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Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States by Balch, Jennifer K., Bradley, Bethany A., Abatzoglou, John T., Nagy, R. Chelsea, Fusco, Emily J., Mahood, Adam L.

“…The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a…”
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Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes by Schoennagel, Tania, Balch, Jennifer K., Brenkert-Smith, Hannah, Dennison, Philip E., Harvey, Brian J., Krawchuk, Meg A., Mietkiewicz, Nathan, Morgan, Penelope, Moritz, Max A., Rasker, Ray, Turner, Monica G., Whitlock, Cathy

“…Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further…”
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Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions by Fusco, Emily J., Finn, John T., Balch, Jennifer K., Nagy, R. Chelsea, Bradley, Bethany A.

“…Fire-prone invasive grasses create novel ecosystem threats by increasing fine-fuel loads and continuity, which can alter fire regimes. While the existence of…”
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Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California by Williams, A. Park, Abatzoglou, John T., Gershunov, Alexander, Guzman‐Morales, Janin, Bishop, Daniel A., Balch, Jennifer K., Lettenmaier, Dennis P.

“…Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in…”
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Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society by Rogers, Brendan M, Balch, Jennifer K, Goetz, Scott J, Lehmann, Caroline E R, Turetsky, Merritt

“…Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most…”
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Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions by Brando, Paulo Monteiro, Balch, Jennifer K., Nepstad, Daniel C., Morton, Douglas C., Putz, Francis E., Coe, Michael T., Silvério, Divino, Macedo, Marcia N., Davidson, Eric A., Nóbrega, Caroline C., Alencar, Ane, Soares-Filho, Britaldo S.

“…Interactions between climate and land-use change may drive widespread degradation of Amazonian forests. High-intensity fires associated with extreme weather…”
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Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior by Brando, Paulo M., Nepstad, Daniel C., Balch, Jennifer K., Bolker, Benjamin, Christman, Mary C., Coe, Michael, Putz, Francis E.

“…Large‐scale wildfires are expected to accelerate forest dieback in Amazônia, but the fire vulnerability of tree species remains uncertain, in part due to the…”
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Fire refugia are robust across Western US forested ecoregions, 1986–2021 by Platt, Rutherford Vance, Chapman, Teresa B, Balch, Jennifer K

“…Abstract In the Western US, area burned and fire size have increased due to the influences of climate change, long-term fire suppression leading to higher fuel…”
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Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US by Abatzoglou, John T, Kolden, Crystal A, Balch, Jennifer K, Bradley, Bethany A

“…Lightning-caused wildfires account for a majority of burned area across the western United States (US), yet lightning remains among the more unpredictable…”
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The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment by BALCH, JENNIFER K., BRANDO, PAULO M., NEPSTAD, DANIEL C., COE, MICHAEL T., SILVÉRIO, DIVINO, MASSAD, TARA J., DAVIDSON, ERIC A., LEFEBVRE, PAUL, OLIVEIRA-SANTOS, CLAUDINEI, ROCHA, WANDERLEY, CURY, ROBERTA T. S., PARSONS, AMOREENA, CARVALHO, KARINE S.

“…The interaction between droughts and land-use fires threaten the carbon stocks, climate regulatory functions, and biodiversity of Amazon forests, particularly…”
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A Computationally Efficient Method for Updating Fuel Inputs for Wildfire Behavior Models Using Sentinel Imagery and Random Forest Classification by DeCastro, Amy L., Juliano, Timothy W., Kosović, Branko, Ebrahimian, Hamed, Balch, Jennifer K.

“…Disturbance events can happen at a temporal scale much faster than wildland fire fuel data updates. When used as input for wildland fire behavior models,…”
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FIRED (Fire Events Delineation): An Open, Flexible Algorithm and Database of US Fire Events Derived from the MODIS Burned Area Product (2001–2019) by Balch, Jennifer K., St. Denis, Lise A., Mahood, Adam L., Mietkiewicz, Nathan P., Williams, Travis M., McGlinchy, Joe, Cook, Maxwell C.

“…Harnessing the fire data revolution, i.e., the abundance of information from satellites, government records, social media, and human health sources, now…”
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Fires that matter: reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment by Iglesias, Virginia, Stavros, Natasha, Balch, Jennifer K, Barrett, Kimiko, Cobian-Iñiguez, Jeanette, Hester, Cyrus, Kolden, Crystal A, Leyk, Stefan, Nagy, R Chelsea, Reid, Colleen E, Wiedinmyer, Christine, Woolner, Elizabeth, Travis, William R

“…Abstract Increasing fire impacts across North America are associated with climate and vegetation change, greater exposure through development expansion, and…”
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Integrating National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Airborne Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data for Optimal Tree Species Classification by Scholl, Victoria, Cattau, Megan, Joseph, Maxwell, Balch, Jennifer

“…Accurately mapping tree species composition and diversity is a critical step towards spatially explicit and species-specific ecological understanding. The…”
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All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999–2020 by St. Denis, Lise A., Short, Karen C., McConnell, Kathryn, Cook, Maxwell C., Mietkiewicz, Nathan P., Buckland, Mollie, Balch, Jennifer K.

“…This paper describes a dataset mined from the public archive (1999–2020) of the US National Incident Management System Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) forms…”
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Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001–2021) by Mahood, Adam L., Lindrooth, Estelle J., Cook, Maxwell C., Balch, Jennifer K.

“…Fire activity is changing across many areas of the globe. Understanding how social and ecological systems respond to fire is an important topic for the coming…”
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Fusion neural networks for plant classification: learning to combine RGB, hyperspectral, and lidar data by Scholl, Victoria M, McGlinchy, Joseph, Price-Broncucia, Teo, Balch, Jennifer K, Joseph, Maxwell B

“…Airborne remote sensing offers unprecedented opportunities to efficiently monitor vegetation, but methods to delineate and classify individual plant species…”
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Legacies of multiple disturbances on fruit and seed patterns in Amazonia: Implications for forest functional traits by Brando, Paulo M., Silvério, Divino, Maracahipes, Leandro, Benzi, Rodrigo, Paolucci, Lucas, Maracahipes‐Santos, Leonardo, Rattis, Ludmila, Macedo, Marcia N., Balch, Jennifer K.

“…Forest disturbances associated with edge effects, wildfires, and windthrow events have impacted large swaths of the tropics. Defining the levels of forest…”
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Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network by Koontz, Michael J., Scholl, Victoria M., Spiers, Anna I., Cattau, Megan E., Adler, John, McGlinchy, Joseph, Goulden, Tristan, Melbourne, Brett A., Balch, Jennifer K.

“…Macroecology research seeks to understand ecological phenomena with causes and consequences that accumulate, interact, and emerge across scales spanning…”
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Modern Pyromes: Biogeographical Patterns of Fire Characteristics across the Contiguous United States by Cattau, Megan, Mahood, Adam, Balch, Jennifer, Wessman, Carol

“…In recent decades, wildfires in many areas of the United States (U.S.) have become larger and more frequent with increasing anthropogenic pressure, including…”
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