In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Maggie Epstein about how climate change is influencing forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00285-9

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Abigail Croker about the process of conducting this important research on changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas, focusing on indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00215-1

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Matt Reilly about using remote sensing to detect delayed mortality through spectral decline in trees in California, Oregon, and Washington over a five-year period following a fire.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00223-1

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Neil Williams and Melissa Lucash about how fire and climate change influence the boreal forests of Siberia by examining simulations.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00188-1

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Ashley Coble, Brooke Penaluna, and Laura Six about identifying key relationships between forested streams, fire, and large wood that change with fire severity and/or watershed stand age.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00192-5

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Brett Lawrence about a study that assessed the use and impact of Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) aerial ignition during prescribed fire operations over multiple years.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00170-x

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with co-authors Scott Stephens, Alexis Bernal, and Les Hall about a study that used multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct Indigenous fire use in a mixed conifer forest in the northern Sierra Nevada. Their work included summarizing oral traditions by the Mountain Maidu, quantifying current and historical forest structure, and characterizing fire effects in an area impacted by the 2021 Dixie Fire.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00172-9

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kathleen Uyttewaal about results of a study that analyzed local social contexts in rural areas of Spain, Italy and France and assessed how these may inform adaptive capacity to wildland fire. 

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00168-5

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Francis Kilkenny and Jeff Ott about a systematic literature review, which examined the results of 86 fuel treatment studies and summarized what they reveal about factors determining fuel treatment effectiveness at landscape scales.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00163-2

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Laurie Yung at the University of Montana about a study that examined how the wildfire problem is framed, how those frames influence potential solutions, and how reframing can reveal a broader set of solutions which may better address key barriers.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00155-2