Effects of Climate Change on Fire Danger

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit research manuscripts concerning technologies and approaches applied to the effects of climate change on fire danger.

Globally, fires are one of the most serious disturbances and are particularly prevalent in forests. Forest fires promote dynamic changes in ecosystem structure and function, have positive and negative impacts on ecosystems, and have a profound impact on human life and regional developments. With climate change and global warming, the frequency of forest fires is increasing and receives increasing attention as an integral part of global environmental change studies.

This Special Issue aims to collect research articles and reviews on original and innovative research regarding applications, methodologies, case studies, and reviews on new technologies and analytical methodologies dedicated to assessing fire danger and fire effects under climate change. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Remote sensing for post-fire mapping;
2. GIS applied in wildfire management;
3. Forest fire detection and monitoring;
4. Wildfire risk assessment under climate change;
5. Wildfire behavior and prediction;
6. Forest fire statistics and spatiotemporal variation;
7. Prescribed burning effect on forest ecosystem.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Tongxin Hu
Dr. Wei Chen
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.