Our latest paper at Springer Ecology provides further evidence that fire-related traits of #tree species are useful for up-scaling attributes of #fire regimes such as spatial patterns of fire severity: doi.org/10.1007/s10980… Università di Torino USDA Forest Service Pacific NW Research Forestry - OSU

New article published in Fire MDPI: "Meteorological conditions associated with lightning ignited fires and long-continuing-current lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida": mdpi.com/2571-6255/5/4/…

Some trees have traits like thick bark that make them more fire resistant. But can these individual's traits have an impact of the fire resistance of a whole forest? Our researchers found that they can: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢Open for Submission! #Special_Issue of #Atmosphere "Atmospheric Electricity and Fire in a Changing Climate", guest edited by Dr. Francisco J. Pérez-Invernón and Dr. Jose V. Moris. Learn more at: mdpi.com/journal/atmosp… #lightning_ignited_fires #wildfires #lightning

I had a wonderful week in Cape Town during the #ICLP2022 (36th International Conference on Lightning Protection). Beatuful place, nice people and new stuff learnt. I must thank Hugh Hunt and the Johannesburg Lightning Research Lab at Wits University for this amazing experience!

Our presentation at ICLP2022 on lightning fires and probability distributions of holdover time is available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/36…

As part of the project FIRESKY - Fire from the sky: understanding lightning fires in the Pyrocene, we created a global database on holdover times (the time between fire ignition and detection) of #lightning #fires. You can find the database on #Zenodo: zenodo.org/record/7352172

A documentary produced by Compagnia Foreste on smart solutions for sustainable wildfire risk prevention in southern Europe vimeo.com/809222543?embe…

🔥#WILDFIRE2023, day 3: 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗶 from Università di Torino explains his poster on the role of land governance in mitigating wildfire impacts in Italy to #FIREADAPT colleagues. 🙌 Nice team spirit developed during the recent activities at the Spain #StudyHub!

I am very glad to announce that our paper "Active governance of agro-pastoral, forest and protected areas mitigates wildfire impacts in Italy" has been published on STOTEN ! 🔥🌲 authors.elsevier.com/a/1hAFlB8ccyYOb

⚡Lightning is the most important ignition source of natural wildfires worldwide 🔥🌳 A recent publication collects data which may be used in different ways to investigate lightning-ignited wildfires and model its phenomena Read more about it! 👇medforest.net/2023/06/21/lig…

🇬🇧🗺️#Secondments are key for our project. 🔥 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗶Gian Luca Spadoni from Università di Torino is doing one in the research group of 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗿Imma Oliveras Menor at AMAP IRD.fr ❓What is he pursuing? 🎞️Watch the video to find out!

Las quemas prescritas, imprescindibles como estrategia de prevención 🔥 Estas son las parcelas de quema en la zona, donde se aprecia no solo la ausencia de daño, sino que frenaron el incendio.

Resistance, resilience, and regeneration: how well do European beech saplings survive fire events? 🔥🌱 Jose V Moris et al explore post-fire tree resprouting success in the western Italian Alps. Read the results of their study here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/forest…

I've been sharing this paper over and over again with colleagues as I've found it to be a VERY helpful way to frame a research project to ensure your statistical models reflect project goals (e.g., inference vs. prediction). Definitely worth the read! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our new paper is out today! #Wildfires ignited by #lightning strikes are not discovered immediately. Survival functions provide probabilities regarding the expected time needed to detect these lightning fires. Università di Torino FICYT Wits University authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

A 1962 short documentary about #wildfires in LA, #SantaAnaWinds, and in particular the #BelAirFire1961. Highly recommended to watch: youtube.com/watch?v=yj0rfe…