Fire Ecology Chats

Episode 54: Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 7:21

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/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00333-4

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Episode 53: Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits to predict conifer live fuel moisture content: a pyro-ecophysiological approach

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 7:54

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/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00361-8

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Episode 52: Complexities in post-wildfire governance: lessons from Colorado's 2020 wildfires

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 10:20

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 https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00344-1

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Episode 51: Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 12:16

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 can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00357-4

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Episode 50: When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 8:15

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 found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00324-5

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Episode 49: Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 8:39

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.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00328-1

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Episode 48: Fire, land use, and the long-term dynamics of a pitch pine woodland in coastal Maine, USA

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 11:01

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 in coastal Maine.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00343-2

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Episode 47: Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 9:25

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 found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00353-8

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Episode 46: Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 11:30

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 journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00327-2

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Episode 45: Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 8:30

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://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00350-x

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Episode 44: Fire versus herbivory for oak woodland restoration

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 11:24

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Gina Beebe and Lauren Pile Knapp about using herbivory as a supplement to prescribed fire in areas with limitations.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00336-1

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Episode 43: Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 9:48

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Chika Tada, Ella Plumanns-Pouton, and Alexander Filkov about this unique experimental model that tests the fire component of plant species.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00295-7

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Episode 42: Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 8:12

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Lauren Pile Knapp about how we can reopen closed forests in the eastern United States to woodlands and savannas, and reintroduce fire to those landscapes.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00312-9

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Episode 41: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 7:50

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Carolyn Stephen, Jamie Ladner, and Lauren Sullivan about the effects of prescribed fire on plant communities like dry woodlands, dry-mesic woodlands, and glades in Missouri, USA.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00299-3

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Episode 40: Crown fires remove a fire-sensitive canopy dominant from oak-juniper woodlands: results from long-term monitoring of wildfires

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 7:55

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Erica Smithwick about how oak-juniper woodlands respond to crown fires in Fort Cavazos, and how that affects species like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00311-w

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Episode 39: Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 11:49

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Erica Smithwick about how managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States can safely put prescribed fire back into the landscape to address local issues.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00315-6

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Episode 38: Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2025 9:22

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Clare Boerigter, Sean Parks, and Jonathan Long about using intentional, human-ignited fire as a tool to restore natural conditions within wilderness.See companion StoryMap here https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/57bac07618ef4e1c922a6ac0b5835beeFull journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00297-5

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Episode 37: Overstory and fuel traits drive moisture dynamics of mesophytic and pyrophytic leaf litter and 10-h woody debris fuels in a mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodland

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 10:35

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Heather Alexander and Jeffrey Cannon about reintroducing fire into mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodlands, and how that will be affected by the shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive species that have grown during periods of fire exclusion.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00294-8

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Episode 36: Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 8:21

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Doug Aubrey and Jeffrey Cannon about better predicting the leaf litter component in a pine forest to better understand how fire might move through forests under different management scenarios.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00209-z

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Episode 35: Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 6:03

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Norma Fowler and Rebecca Carden about the management applications of re-introducing surface fires into the woodlands, savannas, and shrubland of Central Texas. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00286-8

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Episode 34: Coexisting with wildfire: strengthening collective capacity by changing the status quo

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 10:53

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Christine Eriksen about strengthening our collective capacity to coexist with wildfire by embracing local and indigenous fire stewardship practices, enabling workforce diversity and inclusive leadership culture, and providing sustainable working conditions for wildland firefighters.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00290-y

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Episode 33: Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 8:30

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Malcolm North and Paul Hessburg about using strategic fire zones to minimize wildfire risk in the Western U.S.Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00282-y

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Episode 32: Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 5:13

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

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Episode 31: Changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa's savanna-protected areas: opportunities and challenges for indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024 11:04

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

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Episode 30: Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2024 7:47

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

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Episode 29: Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 11:53

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

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Episode 28: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 8:46

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

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Episode 27: The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 8:46

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

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Episode 26: Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 17:02

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

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Episode 25: Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 12:26

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

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Episode 24: Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 9:47

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

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Episode 23: New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 12:25

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

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Episode 22: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 15:24

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00146-3

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Episode 21: Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 9:40

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00142-7

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Episode 20: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2023 15:19

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00139-2

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Episode 19: Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2022 7:01

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00136-5

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Episode 18: Pre-Columbian red pine fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2022 11:13

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00135-6

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Episode 17: Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 9:38

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00123-2

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Episode 16: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 6:19

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00111-6

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Episode 15: Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 13:43

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00119-y

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Episode 14: Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2022 10:06

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00117-0

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Episode 13: Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2022 17:26

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00103-6

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Podcast Episode 12: Detecting Shrub Recovery in Sagebrush Steppe

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 16:42

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00091-7

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Podcast Episode 11: Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 8:49

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-020-00087-9

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Podcast Episode 10: Spectral Indices and Soil Burn Severity

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 6:30

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-020-00089-7

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Podcast Episode 9: Fire Management, Policies, and Change

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 14:17

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-019-0028-x

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Podcast Episode 8: Post-fire Tree Mortality Models

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 5:34

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-020-00082-0

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Podcast Episode 7: Tree Regeneration in the Western US

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2021 9:01

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-019-0032-1

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Podcast Episode 6: Communicating Fire Science through Art

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2020 11:06

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-020-00078-w

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Podcast Episode 5: Empowering Strategic Decision-making for Wildfire Management

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2020 7:59

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-019-0048-6

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Podcast Episode 4: Incorporating Traditional Knowledge into Fuels Treatments

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 7:44

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-019-0030-3

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