Here I am including ally my published articles on fire-related topics.
Lightning fires
Zhang C, Janssen TAJ, Moris JV, Andela N, Jones MW, Libonati R, Menezes L, Oliveras Menor I, Segura-Garcia C, Veraverbeke S. 2026. Are there lightning fires in the Brazilian Amazon? Environmental Research Letters 21: 024025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae3786
Pérez-Invernón FJ, Moris JV, Gordillo-Vázquez FJ, Zhu Y, Lapierre J. 2025. Assessing the influence of fire weather and continuing currents detected from space in lightning-induced fire ignition. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 130: e2025JD044189. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044189
Moris JV, Ascoli D, Hunt HGP. 2024. Survival functions of holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires. Electric Power Systems Research 231: 110296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110296
Pérez-Invernón FJ, Moris JV, Gordillo-Vázquez FJ, Füllekrug M, Pezzatti GB, Conedera M, Lapierre J, Huntrieser H. 2023. On the role of continuing currents in lightning-induced fire ignition. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 128: e2023JD038891. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038891
Moris JV, Álvarez-Álvarez P, Conedera M, Dorph A, Hessilt TD, Hunt HGP, Libonati R, Menezes LS, Müller MM, Pérez-Invernón FJ, Pezzatti GB, Pineda N, Scholten RC, Veraverbeke S, Wotton BM, Ascoli D. 2023. A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires. Earth System Science Data 15: 1151-1163. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1151-2023
Pérez-Invernón FJ, Huntrieser H, Moris JV. 2022. Meteorological conditions associated with lightning igniting fires and long-continuing-current lightning in Arizona, New Mexico and Florida. Fire 5: 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5040096
Moris JV, Conedera M, Nisi L, Pezzatti GB. 2020. Lightning fires and summer drought: is there a relationship? Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 171: 281-287. (In German) https://doi.org/10.3188/szf.2020.0281
Moris JV, Conedera M, Nisi L, Bernardi M, Cesti G, Pezzatti GB. 2020. Lightning-caused fires in the Alps: identifying the igniting strokes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 290: 107990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107990
Fire ecology
Rainsford FW, Campedelli T, Londi G, Miozzo M, Cutini S, Guido Florenzano T, Milanese C, Betti N, Tonarelli L, Berretti R, Musio L, Moris JV, Spadoni GL, Bono A, Passamani C, Vecchio D, Motta R, Puig-Gironès R, Pons P, Ascoli D. 2026. Restoring Mediterranean heathlands for declining birds: Initial responses to mosaic cutting and burning in the Natura 2000 LIFE Program. Journal of Applied Ecology 63: e70283. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70283
Moris JV, Berretti R, Bono A, Sino R, Minotta G, Garbarino M, Motta R, Vacchiano G, Maringer J, Conedera M, Ascoli D. 2022. Resprouting in European beech confers resilience to high-frequency fire. Forestry 96: 372-386. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpac018
Moris JV, Reilly MJ, Yang Z, Cohen WB, Motta R, Ascoli D. 2022. Using a trait-based approach to assess fire resistance in forest landscapes of the Inland Northwest, USA. Landscape Ecology 37: 2149-2164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01478-w
Moris JV, Vacchiano G, Ravetto Enri S, Lonati M, Motta R, Ascoli D. 2017. Resilience of European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) forests to wildfires in the western Alps. New Forests 48: 663-683. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-017-9591-7
Fire management
Vecchio D, Mell WR, Moris JV, Leifsson C, Bono A, Musio L, Berretti R, Meloni F, Momo E, Caffo L, Accastello C, Dotta A, Motta R, Ascoli D. 2026. Closer-to-nature pyro-silviculture to mitigate crown fire potential in mountain dry conifer forests. Science of the Total Environment 1015: 181458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181458
Spadoni GL, Moris JV, Segura-Garcia C, Pessoa AC, Jones MW, Machado MS, Motta R, Alencar AAC, Ascoli D, Oliveras Menor I. 2025. Devegetation is a pervasive driver of fire in the Brazilian Cerrado. Journal of Environmental Management 385: 125637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125637
Ascoli D, Moris JV, Marchetti M, Sallustio L. 2021. Land use change towards forests and wooded land correlates with large and frequent wildfires in Italy. Annals of Silvicultural Research 46: 177-188 . http://dx.doi.org/10.12899/asr-2264
Fire policy
Kirschner JA, Kirschner J, Ascoli D, Moris JV, Boustras G, Spadoni GL. 2026. Evaluating wildfire policy impacts using synthetic controls: a data-driven assessment from Italy. International Journal of Wildland Fire 35: WF25107. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF25107
Spadoni GL, Moris JV, Vacchiano G, Elia M, Garbarino M, Sibona E, Tomao A, Barbati A, Sallustio L, Salvati L, Ferrara C, Francini S, Bonis E, Dalla Vecchia I, Strollo A, Di Leginio M, Munafò M, Chirici G, Romano R, Corona P, Marchetti M, Brunori A, Motta R, Ascoli D. 2023. Active governance of agro-pastoral, forest and protected areas mitigates wildfire impacts in Italy. Science of the Total Environment 890: 164281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164281
Colonico M, Tomao A, Ascoli D, Corona P, Giannino F, Moris JV, Romano R, Salvati L, Barbati A. 2022. Rural development funding and wildfire prevention: evidences of spatial mismatches with fire activity. Land Use Policy 117: 106079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106079