Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests

Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest

(2022) Trevor A. Carter et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Future dominance by quaking aspen expected following short‐interval, compounded disturbance interaction

(2021) Robert A. Andrus et al.   Ecosphere

Beetlemania: Is the bark worse than the bite? Rocky Mountain subalpine forests recover differently after spruce beetle outbreaks and wildfires

(2021) Zoe Schapira et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of short‐interval disturbances continue to accumulate, overwhelming variability in local resilience

(2021) Katherine Hayes et al.   Ecosphere

Effects of Bark Beetle Outbreaks on Forest Landscape Pattern in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

(2021) Kyle C. Rodman et al.   Remote Sensing

Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes

(2020) Jonathan D Coop et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The Ecology of Disturbance Interactions

(2020) Philip J Burton et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Wildfire and spruce beetle outbreak have mixed effects on below‐canopy temperatures in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest

(2020) Amanda R. Carlson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Understory vegetation response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in northern Colorado lodgepole pine forests

(2020) Gregory S. Pappas et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

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

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

(2019) Christina Restaino et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A theory of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecology

(2019) Anke Jentsch et al.   ECOLOGY

Can wildland fire management alter 21st‐century subalpine fire and forests in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA ?

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

Spatial configuration matters when removing windfelled trees to manage bark beetle disturbances in Central European forest landscapes

(2019) Laura Dobor et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Pre-outbreak forest conditions mediate the effects of spruce beetle outbreaks on fuels in subalpine forests of Colorado

(2018) Nathan Mietkiewicz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience

(2018) B. Buma et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Bayesian analyses of seventeen winters of water vapor fluxes show bark beetles reduce sublimation

(2018) John M. Frank et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Characterizing interactions between fire and other disturbances and their impacts on tree mortality in western U.S. Forests

(2017) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Evidence of compounded disturbance effects on vegetation recovery following high-severity wildfire and spruce beetle outbreak

(2017) Amanda R. Carlson et al.   PLoS One

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Scales of snow depth variability in high elevation rangeland sagebrush

(2017) Molly E. Tedesche et al.   Frontiers of Earth Science

Forest-landscape structure mediates effects of a spruce bark beetle ( Dendroctonus rufipennis ) outbreak on subsequent likelihood of burning in Alaskan boreal forest

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

Bark beetle effects on a seven-century chronosequence of Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir in Colorado, USA

(2016) Drew P. Derderian et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Charred forests accelerate snow albedo decay: parameterizing the post-fire radiative forcing on snow for three years following fire

(2016) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Bark beetle-induced tree mortality alters stand energy budgets due to water budget changes

(2016) David E Reed et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

The relative importance of tree and stand properties in susceptibility to spruce beetle outbreak in the mid-20th century

(2016) Felicia Bakaj et al.   Ecosphere

REVIEW: Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services

(2015) Rupert Seidl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Do bark beetle remains in lake sediments correspond to severe outbreaks? A review of published and ongoing research

(2015) Jesse L. Morris et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

If Long-Term Resistance to a Spruce Beetle Epidemic is Futile, Can Silvicultural Treatments Increase Resilience in Spruce-Fir Forests in the Central Rocky Mountains?

(2015) Marcella Windmuller-Campione et al.   Forests

Interactions among spruce beetle disturbance, climate change and forest dynamics captured by a forest landscape model

(2015) Christian Temperli et al.   Ecosphere

Disturbance interactions: characterization, prediction, and the potential for cascading effects

(2015) B. Buma   Ecosphere

Do tree and stand-level attributes determine susceptibility of spruce-fir forests to spruce beetle outbreaks in the early 21st century?

(2014) Sarah J. Hart et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spruce Beetle-Induced Changes to Engelmann Spruce Foliage Flammability

(2014) Wesley G. Page et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Changes in snow accumulation and ablation following the Las Conchas Forest Fire, New Mexico, USA

(2013) Adrian A. Harpold et al.   Ecohydrology

Do Bark Beetle Outbreaks Increase Wildfire Risks in the Central U.S. Rocky Mountains? Implications from Recent Research

(2013) Scott H. Black et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Drought-driven disturbance history characterizes a southern Rocky Mountain subalpine forest

(2012) R. Justin DeRose et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on wildfire

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

Forest developmental trajectories in mountain pine beetle disturbed forests of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

(2011) Matthew Diskin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Bark-beetle-attacked trees produced more charcoal than unattacked trees during a forest fire on the Kenai Peninsula, Southern Alaska

(2011) K. Makoto et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Disturbance interactions can impact resilience mechanisms of forests

(2011) B. Buma et al.   Ecosphere

Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world1

(2010) Monica G. Turner   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) R. Justin Derose et al.   ECOSCIENCE

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

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Bark beetles, fuels, fires and implications for forest management in the Intermountain West

(2007) Michael J. Jenkins et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT