Fire Ecology Chats
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This podcast series by the Association for Fire Ecology explores research findings recently published in the journal, Fire Ecology.
Episodes
- Episode 94: The state of the giant sequoias: losses, risks, and opportunities
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kristen Shive, Linnea Hardlund, and Brianna Baker about how managers can move forward in handling the loss that giant sequoias have suffered. Full journal art…
- Episode 93: Epiphytic lichens as ladder fuels: an experimental study on flammability in Southern Chile
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Korina Ocampo-Zuleta, Carolina Quintero, and Melisa Blackhall about lichen ignitions and climate change implications. Full journal article can be found at htt…
- Episode 92: Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to Western United States forests
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jeff Chandler and Solomon Dobrowski about capturing the full spread of fire attributes from the past and comparing it to present-day wildfires. Full journal a…
- Episode 91: Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, Carolyn Szostak, and Nelly Oelke about what we can do to support researchers and students entering into the challenging space of wildland…
- Episode 90: Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Azaj Mahmud and Dylan Schwilk about predicting key aspects of shoot flammability and how that relates to flammability category rankings in the National Fire P…
- Episode 89: Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Joe Birch, Jessica Miesel, and Matthew Dickinson about cheatgrass abundance in response to overstory death and prescribed fire. Full journal article can be fo…
- Episode 88: Tree trunks do not bias estimates of surface fuels by aerial lidar in southern Sweden
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Olga Wepryk and Igor Drobyshev about using aerial lidar to assess ground fuels for surface fires. Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.c…
- Episode 87: Vegetation response varies by season of burning in pine woodlands across the southeastern US
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Craig Harper, Mark Turner, and Jake Bones about comparing vegetation and wildlife effects of burning during all times of the year in the southeastern US. Full…
- Episode 86: Environmental health hazards and wildland firefighting: a qualitative analysis
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Alissa Cordner about underrepresented hazards in wildland firefighting like forever chemicals, minefields, and rainbow meat. Full journal article can be found…
- Episode 85: Three-decade record of contiguous-U.S. national forest wildfires indicates increased density of ignitions near roads
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Greg Aplet about investigating the relationship of ignition density to distance from roads. Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/art…
- Episode 84: Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Nuria Sánchez-López and Melanie Taylor about understanding how litter and duff accumulate on the forest floor in pine flatwoods of the southeastern United Sta…
- Episode 83: Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Arik Joukhajian and Sydney Glassman about using molecular sequencing to identify the soil bacteria and the soil fungi from microbial communities in the Mojave…
- Episode 82: When the wilderness burns: an analysis of current fire management and the case for prescribed fire in designated wilderness in the United States
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Alyssa Worsham and Jonathan Coop about how the right kind of fire can shrink the gap between existing and ideal conditions in U.S. wilderness areas. Full jour…
- Episode 81: Yosemite’s Merced Grove of giant sequoias: critical restoration continues despite legal challenges
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kristen Shive and Scott Stephens about litigation challenges threatening the resilience of Yosemite's giant sequoia trees. Full journal article can be found a…
- Episode 80: A tale of two fire systems: indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with William Nikolakis about pursuing transformative policies relating to indigenous fire stewardship. Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.c…
- Episode 79: High-resolution burn prioritization models enhance fire management decisions in heterogeneous landscapes
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Andrea Nocentini about optimizing prescribed fire management in subtropical wetlands using a numerical model. Full journal article can be found at https://lin…
- Episode 78: Terrestrial lidar scanning provides efficient measurements of fire-caused crown scorch in longleaf pine
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jeffery Cannon, Nicole Zampieri, Morgan Varner about using terrestrial lidar to measure crown scorch as a repeatable, efficient, and objective method. Full jo…
- Episode 77: Power and planning: a critical discourse analysis of tribal and non-tribal Oregon wildfire protection plans
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Christian Heisler about unearthing harmful narratives and confronting the ideologies within wildfire protection plans. Full journal article can be found at ht…
- Episode 76: Innovation to support wildfire risk-based decision-making: examining the incident strategic alignment process
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Cole Buettner, Tyler Aldworth, and Michelle Greiner about investigating the use of the Incident Strategic Alignment Process (ISAP) and the value this process…
- Episode 75: Towards predicting flammability of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests: drought stress and fuel moisture are strongly linked in angiosperms but decoupled in gymnosperms
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Indra Boving, Joe Celebrezze, and Leander Anderegg about how plant hydration impacts tissue level flammability. Full journal article can be found at https://l…
- Episode 74: Wildfire impact on the soil Funga associated to Nothofagus forests from central-western Patagonia, Argentina
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with María Salgado Salomón about what happens when fire occurs in a Nothofagus forest, specifically considering the ectomycorrhizal fungi. Full journal article can…
- Episode 73: Fire gives avian populations a rapid and enduring boost in protected forests of California
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Chris Ray about how fire has affected many of the bird species that are breeding in iconic national parks like Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon. Full journ…
- Episode 72: Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Elijah Orland about using thermal imagery to better understand what leads to burn severity and how quickly we can get that information to others. Full journal…
- Episode 71: Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jeanne Chambers, Jessi Brown, and Sarah Barga about evaluating climate change in recent decades and how it impacts ecological resilience, vegetation trajector…
- Episode 70: Multi-scale assessment of wildfire use on carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, CA
