In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Caden Chamberlain and Marc Meyer about evaluating the capacity of contemporary wildfires for restoring forest structural patterns. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00324-5…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Dana Johnson and Thea Whitman about how wildfires influence boreal forest soil carbon cycling. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00328-1By Interview with Dana Johnson and Thea Whitman

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Andrew Barton and Dan Grenier about examining the role fire has played in pitch pine forests over the last 9,000 years, and why we find this kind of woodland in coastal Maine. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s4…

In this special episode of Fire Ecology Chats with Spanish translations, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Iván Barberá about fire patterns and drivers over the last 24 years in northwestern Patagonia. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00353-8…

In this special episode of Fire Ecology Chats with Spanish translations, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Paola Arroyo-Vargas and Andrés Holz about how forest structures in Chile regenerate after short-interval severe fire. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00327-2…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Mark Turner about how fire at different times of the season influences the types of oak that regenerate. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00350-xBy Interview with Mark Turner

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Gina Beebe and Lauren Pile Knapp about using herbivory as a supplement to prescribed fire in areas with limitations. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00336-1…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Chika Tada, Ella Plumanns-Pouton, and Alexander Filkov about this unique experimental model that tests the fire component of plant species. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00295-7…

In this episode of Nature Conversations, I sit down in person with renowned botanist Dr Hugh Wilson, the driving force behind Hinewai Reserve, a groundbreaking native forest regeneration project in New Zealand. For over 40 years, Hugh has championed a philosophy of minimal intervention, allowing nature to do the heavy lifting in ecological restorat…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Lauren Pile Knapp about how we can reopen closed forests in the eastern United States to woodlands and savannas, and reintroduce fire to those landscapes. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00312-9…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Carolyn Stephen, Jamie Ladner, and Lauren Sullivan about the effects of prescribed fire on plant communities like dry woodlands, dry-mesic woodlands, and glades in Missouri, USA. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186…

In this episode of Nature Conversations, I speak with Associate Professor Tim Curran, a plant ecologist specialising in plant flammability and extreme disturbance events like fire, drought, and cyclones. Tim discusses his work on measuring plant flammability and how plant traits influence fire behaviour, with a focus on identifying low-flammability…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Erica Smithwick about how oak-juniper woodlands respond to crown fires in Fort Cavazos, and how that affects species like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00311-…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Erica Smithwick about how managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States can safely put prescribed fire back into the landscape to address local issues. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-0031…

In this episode I’m speaking with Amy England who is the Regional Biodiversity Transformation Manager at the Gisborne District Council. Amy has had a career centered on conservation and has been central to the planning and delivery of the Waingake Transformation Programme. Amy is the perfect person to tell us all about this nationally significant r…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Clare Boerigter, Sean Parks, and Jonathan Long about using intentional, human-ignited fire as a tool to restore natural conditions within wilderness. See companion StoryMap here https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/57bac07618ef4e1c922a6ac0b5835bee Full journal article …

Dr Colin Miskelly has been keen on natural history all of his life and has progressed through a long career with the NZ Department of Conservation. He is currently the Curator of Vertebrates at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Colin joined me on the podcast to discuss his big adventure - walking the length of New Zealand and counting al…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Heather Alexander and Jeffrey Cannon about reintroducing fire into mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodlands, and how that will be affected by the shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive species that have grown during periods of fire exclusion. Full journal article can be found at…

In this episode I am joined by Todd Dudley. Todd is the President of the North East Bioregional Network in Tasmania and he has been working as a Bush Regenerator in Australia for 40 years. Todd was a key initiator of the Skyline Tier Restoration Project, which is successfully applying Assisted Natural Regeneration techniques to restore native fores…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Doug Aubrey and Jeffrey Cannon about better predicting the leaf litter component in a pine forest to better understand how fire might move through forests under different management scenarios. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/ar…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Norma Fowler and Rebecca Carden about the management applications of re-introducing surface fires into the woodlands, savannas, and shrubland of Central Texas. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00286-8…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Christine Eriksen about strengthening our collective capacity to coexist with wildfire by embracing local and indigenous fire stewardship practices, enabling workforce diversity and inclusive leadership culture, and providing sustainable working conditions for wildland…

In this episode I am joined by Dr Kate McAlpine. Kate is a leading Weed Ecologist and is a Science Advisor at the New Zealand Department of Conservation. She has researched weeds and weed ecology comprehensively across New Zealand. Her publications span the impacts and dispersal of weeds, native seedling recruitment in the presence of weeds and mam…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Malcolm North and Paul Hessburg about using strategic fire zones to minimize wildfire risk in the Western U.S. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00282-y…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Maggie Epstein about how climate change is influencing forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-024-00285-9…

