Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes

Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western U.S. coniferous forests

(2020) Michael J. Koontz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Wildland fire reburning trends across the US West suggest only short-term negative feedback and differing climatic effects

(2020) B Buma et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Origins of abrupt change? Postfire subalpine conifer regeneration declines nonlinearly with warming and drying

(2019) Winslow D. Hansen et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Climate will increasingly determine post-fire tree regeneration success in low-elevation forests, Northern Rockies, USA

(2019) Kerry B. Kemp et al.   Ecosphere

Living on the edge: trailing edge forests at risk of fire‐facilitated conversion to non‐forest

(2019) Sean A. Parks et al.   Ecosphere

Vegetation-fire feedback reduces projected area burned under climate change

(2019) Matthew D. Hurteau et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Climate-fire-vegetation interactions and the rise of novel landscape patterns in subalpine ecosystems, Colorado

(2019) William John Calder et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Integrating Subjective and Objective Dimensions of Resilience in Fire-Prone Landscapes

(2019) Philip E Higuera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

Opinion: Managing for disturbance stabilizes forest carbon

(2019) Matthew D. Hurteau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree regeneration following wildfires in the western US: a review

(2019) Camille S. Stevens-Rumann et al.   Fire Ecology

Large‐scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change in Southwest U.S

(2019) Lisa A. McCauley et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed‐conifer forest landscapes

(2019) Jonathan D. Coop et al.   Ecosphere

Climate, Environment, and Disturbance History Govern Resilience of Western North American Forests

(2019) Paul F. Hessburg et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Scaling Ecological Resilience

(2019) Donald A. Falk et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

First-entry wildfires can create opening and tree clump patterns characteristic of resilient forests

(2019) Van R. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Short-interval wildfire and drought overwhelm boreal forest resilience

(2019) Ellen Whitman et al.   Scientific Reports

Fuel dynamics and reburn severity following high-severity fire in a Sierra Nevada, USA, mixed-conifer forest

(2019) Jamie M. Lydersen et al.   Fire Ecology

Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: The role of local water balance

(2018) Kimberley Davis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Fine-scale spatial climate variation and drought mediate the likelihood of reburning

(2018) Sean A. Parks et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

(2018) S Archibald 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

Anticipating fire-mediated impacts of climate change using a demographic framework

(2018) Kimberley T. Davis et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Influences of fire-vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes

(2018) Alan J. Tepley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disequilibrium of fire-prone forests sets the stage for a rapid decline in conifer dominance during the 21st century

(2018) Josep M. Serra-Diaz et al.   Scientific Reports

Wildfire-mediated vegetation change in boreal forests of Alberta, Canada

(2018) Diana Stralberg et al.   Ecosphere

Fire regimes approaching historic norms reduce wildfire-facilitated conversion from forest to non-forest

(2018) Ryan B. Walker et al.   Ecosphere

Nonlinear Long-Term Large Watershed Hydrologic Response to Wildfire and Climatic Dynamics Locally Increases Water Yields

(2018) Michael L. Wine et al.   Earths Future

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

Altered fire regimes cause long-term lichen diversity losses

(2018) Jesse E. D. Miller et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Coupled ecohydrology and plant hydraulics modeling predicts ponderosa pine seedling mortality and lower treeline in the US Northern Rocky Mountains

(2018) Caelan Simeone et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

(2018) Connor Nolan et al.   SCIENCE

How does forest recovery following moderate-severity fire influence effects of subsequent wildfire in mixed-conifer forests?

(2018) Brandon M. Collins et al.   Fire Ecology

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

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

Fire regime changes in Canada over the last half century

(2018) Chelene Hanes 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

Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Examining forest resilience to changing fire frequency in a fire-prone region of boreal forest

(2018) Sarah J. Hart et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Projected changes in daily fire spread across Canada over the next century

(2017) Xianli Wang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

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-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

(2017) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability

(2017) Carl Folke et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

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

(2016) Donald McKenzie et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Post-fire vegetation and fuel development influences fire severity patterns in reburns

(2016) Michelle Coppoletta et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2016) Jonathan D. Coop 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

Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine – dominated forests of the Colorado Front Range

(2016) Marin E. Chambers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Shifting ecological filters mediate postfire expansion of seedling aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) in Yellowstone

(2016) Winslow D. Hansen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

High severity fire and mixed conifer forest-chaparral dynamics in the southern Cascade Range, USA

(2016) Catherine Airey Lauvaux et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California

(2016) Paul F. Hessburg et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

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

Response of Sierra Nevada forests to projected climate-wildfire interactions

(2016) Shuang Liang 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

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

Spatial variability in tree regeneration after wildfire delays and dampens future bark beetle outbreaks

(2016) Rupert Seidl 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

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

Topographic and fire weather controls of fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America

(2016) Meg A. Krawchuk et al.   Ecosphere

Are historical fire regimes compatible with future climate? Implications for forest restoration

(2016) William T. Flatley 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

Fuel moisture sensitivity to temperature and precipitation: climate change implications

(2015) M. D. Flannigan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

(2015) Neal J Enright et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Sensitivity of soil water availability to changing snowmelt timing in the western U.S.

(2015) Adrian A. Harpold et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

(2015) Christopher P. O. Reyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Forest disturbance accelerates thermophilization of understory plant communities

(2015) Jens T. Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Toward accounting for ecoclimate teleconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change

(2015) Scott C. Stark et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Conceptualizing Forest Degradation

(2015) Jaboury Ghazoul et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Moving toward the Deliberate Coproduction of Climate Science Knowledge

(2015) Alison M. Meadow et al.   Weather Climate and Society

Wildland fire deficit and surplus in the western United States, 1984–2012

(2015) Sean A. Parks et al.   Ecosphere

The fire frequency-severity relationship and the legacy of fire suppression in California forests

(2015) Zachary L. Steel et al.   Ecosphere

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

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

Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire

(2014) Scott R. Abella et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire-prone ecosystems

(2014) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resistance of the boreal forest to high burn rates

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

Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

(2013) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Impacts of Changing Disturbance Regimes on Serotinous Plant Populations and Communities

(2013)   BIOSCIENCE

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

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

Modeling high-severity fire, drought and climate change impacts on ponderosa pine regeneration

(2013) Johannes J. Feddema et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States

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

Restoring forest resilience: From reference spatial patterns to silvicultural prescriptions and monitoring

(2013) Derek J. Churchill 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

When relationships estimated in the past cannot be used to predict the future: using mechanistic models to predict landscape ecological dynamics in a changing world

(2013) Eric J. Gustafson   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

(2013) Trevor F. Keenan et al.   NATURE

Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

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

Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

(2012) Mark W. Schwartz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

(2012) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Elevated CO2increases tree-level intrinsic water use efficiency: insights from carbon and oxygen isotope analyses in tree rings across three forest FACE sites

(2012) Giovanna Battipaglia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Robustness and uncertainties in the new CMIP5 climate model projections

(2012) Reto Knutti et al.   Nature Climate Change

Resilience and regime change in a southern Rocky Mountain ecosystem during the past 17 000 years

(2011) T. A. Minckley et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Once burned, twice shy: Repeat fires reduce seed availability and alter substrate constraints on Picea mariana regeneration

(2011) Carissa D. Brown et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Increased water-use efficiency during the 20th century did not translate into enhanced tree growth

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

Interactions Among Wildland Fires in a Long-Established Sierra Nevada Natural Fire Area

(2008) Brandon M. Collins et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Protecting climate with forests

(2008) Robert B Jackson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Ecological thresholds and regime shifts: approaches to identification

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