International Journal of Wildland Fire update

             

The most recent issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire is vol. 19, issue 8. All IAWF members have free online access to all IJWF abstracts and articles via the IAWF website. The IJWF publishes new and significant papers that advance basic and applied research concerning a broad range of wildland fire issues. Each issue takes an international perspective because wildland fire plays a major social, economic and ecological role around the globe.

The current issue features papers concerning wildfire in the boreal ecosystem. The feature paper is "Wildfires in boreal ecosystems: past, present and some emerging trends" by Martin P. Girardin, Adam A. Ali and Christelle Hély. Their paper summarizes new insights and some future research needs arising from the other 12 papers presented in this issue.

This most recent issue includes the following research:

• "Peak detection in sediment-charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations," Philip E. Higuera, Daniel G. Gavin, Patrick J. Bartlein and Douglas J. Hallett

• "Effects of vegetation zones and climatic changes on fire-induced atmospheric carbon emissions: a model based on paleodata," Laurent Bremond, Christopher Carcaillet, Charly Favier, Adam A. Ali, Cédric Paitre, Yves Bégin, Yves Bergeron and Pierre J. H. Richard

• "Resilience of the boreal forest in response to Holocene fire-frequency changes assessed by pollen diversity and population dynamics," Christopher Carcaillet, Pierre J.H. Richard, Yves Bergeron, Bianca Fréchette and Adam A. Ali

• "The role of fire in southern Scandinavian forests during the late Holocene," Richard H.W. Bradshaw, Matts Lindbladh and Gina E. Hannon

• "A 400-year history of fires on lake islands in south-east Sweden," Mats Niklasson, Igor Drobyshev and Tomasz Zielonka

• "An evaluation of spatial and temporal patterns of lightning- and human-caused forest fires in Alberta, Canada, 1980-2007," Yonghe Wang and Kerry R. Anderson

• "Variation in local weather explains differences in fire regimes within a Québec south-eastern boreal forest landscape," Igor Drobyshev, Mike D. Flannigan, Yves Bergeron, Martin P. Girardin and Byambagere Suran

• "The effects of surficial deposit-drainage combinations on spatial variations of fire cycles in the boreal forest of eastern Canada," Nicolas Mansuy, Sylvie Gauthier, André Robitaille and Yves Bergeron

• "Landscape composition influences local pattern of fire size in the eastern Canadian boreal forest: role of weather and landscape mosaic on fire size distribution in mixed wood boreal forest using the Prescribed Fire Analysis System," Christelle Hély, C. Marie-Josée Fortin, Kerry R. Anderson and Yves Bergeron

• "Spatial pattern analyses of post-fire residual stands in the black spruce boreal forest of western Quebec," Amar Madoui, Alain Leduc, Sylvie Gauthier and Yves Bergeron

• "Will climate change drive 21st century burn rates in Canadian boreal forest outside of its natural variability: collating global climate model experiments with sedimentary charcoal data," Yves Bergeron, Dominic Cyr, Martin P. Girardin and Christopher Carcaillet

• "Potentially limited detectability of short-term changes in boreal fire regimes: a simulation study," Juha M. Metsaranta