Micah Elias

Navigating the dual nature of wildfire in the Anthropocene: a framework for assessing impacts on nature’s contributions to people and pathways to adaptive management

Wildfires historically shaped and sustained global biomes, but climate change, strict fire exclusion policies, and rapid expansion into the wildland–urban interface have fueled an era of unprecedented, high-severity “megafires.” This review synthesizes current literature on the dual nature of wildland fires, categorizi...