short-term post-fire field studies have shown that native shrub cover in chaparral ecosystems negatively affects introduced cover, which is influenced by burn severity, elevation, aspect, and climate. Using th...

    Authors: April G. Smith, Beth A. Newingham, Andrew T. Hudak and Benjamin C. Bright
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:12
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  9. Few studies have examined post-fire vegetation recovery in temperate forest ecosystems with Landsat time series analysis. We analyzed time series of Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) derived from LandTrendr spectral...

    Authors: Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Robert E. Kennedy, Justin D. Braaten and Azad Henareh Khalyani
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:8
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. An important consequence of wildland fire is the production of ash, defined as a continuum of mineral to charred organic residues formed by the burning of wildland fuels. Ash may impact soil health depending o...

    Authors: K. M. Quigley, R. E. Wildt, B. R. Sturtevant, R. K. Kolka, M. B. Dickinson, C. C. Kern, D. M. Donner and J. R. Miesel
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2019 15:5
    Content type: Original research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Fire Ecology 2020 16:7