Purpose of Review

I aim to contextualize wildfire-disease interactions with the goal of building a better understanding of where these may be of ecological importance and problems for sustainable forest management.

Recent Findings

While wildfire-disease interactions have been documented, they are not well represented in the ecological literature, probably because they require considerable effort or serendipity to rigorously quantify. Examples of disease-fire interactions are relatively limited and tend to be clearer in systems where fire and disease are management problems. The most resolved systems include Phytophthora pathogens although wildfire-disease interactions are not limited to these pathogens. Documented interactions encompass a range of effects which include the magnification of problems associated with each disturbance. Wildfire-disease interactions are also likely to shape basic ecological function in systems where both wildfire and disease are common but not necessarily critical management problems. Climate change has altered the fundamental controls on both fire and disease suggesting it will also alter the magnitude and likelihood (occurrence or detection) of disease-fire interactions.

Summary

I present a framework for linking wildfire-disease interactions and highlight the importance of host community/fuels structure on linking and mediating these interactions. I provide a series of examples where understanding interactive effects, interfacing with climate change, and the magnitude of changes to wildfire and disease intensification are of practical value and/or advance basic ecological knowledge. While much remains to be understood about these interactions, I make the argument that, in some cases, management can address both problems simultaneously.

中文翻译：

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野火、森林病害和气候变化相互作用的相互交织的问题

审查目的

我的目标是将野火与疾病的相互作用联系起来，以便更好地了解这些可能具有生态重要性的地方以及可持续森林管理的问题。

最近的发现

虽然已经记录了野火与疾病的相互作用，但它们在生态文献中并没有得到很好的体现，可能是因为它们需要相当大的努力或偶然性来严格量化。疾病与火灾相互作用的例子相对有限，并且在火灾和疾病是管理问题的系统中往往更加清晰。解决最多的系统包括疫霉属病原体虽然野火与疾病的相互作用不限于这些病原体。记录的相互作用包含一系列影响，其中包括与每个干扰相关的问题的放大。在野火和疾病都很常见但不一定是关键管理问题的系统中，野火与疾病的相互作用也可能塑造基本的生态功能。气候变化已经改变了对火灾和疾病的基本控制，这表明它还将改变疾病与火灾相互作用的幅度和可能性（发生或检测）。

概括

我提出了一个将野火与疾病相互作用联系起来的框架，并强调了宿主社区/燃料结构在联系和调解这些相互作用方面的重要性。我提供了一系列示例，其中了解交互效应、与气候变化的交互以及野火和疾病加剧的变化幅度具有实用价值和/或推进基本生态知识。尽管关于这些相互作用还有很多需要了解，但我认为，在某些情况下，管理层可以同时解决这两个问题。