Abstract
Wildland fires are a critical Earth-system process that impacts human populations in each settled continent[...]
Highlights
Wildland fires are a critical Earth-system process that impacts human populations in each settled continent [1,2]
Wildland fires have often been stated as being essential to human life and civilization through the impacts on land clearance, agriculture, and hunting, with fire as a phenomenon serving a key role in the development of agricultural and industrial practices [3,4]
Wildland fires facilitate the redistribution of carbon, water, and nutrients, while unburned refugia within burned area perimeters promote the preservation of key species and habitats [5]
Summary
Wildland fires are a critical Earth-system process that impacts human populations in each settled continent [1,2]. Wildland fires facilitate the redistribution of carbon, water, and nutrients, while unburned refugia within burned area perimeters promote the preservation of key species and habitats [5] Injected into this socioecological fabric of fire as a landscape process are its immediate and cascading consequences on human health [6], impacts on a wide gamut of ecosystem goods and services [7,8], and consequences on large-scale atmospheric chemistry [9]. The cascading consequences of wildland fires have been recognized to have direct and indirect impacts on several downstream processes including erosion, food and fiber systems, and energy production, as well as the co-occurrence of other natural disasters such as mudslides [3,10]. Only five articles were published [5,8,16,17,18], this Special Issue helped set the foundation for the formation of a new MDPI journal, Fire [19]
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