A postdoctoral position examining plant physiological responses to environmental variability is available in the lab of Dr. Nick Smith in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebrask...

We are looking for:PhD in relevant field (e.g. climate science, ecology, plant physiology, forestry, geography); Background in data intensive...

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Warming and drying conditions are driving increases in wildfire size and annual area burned across the forests of British Columbia, Canada. The impact of increasing fire activity on these forests rem...

Will thinning and fuel reduction treatments help dry conifer forests persist under climate change?, Hanbury-Brown, Adam, Holm, Jennifer, Tortorelli, Claire, Young, Derek, Gao, Xiulin, Koven, Charlie, ...

The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...

Scientific Reports - Assessment of spatial autocorrelation and scalability in fine-scale wildfire random forest prediction models

Anthropogenic and natural fires are an important component of the Earth system. Geographic location, fuel type, seasonality and intensity of fire largely determine the sign and magnitude of feedbacks ...

The effects of altered fire regimes within open ecosystems are poorly understood and can have serious consequences on functioning and conservation acr…

Earth system models often categorize plants to just a few functional types, and plant characteristics are defined per type, neglecting their diversity. The authors show how the use of plant traits can...

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

Grass-dominated ecosystems cover wide areas of the land surface yet have received far less attention from the Earth System Model (ESM) community. This limits model projections of ecosystem dynamics ...

The California Fire Science Seminar Series will return on February 4th, 2025. Join us every Tuesday through March 18th at 10 am PT for virtual presentations and discussions on emerging fire science to...

In a warming world, future rapid permafrost thawing can cause significant soil drying, surface warming, and atmospheric drying in the Arctic-Subarctic region, leading to an intensification of peat and...

Prescribed fires are an important management tool for containing woody plant encroachment in rangeland ecosystems. Grasses are the dominant fuel type …

<em>Ecological Applications</em> is an applied ecology journal discussing the applications of ecological science research for policy, management, and solving environmental problems.