Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Beyond red crowns: complex changes in surface and crown fuels and their interactions 32 years following mountain pine beetle epidemics in south-central Oregon, USA

(2019) Travis Woolley et al.   Fire Ecology

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

Influence of fire refugia spatial pattern on post-fire forest recovery in Oregon’s Blue Mountains

(2019) William M. Downing et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Short-interval severe fire erodes the resilience of subalpine lodgepole pine forests

(2019) Monica G. Turner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The missing fire: quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA

(2019) Ryan D. Haugo et al.   Ecosphere

Drivers of lodgepole pine recruitment across a gradient of bark beetle outbreak and wildfire in British Columbia

(2019) Anna C. Talucci et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Topography and post-fire climatic conditions shape spatio-temporal patterns of conifer establishment and growth

(2019) Caitlin E. Littlefield   Fire Ecology

Drought, Tree Mortality, and Wildfire in Forests Adapted to Frequent Fire

(2018) Scott L Stephens et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Cumulative effects of wildfires on forest dynamics in the eastern Cascade Mountains, USA

(2018) Matthew J. Reilly et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Interactions of predominant insects and diseases with climate change in Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon and Washington, U.S.A.

(2018) Michelle C. Agne et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A projected decrease in lightning under climate change

(2018) Declan L. Finney et al.   Nature Climate Change

The nature of the beast: examining climate adaptation options in forests with stand-replacing fire regimes

(2018) Joshua S. Halofsky et al.   Ecosphere

Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014

(2018) Arjan J. H. Meddens et al.   Ecosphere

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

Climate Change and Future Wildfire in the Western United States: An Ecological Approach to Nonstationarity

(2018) Jeremy S. Littell et al.   Earths Future

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

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

Climate change, wildfire, and vegetation shifts in a high-inertia forest landscape: Western Washington, U.S.A.

(2018) Joshua S. Halofsky et al.   PLoS One

The 2015 drought in Washington State: a harbinger of things to come?

(2017) Miriam E Marlier et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A model-based approach to wildland fire reconstruction using sediment charcoal records

(2017) Malcolm S. Itter et al.   ENVIRONMETRICS

The normal fire environment—Modeling environmental suitability for large forest wildfires using past, present, and future climate normals

(2017) Raymond Davis et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tamm Review: Shifting global fire regimes: Lessons from reburns and research needs

(2017) Susan J. Prichard et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

(2017) Alan J. Tepley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simulated fire behaviour in young, postfire lodgepole pine forests

(2017) Kellen N. Nelson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Climatic influences on interannual variability in regional burn severity across western US forests

(2017) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States

(2017) Alexandra D. Syphard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate Drives Episodic Conifer Establishment after Fire in Dry Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA

(2017) Monica Rother et al.   Forests

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

(2017) Matthew J. Reilly et al.   Ecosphere

Prior wildfires influence burn severity of subsequent large fires

(2016) Camille S. Stevens-Rumann et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Climate change and the eco-hydrology of fire: Will area burned increase in a warming western USA?

(2016) Donald McKenzie et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fire severity unaffected by spruce beetle outbreak in spruce-fir forests in southwestern Colorado

(2016) Robert A. Andrus et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Repeated wildfires alter forest recovery of mixed-conifer ecosystems

(2016) Camille Stevens-Rumann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Landscape variation in tree regeneration and snag fall drive fuel loads in 24-year old post-fire lodgepole pine forests

(2016) Kellen N. Nelson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Burn me twice, shame on who? Interactions between successive forest fires across a temperate mountain region

(2016) Brian J. Harvey et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term climate and competition explain forest mortality patterns under extreme drought

(2016) Derek J. N. Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?

(2016) Sean A Parks et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Do insect outbreaks reduce the severity of subsequent forest fires?

(2016) Garrett W Meigs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Fire severity and cumulative disturbance effects in the post-mountain pine beetle lodgepole pine forests of the Pole Creek Fire

(2016) Michelle C. Agne et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Potential of forest thinning to mitigate drought stress: A meta-analysis

(2016) Julia A. Sohn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A review of precipitation and temperature control on seedling emergence and establishment for ponderosa and lodgepole pine forest regeneration

(2016) M.D. Petrie et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

(2016) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

(2016) Jeremy S. Littell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High and dry: post-fire tree seedling establishment in subalpine forests decreases with post-fire drought and large stand-replacing burn patches

(2016) Brian J. Harvey et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Wildland fire limits subsequent fire occurrence

(2016) Sean A. Parks et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Interactions of landscape disturbances and climate change dictate ecological pattern and process: spatial modeling of wildfire, insect, and disease dynamics under future climates

