International Journal of Wildland Fire update

             

The most recent edition of the International Journal of Wildland Fire is issue 19, number 3. IAWF members have free online access to all Journal abstracts and articles.

This issue's feature paper is "Forest fire occurrence and climate change in Canada" (Wotton, et al). The authors used two general circulation models to develop projections of future fire occurrence in Canada. They found that, while ignitions are projected to increase across all forested areas of regions studied, the relative increase varied regionally and jumped from 25% by 2030 and 75% by 2099 in one model and by up to 140% in another model by the end of this century. They conclude that, in the absence of other large changes to current climatic trends, significant fire regime-induced changes in the boreal forest ecosystem are likely.

This issue includes the following research:

• "Forest fire occurrence and climate change in Canada," B.M. Wotton, C.A. Nock and M.D. Flannigan

• "Spatial variation of trends in wildfire and summer drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920-2000," Andrea Meyn, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Stephen W. Taylor, Martin P. Girardin, Kirsten Thonicke and Wolfgang Cramer

• "Convective heat transfer in fire spread through fine fuel beds," W.R. Anderson, E.A. Catchpole and B.W. Butler

• "Assessing the exposure of the built environment to potential ignition sources generated from vegetative fuel," J.L. Beverly, P. Bothwell, J.C.R. Conner and E.P.K. Herd

• "Flammability descriptors of fine dead fuels resulting from two mechanical treatments in shrubland: a comparative laboratory study," Eva Marino, Javier Madrigal, Mercedes Guijarro, Carmen Hernando, Carmen Díez and Cristina Fernández

• "A model for predicting human-caused wildfire occurrence in the region of Madrid, Spain," Lara Vilar, Douglas G. Woolford, David L. Martell and M. Pilar Martín

• "Australian grassland fire danger using inputs from the GRAZPLAN grassland simulation model," A. Malcolm Gill, Karen J. King and Andrew D. Moore

• "Turbulent kinetic energy during wildfires in the north central and northeastern U.S.," Warren E. Heilman and Xindi Bian

• "Beyond wildfire: Perspectives of climate, managed fire and policy in the USA," Crystal A. Kolden and Timothy J. Brown

• "Critique of Sikkink and Keane's comparison of surface fuel sampling techniques," Clinton S. Wright, Roger D. Ottmar and Robert E. Vihnanek