Fire Ecology Chats

By Association for Fire Ecology

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Episodes: 95

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This podcast series by the Association for Fire Ecology explores research findings recently published in the journal, Fire Ecology.


Episode Date
Episode 95: Prescribed fire drives divergent invasive annual grass responses in a dry forest-mosaic landscape
May 21, 2026
Episode 94: The state of the giant sequoias: losses, risks, and opportunities
May 14, 2026
Episode 93: Epiphytic lichens as ladder fuels: an experimental study on flammability in Southern Chile
May 07, 2026
Episode 92: Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to Western United States forests
Apr 30, 2026
Episode 91: Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action
Apr 23, 2026
Episode 90: Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability
Apr 16, 2026
Episode 89: Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire
Apr 09, 2026
Episode 88: Tree trunks do not bias estimates of surface fuels by aerial lidar in southern Sweden
Apr 02, 2026
Episode 87: Vegetation response varies by season of burning in pine woodlands across the southeastern US
Mar 26, 2026
Episode 86: Environmental health hazards and wildland firefighting: a qualitative analysis
Mar 19, 2026
Episode 85: Three-decade record of contiguous-U.S. national forest wildfires indicates increased density of ignitions near roads
Mar 05, 2026
Episode 84: Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US
Feb 26, 2026
Episode 83: Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire
Feb 19, 2026
Episode 82: When the wilderness burns: an analysis of current fire management and the case for prescribed fire in designated wilderness in the United States
Feb 12, 2026
Episode 81: Yosemite’s Merced Grove of giant sequoias: critical restoration continues despite legal challenges
Jan 29, 2026
Episode 80: A tale of two fire systems: indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California
Jan 21, 2026
Episode 79: High-resolution burn prioritization models enhance fire management decisions in heterogeneous landscapes
Jan 15, 2026
Episode 78: Terrestrial lidar scanning provides efficient measurements of fire-caused crown scorch in longleaf pine
Jan 08, 2026
Episode 77: Power and planning: a critical discourse analysis of tribal and non-tribal Oregon wildfire protection plans
Jan 01, 2026
Episode 76: Innovation to support wildfire risk-based decision-making: examining the incident strategic alignment process
Dec 18, 2025
Episode 75: Towards predicting flammability of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests: drought stress and fuel moisture are strongly linked in angiosperms but decoupled in gymnosperms
Dec 11, 2025
Episode 74: Wildfire impact on the soil Funga associated to Nothofagus forests from central-western Patagonia, Argentina
Dec 04, 2025
Episode 73: Fire gives avian populations a rapid and enduring boost in protected forests of California
Nov 06, 2025
Episode 72: Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking
Oct 23, 2025
Episode 71: Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands
Oct 09, 2025
Episode 70: Multi-scale assessment of wildfire use on carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, CA
Oct 02, 2025
Episode 69: Assessing fuel treatments and burn severity using global and local analyses
Sep 18, 2025
Episode 68: Representing 3-dimensional fuels for physics-based fire behavior models: a general framework and case study in a type-converted post-fire shrubfield
Sep 12, 2025
Episode 67: Synergistic effects on fire hazard from combined linear fuel breaks and mosaic fuel treatments
Sep 04, 2025
Episode 66: Drone-based, multispectral photogrammetric point clouds to classify fire severity at differing canopy height strata
Aug 28, 2025
Episode 65: Topographic conditions dominate tree species recovery over 15 years post-fire in a temperate Pinus sylvestris forest
Aug 21, 2025
Episode 64: Bucking the suppression status quo: incentives to shift the wildfire management paradigm around natural ignitions
Aug 14, 2025
Episode 63: Being there: effectiveness of a 360-degree virtual tour for increasing understanding of forest treatments for fire hazard reduction in California, USA
Aug 07, 2025
Episode 62: Realignment of federal environmental policies to recognize fire’s role
Jul 31, 2025
Episode 61: Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire
Jul 25, 2025
Episode 60: Inside AFE: Fire Ecology Journal Committee
Jul 14, 2025
Episode 59: Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration
Jul 07, 2025
Episode 58: Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020
Jul 03, 2025
