International Journal of Wildland Fire Update

             

The most recent issue (Vol. 18, No. 5) of the Journal includes the following research. Do not forget that you can access Journal articles online.

• "Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire," by Mike D. Flannigan, Meg A. Krawchuk, William J. de Groot, B. Mike Wotton and Lynn M. Gowman.

• "Forecasting distributions of large federal-lands fires utilizing satellite and girded weather information," by Haiganoush K. Preisler, Robert E. Burgan, Jeffery C. Eidenshink, Jacqueline M. Klaver and Robert W. Klaver.

• "Validation studies of EUMETSAT's active fire monitoring product over Turkey," by Ahmet Emre Tekeli, Ibrahim Sönmez, Erdem Erdi and Fatih Demir.

• "Flatland in flames: a two-dimensional crown fire propagation model," by James D. Dickinson, Andrew P. Robinson, Paul E. Gessler, Richy J. Harrod and Alistair M.S. Smith.

• "Effect of vegetation heterogeneity on radiative transfer in forest fires," by François Pimont, Jean-Luc Dupuy, Yves Caraglio and Dominique Morvan.

• "Relationships among indices of fire severity in riparian zones," by Jessica E. Halofsky and David E. Hibbs.

• "A new look at the role of fire-released moisture on the dynamics of atmospheric pyro-convection," by Gunnar Luderer, Meinrat O. Andreae and Jörg Trentmann.

• "Regional variations in wildfire susceptibility of land-cover types in Portugal: Implications for landscape management to minimize fire hazard," by Francisco Moreira, Pedro Vaz, Filipe Catry and Joaquim S. Silva.

• "Landscape structural features control fire size in a Mediterranean forested area of central Spain," by Olga Viedma, D. G. Angeler and José M. Moreno.

• "Remote sensing for prediction of 1-year post-fire ecosystem condition," by Leigh B. Lentile, Alistair M. S. Smith, Andrew T. Hudak, Penelope Morgan, Michael J. Bobbitt, Sarah A. Lewis and Peter R. Robichaud.

• "The effects of fire on avian communities: Spatio-temporal attributes of the literature 1912-2003," by Andreas Leidolf and John A. Bissonette.

• "Patterns of post-fire flowering and fruiting in Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. pomeridianum (DC.) Kunth in southern California chaparral," by Mark Borchert and Claudia M. Tyler.