Scaling Ecological Resilience

Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration

(2019) Kimberley T. Davis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests

(2018) Sean A Parks et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Pine vs. oaks revisited: Conversion of Madrean pine-oak forest to oak shrubland after high-severity wildfire in the Sky Islands of Arizona

(2018) Andrew M. Barton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Generating species assemblages for restoration and experimentation: A new method that can simultaneously converge on average trait values and maximize functional diversity

(2018) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Pre-fire drought and competition mediate post-fire conifer mortality in western U.S. National Parks

(2018) Phillip J. van Mantgem et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity

(2018) Zachary A. Holden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Use of landscape simulation modeling to quantify resilience for ecological applications

(2018) Robert E. Keane et al.   Ecosphere

A multi-century history of fire regimes along a transect of mixed-conifer forests in central Oregon, U.S.A.

(2018) Emily K. Heyerdahl et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western U.S. forests

(2018) Malcolm P. North et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Bioclimatic Envelopes for Individual Demographic Events Driven by Extremes: Plant Mortality from Drought and Warming

(2018) Darin J. Law et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

(2018) Juan C. Rocha et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing trends in high-severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984 to 2015

(2018) Megan P. Singleton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial patterns of ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches

(2017) Suzanne M. Owen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial resilience of forested landscapes under climate change and management

(2017) Melissa S. Lucash et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America

(2017) Thomas Kitzberger et al.   PLoS One

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

(2017) Tania Schoennagel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contemporary patterns of fire extent and severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA (1985-2010)

(2017) Matthew J. Reilly et al.   Ecosphere

Macroanatomy and compartmentalization of recent fire scars in three North American conifers

(2016) Kevin T. Smith et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Influences of prior wildfires on vegetation response to subsequent fire in a reburned Southwestern landscape

(2016) Jonathan D. Coop et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

(2016) Jill F Johnstone et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

1984?2010 trends in fire burn severity and area for the conterminous US

(2016) Joshua J. Picotte et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Multiscale perspectives of fire, climate and humans in western North America and the Jemez Mountains, USA

(2016) Thomas W. Swetnam et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems

(2016) J. Guiot et al.   SCIENCE

U.S. federal fire and forest policy: emphasizing resilience in dry forests

(2016) Scott L. Stephens et al.   Ecosphere

Historical high-severity fire patches in mixed-conifer forests

(2015) Larissa L. Yocom-Kent et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Enhancing Resiliency and Restoring Ecological Attributes in Second-Growth Ponderosa Pine Stands in Northern New Mexico, USA

(2015) Zachary Thomas et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

(2015) W. Matt Jolly et al.   Nature Communications

Resin duct size and density as ecophysiological traits in fire scars of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Larix occidentalis

(2014) Estelle Arbellay et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Changes in tracheid and ray traits in fire scars of North American conifers and their ecophysiological implications

(2014) Estelle Arbellay et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

(2014) Rachel J. Standish et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Multiple-pathway succession in coastal Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata, and Abies amabilis forests on northeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia

(2014) Adrian Weber et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Mixed-severity fire in lodgepole pine dominated forests: are historical regimes sustainable on Oregon’s Pumice Plateau, USA?

(2014) Emily K. Heyerdahl et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

The changing role of history in restoration ecology

(2014) Eric Higgs et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Double whammy: high-severity fire and drought in ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest

(2013) Melissa Savage et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Latent resilience in ponderosa pine forest: effects of resumed frequent fire

(2013) Andrew J. Larson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate, fire size, and biophysical setting control fire severity and spatial pattern in the northern Cascade Range, USA

(2013) C. Alina Cansler et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Resilience to Stress and Disturbance, and Resistance to Bromus tectorum L. Invasion in Cold Desert Shrublands of Western North America

(2013) Jeanne C. Chambers et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: Managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future

(2013) Mark A. Adams   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Bat Response to Differing Fire Severity in Mixed-Conifer Forest California, USA

(2013) Michael R. Buchalski et al.   PLoS One

Ecology and evolution of pine life histories

(2012) Jon E. Keeley   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Is Alaska’s Boreal Forest Now Crossing a Major Ecological Threshold?

(2012) Daniel H. Mann et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Foraging-Habitat Selection of Black-backed Woodpeckers in Forest Burns of Southwestern Idaho

(2012)   CONDOR

Testing a pyroclimatic hypothesis on the Mexico–United States border

(2012) Peter Z. Fulé et al.   ECOLOGY

Resistance, resilience, and community dynamics in mediterranean-climate streams

(2012) Yaron Hershkovitz et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

(2012) A. Park Williams et al.   Nature Climate Change

Resistance, Resilience and Restoration

(2012) Philip S. Lake   ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION

Mixed-severity fire regimes in dry forests of southern interior British Columbia, Canada

(2011) Emily K. Heyerdahl et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Decreases in Fire Spread Probability with Forest Age Promotes Alternative Community States, Reduced Resilience to Climate Variability and Large Fire Regime Shifts

(2011) Thomas Kitzberger et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Can We Manage for Resilience? The Integration of Resilience Thinking into Natural Resource Management in the United States

(2011) Melinda Harm Benson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Ten years after wildfires: How does varying tree mortality impact fire hazard and forest resiliency?

(2011) Camille S. Stevens-Rumann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changing growth response to wildfire in old-growth ponderosa pine trees in montane forests of north central Idaho

(2011) Eric G. Keeling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

(2011) Jon E. Keeley et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Historical Stand-Replacing Fire in Upper Montane Forests of the Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau, Southwestern USA

(2011) Ellis Q. Margolis et al.   Fire Ecology

Fire, climate change, and forest resilience in interior AlaskaThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska's Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) Jill F. Johnstone et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world1

(2010) Monica G. Turner   ECOLOGY

Effects of landscape patterns of fire severity on regenerating ponderosa pine forests (Pinus ponderosa) in New Mexico and Arizona, USA

(2010) Sandra L. Haire et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Spatially and Temporally Variable Fire Regime on Rincon Peak, Arizona, USA

(2010) Jose M. Iniguez et al.   Fire Ecology

Emergency Post-fire Rehabilitation Treatment Effects on Burned Area Ecology and Long-term Restoration

(2010) Peter R. Robichaud et al.   Fire Ecology

First-Order Fire Effects on Animals: Review and Recommendations

(2010) R. Todd Engstrom   Fire Ecology

Influence of fire and mountain pine beetle on the dynamics of lodgepole pine stands in British Columbia, Canada

(2009) Jodi N. Axelson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks

(2009) J. Bascompte et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A comparison of the resilience of four habitats to fire, and the implications of changes in community composition for conservation: a case study from the Serra de Monchique, Portugal

(2009) Ruth J. Mitchell et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Ecology and the ratchet of events: Climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions

(2009) S. T. Jackson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological Restoration in the Light of Ecological History

(2009) S. T. Jackson et al.   SCIENCE

Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

(2009) M. E. Mann et al.   SCIENCE

Quantitative Evidence for Increasing Forest Fire Severity in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Mountains, California and Nevada, USA

(2008) J. D. Miller et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecological thresholds and regime shifts: approaches to identification

(2008) Tom Andersen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION