Are High-Severity Fires Burning at Much Higher Rates Recently than Historically in Dry-Forest Landscapes of the Western USA?

Novel characterization of landscape-level variability in historical vegetation structure

(2015) Brandon M. Collins et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Sequentially contingent fires, droughts and pluvials structured a historical dry forest landscape and suggest future contingencies

(2015) Alexa J. Dugan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Historical and current landscape-scale ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest structure in the Southern Sierra Nevada

(2015) Scott L. Stephens et al.   Ecosphere

Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous Western United States

(2014) E. Natasha Stavros et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Historical conditions in mixed-conifer forests on the eastern slopes of the northern Oregon Cascade Range, USA

(2014) R. Keala Hagmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire severity, size, and climate associations diverge from historical precedent along an ecological gradient in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona, USA

(2014) Christopher D. O’Connor et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Comparative genetic responses to climate for the varieties of Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii: Realized climate niches

(2014) Gerald E. Rehfeldt et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Temperate and boreal forest mega-fires: characteristics and challenges

(2014) Scott L Stephens et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984-2011

(2014) Philip E. Dennison et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

High-severity fire corroborated in historical dry forests of the western United States: response to Fuléet al.

(2014) Mark A. Williams et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Complex Early Seral Forests of the Sierra Nevada: What are They and How Can They Be Managed for Ecological Integrity?

(2014) Dominick A. DellaSala et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Learning to coexist with wildfire

(2014) Max A. Moritz et al.   NATURE

Examining Historical and Current Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America

(2014) Dennis C. Odion et al.   PLoS One

Historical, Observed, and Modeled Wildfire Severity in Montane Forests of the Colorado Front Range

(2014) Rosemary L. Sherriff et al.   PLoS One

Landscape-scale modeling of reference period forest conditions and fire behavior on heavily logged lands

(2014) R. Stockton Maxwell et al.   Ecosphere

Historical forest structure and fire in Sierran mixed-conifer forests reconstructed from General Land Office survey data

(2014) William L. Baker   Ecosphere

Ensemble projections of wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations over the western United States in the mid-21st century

(2013) Xu Yue et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States

(2013) Phillip J. van Mantgem et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Historical structure and composition of ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests in south-central Oregon

(2013) R. Keala Hagmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

(2013) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Divergent responses of fire to recent warming and drying across south-eastern Australia

(2013) Ross Bradstock et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: response to Williams and Baker

(2013) Peter Z. Fulé et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Is fire severity increasing in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?

(2013) Chad T. Hanson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

How risk management can prevent future wildfire disasters in the wildland-urban interface

(2013) D. E. Calkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

(2013) S. L. Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Comparison of the Higher-Severity Fire Regime in Historical (A.D. 1800s) and Modern (A.D. 1984–2009) Montane Forests Across 624,156 ha of the Colorado Front Range

(2012) Mark A. Williams et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Mapped versus actual burned area within wildfire perimeters: Characterizing the unburned

(2012) Crystal A. Kolden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatially extensive reconstructions show variable-severity fire and heterogeneous structure in historical western United States dry forests

(2012) Mark A. Williams et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Projected Future Changes in Vegetation in Western North America in the Twenty-First Century

(2012) Xiaoyan Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Variability of historical forest structure and fire across ponderosa pine landscapes of the Coconino Plateau and south rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA

(2012) Mark A. Williams et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

(2012) J. R. Marlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

(2012) Max A. Moritz et al.   Ecosphere

Implications of spatially extensive historical data from surveys for restoring dry forests of Oregon's eastern Cascades

(2012) William L. Baker   Ecosphere

TRENDS IN WILDFIRE SEVERITY: 1984 TO2010 IN THE SIERRA NEVADA, MODOC PLATEAU, AND SOUTHERN CASCADES, CALIFORNIA, USA

(2012) Jay D. Miller et al.   Fire Ecology

Trends and causes of severity, size, and number of fires in northwestern California, USA

(2011) J. D. Miller et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Newly discovered landscape traps produce regime shifts in wet forests

(2011) D. B. Lindenmayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006

(2011) Gregory K. Dillon et al.   Ecosphere

Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

(2011) Brandon M. Collins et al.   Ecosphere

Fire Frequency, Area Burned, and Severity: A Quantitative Approach to Defining a Normal Fire Year

(2011) James A. Lutz et al.   Fire Ecology

The forgotten stage of forest succession: early-successional ecosystems on forest sites

(2010) Mark E Swanson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Comparing selected fire regime condition class (FRCC) and LANDFIRE vegetation model results with tree-ring data

(2010) Tyson L. Swetnam et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Bias and error in using survey records for ponderosa pine landscape restoration

(2010) Mark A. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Highly episodic fire and erosion regime over the past 2,000 y in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon

(2010) D. Colombaroli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of fire and tephra deposition on forest vegetation in the Central Cascades, Oregon

(2010) Colin J. Long et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Overestimation of Fire Risk in the Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan

(2009) CHAD T. HANSON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

THE ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF SEVERE WILDFIRES: SOME LIKE IT HOT

(2009) Richard L. Hutto   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916–2003

(2009) Jeremy S. Littell et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The use of historical range and variability (HRV) in landscape management

(2009) Robert E. Keane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area

(2009) Zachary A. Holden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trends in global wildfire potential in a changing climate

(2009) Yongqiang Liu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Holocene fire-related alluvial-fan deposition and climate in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA

(2009) Jedediah D. Frechette et al.   HOLOCENE

Long-term fire history from alluvial fan sediments: the role of drought and climate variability, and implications for management of Rocky Mountain forests

(2009) Jennifer Pierce et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

LANDFIRE: a nationally consistent vegetation, wildland fire, and fuel assessment

(2009) Matthew G. Rollins   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire

(2009) Meg A. Krawchuk et al.   PLoS One