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The Right to Burn: Barriers and Opportunities for Indigenous-Led Fire Steward...
ABSTRACT Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although... -
Conservation of Earth's Biodiversity is Embedded in Indigenous Fire Stewardship
ABSTRACT Increasingly, severe wildfires have led to declines in biodiversity across all of Earth’s vegetated biomes [D. B. McWethy et al., Nat. Sustain. 2, 797–804 (2019)].... -
The North American Tree-Ring Fire Scar Network
ABSTRACT Fire regimes in North American forests are diverse and modern fire records are often too short to capture important patterns, trends, feedbacks, and drivers of... -
Assessing Changes in Global Fire Regimes
ABSTRACT Background: The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However,... -
A Roadmap for Pyrodiversity Science
ABSTRACT Background: Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity... -
Wildfire Research and Extension
In 2017 and 2018, British Columbia experienced unprecedented wildfire seasons. Over the course of both wildfire seasons, approximately 2.6 million hectares of forest lands... -
Abrupt, Climate-Induced Increase in Wildfires in British Columbia Since the M...
In the province of British Columbia, Canada, four of the most severe wildfire seasons of the last century occurred in the past 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023. To...