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Martin E. Alexander

Martin E. Alexander

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
7860
World Ranking
7339
National Ranking
326

Overview

Martin E. Alexander is affiliated with Wild Rose Fire Behaviour in Canada and specializes in environmental science with a focus on fire dynamics and wildfire behavior. Their research spans several subfields including global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their published work addresses topics related to fire effects on ecosystems, landslides and related hazards, rangeland and wildlife management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, fire dynamics and safety research, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin E. Alexander include Miguel G. Cruz, Paulo M. Fernandes, Musa Kilinc, Daniel D. B. Perrakis, and Scott M. Frost. Their research has appeared primarily in these publication venues:

  • Fire
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Ecological Informatics
  • The Forestry Chronicle

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Martin E. Alexander include:

  • Evaluating the 10% wind speed rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire's forward rate of spread against an extensive independent set of observations, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Evidence for lack of a fuel effect on forest and shrubland fire rates of spread under elevated fire danger conditions: implications for modelling and management, 2022, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Wildfire Rates of Spread in Grasslands under Critical Burning Conditions, 2022, Fire
  • Improved logistic models of crown fire probability in Canadian conifer forests, 2023, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • The Application of Fire Behavior Modeling to Fuel Treatment Assessments at Army Garrison Camp Williams, Utah, 2022, Fire

Best Publications

  • Calculating and interpreting forest fire intensities

    Martin E. Alexander

  • Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System: An Overview

    B. J. Stocks;T. J. Lynham;B. D. Lawson;M. E. Alexander

  • Fire on Earth: An Introduction

    Andrew C. Scott;David M. J. S. Bowman;William J. Bond;Stephen J. Pyne

  • Science, technology, and human factors in fire danger rating: the Canadian experience

    Stephen W. Taylor;Martin E. Alexander

  • Assessing canopy fuel stratum characteristics in crown fire prone fuel types of western North America

    Miguel G. Cruz;Martin E. Alexander;Ronald H. Wakimoto

  • Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies.

    Miguel G. Cruz;Miguel G. Cruz;Martin E. Alexander;Martin E. Alexander

  • Information systems in support of wildland fire management decision making in Canada

    B.S Lee;M.E Alexander;B.C Hawkes;T.J Lynham

  • Fire, climate change, carbon and fuel management in the Canadian boreal forest

    B.D. Amiro;B.J. Stocks;M.E. Alexander;Flannigan

  • Development and testing of models for predicting crown fire rate of spread in conifer forest stands

    Miguel G Cruz;Martin E Alexander;Ronald H Wakimoto

  • Crown fire behaviour in a northern jack pine-black spruce forest

    B J Stocks;M E Alexander;B M Wotton;C N Stefner

  • Interdependencies between flame length and fireline intensity in predicting crown fire initiation and crown scorch height

    Martin E. Alexander;Miguel G. Cruz

  • Uncertainty associated with model predictions of surface and crown fire rates of spread

    Miguel G. Cruz;Martin E. Alexander

  • Modeling the Likelihood of Crown Fire Occurrence in Conifer Forest Stands

    Miguel G. Cruz;Martin E. Alexander;Ronald H. Wakimoto

  • Fuels and fire behavior dynamics in bark beetle-attacked forests in Western North America and implications for fire management

    Michael J. Jenkins;Wesley G. Page;Elizabeth G. Hebertson;Martin E. Alexander;Martin E. Alexander

  • Help with making crown fire hazard assessments

    M.E. Alexander

  • Overview of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME)

    B J Stocks;M E Alexander;R A Lanoville

  • Variation in wind and crown fire behaviour in a northern jack pine - black spruce forest 1

    S. W. Taylor;B. M. Wotton;M. E. Alexander;G. N. Dalrymple

  • Evaluating a model for predicting active crown fire rate of spread using wildfire observations

    Martin E Alexander;Miguel G Cruz

  • Crown fire thresholds in exotic pine plantations of Australasia

    Martin Edward Alexander

  • Short communication: Are the applications of wildland fire behaviour models getting ahead of their evaluation again?

    Martin E. Alexander;Miguel G. Cruz

  • Current methods to assess fire danger potential

    J. San-Miguel-Ayanz;J. D. Carlson;Martin Alexander;Kevin Tolhurst

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel G. Cruz
Miguel G. Cruz Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brian J. Stocks
Brian J. Stocks Canadian Forest Service
B. M. Wotton
B. M. Wotton University of Toronto
Edward W. Bork
Edward W. Bork University of Alberta
Paulo M. Fernandes
Paulo M. Fernandes University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
David A. MacLean
David A. MacLean University of New Brunswick
Bryan A. Baum
Bryan A. Baum University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eric S. Kasischke
Eric S. Kasischke University of Maryland, College Park
Mark A. Finney
Mark A. Finney US Forest Service
Ross W. Wein
Ross W. Wein University of Alberta

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