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kristin Nesbit, Scott Stephens, and Zachary Steel about how greater use of managed wildfires impact carbon stocks. Full journal article can be found at https:…
- Episode 69: Assessing fuel treatments and burn severity using global and local analyses
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Astrid Sanna, Alina Cansler, and Craig Bienz about evaluating fuel treatments and fire suppression operations through the 2021 Bootleg Fire of South-Central O…
- Episode 68: Representing 3-dimensional fuels for physics-based fire behavior models: a general framework and case study in a type-converted post-fire shrubfield
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Niko Tutland and Andreas Wion about building 3D fuel bed models for next generation fire models. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.spri…
- Episode 67: Synergistic effects on fire hazard from combined linear fuel breaks and mosaic fuel treatments
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Bruno Aparício and José Pereira about how we can combine linear fuel break networks with fuel treatment mosaics to have a synergistic effect on reducing wildf…
- Episode 66: Drone-based, multispectral photogrammetric point clouds to classify fire severity at differing canopy height strata
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jonathan Batchelor about exploring how drone-based photogrammetrictry could provide a more complete picture of fire impacts on the forest floor. Full journal…
- Episode 65: Topographic conditions dominate tree species recovery over 15 years post-fire in a temperate Pinus sylvestris forest
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jan Holik about detecting our expectations about how trees regenerate after different kinds of disturbances. Full journal article can be found at https://fire…
- Episode 64: Bucking the suppression status quo: incentives to shift the wildfire management paradigm around natural ignitions
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Scott Franz about using natural ignitions to accomplish objectives like fuels reduction. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen…
- Episode 63: Being there: effectiveness of a 360-degree virtual tour for increasing understanding of forest treatments for fire hazard reduction in California, USA
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Alan Taylor and Eric Knapp about 360-degree photography can help people immersively explore areas previous to fire exclusion. Virtual Reality tour of the ‘Var…
- Episode 62: Realignment of federal environmental policies to recognize fire’s role
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jenna Archer about tribal sovereignty and how federal environmental laws contribute to fire suppression and exclusion in the United States. Apply to be Editor…
- Episode 61: Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Flavio Taccaliti and Emanuele Lingua about forest regeneration after wildfire surrounding downed logs. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecolog…
- Episode 60: Inside AFE: Fire Ecology Journal Committee
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Sharon Hood about AFE’s Fire Ecology Journal Committee.
- Episode 59: Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with George Jensen, Benjamin Knapp, and Jeffery Cannon about how understanding structural complexity enhances understanding of the ecology and restoration of fire-…
- Episode 58: Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Shu Li and Robert York about this systematic, long-term analysis of escaped prescribed burns in California. Full journal article can be found at https://firee…
- Episode 57: Wildfire management decisions outweigh mechanical treatment as the keystone to forest landscape adaptation
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Tucker Furniss and Zhuoran Duan about using LANDIS-II to simulate the interactive effects of future climate and land management thinning, prescribed burning,…
- Episode 56: Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al.
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Nathan Stephenson and David Soderberg about new evidence that addresses if large patches of fire severe enough to kill most sequoias is a normal part of the s…
- Episode 55: Long-term influence of prescribed burning on subsequent wildfire in an old-growth coast redwood forest
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Sky Biblin about this rare opportunity to compare early post-wildfire data between areas with and without previous application of prescribed burning. Full jou…
- Episode 54: Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Mike Clarke about re-evaluating the ecological metrics that guide fire management. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/a…
- Episode 53: Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits to predict conifer live fuel moisture content: a pyro-ecophysiological approach
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Matt Jolly about this novel discovery in calculating live fuel moisture content. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/art…
- Episode 52: Complexities in post-wildfire governance: lessons from Colorado’s 2020 wildfires
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Clint Carney about examining the complications of federal agency response in the aftermath of Colorado’s 2020 wildfires. Full journal article can be found at…
- Episode 51: Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Madeleine Lopez, Jeffrey Kane, and David Greene about how non-serotinous conifers persist on the landscape following high-severity fire. Full journal article…
- Episode 50: When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Caden Chamberlain and Marc Meyer about evaluating the capacity of contemporary wildfires for restoring forest structural patterns. Full journal article can be…
- Episode 49: Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Dana Johnson and Thea Whitman about how wildfires influence boreal forest soil carbon cycling. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.spring…
- Episode 48: Fire, land use, and the long-term dynamics of a pitch pine woodland in coastal Maine, USA
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Andrew Barton and Dan Grenier about examining the role fire has played in pitch pine forests over the last 9,000 years, and why we find this kind of woodland…
- Episode 47: Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia
In this special episode of Fire Ecology Chats with Spanish translations, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Iván Barberá about fire patterns and drivers over the last 24 years in northwestern Patagonia. Full journal article can be f…
- Episode 46: Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest
In this special episode of Fire Ecology Chats with Spanish translations, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Paola Arroyo-Vargas and Andrés Holz about how forest structures in Chile regenerate after short-interval severe fire. Full j…
- Episode 45: Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Mark Turner about how fire at different times of the season influences the types of oak that regenerate. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecol…