Post-fire Regeneration in a Changing Climate
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards and Risk Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 2377
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Post-fire tree regeneration is critical to forest recovery resilience and is useful in predicting future forest structure, distribution, and condition. Rising temperatures and increasing frequency of drought, as well as associated increases in the occurrence and frequency of wildfires, have the potential to greatly alter post-fire regeneration and, in turn, future forests. With novel post-fire temperature and moisture regimes that accompany climate change, growing evidence suggests that either longer recovery periods will be necessary for burned areas or dry forests will experience a conversion of dry to non-forest cover types. Post-fire regeneration may also be affected by changing wildfire severity, frequency, extent, and/or seasonality.
For this Special Issue, we invite contributions that examine forest resilience in a changing climate by investigating the dynamics of post-fire tree regeneration. Contributed papers may focus on any aspect of post-fire regeneration in any fire-prone forest across the range of fire regimes. Examples of potential topics related to post-fire regeneration include but are not limited to the effects of increased fire size, changes in fire seasonality, increased fire frequency (short-interval fires), changes in post-fire growing conditions, or forest conversion due to regeneration failure.
Dr. Daniel Kashian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wildfires
- forest resilience
- succession
- regeneration
- forest conversion
- short-interval fires
- tree establishment