(2016) Rachel A. Loehman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Drivers and trends in landscape patterns of stand-replacing fire in forests of the US Northern Rocky Mountains (1984–2010)

(2016) Brian J. Harvey et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring

(2016) Anthony LeRoy Westerling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Increased water deficit decreases Douglas fir growth throughout western US forests

(2016) Christina M. Restaino et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying drought-induced tree mortality in the open canopy woodlands of central Texas

(2016) Amanda M. Schwantes et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Developing and Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Options in Forest Ecosystems: A Case Study in Southwestern Oregon, USA

(2016) Jessica Halofsky et al.   Forests

Regeneration of montane forests 24 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires: A fire-catalyzed shift in lower treelines?

(2016) Daniel C. Donato et al.   Ecosphere

A field experiment informs expected patterns of conifer regeneration after disturbance under changing climate conditions

(2015) Monica T. Rother et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Projected climate change impacts on forest land cover and land use over the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, USA

(2015) David P. Turner et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Wildland fire as a self-regulating mechanism: the role of previous burns and weather in limiting fire progression

(2015) Sean A. Parks et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Projected major fire and vegetation changes in the Pacific Northwest of the conterminous United States under selected CMIP5 climate futures

(2015) T. Sheehan et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Short-interval disturbance in lodgepole pine forests, British Columbia, Canada: Understory and overstory response to mountain pine beetle and fire

(2015) Marc Edwards et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest structure and species traits mediate projected recruitment declines in western US tree species

(2015) Solomon Z. Dobrowski et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States

(2015) R. Barbero et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

(2015) Paul F. Hessburg et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks

(2015) Sarah J. Hart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Does wildfire likelihood increase following insect outbreaks in conifer forests?

(2015) Garrett W. Meigs et al.   Ecosphere

Bark beetles and wildfires: How does forest recovery change with repeated disturbances in mixed conifer forests?

(2015) Camille Stevens-Rumann et al.   Ecosphere

Dry forest resilience varies under simulated climate-management scenarios in a central Oregon, USA landscape

(2014) Joshua S. Halofsky et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fire severity and tree regeneration following bark beetle outbreaks: the role of outbreak stage and burning conditions

(2014) Brian J. Harvey et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Interactions among the Mountain Pine Beetle, Fires, and Fuels

(2014) Michael J. Jenkins et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

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

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

Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA

(2014) E. Natasha Stavros et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks Did Not Increase Fire Risk over the Last Three Centuries: A Dendrochronological Analysis of Inter-Disturbance Synergism

(2014) Aquila Flower et al.   PLoS One

Recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks, wildfire severity, and postfire tree regeneration in the US Northern Rockies

(2014) Brian J. Harvey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming

(2014) D. M. Romps et al.   SCIENCE

Post-fire tree establishment and early cohort development in conifer forests of the western Cascades of Oregon, USA

(2014) Alan J. Tepley et al.   Ecosphere

Modeling Wildfire Spread in Mountain Pine Beetle-Affected Forest Stands, British Columbia, Canada

(2014) Daniel D.B. Perrakis et al.   Fire Ecology

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

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

Fuel treatments and landform modify landscape patterns of burn severity in an extreme fire event

(2013) Susan J. Prichard 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

Assessing potential climate change effects on vegetation using a linked model approach

(2013) Jessica E. Halofsky et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Postglacial climate and fire-mediated vegetation change on the western Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA)

(2013) Daniel G. Gavin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Influence of recent bark beetle outbreak on fire severity and postfire tree regeneration in montane Douglas-fir forests

(2013) Brian J. Harvey et al.   ECOLOGY

Previous Fires Moderate Burn Severity of Subsequent Wildland Fires in Two Large Western US Wilderness Areas

(2013) Sean A. Parks et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire varies along an elevation gradient in a ponderosa pine forest, Oregon, USA

(2013) Erich Kyle Dodson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Pre-wildfire management treatments interact with fire severity to have lasting effects on post-wildfire vegetation response

(2013) Kristen L. Shive et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Surface Fire Intensity Influences Simulated Crown Fire Behavior in Lodgepole Pine Forests with Recent Mountain Pine Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality

(2013) Chad M. Hoffman et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Preparing for and managing change: climate adaptation for biodiversity and ecosystems

(2013) Bruce A Stein et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States

(2013) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fuel mass and forest structure following stand-replacement fire and post-fire logging in a mixed-evergreen forest

(2013) Daniel C. Donato et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

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

The Missing Mountain Water: Slower Westerlies Decrease Orographic Enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA

(2013) C. H. Luce et al.   SCIENCE

Global warming and changes in drought

(2013) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on wildfire

(2012) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fuel treatment effectiveness in California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

(2012) H.D. Safford et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Surface fuel treatments in young, regenerating stands affect wildfire severity in a mixed conifer forest, eastside Cascade Range, Washington, USA

(2012) Christina Lyons-Tinsley et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Relationships between moisture, chemistry, and ignition of Pinus contorta needles during the early stages of mountain pine beetle attack

(2012) W. Matt Jolly et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Numerical Simulation of Crown Fire Hazard Immediately after Bark Beetle-Caused Mortality in Lodgepole Pine Forests

(2012) Chad Hoffman et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Coupling snowpack and groundwater dynamics to interpret historical streamflow trends in the western United States

(2012) Mohammad Safeeq et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

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

(2012) Xiaoyan Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The West Coast Thermal Trough: Climatology and Synoptic Evolution

(2012) Matthew C. Brewer et al.   MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

(2012) Max A. Moritz et al.   Ecosphere

The influence of climate change, site type, and disturbance on stand dynamics in northwest British Columbia, Canada

(2012) C. R. Nitschke et al.   Ecosphere

Characterizing Fire-on-Fire Interactions in Three Large Wilderness Areas

(2012) Casey C. Teske et al.   Fire Ecology

The influence of mountain pine beetle outbreaks and drought on severe wildfires in northwestern Colorado and southern Wyoming: A look at the past century

(2011) Dominik Kulakowski et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Comparing the role of fuel breaks across southern California national forests

(2011) Alexandra D. Syphard et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest responses to climate change in the northwestern United States: Ecophysiological foundations for adaptive management

(2011) Daniel J. Chmura et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Impacts of climate change on fire regimes and carbon stocks of the U.S. Pacific Northwest

(2011) Brendan M. Rogers et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Climate change and forest diseases

(2011) R. N. Sturrock et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century

(2011) Anthony L. Westerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mixed-severity fire regimes: lessons and hypotheses from the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion

(2011) J. E. Halofsky et al.   Ecosphere

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

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

Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA

(2010) Jeremy S. Littell et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climate change impacts on streamflow extremes and summertime stream temperature and their possible consequences for freshwater salmon habitat in Washington State

(2010) Nathan Mantua et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Effects of climate change and wildfire on stream temperatures and salmonid thermal habitat in a mountain river network

(2010) Daniel J. Isaak et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests?

(2010) Martin Simard et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Climate change adaptation strategies for federal forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA: ecological, policy, and socio-economic perspectives

(2010) Thomas A. Spies et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

An 11 000-year-long record of fire and vegetation history at Beaver Lake, Oregon, central Willamette Valley

(2010) Megan K. Walsh et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Conifer regeneration in stand-replacement portions of a large mixed-severity wildfire in the Klamath–Siskiyou Mountains

(2009) Daniel C. Donato et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

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

Wildfire and spruce beetle outbreak: Simulation of interacting disturbances in the central Rocky Mountains

(2009) R. Justin Derose et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Managing for Multiple Resources Under Climate Change: National Forests

(2009) Linda A. Joyce et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Bird communities following high-severity fire: Response to single and repeat fires in a mixed-evergreen forest, Oregon, USA

(2009) Joseph B. Fontaine et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Declining annual streamflow distributions in the Pacific Northwest United States, 1948–2006

(2009) C. H. Luce et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climatic influences on fire regimes in montane forests of the southern Cascades, California, USA

(2009) A. H. Taylor et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Climate drivers of regionally synchronous fires in the inland Northwest (1651–1900)

(2009) Emily K. Heyerdahl et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire

(2009) Mike D. Flannigan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States

(2009) H. G. Hidalgo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire

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

Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in a montane forest, North Cascade Range, Washington, USA

(2009) Susan J. Prichard et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Simulated effects of climate change, fragmentation, and inter-specific competition on tree species migration in northern Wisconsin, USA

(2008) RM Scheller et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Five Potential Consequences of Climate Change for Invasive Species

(2008) JESSICA J. HELLMANN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

DOUGLAS-FIR GROWTH IN MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS: WATER LIMITS TREE GROWTH FROM STAND TO REGION

(2008) Jeremy S. Littell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Individual tree growth response to variable-density thinning in coastal Pacific Northwest forests

(2008) Scott D. Roberts et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Vegetation response to a short interval between high-severity wildfires in a mixed-evergreen forest

(2008) Daniel C. Donato et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A 14,300-year-long record of fire–vegetation–climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington

(2008) Megan K. Walsh et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH