Fire and Insect Interactions in North American Forests

A review of management actions on insect pollinators on public lands in the United States

(2022) Will Glenny et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s

(2022) Virginia Iglesias et al.   Science Advances

Recent bark beetle outbreaks influence wildfire severity in mixed‐conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

(2021) Rebecca B. Wayman et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Wildfire severity influences offspring sex ratio in a native solitary bee

(2021) Sara M. Galbraith et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spatial scale in prescribed fire regimes: an understudied aspect in conservation with examples from the southeastern United States

(2021) David S. Mason et al.   Fire Ecology

Frequent prescribed fires favour ground‐nesting bees in southeastern U.S. forests

(2021) Michael D. Ulyshen et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Global review on interactions between insect pests and other forest disturbances

(2021) Quim Canelles et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Conifer bark beetles

(2021) Christopher J. Fettig et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fire mitigates bark beetle outbreaks in serotinous forests

(2021) Peter C. Jentsch et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Explaining changes in perceived wildfire risk related to the mountain pine beetle outbreak in north central Colorado

(2021) Hua Qin et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

One extreme fire weather event determines the extent and frequency of wildland fires

(2021) Xianli Wang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape

(2021) Michael D Ulyshen et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Fire weather drives daily area burned and observations of fire behavior in mountain pine beetle affected landscapes

(2020) Sarah Hart et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Stand breakdown and surface fuel accumulation due to spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) defoliation in the boreal mixedwood forest of central Canada

(2020) Graham A. Watt et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Fuel dynamics and its implication to fire behavior in loblolly pine-dominated stands after southern pine beetle outbreak

(2020) Hongtao Xie et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of prescribed fire and social insects on saproxylic beetles in a subtropical forest

(2020) Michael D. Ulyshen et al.   Scientific Reports

Repeated fall prescribed fire in previously thinned Pinus ponderosa increases growth and resistance to other disturbances

(2020) Douglas J. Westlind et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Managed Wildfire, Drought, and Overstory Survival: A Case Study in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas

(2020) Virginia L. McDaniel et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2020) Luke T. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

Potential future changes in wildfire weather and behavior around 11 Canadian cities

(2020) Abhishek Gaur et al.   Urban Climate

Dynamics of beetle-killed snags following mountain pine beetle outbreaks in lodgepole pine forests

(2020) Jackson P. Audley et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial and temporal fuels changes in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) from mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)

(2020) Curtis A. Gray et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2019) Ryan D. Haugo et al.   Ecosphere

Wild bee diversity increases with local fire severity in a fire‐prone landscape

(2019) Sara M. Galbraith et al.   Ecosphere

Dead forests burning: the influence of beetle outbreaks on fire severity and legacy structure in sub‐boreal forests

(2019) Anna C. Talucci et al.   Ecosphere

Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

(2019) Tianhua He et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A global synthesis of fire effects on pollinators

(2019) Lucas M. Carbone et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Butterfly abundance declines over 20 years of systematic monitoring in Ohio, USA

(2019) Tyson Wepprich et al.   PLoS One

Growing or dormant season burns: the effects of burn season on bee and plant communities

(2019) Brenna L. Decker et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Interaction between mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality and fire behavior in subalpine whitebark pine forests, eastern Sierra Nevada, CA; Retrospective observations

(2019) Constance I. Millar et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Interactions between southern Ips bark beetle outbreaks, prescribed fire, and loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) mortality

(2019) Bailey H. McNichol et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The Impact of Prescribed Burning on Native Bee Communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Longleaf Pine Savannas in the North Carolina Sandhills

(2019) Heather Moylett et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Management of Western North American Bark Beetles with Semiochemicals

(2018) Steven J. Seybold et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

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

(2018) Scott L Stephens et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Delayed tree mortality, bark beetle activity, and regeneration dynamics five years following the Wallow Fire, Arizona, USA: Assessing trajectories towards resiliency

(2018) John P. Roccaforte et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Bee community responses to a gradient of oak savanna restoration practices

(2018) Mitchell C. Lettow et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Ecoregional Patterns of Spruce Budworm—Wildfire Interactions in Central Canada’s Forests

(2018) et al.   Forests

Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) Defoliation Promotes Vertical Fuel Continuity in Ontario’s Boreal Mixedwood Forest

(2018) Graham Watt et al.   Forests

Disturbance-climate relationships between wildfire and western spruce budworm in interior British Columbia

(2018) Jill E. Harvey et al.   Ecosphere

Forest Insects and Climate Change

(2018) Deepa S. Pureswaran et al.   Current Forestry Reports

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

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

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

Attribution of the influence of human‐induced climate change on an extreme fire season

(2018) M. C. Kirchmeier‐Young et al.   Earths Future

Wildland Fire Prevention: a Review

(2018) Hayley Hesseln   Current Forestry Reports

Predicting post-fire attack of red turpentine or western pine beetle on ponderosa pine and its impact on mortality probability in Pacific Northwest forests

(2018) Douglas J. Westlind et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Landscape-scale quantification of fire-induced change in canopy cover following mountain pine beetle outbreak and timber harvest

(2017) T. Ryan McCarley et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fires Following Bark Beetles: Factors Controlling Severity and Disturbance Interactions in Ponderosa Pine

