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@article{Little:2025:10.1098/rstb.2024.0001,
author = {Little, K and Vitali, R and Belcher, CM and Kettridge, N and Pellegrini, AFA and Ford, AES and Smith, AMS and Elliott, A and Voulgarakis, A and Stoof, CR and Kolden, CA and Schwilk, DW and Kennedy, EB and Newman, Thacker FE and Millin-Chalabi, GR and Clay, GD and Morison, JI and McCarty, JL and Ivison, K and Tansey, K and Simpson, KJ and Jones, MW and Mack, MC and Fulé, PZ and Gazzard, R and Harrison, SP and New, S and Page, SE and Hall, TE and Brown, T and Jolly, WM and Doerr, S},
doi = {10.1098/rstb.2024.0001},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
title = {Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0001},
volume = {380},
year = {2025}
}
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AB - Fire regimes are changing across the globe, with new wildfire behaviour phenomena and increasing impacts felt, especially in ecosystems without clear adaptations to wildfire. These trends pose significant challenges to the scientific community in understanding and communicating these changes and their implications, particularly where we lack underlying scientific evidence to inform decision-making. Here, we present a perspective on priority directions for wildfire science research—through the lens of academic and government wildfire scientists from a historically wildfire-prone (USA) and emerging wildfire-prone (UK) country. Key topic areas outlined during a series of workshops in 2023 were as follows: (A) understanding and predicting fire occurrence, fire behaviour and fire impacts; (B) increasing human and ecosystem resilience to fire; and (C) understanding the atmospheric and climate impacts of fire. Participants agreed on focused research questions that were seen as priority scientific research gaps. Fire behaviour was identified as a central connecting theme that would allow critical advances to be made across all topic areas. These findings provide one group of perspectives to feed into a more transdisciplinary outline of wildfire research priorities across the diversity of knowledge bases and perspectives that are critical in addressing wildfire research challenges under changing fire regimes.
AU - Little,K
AU - Vitali,R
AU - Belcher,CM
AU - Kettridge,N
AU - Pellegrini,AFA
AU - Ford,AES
AU - Smith,AMS
AU - Elliott,A
AU - Voulgarakis,A
AU - Stoof,CR
AU - Kolden,CA
AU - Schwilk,DW
AU - Kennedy,EB
AU - Newman,Thacker FE
AU - Millin-Chalabi,GR
AU - Clay,GD
AU - Morison,JI
AU - McCarty,JL
AU - Ivison,K
AU - Tansey,K
AU - Simpson,KJ
AU - Jones,MW
AU - Mack,MC
AU - Fulé,PZ
AU - Gazzard,R
AU - Harrison,SP
AU - New,S
AU - Page,SE
AU - Hall,TE
AU - Brown,T
AU - Jolly,WM
AU - Doerr,S
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2024.0001
PY - 2025///
SN - 0962-8436
TI - Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country
T2 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0001
UR - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0001
VL - 380
ER -