Publications: Institute for Wildfire Science, Adaptation and Resiliency

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Read some of the works by wildfire institute researchers.

2024

Dawson, Wayne, et al. “Root Traits Vary as Much as Leaf Traits and Have Consistent Phenotypic Plasticity Among 14 Populations of a Globally Widespread Herb. Functional Ecology, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 926-941, February 2024. Link
Diaz-Martinez, Paloma, et al. “Vulnerability of Mineral-Associated Soil Organic Carbon to Climate Across Global Drylands.” Nature Climate Change, vol. 14, pp. 976-982, April 2024. Link
Eldridge, David J, et al. “Hotspots of Biogeochemical Activity Linked to Aridity and Plant Traits Across Global Drylands.” Nature Plants, vol. 10, pp. 760-770, April 2024. Link
Gross, Nicolas, et al. “Unforeseen Plant Phenotypic Diversity in a Dry and Grazed World.” Nature, vol. 632, pp. 808-814, August 2024. Link
Jain, Piyush, et al. “Canada Under Fire – Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season.” Nature Communications, vol. 2, Sept. 2024. Link
Jain, Piyush, et al. “Record-Breaking Fire Weather in North America in 2021 was Initiated by the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome.” Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 5, no. 202, April 2024. Link
Little, Kerryn, et al. “Landscape Controls on Fuel Moisture Variability in Fire-Prone Heathland and Peatland Landscapes.” Fire Ecology, vol. 20, no. 14, January 2024. Link
Lou, Kaiwei, et al. “Drought Triggers and Sustains Overnight Fires in North America.” Nature, vol. 627, pp. 321-327, March 2024. Link
Singh, Jay Prakash, et al. “Microbial Composition and Function in Reclaimed Mine Sites along a Reclamation Chronosequence Become Increasingly Similar to Undisturbed Reference Sites.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 920, April 2024. Link
Smith, Melinda D., et al. "Extreme Drought Impacts Have Been Underestimated in Grasslands and Shrublands Globally." Ecology, vol. 121, no. 4, January 2024. Link
Wang, Xianli, et al. "Mapping the Distance Between Fire Hazard and Disaster for Communities in Canadian Forests." Global Change Biology, vol. 30, no. 3, March 2024. Link
Williams, Brandon, et al. “Testing Prescribed Burning to Shift an Agronomic Grass Community to a Diverse Native Plant Community.” Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 356, April 2024. Link

2023

Adams, Amy, et al. “A Case Study: Growth of Tree-Form Willow Driven by Cool, Wet Springs and Warm, Dry Summers in Teetł'it Zheh (Fort Mcpherson), Northwest Territories, Canada.” Tree-Ring Research, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 60-66, August 2023. Link
Akin-Fajiye, Morodoluwa, et al. “Winners and Losers: Examining Biotic Interactions in Forbes and Grasses in Response to Changes in Water and Temperature in a Semi-Arid Grassland.” AoB Plants, vol. 15, no. 3, June 2023. Link
Donnelly, Sabina, et al. “Plant Provenance Can Influence the Impacts of Temperature and Moisture on Intraspecific Competition in Pseudoroegneria Spicata.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 13, no. 10, October 2023. Link
Hanes, Chelene C., et al. “Evaluation of New Methods for Drought Estimation in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.” International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 836-853, April 2023. Link
Luo, Binyu, et al. “Ant Nests Increase Litter Decomposition to Mitigate the Negative Effect of Warming in an Alpine Grassland Ecosystem.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 290, no. 2001, June 2023. Link
Parisien, Marc-André, et al. “Abrupt, Climate-Induced Increases in Wildfire in British Columbia Since the mid-2000s.” Nature, vol. 4, no. 309, Sept. 2023. Link
Sepp, Siim-Kaarel, et al. “Global Diversity and Distribution of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in the Soil.” Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 14, January 2023. Link
Van Dongen, Angeline, et al. “The Influence of Forest Harvesting Activities on Seismic Line Tree and Shrub Regeneration in Upland Mixedwood Boreal Forests.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 53, no. 11, February 2023. Link
Vasar, Martti, et al. “Metabarcoding of Soil Environmental DNA to Estimate Plant Diversity Globally.” Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 14, April 2023. Link
Wang, Xianli, et al. “Critical Fire Weather Conditions During Active Fire Spread Days in Canada.” Science of The Total Environment, vol. 869, April 2023. Link

2022

Aftergood, Olivia S.R., et al. “Identifying and Analyzing Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Lightning-Ignited Wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 52, no. 11, November 2022. Link
Bradley, Clayton A., et al. “Debris Barriers Reduce the Effects of Livestock Grazing Along Streams After Timber Harvest.” Rangleland Ecology & Management, vol. 81, pp. 1-8, March 2022. Link
Campos-Ruiz, Rodrigo, et al. “Physicochemical Characteristics Controlling the Flammability of Live Pinus Banksiana Needles in Central Alberta, Canada.” International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 857-870, August 2022. Link
Chan, Xue Ya, et al. “Assessment of Lake-Level Fluctuation as an Indicator of Fire Activity in Boreal Canada.” Ecological Indicators, vol. 145, December 2022. Link
Coogan, Sean C.P., et al. “Human- and Lightning-Caused Wildland Fire Ignition Clusters in British Columbia, Canada.” International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1043-1055, October 2022. Link
Davidson, John, et al. “Dominance, Diversity, and Niche Breadth in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities.” Ecology, vol. 103, no. 9, September 2022. Link
Ellis, Todd M., et al. “Global Increase in Wildfire Risk due to Climate-Driven Declines in Fuel Moisture.” Global Change Biology, vol.28, no. 4, pp. 1544-1559, February 2022. Link
Fischer, Ashley M., et al. “Impacts from Topsoil Stockpile Height on Soil Geochemical Properties in Two Mining Operations in British Columbia: Implications for Restoration Practices.” Mining, vol. 2, no. 2, May 2022. Link
Hanes, Chelene C., et al. “Mapping Organic Layer Thickness and Fuel Load of the Boreal Forest in Alberta, Canada.” Geoderma, vol. 417, July 2022. Link
Jain, Piyush, et al. “Observed Increases in Extreme Fire Weather Driven by Atmospheric Humidity and Temperature.” Nature Climate Change, vol. 12, pp. 63-70, January 2022. Link
Janecka, Karolina, et al. “Short-Term Effects of Droughts and Cold Winters on the Growth of Scots Pine at Coastal Sand Dunes around the South Baltic Sea.” Forests, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 477, March 2022. Link
Jones, Caren, et al. “Field Sampling Methods on Seismic Lines: A Comparison between Circular Plots and Belt Transects.” Restoration Ecology, vol. 30, no. 7, September 2022. Link
Margolis, Ellis Q., et al. “The North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network.” Ecosphere, vol 13, no. 7, July 2022. Link
Melnik, Oleg M., et al. “New In-Flame Flammability Testing Method Applied to Monitor Seasonal Changes in Live Fuel.” Fire, vol. 5, no. 1, January 2022. Link
Maestre, Fernando T., et al. “Grazing and Ecosystem Service Delivery in Global Drylands.” Science, vol. 378, no. 6622, pp. 915-920, November 2022. Link
Ploughe, Laura W., et al. “Find New Roads™? A Systematic Review on the Impacts of Off-Road Vehicle Activity on Soil, Vegetation, and Wildlife.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 9, January 2022. Link
Sharma, Aseem R., et al. “Persistent Positive Anomalies in Geopotential Heights Promote Wildfires in Western North America.” Journal of Climate, vol. 35, no. 19, pp. 6469-6486, October 2022. Link
Singh, Jay Prakash, et al. “Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) Creates a Soil Legacy Effect by Modulating Soil Elemental Composition in a Semi-arid Grassland Ecosystem.” Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 317, June 2022. Link
Sommers, Marcus and Mike Flannigan. “Green Islands in a Sea of Fire: The Role of Forest Refugia in the Forests of Alberta.” Environmental Reviews, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 402-417. Link
Tepley, Alan J., et al. “Wildfire Evacuation Patterns and Syndromes across Canada’s Forested Regions.” Ecosphere, vol. 13, no. 10, October 2022. Link
Van Dogen, Angeline, et al. “Ground Validation of Seismic Line Forest Regeneration Assessments Based on Visual Interpretation of Satellite Imagery.” Forests, vol. 13, no. 7, June 2022. Link
Wang, Xianli, et al. “Future Wildfire Extent and Frequency Determined by the Longest Fire-Conducive Weather Spell.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 830, July 2022. Link
Whitehouse, Sarah, et al. “Biosolids in Western Canada: A Case Study on Public Risk Perception and Factors Influencing Public Attitudes.” Environmental Management, vol. 69, pp. 179-195, January 2022. Link

2021

Akin-Fajiye, Morodoluwa, et al. “Soil Nutrients and Variation in Biomass Rather Than Native Species Richness Influence Introduced Plant Richness in a Semi-arid Grassland.” Basic and Applied Ecology, vol. 53, pp. 62-73, June 2021. Link
Antonelli, Paul M., et al. “Semiarid Bunchgrasses Accumulate Molybdenum on Alkaline Copper Mine Tailings: Assessing Phytostabilization in the Greenhouse.” SN Applied Sciences, vol. 3, no. 747, July 2021. Link
Chavardès, Raphaël D., et al. “Regional Drought Synchronized Historical Fires in Dry Forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada.” International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 31, no. 8, p. 823. August 2022. Link
Coogan, Sean C.P., et al. “Fifty Years of Wildland Fire Science in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 51, no. 2, Nov. 2020. Link
Davidson, John, et al. “Temperature and pH Define the Realised Niche Space of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.” New Phytologist, vol. 231, no. 2, pp. 763-776, July 2021. Link
Foster, Jordann G., et al. “Are Arthropod Communities in Grassland Ecosystems Affected by the Abundance of an Invasive Plant?” Oecologia, vol. 196, pp. 1-12, January 2021. Link
Gagnon, Alyson, et al. “Grassland Reclamation of a Copper Mine Tailings Facility: Long-Term Effects of Biosolids on Plant Community Responses.” Applied Vegetation Science, vol. 24, no. 4, December 2021. Link
Girardin, Martin P., et al. “A National Tree-Ring Data Repository for Canadian Forests (CFS-TRenD): Structure, Synthesis, and Applications.” Environmental Reviews, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2021. Link
Jain, Piyush and Mike Flannigan. “The Relationship between the Polar Jet Stream and Extreme Wildfire Events in North America: Jet Stream Climatology and Variability.” Journal of Climate, vol. 34, no. 15, pp. 6247-6265, June 2021. Link
Keeley, Jon E., et al. “Ignitions Explain More Than Temperatures or Precipitation in Driving Santa Ana Wind Fires.” Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 30, July 2021. Link
Ploughe, Laura W., et al. “Revegetation of Degraded Ecosystems into Grasslands Using Biosolids as an Organic Amendment: A Meta-Analysis.” Applied Vegetation Science, vol. 24, no. 1, March 2021. Link
Robinne, François-Nicolas, et al. “Scientists’ Warning on Extreme Wildfire Risks to Water Supply.” Hydrological Processes, vol. 35, no. 5, February 2021. Link
Tymstra, Cordy, et al. “Characterisation of Initial Fire Weather Conditions for Large Spring Wildfires in Alberta, Canada.” International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 823-835, September 2021. Link
Villellas, Jesus, et al. “Phenotypic Plasticity Masks Range-Wide Genetic Differentiation for Vegetative but Not Reproductive Traits in a Short-Lived Plant.” Ecology Letters, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 2378-2393, August 2021. Link
Wang, Xianli. “One Extreme Fire Weather Event Determines the Extend and Frequency of Wildland Fires.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 16, November 2021. Link

2020

Baethke, Kathy A., et al. “Native Seedling Colonization on Stockpiled Mine Soils Is Constrained by Site Conditions and Competition with Exotic Species.” Minerals, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 361, April 2020. Link
Bowman, David M.J.S., et al. “Vegetation Fires in the Anthropocene.” Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, vol. 1, pp. 500-515, October 2020. Link
Coogan, Sean C.P., et al. “Seasonality and Trends in Human- and Lighting-Caused Wildfires ≥ 2ha in Canada, 1959–2018.” International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 473-485, February 2020. Link
Denyse, Dawe A., et al. “Post-Fire Ecology Regeneration of Endangered Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) at the Northern Extent of Its Range.” Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 457, February 2020. Link
Foster, Jordann G., et al. “Exploring Trophic Effects of Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe L.) on Arthropod Diversity Using DNA Metabarcoding.” Food Web, vol. 24, September 2020. Link
Hanes, Chelsea, et al. “Preceding Fall Drought Conditions and Overwinter Precipitation Effects on Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Canada.” Fire, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 24, August 2022. Link
Harvey, Jill E., et al. “Tree Growth Influenced by Warming Winter Climate and Summer Moisture Availability in Northern Temperate Forests.” Global Change Biology, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 2505-2518, April 2020. Link
Jain, Piyush, et al. “A Review of Machine Learning Applications in Wildfire Science and Management.” Environmental Reviews, vol. 28, no. 4, July 2020. Link
Jain, Piyush, et al. “Downscaling Fire Weather Extremes from Historical and Projected Climate Models.” Climatic Change, vol. 163, pp. 189-216, November 2020. Link
Janeka, Karolina, et al. “Higher Winter-Spring Temperature and Winter-Spring/Summer Moisture Availability Increase Scots Pine Growth on Coastal Dune Microsites Around the South Baltic Sea.” Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, vol. 3, September 2020. Link
Johnston, Lynn M, et al. “Wildland Fire Risk in Canada.” Environmental Reviews, vol. 28, no. 2, June 2020. Link
Klesse, Stefan, et al. “Continental-Scale Tree-Ring-Based Projection of Douglas-Fir Growth: Testing the Limits of Space-for-Time Substitution.” Global Change Biology, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 5146-5163, September 2020. Link
McElhinny, Megan, et al. “A High-Resolution Reanalysis of Global Fire Weather from 1979 to 2018 — Overwintering the Drought Code.” Earth System Science Data, February 2020. Link
Ploughe, Laura Weber, et al. “Priority Effects: How the Order of Arrival of an Invasive Grass, Bromus tectorum, Alters Productivity and Plant Community Structure When Grown with Native Grass Species.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, no. 23, pp. 13173-13181, December 2020. Link
Stotz, Gisela C., et al. “Not a Melting Pot: Planet Species Aggregate in Their Non-Native Range.” Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 482-490, March 2020. Link
Wang, Xianli, et al. “Projected Changes in Fire Size from Daily Spread Potential in Canada over the 21st Century.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 15, no. 10, September 2020. Link

2019

Cai, Xinli, et al. “Evaluation of Gridded Precipitation Data and Interpolation Methods for Forest Fire Danger Rating in Alberta, Canada.” JGR Atmospheres, vol. 124, no. 1, pp. 3-17, January 2019. Link
Coogan, Sean C.P., et al. “Scientists’ Warning on Wildfire — a Canadian Perspective.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 49, no. 9, September 2019. Link
Erni, Sandy, et al. “Developing a Two-Level Fire Regime Zonation System for Canada.” Canadian Journal of Fire Research, vol. 50, no. 3, March 2020. Link
Gibson, Carolyn M., et al. “Increased Deep Soil Respiration Detected despite Reduced Overall Respiration in Permafrost Peat Plateaus Following Wildfire.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 14, no. 12, November 2019. Link
Hanes, Chelene, C., et al. “Fire-Regime Changes in Canada Over the Last Century.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 49, no. 3, March 2019. Link
Kochtubajda, Bohdan, et al. “An Assessment of Surface and Atmospheric Conditions Associated with the Extreme 2014 Wildfire Season in Canada’s Northwest Territories.” Atmosphere-Ocean, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 73-90. February 2019. Link
Robinne, François-Nicolas, et al. “A Regional-Scale Index for Assessing the Exposure of Drinking-Water Sources to Wildfires.” Forests, vol. 10, no. 5, p. 384, April 2019. Link
Sakellariou, S., et al “Determination of Fire Risk to Assist Fire Management for Insular Areas: The Case of a Small Greek Island.” Journal of Forest Research, vol. 30, pp. 589-601, April 2019. Link
Stockdale, Christopher A., et al. “Could Restoration of a Landscape to a Pre-European Historical Vegetation Condition Reduce Burn Probability?” Ecosphere, vol. 10, no. 2, February 2019. Link
Tymstra, Cordy, et al. “Statistical Surveillance Thresholds for Enhanced Situational Awareness of Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Alberta, Canada.” Journal of Environmental Statistics, vol. 9, no. 4, September 2019. Link
Wang, Yongfan, et al. “Global Evidence of Positive Biodiversity Effects on Spatial Ecosystem Stability in Natural Grasslands.” Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 3207, July 2019. Link
Whitman, Thea, et al. “Soil Bacteria and Fungal Response to Wildfires in the Canadian Boreal Forest Across a Burn Severity Gradient.” Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 138, November 2019. Link
Whitman, Ellen, et al. “Short-Interval Wildfire and Drought Overwhelm Boreal Forest Resilience.” Scientific Reports, vol. 9, December 2019. Link

2018

Antonelli, Paul M., et al. “Long Term Carbon Sequestration Potential of Biosolids-Amended Copper and Molybdenum Mine Tailings Following Mine Site Reclamation.” Ecological Engineering, vol. 117, pp. 38-49, July 2018. Link
Arduini, Connor, et al. “Evaluation of the Use of Wetlands in Arsenic Sequestration of Mine-Influenced Effluent using Synchrotron XRF and XANES Spectroscopy.” Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 24, no. S2, pp. 516-517. Link
Barber, Quinn E., et al. “Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Habitat of Boreal Woodland Caribou.” Ecosphere, vol. 9, no. 10, October 2018. Link
Campos-Ruiz, Rodrigo, et al. “Temporal Patterns of Wildfire Activity in Areas of Contrasting Human Influence in the Canadian Boreal Forest.” Forest, vol. 9, no. 4, March 2018. Link
Garris, Heath W., et al. “Short-Term Microbial Effects of a Large-Scale Mine-Tailing Storage Facility Collapse on the Local Natural Environment.” PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 4, April 2018. Link
Gibson, Carolyn M., et al. “Wildfire as a Major Driver of Recent Permafrost Thaw in Boreal Peatlands.” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 3041, August 2018. Link
Harvey, Jill E., et al. “Disturbance – Climate Relationships Between Wildfire and Western Spruce Budworm in Interior British Columbia.” Ecosphere, vol. 9, no. 3, March 2018. Link
Henry, Hugh A.L., et al. “Increased Soil Frost Versus Summer Drought as Drivers of Plant Biomass Responses to Reduced Precipitation: Results from a Globally Coordinated Field Experiment.” Ecosystems, vol. 21, pp. 1432-1444. Link
Koerner, Sally E., et al. “Change in Dominance Determines Herbivore Effects on Plant Biodiversity.” Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, pp. 1925-1932, October 2018. Link
Robinne, François-Nicolas, et al. “A Spatial Evaluation of Global Wildfire-Water Risks to Human and Natural Systems.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 610-611, pp. 1193-1206, January 2018. Link
Trouillier, Mario, et al. “Visualizing Individual Tree Differences in Tree-Ring Studies.” Forests, vol. 9, no. 4, April 2018. Link
Whitman, Ellen, et al. “Topoedaphic and Forest Controls on Post-Fire Vegetation Assemblies Are Modified by Fire History and Burn Severity in the Northwestern Canadian Boreal Forest.” Forests, vol. 9. No. 3, March 2018. Link
Whitman, Ellen, et al. “Variability and Drivers of Burn Severity in the Northwestern Canadian Boreal Forest.” Ecosphere, vol. 9, no. 2, February 2018. Link
Wilkinson, S.L., et al. “Did Enhanced Afforestation Cause High Severity Peat Burn in the Fort McMurray Horse River Wildfire?” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2018. Link

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