IJWF Happenings

CSIRO recently published the newest issue (Vol. 17, No. 6) of the International Journal of Wildland Fire. This special issue is guest-edited by Dick Williams and Ross Bradstock and stemmed from a session at the recent Third International Fire Ecology and Management Conference in San Diego.

The papers presented in this special issue address the vexing issue of large fires and their consequences by examining historical fire regimes, the heterogeneity of fire regime components associated with large fires, and the impacts of large fires on ecological processes. This is done for a range of biomes, from tropical to temperate, and in northern and southern hemispheres.

In addition to an introduction by Williams and Bradstock, the issue also features:

Large Fires, Fire Effects and the Fire-Regime Concept by A. Malcolm Gill and Grant Allan.

Ecological Effects of Large Fires on U.S. Landscapes: Benefit or Catastrophe? by Robert E. Keane, James K. Agee, Peter Fulé, Jon E. Keeley, Carl Key, Stanley G. Kitchen, Richard Miller and Lisa A. Schulte.

Are Wildfires a Disaster in the Mediterranean Basin? - A Review by Juli G. Pausas, Joan Llovet, Anselm Rodrigo and Ramon Vallejo.

The Historical Range of Variability of Fires in the Andean-Patagonian Nothofagus Forest Region by Thomas T. Veblen, Thomas Kitzberger, Estela Raffaele, Mónica Mermoz, Mauro E. González, Jason S. Sibold and Andrés Holz.

Landscape Heterogeneity Following Large Fires: Insights From Yellowstone National Park, USA by Tania Schoennagel, Erica A. H. Smithwick and Monica G. Turner.

Large Fires as Agents of Ecological Diversity in the North American Boreal Forest by Philip J. Burton, Marc-André Parisien, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Ronald J. Hall and Jason T. Freeburn.

Big Fires and Their Ecological Impacts in Australian Savannas: Size and Frequency Matters by Cameron P. Yates, Andrew C. Edwards and Jeremy Russell-Smith.

The Impacts of Large-Scale, Low-Intensity Fires on the Forests of Continental Southeast Asia by Patrick J. Baker, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin and Andrew P. Robinson.

Large Fires in Australian Alpine Landscapes: Their Part in the Historical Fire Regime and Their Impacts on Alpine Biodiversity by Richard J. Williams, Carl-Henrik Wahren, Arn D. Tolsma, Glenn M. Sanecki, Warwick A. Papst, Bronwyn A. Myers, Keith L. McDougall, Dean A. Heinze and Ken Green.

Effects of Large Fires on Biodiversity in Southeastern Australia: Disaster or Template for Diversity? by Ross A. Bradstock.