The wildland-urban interface in the United States

By Volker C. Radeloff, Roger B. Hammer, Susan I. Stewart, J. Fried, S. S. Holcomb, J. Mckeefry. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011, background): “This creates a dangerous juxtaposition of flammable vegetation, high densities of humans (who are the source of most ignitions), and associated infrastructure (Radeloff et al., 2005; Syphard et al., 2007).”
Integration of ecological and socio-economic factors to assess global vulnerability to wildfire (2014, neutral): “vegetation or where both are intermixed (Radeloff et al., 2005).”
A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires (2007, background): “The version of FDS used here is extended to include fire spread in vegetative fuels and is referred to as WFDS (WUI Fire Dynamics Simulator).”
Are hotspots of evolutionary potential adequately protected in southern California (2008, background): “With the exception of the Los Angeles Basin, areas that are not currently well protected are (to the best of our knowledge) relatively undeveloped, but may be threatened by future development pressures (e.g., exurban development: Radeloff et al., 2005).”
Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States (2017, background): “Some explanations for this distinction include higher population and housing densities, lower proportions of public land, and more extensive land use and development in the eastern United States (33, 34), all of which could lead to more sources of anthropogenic ignitions.”
Big city life: carnivores in urban environments (2012, positive): “With the spread of urban environments (e.g. McKinney, 2002; Radeloff et al., 2005), many terrestrial species have withdrawn into reduced ranges; this response is particularly noticeable in mammalian carnivores (Woodroffe & Ginsberg, 1998; Woodroffe, 2000; Cardillo et al.”
Classification of the wildland-urban interface: A comparison of pixel- and object-based classifications using high-resolution aerial photography (2008, background): “In California alone, over five million homes are located in wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas (Radeloff et al., 2005) and that number is likely to grow as the state population continues to increase.”
Federal Lands and Endangered Species: The Role of Military and Other Federal Lands in Sustaining Biodiversity (2008, background): “In many parts of the country, development is expanding rapidly into the so-called wildland-urban interface, fueled in part by the desirability of living adjacent to public lands with perceived high amenity values (Brown et al. 2005, Radeloff et al. 2005).”
Human influence on California fire regimes. (2007, methodology): “Landscape-level interactions between human activities and natural dynamics tend to be spatially concentrated at the wildland–urban interface (WUI; see Plate 1), which is the contact zone in which human development intermingles with undeveloped vegetation (Radeloff et al. 2005).”
Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk (2018, methodology): “Housing development in the WUI greatly exacerbates wildfire problems and other environmental issues in the United States (1, 5, 8), and globally (16, 18–20).”