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Daily rainfall totals (mm), Sly Park Creek - Caldor Fire
<p>Sly Park Creek unheated tipping bucket rain gage. Latitude: 38.731593; Longitude: -120.501016. Daily rainfall totals (mm) from 2022-06-07 to 2023-12-09. Non-telemetered rain gage deployed for post-fire monitoring by the Burned Watershed Geohazards Program, California Geological Survey.</p>
Fire Effects Information System: FEIS Invasiveness (structured data) (750) in DwCA
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides up-to-date information about fire effects on plants, lichens, and animals. It was developed at the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. The FEIS database contains literature reviews, taken from current English-language literature of about 900 plant species, 7 lichen species, about 100 wildlife species, 17 Research Project Summaries, and 16 Kuchler plant communities of North America. The emphasis of each review and summary is fire and how it affects species. Background information on taxonomy, distribution, basic biology, and ecology of each species is also included. Reviews are thoroughly documented, and each contains a complete bibliography. Managers from several land management agencies (United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service) choose the species included in the database. Those agencies funded the original work and continue to support maintenance and updating of the database. <p></p>https://www.feis-crs.org/feis/<p></p>The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides up-to-date information about fire effects on plants, lichens, and animals. It was developed at the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. The FEIS database contains literature reviews, taken from current English-language literature of about 900 plant species, 7 lichen species, about 100 wildlife species, 17 Research Project Summaries, and 16 Kuchler plant communities of North America. The emphasis of each review and summary is fire and how it affects species. Background information on taxonomy, distribution, basic biology, and ecology of each species is also included. Reviews are thoroughly documented, and each contains a complete bibliography. Managers from several land management agencies (United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service) choose the species included in the database. Those agencies funded the original work and continue to support maintenance and updating of the database. <p></p>https://www.feis-crs.org/feis/ FEIS data on EOL include invasiveness status.
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change
<p>The dataset and scripts are for reanalysis the paper: Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change. </p> <p>The script is written in MATLAB. see Readme.txt and FireMort_SI_re.mlx for detail. </p> <p>Unzip files and make the folder (/Input, /Output, /Major_input, /Minor_input). </p> <p>Some original dataset (which can be directly driven from ISIMIP repository) were not included. </p> <p>If you need more information, please contact Chaeyeon Park (email- park.chaeyeon@aist.go.jp, or chaeyeon528@gmail.com)</p>
Cholinergic Interneuron Firing and Dopamine release across striatal subregions
<p>Folder contains all the code and data to produce the figures for "A mismatch between striatal cholinergic pauses and dopaminergic reward prediction errors" </p>
Updated Smoke Exposure Estimate for Indonesian Peatland Fires using a Network of Low-cost PM2.5 sensors and a regional air quality model - Model Simulation Data
<p>WRF-Chem simulated daily mean PM2.5 concentrations for:</p> <p>1) with fires </p> <p>2) without fires</p> <p>simulations. </p>
POST-FIRE-GERMINATIVE-RESPONSE,-FRUITS-AND-SEEDS-TRAITS-OF-SOME-SPECIES-OF-THE-TDF-IN-COLOMBIA
<p>In fire-prone ecosystems, certain plant species possess diaspores with morphological and physiological traits that enable them to persist and thrive following fire events. Postfire germination has been associated with various fruit and seed traits, including fruit lignification, seed size, seed weight and seed dormancy. However, the collective role and interactions of these traits in determining germination tolerance after wildfires remain unclear. We characterized ten key traits (fruit type and size (length and width), seed mass and size (length and width), dispersal mechanism, storage behavior, seed dormancy, and ecological guild) across eighteen species exhibiting three post-fire germination responses (tolerant, sensitive, and stimulated). Multinomial logistic regression was used to determine the relationship between these traits. Our findings suggest practical implications for restoration and enrichment strategies in Colombian tropical dry forests by prioritizing species with protective fruits, dormant and orthodox seeds to increase the probability of sexual regeneration after fires, and to contribute to the functional diversity and resilience of these ecosystems.</p>
Updated Smoke Exposure Estimate for Indonesian Peatland Fires using a Network of Low-cost PM2.5 sensors and a regional air quality model - Purple Air data
<p>Daily mean PM2.5 concentrations collected by Purple Air sensors between 2023-08-16 and 2023-12-01. Concentrations have been RH adjusted using the Nilson et al (2022) adjustment. </p>
Orinoco fires and lightning strikes, landcover
<p>Lightning strike correlation with wildfire hotspots. Landcover analysis for Inverbosques current or prospective holdings.</p>
Short spatiotemporal fire history explains the occurrence of beetles favoured by fire
<p>This data set belongs to a study of density of firest fires and occurrence of pyrophilic beetles in southern Sweden. </p> <p>The number and area of forest fires in northern Europe has been dramatically reduced during the last century and several fire-favoured species are now threatened. To promote recovery of these species, prescribed burning is often used as a conservation measure, and to optimise the use of these conservation burns, knowledge is needed on suitable fire frequency, size, and placement in the landscape. The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of recent fire history (12 yrs) on beetles sampled using smoke attraction traps at 21 forest sites in a 10.000 km<sup>2</sup> region. We analysed the odds of finding a fire-favoured beetle species or individual among the beetles in each trap using a new spatiotemporal connectivity measure and compared the results to non-fire-favoured and saproxylic species. For fire-favoured beetles, both species and individuals significantly increased with connectivity to previous fires, while the other two groups did not. The spatiotemporal connectivity that best explained the patterns suggests that fire-favoured beetles mainly respond to fires within a 2 km range up to 2-3 years after fire. Hence, to preserve fire-favoured insects, prescribed fires must be close in space and time to other fires – whether prescribed or natural.</p> <p>https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15100775</p>
Data from: Assessing the effect of tissue and fire-response traits on plant growth rates post-disturbance in Eastern Australia
<p>Here is the necessary code and data to reproduce results published in 'Assessing the effect of tissue and fire-response traits on plant growth rates post-disturbance in Eastern Australia'.</p>
Species functional data and species distribution model projections for future land-use and fire management scenarios in the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Gerês-Xurés
<p>The data includes nine functional traits and species distribution model projections for 102 species of vertebrates (amphibians, birds, and reptiles) in the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Gerês-Xurés. The model projections are available for 2050 under six different land-use and fire management scenarios, namely two land-use scenarios of “business-as-usual” (BAU; ongoing trends of land abandonment) and “High Nature Value farmlands” (HNV), each under three fire management scenarios (low suppression - LS, current fire suppression - CS, and high fire suppression - HS). The species distribution projections for each scenario are presented as matrices of species presences/absences, obtained after reclassifying consensus predictions of species distribution models.</p>
Supporting data for increasing fire activity reinforces shrub conversion in Southwestern US forests
<p>Fire-exclusion in historically frequent-fire forests of the southwestern United States has altered forest structure and increased the probability of high-severity fire. Warmer and drier conditions, coupled with dispersal distance limitations are limiting tree seedling establishment and survival following high-severity fire. Post-fire conversion to non-forest vegetation can be reinforced by subsequent fire events. We sought to determine the influence of fire probability on post-fire vegetation development in a severely burned landscape in New Mexico, USA. We used LANDIS-II to simulate three fire probability scenarios—contemporary mean fire return interval (CMFRI), and 1.5 times and 2 times CMFRI—with contemporary climate. As fire probability increased, the mean size of the largest fires and the mean landscape fire severity increased. These changes in fire characteristics resulted in a net decrease in total above ground biomass and photosynthetic capacity on the landscape. Additionally, the distribution of individual species biomass shifted, with early successional species, especially those that resprout after fire, increasing as a fraction of total biomass with increasing fire occurrence. Continued increases in fire frequency are likely to favor resprouting species and result in a loss of forest biomass and ecosystem productivity in this southwestern forest landscape.</p>
Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire
<p>Understory fires represent an accelerating threat to Amazonian tropical forests and can, during drought, affect larger areas than deforestation itself. These fires kill trees at rates varying from < 10 to c. 90% depending on fire intensity, forest disturbance history and tree functional traits. Here, we examine variation in bark thickness across the Amazon. Bark can protect trees from fires, but it is often assumed to be consistently thin across tropical forests. Here, we show that investment in bark varies, with thicker bark in dry forests and thinner in wetter forests. We also show that thinner bark translated into higher fire‐driven tree mortality in wetter forests, with between 0.67 and 5.86 gigatonnes CO<sub>2</sub> lost in Amazon understory fires between 2001 and 2010. Trait‐enabled global vegetation models that explicitly include variation in bark thickness are likely to improve the predictions of fire effects on carbon cycling in tropical forests.</p>
Data from: Fire, grazing, and climate shape plant-grasshopper interactions in a tallgrass prairie
1. Species interactions are integral to ecological community function and the structure of species interactions has repercussions for the consequences of species extinctions. Few studies have examined the role of environmental factors in controlling species interaction networks across time. 2. We examined variation in plant-grasshopper network structural properties in response to three major grassland drivers: periodic fire, ungulate grazing and climate. 3. We sequenced a plant barcoding gene from extracted grasshopper gut contents to characterize diets of 26 grasshopper species. Resulting grasshopper species' diets were combined with long-term plant and grasshopper surveys to assemble plant-grasshopper networks across 13-19 years for 6 watersheds subjected to varying fire and grazing treatments. 4. Network modularity, generality, and predicted grasshopper community robustness to plant species loss all increased in grazed watersheds. Temperature decreased predicted grasshopper community robustness to plant species loss. 5. Grasshopper communities were found to be vulnerable to climatic warming due to host plant loss. However, intermediate disturbance from ungulate grazers may maintain grasshopper diversity and buffer community robustness to species loss. Our results suggest that climate and disturbance shape the structure of ecological interaction networks and thus have many indirect effects on species persistence though direct effects on interaction partners.
Data from: Influences of fire–vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes
1. In the context of on-going climatic warming, forest landscapes face increasing risk of conversion to non-forest vegetation through alteration of their fire regimes and their post-fire recovery dynamics. However, this pressure could be amplified or dampened, depending on how fire-driven changes to vegetation feed back to alter the extent or behavior of subsequent fires. 2. Here we develop a mathematical model to formalize understanding of how fire–vegetation feedbacks and the time to forest recovery following high-severity (i.e., stand-replacing) fire affect the extent and stability of forest cover across landscapes facing altered fire regimes. We evaluate responses to increasing burn rates while varying the direction (negative vs. positive) of fire–vegetation feedbacks under a continuum of values for feedback strength and post-fire recovery time to determine how interactions among these variables produce thresholds and tipping points in landscape responses to changing fire regimes. 3. Where the early-seral vegetation is less fire-prone than older forests, negative feedbacks limited the reductions in forest cover in response to increased fire frequency or slower forest recovery. By contrast, positive feedbacks (more flammable early-seral vegetation) produced a tipping point beyond which increased burn rates or slower forest recovery drove extensive forest loss. 4. With negative feedbacks, the rates of forest loss and expansion in response to variation in fire frequency were similar. However, where feedbacks are positive, the conversion from predominantly forested to non-forested conditions in response to increased fire frequency was faster than the re-expansion of forest cover following a return to the initial burn rate. Strengthening the positive feedbacks increased this asymmetry. 5. Synthesis. Our analyses elucidate how fire–vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates interact to affect the trajectories and rates of landscape response to altered fire regimes. We illustrate the vulnerability of ecosystems with positive fire–vegetation feedbacks to climate change-driven increases in fire activity, especially where post-fire recovery is slow. Although negative feedbacks initially provide resistance to forest loss with increasing burn rates, this resistance is eventually overwhelmed with sufficient increases to burn rates relative to recovery times.
