In the wildland-urban interface, the imperative is often to protect life and property from destructive fires, while also conserving biodiversity. One potential tool for achieving this goal is the use of green firebreaks: strips of low flammability sp...
Forest fire prevention is very important for the protection of the ecological environment, which requires effective prevention and timely suppression. The opening of the firebreaks barrier contributes significantly to forest fire prevention. The deve...
Wildfires represent a growing concern worldwide, and their frequency has increased due to climate change and human activities, posing risks to biodiversity and human safety. In the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ), the combination of flammable ve...
Climate change, altered ecosystems, and expanding development in fire-prone landscapes are increasing fire risk in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). This study uses Noosa, southeast Queensland, Australia, as a case study for a preliminary mod...
With recent and predicted increases in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, there is a pressing need for mitigation strategies to reduce the impacts of wildfires on human lives, infrastructure and biodiversity. One strategy involves the use of l...
Wildfire risks are increasing due to climate change, which poses a challenge to conventional firefighting strategies. In the wildland–urban interface (WUI), people and their infrastructure are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Strategic planting...
Green Firebreaks (GFBs), strips of strategically placed low-flammability vegetation, represent a proactive complement to other approaches to wildfire management. This review, which summarises the literature to elucidate GFBs’ potential to reduc...
In this work, a series of laboratory surface fire experiments were performed over a pine needle fuel bed to investigate the effectiveness of a firebreak and the behaviors of a surface fire across a firebreak. Seven wind velocities of 0~3.0 m/s and si...
Montane shrubby grasslands, as one of the world’s important ecosystems, are highly sensitive to climate change and human activities, especially in the subtropical regions experiencing rapid economic development. However, little is known about h...
The disruptions to wildland fires, such as firebreaks, roads and rivers, can limit the spread of wildfire propagating through surface or crown fire. A large forest can be separated into different zones by carefully constructing firebreaks through mod...
Firebreaks are one of the techniques used to fight bushfires in Côte d’Ivoire. Their objective is to prevent the progression of fire and to protect sensitive sites. In this paper, a parametric study on the effectiveness of a firebreak in...
The threat of large forest fires is increasing, and the main causes are the depopulation of rural areas, along with the effects of climate change. To counter this threat in recent decades, there have been numerous proposals and actions aimed at promo...
Southern African grasslands with a rich flora, shaped by fire, grazing, climate and geology, as well as playing a role in carbon sequestration, are becoming more important in conservation. Fire is often used as a management tool to improve vegetation...
Due to their increasing frequency wildfires and the area burned in natural areas, wildfires are becoming increasingly challenging to control [...]
Large wildfires (>40 ha in size) occur about every three years within Army Garrison Camp Williams, located near South Jordan, Utah, USA. In 2010 and 2012, wildfires originating on the practice firing range burned beyond the camp’s boundaries...
Large lakes can act as firebreaks resulting in distinct patterns in the forest mosaic. Although this is well acknowledged, much less is known about how wildfire is affected by different landscape measures of water and their interactions. Here we exam...
Numerical techniques for approximate solution of a system of reaction-diffusion-convection partial differential equations modeling the evolution of temperature and fuel density in a wildfire are proposed. These schemes combine linearly implicit-expli...
Korean forests are highly vulnerable to forest fires, which can severely damage property and human life. This necessitates the establishment of a rapid response system and the construction of firebreaks to prevent the spread of fires and protect key...
The restoration of historical landscapes is crucial for preserving the cultural heritage. This study focuses on the cemetery of the former royal Tatoi estate, a historical site severely damaged by a wildfire in 2021. The fire almost completely eradic...
New Zealand species have evolved with infrequent fires, the flora being described as non-fire-adapted. Until recently, there has been contradictory information in the literature regarding the response of New Zealand indigenous species to fire, and li...
The negative impact of climate change is increasingly evident in the severity of forest fires. Fires are becoming more intense and can often only be controlled by aerial means. Aerial firefighting is known as a very effective method—in some cas...
In response to an increasing risk of property loss from wildfires at the urban–wildland interface[…]
Extreme wildfires increasingly interact with agricultural–forest mosaics in Mediterranean Europe, but field evidence from vineyard boundaries remains limited. This communication presents a geographically bounded descriptive case study following...
Fire prevention and suppression approaches that exclusively rely on silvicultural measures and containment infrastructure have become increasingly ineffective in stopping the spread of wildfires. As agroforestry landscape mosaics consisting of a mix...
As climate change increases the frequency and unpredictability of natural hazards, adapting critical infrastructure is crucial for long-term resilience. Among these hazards, embankment fires pose a growing threat to railway systems, particularly unde...
Street trees provide ecosystem services such as heat mitigation, improved community well-being, and biodiversity conservation. At the wildland–urban interface (WUI), high-flammability street trees also provide a conflicting ecosystem disservice...
Wildfire is a natural element of many ecosystems as well as a natural disaster to be prevented. Climate and land usage changes have increased the number and size of wildfires in the last few decades. In this situation, governments must be able to man...
Due to the consequences of fires, new and environmentally friendly firefighting techniques are constantly being sought. There are many methods of extinguishing flames around the world. One of them is a technique that uses acoustic waves for extinguis...
This study theoretically investigates the role of plant moisture content and its spatial heterogeneity in wildfire dynamics using Cellular Automata models. The model incorporates varying moisture levels and ignition probabilities across different gri...
Pasture practices have affected Mediterranean forest ecosystems for millennia, and they are still quite widespread in mountainous areas. Nevertheless, in the last decades, the stability of forest ecosystems has been jeopardized due to the abandonment...
The Changbai Mountain Forest Region contains one of the best-preserved mountain forest ecosystems in eastern Asia and serves as a critical ecological barrier in China. Using the Baihe Forestry Bureau as the study area, this research quantified forest...
Forest fires have been a major threat to the environment throughout history. In order to mitigate its consequences, we present, in a first of a series of works, a mathematical model with the purpose of predicting fire spreading in a given land portio...
Forest fires have been a major threat to forest ecosystems and its biodiversity, as well as the environment in general, particularly in the Mediterranean regions. To mitigate fire spreading, this study aims at finding a fire-break solution for territ...
Symmetry plays a key role in the processing and analysis of not only visual but also acoustic signals in various multidisciplinary areas. New innovative and environmentally friendly methods for extinguishing flames are still being sought worldwide. O...
PROPAGATOR is a stochastic cellular automaton model for forest fire spread simulation, conceived as a rapid method for fire risk assessment. The model uses high-resolution information such as topography and vegetation cover considering different type...
In the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by its humid climate, large rural areas are being abandoned, mostly in less-favoured areas covered by heathlands, which present a low nutritive quality for livestock production. The high combus...
Potential fire behavior varied significantly among tree species, directly influencing forest fire intensity and spread. To quantify these differences and evaluate species-specific fuel traits for fire management applications, this study conducted fie...
In boreal ecosystems, wildfire severity (i.e., the extent of fire-related tree mortality) is affected by environmental conditions and fire intensity. A burned area usually includes tree patches that partially or entirely escaped fire. There are two t...
An airport slot is the core resource in the air transportation system. In most busy airports in China, airline demand significantly exceeds the available slot capacity. Scientific and reasonable slot allocation techniques and methods can improve the...
Under the influence of multiple factors such as climate change and human activities, the frequency, intensity, and destructiveness of forest fires are increasing, which may trigger multiple ecological crises. Forest fires can be scientifically preven...
This study investigated post-fire vegetation recovery in Algeria’s Tenira forest using statistical traits (PCA), RFM, and LANDIS-II spatial analysis. The dataset included satellite imagery and environmental variables such as precipitation, temp...
Forest fire susceptibility mapping is an important component of disaster risk reduction, particularly in transitional climatic zones such as Anhui Province, China. Traditional approaches often rely on expert weighting (AHP) or linear assumptions, whi...
Burn severity is a key component of fire regimes and is critical for quantifying fires’ impacts on key ecological processes. The spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of forest burn severity are closely related to its environmental...
Wildfire susceptibility maps play a crucial role in preemptively identifying regions at risk of future fires and informing decisions related to wildfire management, thereby aiding in mitigating the risks and potential damage posed by wildfires. This...
Eaton Canyon in California serves as the focal point for a comprehensive post-wildfire ecological impact assessment. This study employs an approach integrating satellite imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel constellation to study a...
The sustainability of reforestation initiatives depends on the involvement of local communities, whose lack of ownership compromises efforts to combat deforestation in the Lubumbashi Charcoal Production Basin. This study assesses reforestation activi...