In this episode I am joined by Dr Shaun Wilkinson. Shaun is a leading expert in eDNA monitoring and the CEO and founder of the DNA sequencing lab, Wilderlab. Shaun explains many aspects of eDNA monitoring and tells me about some exciting applications of this emerging monitoring technique. I hope you enjoy this episode. You can learn more about Wild…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Abigail Croker about the process of conducting this important research on changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas, focusing on indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes. Full journal article can be found at https://f…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Matt Reilly about using remote sensing to detect delayed mortality through spectral decline in trees in California, Oregon, and Washington over a five-year period following a fire. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Neil Williams and Melissa Lucash about how fire and climate change influence the boreal forests of Siberia by examining simulations. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00188-1…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Ashley Coble, Brooke Penaluna, and Laura Six about identifying key relationships between forested streams, fire, and large wood that change with fire severity and/or watershed stand age. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles…

In this episode I was fortunate to have Emeritus Professor Robin Chazdon join me for a discussion about her work in Forest Landscape Restoration and Assisted Natural Regeneration. It is very interesting to contemplate applications of Robin's expertise in Aotearoa New Zealand. Links mentioned in episode: Forestation International: https://forestorat…

In this episode Lydia Green, the Founder and Project Director of the Manta Watch New Zealand Charitable Trust, joins me to discuss her work with the Oceanic Manta Ray in the waters of Aotearoa and across the South Pacific Ocean. Links mentioned during the podcast: Sightings Map - https://mantawatchnz.org/sightings-map/ Data Collection Guide - https…

In this episode I speak with Professor Karen Holl about her experiences with long-term forest restoration research, global tree planting campaigns, how restoration fits with addressing global climate and biodiversity crises, and some of her fieldwork activities. Hope you enjoy the episode. About the podcast: Hi! I’m Dr Adam Forbes. I am an Ecologis…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Brett Lawrence about a study that assessed the use and impact of Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) aerial ignition during prescribed fire operations over multiple years. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with co-authors Scott Stephens, Alexis Bernal, and Les Hall about a study that used multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct Indigenous fire use in a mixed conifer forest in the northern Sierra Nevada. Their work included summarizing oral traditions by the Mountain Maidu, …

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kathleen Uyttewaal about results of a study that analyzed local social contexts in rural areas of Spain, Italy and France and assessed how these may inform adaptive capacity to wildland fire. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/art…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Francis Kilkenny and Jeff Ott about a systematic literature review, which examined the results of 86 fuel treatment studies and summarized what they reveal about factors determining fuel treatment effectiveness at landscape scales. Full journal article can be found at …

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Laurie Yung at the University of Montana about a study that examined how the wildfire problem is framed, how those frames influence potential solutions, and how reframing can reveal a broader set of solutions which may better address key barriers. Full journal article …

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Shawn McKinney, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about the results of a literature review of studies that tested the influence of landscape-level fuel treatments on subsequent wildfires in North America over the past 30 years. Full journal…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Benjamin Bright, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about using airborne lidar data to predict and map canopy and surface fuels across large landscapes. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Matt Thompson and Kit O’Connor of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about PODs (potential operational delineations) and discuss current and future opportunities for using PODs in cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Tegan Brown, postdoctoral research fellow at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station. Tegan shares results from research conducted in Lubrecht Experimental Forest in Montana, USA that explored the drivers of seasonal fluctuatio…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks to co-authors Joseph Marschall and Daniel Dey about a study that resulted in the longest fire-scar record in eastern North America and offers unique foundational ecological information regarding pre-Columbian fire regimes of northeastern USA fire-adapted forest communities.…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks to co-authors Quresh Latif, Victoria Saab, Jonathan Dudley about the results of a nine year study that assessed avian relationships with prescribed fire and wildfire in the Payette National Forest in the central Rocky Mountains, USA. Full journal article can be found at htt…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks to lead author Kate Wilkin, Assistant Professor of Fire Ecology at San Jose State University, about research exploring how pyrodiversity relates to plant diversity in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Claire Rapp and Matt Jolly about a recently published article that shared results of an experiment assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire managers’ decision-making. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/1…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Yana Valachovic and Eric Knapp about results from their study that assessed housing arrangement and vegetation-related factors associated with home loss in the 2018 Camp Fire and to determine whether California’s 2008 adoption of exterior building codes improved surviv…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Megan Friggens and Rachel Loehman about results from their study that identified the environmental and climate variables that best predict observed fire severity and fire effects to archaeological features and artifacts in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Full journal…

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Cara Applestein and Matthew J. Germino (US Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center) about results from their recent study that compared on the ground monitoring with remote sensing data for post-fire regeneration and recovery of sagebrush. Full …

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with David Mason and Marcus Lashley at the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida about their recent article focused on the spatial scale of fire and its influence on conservation outcomes, with examples from the southeastern US. Full journal …