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

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

Strategically placed landscape fuel treatments decrease fire severity and promote recovery in the northern Sierra Nevada

(2019) Carmen L. Tubbesing et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2019) Philip E Higuera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Incorporating fine‐scale environmental heterogeneity into broad‐extent models

(2019) Laura J. Graham et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Fuel dynamics after reintroduced fire in an old-growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest

(2019) C. Alina Cansler et al.   Fire Ecology

Tree regeneration following wildfires in the western US: a review

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

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

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

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

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

The changing landscape of wildfire: burn pattern trends and implications for California’s yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

(2018) Zachary L. Steel et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality

(2018) Andrew C. Edwards et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mixed-Severity Fire Fosters Heterogeneous Spatial Patterns of Conifer Regeneration in a Dry Conifer Forest

(2018) Sparkle Malone et al.   Forests

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

(2018) Ryan B. Walker et al.   Ecosphere

R-squared for Bayesian regression models

(2018) Andrew Gelman et al.   AMERICAN STATISTICIAN

Post-fire forest regeneration shows limited climate tracking and potential for drought-induced type conversion

(2018) Derek J. N. Young et al.   ECOLOGY

Changing spatial patterns of stand-replacing fire in California conifer forests

(2017) Jens T. Stevens et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

brms: An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan

(2017) Paul-Christian Bürkner   Journal of Statistical Software

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

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

(2017) Noel Gorelick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Corroborating Evidence of a Pre-Euro-American Low- to Moderate-Severity Fire Regime in Yellow Pine–Mixed Conifer Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

(2017) Jay D. Miller et al.   Fire Ecology

Prior wildfires influence burn severity of subsequent large fires

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

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

(2016) Michelle Coppoletta et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology

(2016) Kevin C. Rose et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variability in vegetation and surface fuels across mixed-conifer-dominated landscapes with over 40 years of natural fire

(2016) Brandon M. Collins 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

Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought

(2016) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Preliminary analysis of the performance of the Landsat 8/OLI land surface reflectance product

(2016) Eric Vermote et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC

(2016) Aki Vehtari et al.   STATISTICS AND COMPUTING

Predicting conifer establishment post wildfire in mixed conifer forests of the North American Mediterranean-climate zone

(2016) Kevin R. Welch 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

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

Wildfire and Spatial Patterns in Forests in Northwestern Mexico: The United States Wishes It Had Similar Fire Problems

(2016) Scott L. Stephens et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure

(2015) Van R. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A global, remote sensing-based characterization of terrestrial habitat heterogeneity for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

(2015) Mao-Ning Tuanmu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Relating fuel loads to overstorey structure and composition in a fire-excluded Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest

(2015) Jamie M. Lydersen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

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

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

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

Forest resilience, tipping points and global change processes

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

Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the U.S. northern Rockies

(2015) Kerry B. Kemp et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Warning signals for eruptive events in spreading fires

(2015) Jerome M. Fox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

Forest health and global change

(2015) S. Trumbore et al.   SCIENCE

Severity of an uncharacteristically large wildfire, the Rim Fire, in forests with relatively restored frequent fire regimes

(2014) Jamie M. Lydersen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

(2014) James B Heffernan et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A New Metric for Quantifying Burn Severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio

(2014) Sean Parks et al.   Remote Sensing

Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

(2013) Anthony W. D'Amato 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

Early forest dynamics in stand-replacing fire patches in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

(2013) Brandon M. Collins et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

(2013) David A. Keith et al.   PLoS One

What's on the horizon for macroecology?

(2012) Jan Beck et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Fuel treatment effectiveness in California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

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

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

(2012) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires

(2012) J. T. Randerson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Consequences of spatial heterogeneity for ecosystem services in changing forest landscapes: priorities for future research

(2012) Monica G. Turner et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Power laws reveal phase transitions in landscape controls of fire regimes

(2012) Donald McKenzie et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

How Robust Are Burn Severity Indices When Applied in a New Region? Evaluation of Alternate Field-Based and Remote-Sensing Methods

(2012) C. Alina Cansler et al.   Remote Sensing

TRENDS IN WILDFIRE SEVERITY: 1984 TO2010 IN THE SIERRA NEVADA, MODOC PLATEAU, AND SOUTHERN CASCADES, CALIFORNIA, USA

(2012) Jay D. Miller et al.   Fire Ecology

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

Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling

(2011) John T. Abatzoglou   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

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 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

In situ survival of forest bryophytes in small-scale refugia after an intense forest fire

(2010) Kristoffer Hylander et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Changes in Fire Severity across Gradients of Climate, Fire Size, and Topography: A Landscape Ecological Perspective

(2010) Sandra L. Haire et al.   Fire Ecology

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

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

How does spatial heterogeneity influence resilience to climatic changes? Ecological dynamics in southeast Madagascar

(2009) Malika Virah-Sawmy et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area

(2009) Zachary A. Holden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage

(2009) Jon E. Keeley   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Calibration and validation of the relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to three measures of fire severity in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, California, USA

(2009) Jay D. Miller et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Coexistence through spatio-temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities

(2008) Erin J. Questad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS