Kurdistan’s oak forests are burning more each year as heat and drought intensify
A 24-year satellite analysis reveals significantly increasing burned areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, driven by rising temperatures and ...
Tag: fire ecology
Fire Consumes Ancient Charcoal and Makes Rest More Vulnerable to Decay
A controlled reburning experiment shows that subsequent fires remove preexisting pyrogenic organic matter both by directly combusting it and by ...
Slash and Burn Treatments Effectively Reduce Post-Fire Recruitment of the Invasive Shrub Hakea decurrens
A three-year field study in central Portugal shows that Slash and Slash & Burn treatments significantly reduce post-fire seedling recruitment ...
Satellite Fire Maps Hide a Split Personality: New Study Decodes What Sentinel-2 Indices Really See After Wildfire
A field study in a fire-scarred Turkish Pinus brutia forest shows that the Sentinel-2 indices dNBR, RdNBR, and NDVI each ...
Fire Reaches the Summit of Mount Roraima for the First Time on Record
Scientists report the first recorded fire on the summit of Roraima-tepui, warning that tourism, invasive grasses, and drought are exposing ...
Fire Rewrote the Recipe: A Decade of Kangaroo Island Honey Reveals a Landscape in Recovery
Chemical fingerprints in honey from the world's last Ligurian honeybee sanctuary reveal how the 2019–2020 bushfires permanently altered Kangaroo Island's ...
Fire strategies of pines shape which fungi break down their needles
A reciprocal litterbag experiment in Taiwan reveals that fire-tolerant and fire-avoiding pine species drive distinct fungal successions during needle decomposition, ...
Fire’s Hidden Toll: Tiny Parasitoid Wasps Reveal the Right Way to Burn a Grassland
A study of 3,975 parasitoid wasps in Slovakian dry grasslands reveals that prescribed burning boosts microhymenopteran abundance one year after ...
A South Atlantic Atmospheric River Dipole Signals Amazon Fire Seasons Months Ahead
Researchers have identified a June–July dipole in South Atlantic atmospheric river activity that explains about a quarter of Amazon wildfire ...
Colonial Land-Use Change Set the Stage for Australia’s Wildfire Crisis
A 1,000-year palaeoecological record shows that colonial disruption of Gunaikurnai cultural burning transformed open woodlands into dense, flammable eucalypt forest, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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