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Ecology
Angela Hernandez-Moreno, Daniel P. Soto, Alejandro Miranda, Andres Holz, Dolors Armenteras-Pascual
Summary: This study evaluated the land cover dynamics in western Chilean Patagonia and found that there was a loss of approximately 32,600 ha of old-growth forest and a recovery of approximately 69,000 ha of second-growth forest following the fires. However, around 61% of the area could potentially remain as intact forest landscape after the fires. This study provides the first evidence of the landscape state in western Patagonia after more than six decades since the large-scale fires.
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Forestry
Ewa Referowska-Chodak, Bozena Kornatowska
Summary: This study aimed to trace the impact of Poland's forestry evolution over the last 75 years on forest biodiversity at the landscape level, showing differences in the effects of socialism and democracy eras on the forest ecosystems and landscape. Despite challenges, the changes in biodiversity protection at the forest landscape level were considered positive.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Julia Kelly, Theresa S. Ibanez, Cristina Santin, Stefan H. Doerr, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Thomas Holst, Anders Lindroth, Natascha Kljun
Summary: The extreme hot drought in 2018 in central and northern Europe resulted in the worst wildfire season in Sweden in over a century. Factors such as burn severity, salvage-logging, and stand age were found to have impacts on forest soils, with tree root respiration playing a key role in determining post-fire soil CO2 emissions. The study also highlighted the importance of disturbance history and burn severity in predicting changes in the boreal forest carbon sink after wildfires.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Ecology
Sally Deborah Pereira da Silva, Suane Bastos dos Santos, Paulo Cezar Gomes Pereira, Marcio Roberto da Silva Melo, Fernando Coelho Eugenio
Summary: The study reveals that in the municipality of Dom Eliseu, forest fragments are mainly composed of very small fragments smaller than 5 hectares, indicating a high degree of forest fragmentation in this landscape.
ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Forestry
Mingxin Liu, Gregory J. Jordan, Christopher P. Burridge, Laurence J. Clarke, Susan C. Baker
Summary: In managed forests, the recovery of ground-active beetle biodiversity in regeneration forests is affected by forest influence, landscape context, and other surrounding landscape characteristics. Different forest ages and landscape context classes significantly impact beetle composition, with predictors explaining 34.1% of total variance in beetle community turnover. While geographical locations play a major role, subtle influences from landscape context, forest influence, and other landscape configuration variables also affect the beetle community.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Shanshan Chen, Shengjun Wu, Maohua Ma
Summary: Forest loss due to deforestation has led to various negative impacts. China's long-term ecological restoration programs have shown effectiveness in reducing forest fragmentation, increasing core forest area, and decreasing edge forest area in Panzhihua City.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Le Li, Mengmeng Gou, Na Wang, Wei Ma, Wenfa Xiao, Changfu Liu, Lumeng La
Summary: This study developed an integrated approach to identify the effects of climate and landscape changes on runoff and nitrate loading in watersheds in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of China. It found that landscape pattern changes primarily affected surface runoff and nitrate load, while baseflow and water yield were mainly influenced by precipitation change. The findings highlight the importance of considering landscape configuration and seasonal climatic characteristics in ecological restoration strategies for effective control of nitrate loss.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Alessandra Leite da Silva, Adelia Jesus Nobre de Nunes, Mara Lucia Marques, Admilson Irio Ribeiro, Regina Marcia Longo
Summary: This study analyzed the applicability of landscape metrics for assessing the environmental fragility of forest remnants in two river basins. The results showed that the applied metrics are an effective tool for the preliminary diagnosis of natural vegetation remnants in areas with different geospatial and phyto-physiognomic conditions, providing important information for formulating landscape development policies and land management strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
(2021)
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Forestry
Cong Gao, Ran An, Wenqian Wang, Chunming Shi, Mingyu Wang, Kezhen Liu, Xiaoxu Wu, Guocan Wu, Lifu Shu
Summary: All-season warming may lead to an asymmetric expansion of the lightning fire season, affecting the prolongation of lightning fires in the boreal forest of Northeast China and continuously increasing fire risk.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Matthias Peichl, Eduardo Martinez-Garcia, Johan E. S. Fransson, Jorgen Wallerman, Hjalmar Laudon, Tomas Lundmark, Mats B. Nilsson
Summary: This study investigates the variations of annual net ecosystem production (NEP) in a managed boreal forest landscape in northern Sweden using extensive biometric and chamber-based carbon flux data. The results highlight the role of net primary production in regulating the spatio-temporal variations of NEP in the managed boreal forest landscape. Additionally, divergent successional patterns of NEP were observed in the managed forests compared to naturally regenerating boreal forests.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Kobra Maleki, Benoit Lafleur, Alain Leduc, Yves Bergeron
Summary: Research indicates that spatial configurations have a greater impact on stand dynamics than tree removal intensity. Dispersed partial harvests can maintain species composition and structure similar to unharvested stands, while aggregated harvests and clear-cutting favor increased regeneration of aspen, pushing succession back to aspen dominance. In mixed coniferous stands, dispersed partial harvests and 30% aggregated cuts can maintain the recruitment and dominance of conifers.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Ecology
Jamie L. Peeler, Erica A. H. Smithwick
Summary: The study found that landscape factors like seed source area were associated with the presence and stocking density of subalpine fir, while local factors like soil nutrients were associated with the presence of lodgepole pine, highlighting the effects of different regeneration strategies.
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Geography
Habib Ramezani, Andrew Lister
Summary: This study aims to fill the knowledge gaps on the performance of sample-based forest fragmentation metrics under different plot designs and forest conditions. The results indicate that plot design parameters have significant impacts on metric estimates and their precision, with subplot separation distance being an important factor. Larger and widely-separated cluster plots yield more precise estimates.
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Forestry
Bo Wang, Weiwei Li, Guanghui Lai, Ning Chang, Feng Chen, Ye Bai, Xiaodong Liu
Summary: This study established an index system for assessing forest fire spread hazards and explored the relationship between forested landscape spatial pattern and forest fire spread hazard in the mountainous district of Beijing. The results showed that forest fire spread hazard increased gradually from plains to mountainous areas in the study area.
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Environmental Sciences
Arden L. Burrell, Qiaoqi Sun, Robert Baxter, Elena A. Kukavskaya, Sergey Zhila, Tatiana Shestakova, Brendan M. Rogers, Jorg Kaduk, Kirsten Barrett
Summary: Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and severity of fires in Eurasian boreal forests, leading to post-fire recruitment failure and permanent forest loss. Using data on burned areas and forest loss, this study calculates the landscape-scale fire return interval (FRI) and predicts future changes in FRI under a high emissions scenario. The results show that a large area of forest is at high risk of fire-induced forest loss, which could have detrimental effects on intact forests, regional wellbeing, and global climate change.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xianli Wang, Dan K. Thompson, Ginny A. Marshall, Cordy Tymstra, Richard Carr, Mike D. Flannigan
Article
Ecology
Hong Qian, Xianli Wang
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2015)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Xianli Wang, Andreas Hamann, Steve G. Cumming
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2012)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Xianli Wang, Marc-Andre Parisien, Mike D. Flannigan, Sean A. Parks, Kerry R. Anderson, John M. Little, Steve W. Taylor
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2014)
Article
Ecology
Hong Qian, Yangjian Zhang, Jian Zhang, Xianli Wang
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2013)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Michael S. Mbogga, Xianli Wang, Andreas Hamann
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2010)
Article
Ecology
Xianli Wang, Steven G. Cumming
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Marc-Andre Parisien, Gregg R. Walker, John M. Little, Brian N. Simpson, Xianli Wang, Daniel D. B. Perrakis
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Plant Sciences
Hong Qian, Silong Wang, Yuanliang Li, Ming Xiao, Xianli Wang
Article
Ecology
Xianli Wang, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Nicola Koper
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2014)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marc-Andre Parisien, Quinn E. Barber, Kelvin G. Hirsch, Christopher A. Stockdale, Sandy Erni, Xianli Wang, Dominique Arseneault, Sean A. Parks
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marc-Andre Parisien, Quinn E. Barber, Kelvin G. Hirsch, Christopher A. Stockdale, Sandy Erni, Xianli Wang, Dominique Arseneault, Sean A. Parks
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xianli Wang, Tom Swystun, Jacqueline Oliver, Mike D. Flannigan
Summary: Understanding the relationships among major parameters of wildland fire activity and their connection to fire-conducive weather conditions is crucial for predicting fire activity. Maximum fire spread days and maximum fire size are found to best predict annual number of fires and annual area burned. These relationships vary in strength across Canada's ecozones, with skewness of fire size distributions potentially influencing the strength of these relationships.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Weiwei Wang, Xianli Wang, Wanli Wu, Futao Guo, Jane Park, Guangyu Wang
Summary: This study investigated the burn severity in the Canadian Rocky Mountain region using satellite imagery. It found that fuel type had the most significant influence on burn severity, while topography, vegetation, and climate had equal contributions. The study also predicted the burn severity potential in different areas and highlighted the effectiveness of fire management in local communities.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Alan J. Tepley, Marc-Andre Parisien, Xianli Wang, Jacqueline A. Oliver, Mike D. Flannigan
Summary: Human exposure to wildfires in Canada's forested regions has been increasing over the years, leading to a rise in the number of evacuations. By classifying populated places into groups based on their vulnerability to wildfires, researchers were able to identify three main evacuation patterns. These patterns vary in terms of geographic distribution, fire characteristics, and evacuation methods.