HOT off the press🎙️🔥 Dr. Alexandra Syphard joins Dr. Jeff Kane to break down what it would really mean to get rid of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Listen on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and our website https://ow.ly/hIpP50ZYvax #fireecology #fireecologychats #firerisk #conservation

Read "Temporal and spatial proximity to wildfire is associated with species-specific patterns of phoresy by plant-pathogenic nematodes (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) in populations of sawyer beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Colorado" in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://ow.ly/RS1r50ZYcWo

Read "Post-fire succession of saproxylic and non-saproxylic beetles: wildfire as an almost disappeared historical disturbance in Central Europe" by Oto Nakládal, Václav Zumr, Roman Modlinger, and Jiří Remeš in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://ow.ly/q4ko50ZXfM8

Read "Evaluating trade-offs of hazardous fuel reduction in Navajo Nation woodlands" by Lionel Whitehair, Peter Z. Fulé, Andrew J. Sánchez Meador, and Benita Litson in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00537-w

Read "Within and among years atmospheric moisture availability influences wildfire burn severity in the boreal forest" by Jack A. Goldman, Marie-Josée Fortin, and Patrick M. A. James in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00544-x

Read "Tree traits drive phylogenetic and functional responses of soil fungal communities in Mediterranean forests subjected to recurrent fires" by L. Pérez-Izquierdo, M. Zabal-Aguirre, S. C. González-Martínez, M. Buée, M. Verdú, and A. Rincón in #FireEcology #SNFECO https://ow.ly/GVoC50ZWtWi

Read "From drying to frying: drought and fire as interacting drivers of vegetation change in piñon-juniper-oak forests of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, USA" by Helen Mills Poulos and Andrew Marder Barton in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://ow.ly/2X3J50ZWqZE

Read "Global ecoregion-scale variations in wildfire seasonality revealed by daily satellite data" by Ruixuan Li, Xiaoyang Zhang, Fangjun Li, Yongchang Ye, Shuai An, and Aihua Zhu in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00541-0

Read "Socio-ecological knowledge increases support for selective logging after forest fire in Sweden" by Nils Droste, Brian Danley, Stefan H. Doerr, Alexia Fridén, Julia Kelly, Cristina Santín, Louise Rütting, and Natascha Kljun in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://ow.ly/9U8V50ZW3CP

Read "Tracking decadal changes in frequent fire activity across the southeastern U.S. (2000–2019): insights from Southeast FireMap" in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00561-w

Read "Experiencing wildfire, understanding risk in mountain regions of Switzerland: a case study of the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire" by Lena Ursina Widmer and Christine Eriksen in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00554-9

Read "Laboratory fire simulations overestimate germination responses compared to controlled burns in cactus species" in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00552-x

Read "Effects of wildfire on streambed sediment size in the Cascades and Klamath regions of the Pacific Northwest" by Sara A. Wall, Marcía N. Snyder, Robert S. Brown, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Joeseph L. Ebersole, Christine Hirsch, and David Hockman-Wert in #FireEcology #SNFECO https://ow.ly/E54A50ZU7vi

Read "Fire frequency and seasonality in the miombo woodlands of the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia, and implications for fire management" by Brian W. van Wilgen, Hayden Wilson, and Andrew Purdon in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00557-6

Thanks to Nate Cristofori and Town of Plymouth for helping make this a great field experience!

#FireEcology #PrescribedFire #PineBarrens #FieldEcology

🌎🌱🦤

Read "Modeling tree crown-mediated accumulation of downed woody debris in fire-maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US from laser scanning data" in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00548-7

Read "Needing a quick fix? Exploring the potential of pre-fire fertilization to mitigate fire severity in ponderosa pine saplings" in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00579-0

🌾 Understanding grassy biomes as ancient, diverse ecosystems, not simply forests waiting to return, can change how we approach their conservation and management. (7/7)

👉 doi.org/rrph

#PlantScience #AoBpapers #GrassyBiomes #GrasslandEcology #PlantEcology #FireEcology #Biodiversity

Read "A quantitative, empirical method for generating fuel-bed maps from plant cover estimates reveals thresholds and one-to-many fuel-to-plant type relationships" by Cara Applestein, Samuel “Jake” Price, and Matthew J. Germino in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://ow.ly/AXTB50ZTgEx

Read "Optimizing fuel break placement to mitigate wildland fire risk to communities" by Vittorio Nicoletta, Raphaël D. Chavardès, Denys Yemshanov, Valérie Bélanger, Anne Cotton-Gagnon, and Jonathan Boucher in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO https://ow.ly/QU8x50ZTgrQ