A5077635041- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Landslides and related hazards
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Data Management and Algorithms
- Bioenergy crop production and management
Rocky Mountain Research (United States)
2015-2024
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2015-2024
US Forest Service
2010-2024
Government of the United States of America
2024
United States Department of Agriculture
1998-2023
Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center
2007-2018
Pacific Northwest Research Station
2008-2018
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2014
Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia
2014
U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center
2011
A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in topologically random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth behaviour of large fires when implemented at different rates over course five decades. The consisted a forest dynamics module (Forest Vegetation Simulator, FVS), logic for deriving model from FVS output, treatment optimisation program, fire evaluate performance modifying growth. Simulations were performed three study areas: Sanders County western...
We examined movements and habitat use by female Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus) mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) using a large telemetry data set collected over 6 years at the Starkey Experimental Forest Range in northeastern Oregon. The analysis contrasted hourly of within mosaic vegetation landforms with daily seasonal demands for forage, security, other resources. Telemetry from 15 April to 14 November, 1991–1996, were stratified into 30-day intervals tested cycles relative movements....
Spies, T. A., E. M. White, J. D. Kline, A. P. Fischer, Ager, Bailey, Bolte, Koch, Platt, C. S. Olsen, Jacobs, B. Shindler, Steen-Adams, and R. Hammer. 2014. Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human natural systems. Ecology Society 19(3): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06584-190309
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the US are complex problems that require state‐of‐the‐art behavior modeling intensive geospatial analyses. Fuel is a particularly complicated process where benefits potential impacts of treatments must be demonstrated context land goals public expectations. A number metrics, including spread, intensity, likelihood, ecological analyzed for multiple treatment alternatives. The effect wildfire considered at scales....
We used simulation modelling to analyse spatial variation in wildfire exposure relative key social and economic features on the island of Sardinia, Italy. Sardinia contains a high density urban interfaces, recreational values highly valued agricultural areas that are increasingly being threatened by severe wildfires. Historical fire data simulations were estimate burn probabilities, flame length size. examined how these risk factors varied among within located island. Estimates probability...
Widespread outbreaks of mountain pine beetle in North America have drawn the attention scientists, forest managers, and public. There is strong evidence that climate change has contributed to extent severity recent outbreaks. Scientists are interested quantifying relationships between bark population dynamics trends climate. Process models simulate suitability for advanced our understanding dynamics; however, there few studies assessed their accuracy across multiple or at larger spatial...
We analyzed wildland fire occurrence and size data from Sardinia, Italy, Corsica, France, to examine spatiotemporal patterns of in relation weather, land use, anthropogenic features, time year. Fires on these islands are largely human caused can be attributed negligence, agro‐pastoral arson. Of particular interest was the predictive value a weather index (FWI) that is widely used by managers alert suppression crews. found an increase FWI 30 60 produced average approximate eightfold odds...
Abstract We used simulation modeling to assess potential climate change impacts on wildfire exposure in Italy and Corsica (France). Weather data were obtained from a regional model for the period 1981–2070 using IPCC A1B emissions scenario. Wildfire simulations performed with minimum travel time fire spread algorithm predicted fuel moisture, wind speed, direction simulate expected changes weather three climatic periods (1981–2010, 2011–2040, 2041–2070). Overall, showed very slight flame...
Wildfires pose complex challenges to policymakers and fire agencies. Fuel break networks area-wide fuel treatments are risk-management options reduce losses from large fires. Two management scenarios covering 3% of the fire-prone Algarve region Portugal differing in intensity treatment 120-m wide breaks were examined compared with no-treatment option. We used minimum travel time algorithm simulate growth 150 000 fires under weather conditions historically associated passive effects on burn...
Spies, T. A., E. White, A. Ager, J. D. Kline, P. Bolte, K. Platt, Olsen, R. Pabst, M.G. Barros, Bailey, S. Charnley, Morzillo, Koch, M. Steen-Adams, H. Singleton, Sulzman, C. Schwartz, and B. Csuti. 2017. Using an agent-based model to examine forest management outcomes in a fire-prone landscape Oregon, USA. Ecology Society 22(1):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08841-220125
We describe recent advances in biophysical and social aspects of risk their potential combined contribution to improve mitigation planning on fire‐prone landscapes. The methods tools provide an improved method for defining the spatial extent wildfire communities compared current processes. They also propose expanded role science understanding community‐wide perceptions predict property owners’ capacities willingness mitigate by treating hazardous fuels reducing susceptibility dwellings. In...
We characterized wildfire transmission and exposure within a matrix of large land tenures (federal, state, private) surrounding 56 communities 3.3 million ha fire prone region central Oregon US. Wildfire simulation network analysis were used to quantify the exchange among analyze relative contributions human versus natural ignitions exposure. Among examined, area burned by incoming fires averaged 57% total area. Community from ignited on accounted for 67% burned. The number contributing...
The development of comprehensive fire management and risk assessment strategies is prominent concern in Southern Europe, due to the expanding scale wildfire risk. In this work, we applied simulation modeling analyze fine-scale (100-m resolution) exposure transmission 24,000 km2 island Sardinia (Italy). contains a variety ecological, cultural, anthropic touristic resources that each summer are threatened by wildfires, represents well Mediterranean Basin environments conditions. Wildfire...