Forest Regeneration and Landscape Resilience after Wildfire

Dear Colleagues,

Wildfires are one of the most important natural disasters affecting forest ecosystems, with hundreds of thousands of forest fires occurring annually around the world. In addition to causing severe loss of forest resources, they also increase the spatial heterogeneity of the forest environment, alters forest succession and vegetation composition, and reshapes landscape diversity, which have an impact on vegetation regeneration and recovery. Post-fire vegetation recovery is affected by topography, soil and fire intensity, which cause different vegetation succession speeds and directions. Climate change could also affect post-fire recovery processes by impacting seed germination and seedling growth. Therefore, accurate evaluation of post-fire vegetation recovery, especially under different fire severities, provides vital information for forest management and the formulation of forest fire policies. This special issue focuses on the novel techniques for studying vegetation recovery after wildfires and identifying the factors that affect the post-fire vegetation recover processes in different regions. It also proposes new perspectives on understanding the effect of wildfire on landscapes and ecosystems.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Post-fire vegetation recovery processes;
• Factors affect post-fire vegetation recovery;
• Biodiversity changes of burned regions;
• Landscape resilience after Wildfire;
• Effect of wildfire on plants and soil;
• Novel techniques in identifying post-fire vegetation recovery;
• Effects of wildfire on permafrost in boreal forest;
• Accumulation of above-ground biomass after wildfire.
• Post-fire management practices and forest regeneration
• Effect of Climate Change on Wildfires and landscape resilience

Dr. Meng Guo
Dr. Satyam Verma
Dr. Ernesto Alvarado
Dr. Xiaoyi Guo
Guest Editors

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