Episode 57: Wildfire management decisions outweigh mechanical treatment as the keystone to forest landscape adaptation
Jun 30, 2025
Episode 56: Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al.
Jun 26, 2025
Episode 55: Long-term influence of prescribed burning on subsequent wildfire in an old-growth coast redwood forest
Jun 19, 2025
Episode 54: Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management
Jun 16, 2025
Episode 53: Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits to predict conifer live fuel moisture content: a pyro-ecophysiological approach
Jun 12, 2025
Episode 52: Complexities in post-wildfire governance: lessons from Colorado’s 2020 wildfires
Jun 09, 2025
Episode 51: Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire
Jun 05, 2025
Episode 50: When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?
Jun 02, 2025
Episode 49: Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration
May 29, 2025
Episode 48: Fire, land use, and the long-term dynamics of a pitch pine woodland in coastal Maine, USA
May 26, 2025
Episode 47: Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia
May 22, 2025
Episode 46: Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest
May 19, 2025
Episode 45: Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration
May 15, 2025
Episode 44: Fire versus herbivory for oak woodland restoration
May 06, 2025
Episode 43: Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival
Apr 29, 2025
Episode 42: Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas
Mar 20, 2025
Episode 41: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades
Mar 06, 2025
Episode 40: Crown fires remove a fire-sensitive canopy dominant from oak-juniper woodlands: results from long-term monitoring of wildfires
Feb 20, 2025
Episode 39: Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States
Feb 10, 2025
Episode 38: Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire
Jan 23, 2025
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
Jan 06, 2025
Episode 36: Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data
Dec 10, 2024
Episode 35: Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas
Nov 08, 2024
Episode 34: Coexisting with wildfire: strengthening collective capacity by changing the status quo
Oct 22, 2024
Episode 33: Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 32: Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States
Sep 19, 2024
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
Aug 26, 2024
Episode 30: Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room
Aug 12, 2024
Episode 29: Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia
Jul 22, 2024
Episode 28: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds
Jul 08, 2024
Episode 27: The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 26: Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 25: Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 24: Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America
Aug 29, 2023
Episode 23: New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation
Jul 13, 2023
Episode 22: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness
Jun 21, 2023
Episode 21: Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau
Apr 17, 2023
Episode 20: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management
Feb 17, 2023
Episode 19: Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types
Dec 01, 2022
Episode 18: Pre-Columbian red pine fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA
Sep 18, 2022
Episode 17: Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds
Jul 13, 2022
Episode 16: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity
Apr 22, 2022
Episode 15: Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment
Mar 16, 2022
Episode 14: Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California
Mar 04, 2022
Episode 13: Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA
Jan 28, 2022
Podcast Episode 12: Detecting Shrub Recovery in Sagebrush Steppe
Apr 16, 2021
Podcast Episode 11: Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes
Mar 17, 2021
Podcast Episode 10: Spectral Indices and Soil Burn Severity
Mar 17, 2021
Podcast Episode 9: Fire Management, Policies, and Change
Feb 18, 2021
Podcast Episode 8: Post-fire Tree Mortality Models
Feb 18, 2021
Podcast Episode 7: Tree Regeneration in the Western US
Jan 05, 2021
Podcast Episode 6: Communicating Fire Science through Art
Nov 06, 2020
Podcast Episode 5: Empowering Strategic Decision-making for Wildfire Management
Oct 09, 2020
Podcast Episode 4: Incorporating Traditional Knowledge into Fuels Treatments
Sep 02, 2020
Podcast Episode 3: Whitebark Pine Encroachment
Aug 12, 2020
Podcast Episode 2: Changing wildfire, changing forests
Jul 24, 2020
Podcast Episode 1: Prescribed Fire Science
Jul 09, 2020