Nayani T Ilangakoon

Dec 10, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jennifer K. Balch |Tyler McIntosh |Tyler Mcintosh |Nayani T Ilangakoon |Karen Cummins

AbstractWildfires are doing necessary work for western US forests that have evolved with fire. Here we define "good fire" as areas that burn in an ecologically beneficial way, with a severity that is analogous to their historical fire regimes prior to European settlement. We focus on low-moderate severity wildfire as this type of burning can promote regeneration, even in the context of a warming climate (Davis et al., 2023).