Data for the figures in the manuscript about the 2020 pantanal fires
<p>This file contains the data used for the preparation of various figures in the manuscript</p>
Data from: Consequences of climatic thresholds for projecting fire activity and ecological change
Aim: Ecological properties governed by threshold relationships can exhibit heightened sensitivity to climate, creating an inherent source of uncertainty when anticipating future change. We investigated the impact of threshold relationships on our ability to project ecological change outside the observational record (e.g., the 21st century), using the challenge of predicting late‐Holocene fire regimes in boreal forest and tundra ecosystems. Location: Boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska. Time period: 850–2100 CE. Major taxa studied: Not applicable. Methods: We informed a set of published statistical models, designed to predict the 30‐year probability of fire occurrence based on climatological normals, with downscaled global climate model data for 850–1850 CE. To evaluate model performance outside the observational record and the implications of threshold relationships, we compared modelled estimates with mean fire return intervals estimated from 29 published lake‐sediment palaeofire reconstructions. To place our results in the context of future change, we evaluate changes in the location of threshold to burning under 21st‐century climate projections. Results: Model–palaeodata comparisons highlight spatially varying accuracy across boreal forest and tundra regions, with variability strongly related to the summer temperature threshold to burning: sites closer to this threshold exhibited larger prediction errors than sites further away from this threshold. Modifying the modern (i.e., 1950–2009) fire–climate relationship also resulted in significant changes in modelled estimates. Under 21st‐century climate projections, increasing proportions of Alaskan tundra and boreal forest will approach and surpass the temperature threshold to burning, with > 50% exceeding this threshold by > 2 °C by 2070–2099. Main conclusions: Our results highlight a high sensitivity of statistical projections to changing threshold relationships and data uncertainty, implying that projections of future ecosystem change in threshold‐governed ecosystems will be accompanied by notable uncertainty. This work also suggests that ecological responses to climate change will exhibit high spatio‐temporal variability as different regions approach and surpass climatic thresholds over the 21st century.
Literature Survey of Electrostatic Incidents- Fire Protection Research Foundation report data
<p>The attached spreadsheet includes 89 incidents gathered as part of a FPRF report (report number FPRF-2021-07) "Static Electricity Incident Review" produced in August 2021. The report is available at: <a href="https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Electrical/Static-Electricity-Incident-Review ">https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Electrical/Static-Electricity-Incident-Review </a></p> <p>The incidents gathered are on electrostatic incidents found in the literature or public domain, and categorized in the following 10 columns:</p> <ol> <li>Incident Date</li> <li>Incident Location</li> <li>Incident Type</li> <li>Summary of Incident</li> <li>Potential NFPA 77 technical item that was breached</li> <li>Link/references to incident (if available)</li> <li>Number of Casualties</li> <li>Date last accessed</li> <li>Conclusions</li> <li>Why the incident happened.<br> </li> </ol>
Figures 9-10 in Sundapyrochroa: A new genus of Fire-Colored Beetles (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Pyrochroinae) from the Sunda Shelf, with a key to the three species
Figures 9-10. Sundapyrochroa sumatrensis (Pic), habitus adult male illustrating color variations.
Bud traits and post-fire responses of Cerrado woody species, Southeastern Brazil
<p>1) Species growing in fire-prone savannas usually persist by resprouting from their buds. In this study, we evaluated how various persistence traits allow bud protection for improved survival in fire-prone ecosystems.</p> <p>2) Using an integrative morphological and macroanatomical approach, we analyzed how woody plants protect their buds. We tested bud protection at the community level and evaluated: a) how bud protection changes along a fire frequency gradient, b) if it differs between shrubs and trees and c) whether the level of bud protection is related to post-fire responses of 28 woody savanna species.</p> <p>3) A mix of traits involving bud protection may enable woody species persistence in fire-prone ecosystems. Savanna species better protected their buds than forest species by developing bark and trichomes that allowed resprouting after fire. Regarding growth forms, shrub species capable of resprouting aboveground had their buds better protected than trees.</p> <p>4) Bud protection is not only linked with their position to the bark, but also with the presence of trichomes. Profuse trichomes covering buds were related to savanna species. Some species with no bud protection by bark but with trichomes covering their buds were able to resprout after fire. The presence of accessory buds is also a trait more related to savannas, possibly influencing the resprouting after fire as they are better protected and increase the bud bank. Finally, different persistence traits interact with one another to better protect the buds, requiring a detailed screening of the traits to assess species responses to fire.</p> <p>5) Synthesis. During fire, species have their aerial biomass consumed by the flames. To be able to resprout new branches and persist in the environment, they must have well-protected buds. In this study, we evaluated different ways that woody species protect their buds and related them with their resprouting strategy after fire. We investigated the protection by the bark, presence of trichomes and accessory buds. By studying the woody community in a gradient of savannas and forests we found that buds can be protected by bark, trichomes, or soil. Species can present a mix of these traits and strategies, which enhances their resprouting after fire.</p>
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