wildfire

Imaggeo On Monday: Burnt roots

Hazel Gibson August 17, 2020

Burnt roots. Credit: Anna Kühnel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Fires are a common and often natural worldwide phenomena, that are often integral to the lifecycle of certain land-based ecosystems. Despite this, frequent or unusually intense fires can have significant effects on plant productivity, plant community composition and root properties. Although many trees have evolved to grow in fire prone areas, they usually have certain adaptations to help them sur ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Setting trees aflame to understand the carbon balance of fires

Olivia Trani December 9, 2019

Smoke clears after an experimental wildfire in Australian eucalyptus forest. Credit: Stefan Doerr (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Smoke clears after an experimental wildfire in Australian eucalyptus forest carried out for carbon balance estimations of wildfires. We meticulously measured the carbon in all leaves, twigs, logs and bark in a forest block about 35km east of Manjimup and then they set it on fire with help from the Dept. of Parks and Wildlife, [Western Australia]. We the counted the carbon all over again including ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: At the edge of a wildfire

Teamrat Ghezzehei July 29, 2019

Boundary of the Carpenter One Fire. Credit: Teamrat Ghezzehei (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Carpenter 1 fire burned approximately 11,000 ha in the Spring Mountain National Recreation Area (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest) near Las Vegas, Nevada between July 1, 2013 and its containment on August 18, 2013. The left side of the photo shows the fire affected arid desert scrub ecosystems at 1500 m (foreground) to subalpine pine ecosystems at 3400 m (background). The foreground of the pho ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A painted forest fire

Olivia Trani May 27, 2019

The art of Fire in soil system. Credit: Victoria Arcenegui (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This week’s featured image may appear to be a painted landscape, but the picture is in fact a photo, taken ten years ago by Victoria Arcenegui, an associate professor at Miguel Hernández University in Spain, during a controlled forest fire in northern Portugal. The blaze is actually hot enough to distort the image, making some of the flames appear as brush strokes, beautifully blurring together th ...[Read More]