Wildfires have increased in frequency around the world. By examining wildfire impacts within watersheds and at the wildland urban interface, we can use system response, resilience, and recovery from wildfire as a framework for interpreting lateral movement of life, water, and biogeochemistry. There remains a significant knowledge gap in cross-disciplinary analyses investigating how fires impact processes from the genomic, molecular, field, to the landscape level. Wildfire disturbances may impact water quality, hydrology, microbial community composition, geomorphology, total biodiversity, organic matter chemistry, ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, soil biogeochemical cycles, plant community composition, ecosystem function, surface albedo, and impact feedbacks to surface energy fluxes that exacerbate future fire probability. Compounding wildfire with other hazards (drought, extreme precipitation) may shift fire risk. We invite research examining natural and anthropogenic (wild)fire, prescribed burns, megafires, forest management practices and traditional knowledge, novel statistical, analytical, experimental, field, molecular, remote sensing, and modeling techniques.

• GC - Global Environmental Change
• H - Hydrology