Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought

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

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

Drought Impacts and Compounding Mortality on Forest Trees in the Southern Sierra Nevada

(2019) Lauren Pile et al.   Forests

Forest structure and climate mediate drought‐induced tree mortality in forests of the Sierra Nevada, USA

(2019) Christina Restaino et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012–2015 drought

(2019) M. L. Goulden et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2018) Scott L Stephens et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

(2018) Daniel L. Swain et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality

(2018) Sharon M Hood et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tree mortality following drought in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.

(2018) Christopher J. Fettig et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed-conifer forest in the central Sierra Nevada, CA

(2017) Eric E. Knapp et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Meta-analysis of California Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) territory occupancy in the Sierra Nevada: Habitat associations and their implications for forest management

(2016) Douglas J. Tempel et al.   CONDOR

Fortifying the forest: thinning and burning increase resistance to a bark beetle outbreak and promote forest resilience

(2016) Sharon M. Hood et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

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

Long-term impacts of prescribed fire on stand structure, growth, mortality, and individual tree vigor in Pinus resinosa forests

(2016) Sawyer S. Scherer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A window of opportunity for climate-change adaptation: easing tree mortality by reducing forest basal area

(2016) John B Bradford et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Does Prescribed Fire Promote Resistance to Drought in Low Elevation Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?

(2016) Phillip J. van Mantgem et al.   Fire Ecology

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

(2015) Scott L. Stephens et al.   Ecosphere

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

Empirical Support for the Use of Prescribed Burning as a Fuel Treatment

(2015) Paulo M. Fernandes   Current Forestry Reports

Stand-scale tree mortality factors differ by site and species following drought in southwestern mixed conifer forests

(2014) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Cultural Practices for Prevention and Mitigation of Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations

(2014) Christopher J. Fettig et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

How unusual is the 2012-2014 California drought?

(2014) Daniel Griffin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Management for Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak Suppression: Does Relevant Science Support Current Policy?

(2014) Diana Six et al.   Forests

Resiliency of an Interior Ponderosa Pine Forest to Bark Beetle Infestations Following Fuel-Reduction and Forest-Restoration Treatments

(2014) Christopher Fettig et al.   Forests

Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States

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

Prescribed fire and mechanical thinning effects on bark beetle caused tree mortality in a mid-elevation Sierran mixed-conifer forest

(2013) Daniel T. Stark et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Quantifying spatial patterns of tree groups and gaps in mixed-conifer forests: Reference conditions and long-term changes following fire suppression and logging

(2013) Jamie M. Lydersen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Long-term overstory and understory change following logging and fire exclusion in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest

(2013) Eric E. Knapp et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Silviculture in an uncertain world: utilizing multi-aged management systems to integrate disturbance

(2013) K. L. O'Hara et al.   FORESTRY

Fuel treatment effectiveness in California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

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

Ecological effects of alternative fuel-reduction treatments: highlights of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS)

(2012) James D. McIver et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

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

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Long-term effects of prescribed fire on mixed conifer forest structure in the Sierra Nevada, California

(2011) Phillip J. van Mantgem et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tree spatial patterns in fire-frequent forests of western North America, including mechanisms of pattern formation and implications for designing fuel reduction and restoration treatments

(2011) Andrew J. Larson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Spatial patterns of overstory trees in late-successional conifer forests

(2010) Andrew J. Larson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Fuel treatments reduce the severity of wildfire effects in dry mixed conifer forest, Washington, USA

(2010) Susan J. Prichard et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Fire regimes, forest change, and self-organization in an old-growth mixed-conifer forest, Yosemite National Park, USA

(2010) Andrew E. Scholl et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effects of prescribed fire and season of burn on direct and indirect levels of tree mortality in Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine Forests in California, USA

(2010) Christopher J. Fettig et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests

(2009) Scott L. Stephens et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Resting structures and resting habitat of fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada, California

(2009) Kathryn L. Purcell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

(2009) Edward R. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

SPATIAL ELEMENTS OF MORTALITY RISK IN OLD-GROWTH FORESTS

(2008) Adrian Das et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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