Dear Colleagues,

Fire is an integral part of the disturbance ecology in forest ecosystems across the world and in recent decades has dramatically altered the composition and structure of many forested landscapes. Wildland fires are a growing challenge to landscape and fire managers tasked with preserving biodiversity and generating multiple ecosystem services in fire-prone areas. While forest management activities, and the lack thereof, can potentially alter fire regimes in terms of fire frequency and severity, the stochastic nature of wildfire difficults the estimation of how forest management and fire feedbacks interact over long periods of time. Understanding how management activities can modify fire behavior and sustain forest ecosystem services over time, under a changing climate are key requirements of forest management plans. In this Special Issue, we welcome studies that address temporal fire dynamics under alternative forest management regimes. Of particular interest are studies that examine the competitive interaction between forest management and fire feedbacks and how those interactions might alter the impact of fire on ecosystem services and forest resilience. Studies are welcome that address these topics at a range of scales in both natural and plantation forest systems based either on empirical or simulated data.

Dr. Alan Ager
Dr. Ana M.G. Barros
Prof. Paulo M. Fernandes
Dr. José Ramón González Olabarria
Guest Editors

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• Forest management
• Fire regime
• Fire impact
• Ecosystem services