Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

SJ Prichard, PF Hessburg, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
We review science‐based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests
that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of …

Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest ecology and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

JE Halofsky, DL Peterson, BJ Harvey - Fire Ecology, 2020‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

Influences of wildfire on the forest ecosystem and climate change: A comprehensive study

K Gajendiran, S Kandasamy, M Narayanan - Environmental Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Wildfires have complex impacts on forests, including changes in vegetation, threats to
biodiversity, and emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which exacerbate …

[PDF][PDF] Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes

JD Coop, SA Parks, CS Stevens-Rumann… - …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience.
Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed …

The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?

HD Safford, AK Paulson, ZL Steel… - Global Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …

Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests

MP North, RA York, BM Collins, MD Hurteau… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …

Tree regeneration following wildfires in the western US: a review

CS Stevens-Rumann, P Morgan - Fire ecology, 2019‏ - Springer
Background Wildfires, like many disturbances, can be catalysts for ecosystem change. Given
projected climate change, tree regeneration declines and ecosystem shifts following severe …

Challenges to the reforestation pipeline in the United States

J Fargione, DL Haase, OT Burney… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Large-scale global reforestation goals have been proposed to help mitigate climate change
and provide other ecosystem services. To explore reforestation potential in the United …

Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses

CH Guiterman, RM Gregg, LAE Marshall, JJ Beckmann… - Fire Ecology, 2022‏ - Springer
Background Forest and nonforest ecosystems of the western United States are experiencing
major transformations in response to land-use change, climate warming, and their …