Fires

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • Acute eosinophilic pneumonia in a New York City firefighter exposed to World Trade Center dust. 
  • Are Gulf War veterans experiencing illness due to exposure to smoke from Kuwaiti oil well fires? Examination of Department of Defense hospitalization data. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Clarifying the role of fire in the deciduous forests of eastern North America: reply to Matlack. 
  • Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon 
  • Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia. 
  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests. 
  • DNA adducts and exposure to burning oil. 
  • Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. 
  • Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century. 
  • Effects of fire frequency on litter decomposition as mediated by changes to litter chemistry and soil environmental conditions. 
  • Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought. 
  • Fire in the operating room. 
  • Health consequences of forest fires in Indonesia. 
  • Injuries to the bronchi and lungs caused by laser-ignited endotracheal tube fires. 
  • Intraspecific trait variability shapes leaf trait response to altered fire regimes. 
  • Low-severity fire as a mechanism of organic matter protection in global peatlands: Thermal alteration slows decomposition. 
  • Managing wildfire events: Risk-based decision making among a group of federal fire managers 
  • Occupational exposure to woodsmoke and oxidative stress in wildland firefighters. 
  • Posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents after an industrial fire. 
  • Radiographic manifestations of acute smoke inhalation. 
  • Reconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal. 
  • Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon. 
  • Risk and protective factors for fires, burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning in U.S. households. 
  • Structural adjustments in resprouting trees drive differences in post-fire transpiration. 
  • Surgical Fire Safety: An Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Toward fire safety without chemical risk. 
  • Trait space of rare plants in a fire-dependent ecosystem. 
  • Urinary mutagenicity and other biomarkers of occupational smoke exposure of wildland firefighters and oxidative stress. 
  • Why humans build fires shaped the same way. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science, Duke Science & Society