(2017) Carolyn H. Sieg et al.   Fire Ecology

The Influence of Western Spruce Budworm on Fire in Spruce-Fir Forests

(2017) Eric Vane et al.   Fire Ecology

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

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

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

Relative importance of climate and mountain pine beetle outbreaks on the occurrence of large wildfires in the western USA

(2016) Nathan Mietkiewicz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Limited direct effects of a massive wildfire on its sagebrush steppe bee community

(2016) BYRON G. LOVE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Managed Wildfire Effects on Forest Resilience and Water in the Sierra Nevada

(2016) Gabrielle Boisramé et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Volatile and Within-Needle Terpene Changes to Douglas-fir Trees Associated With Douglas-fir Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Attack

(2016) A. D. Giunta et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

Recent Tree Mortality in the Western United States from Bark Beetles and Forest Fires

(2016) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Pyrodiversity begets plant-pollinator community diversity

(2016) Lauren C. Ponisio et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conserving Pollinators in North American Forests: A Review

(2016) James L. Hanula et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

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

Mountain Pine Beetle Dynamics and Reproductive Success in Post-Fire Lodgepole and Ponderosa Pine Forests in Northeastern Utah

(2016) Andrew P. Lerch et al.   PLoS One

Economic analysis of forest insect pests in Canada

(2015) Kurt Niquidet et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Increasing frequency of extreme fire weather in Canada with climate change

(2015) Xianli Wang et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Low-severity fire increases tree defense against bark beetle attacks

(2015) Sharon Hood et al.   ECOLOGY

Prescribed fire does not promote outbreaks of a primary bark beetle at low-density populations

(2015) Crisia Alexandra Tabacaru et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED 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

Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Does wildfire likelihood increase following insect outbreaks in conifer forests?

(2015) Garrett W. Meigs et al.   Ecosphere

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

(2015) Paulo M. Fernandes   Current Forestry Reports

Impact of the first recorded outbreak of the Douglas-fir tussock moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata , in southern California and the extent of its distribution in the Pacific Southwest region

(2014) Tom W. Coleman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought-triggered western spruce budworm outbreaks in the interior Pacific Northwest: A multi-century dendrochronological record

(2014) A. Flower et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Future climate and fire interactions in the southeastern region of the United States

(2014) Robert J. Mitchell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spruce Beetle-Induced Changes to Engelmann Spruce Foliage Flammability

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

Interactions among the Mountain Pine Beetle, Fires, and Fuels

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

Crown fire potential in lodgepole pine forests during the red stage of mountain pine beetle attack

(2014) W. G. Page et al.   FORESTRY

Wildfire’s resistance to control in mountain pine beetle-attacked lodgepole pine forests

(2014) Wesley G. Page et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

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

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

Simulated western spruce budworm defoliation reduces torching and crowning potential: a sensitivity analysis using a physics-based fire model

(2014) Gregory M. Cohn et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

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

(2014) Christopher Fettig et al.   Forests

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

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

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

Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

(2013) Kevin C Ryan et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Effects of Forest Fuel-Reduction Treatments in the United States

(2012) Scott L. Stephens et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Fire-injured ponderosa pine provide a pulsed resource for bark beetles

(2012) Ryan S. Davis et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Mountain pine beetle attack alters the chemistry and flammability of lodgepole pine foliage

(2012) Wesley G. Page et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Comparing modern and presettlement forest dynamics of a subboreal wilderness: Does spruce budworm enhance fire risk?

(2012) Brian R. Sturtevant et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Predicting Fire Frequency with Chemistry and Climate

(2012) Richard P. Guyette et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on wildfire

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

Fuels and fire behavior dynamics in bark beetle-attacked forests in Western North America and implications for fire management

(2012) Michael J. Jenkins 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

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

Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on Fuels and Expected Fire Behavior in Lodgepole Pine Forests, Colorado, USA

(2012) Tania Schoennagel et al.   PLoS One

Predicted fates of ground-nesting bees in soil heated by wildfire: Thermal tolerances of life stages and a survey of nesting depths

(2011) James H. Cane et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Wildfire provides refuge from local extinction but is an unlikely driver of outbreaks by mountain pine beetle

(2011) Erinn N. Powell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) fire scars reveal new details of a frequent fire regime

(2011) Michael C. Stambaugh et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mountain pine beetle host-range expansion threatens the boreal forest

(2011) CATHERINE I. CULLINGHAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

(2011) S. A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances

(2010) Neal M. Williams et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Maximum foraging ranges in solitary bees: only few individuals have the capability to cover long foraging distances

(2010) Antonia Zurbuchen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

(2010) Martin Simard et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Modelling Spatial Interactions Among Fire, Spruce Budworm, and Logging in the Boreal Forest

(2010) Patrick M. A. James et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Impacts of prescribed fire on saproxylic beetles in loblolly pine logs

(2010) MICHAEL D. ULYSHEN et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies

(2010) Miguel G. Cruz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

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

Response of bark beetles and their natural enemies to fire and fire surrogate treatments in mixed-conifer forests in western Montana

(2009) Diana L. Six 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

A spatiotemporal Ripley’s K-function to analyze interactions between spruce budworm and fire in British Columbia, Canada

(2008) Heather J. Lynch et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

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