In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

The ecological co‐dependency between plants and hummingbirds is a classic example of a
mutualistic interaction: hummingbirds rely on floral nectar to fuel their rapid metabolisms …

Management in fire‐prone ecosystems relies widely upon application of prescribed fire
and/or fire surrogate (eg, forest thinning) treatments to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem …

Forests and woodlands in the central Rocky Mountains span broad gradients in climate,
elevation, and other environmental conditions, and therefore encompass a great diversity of …

Forest fires leave behind a changed ecosystem with a patchwork of surface cover that
includes ash, charred organic matter, soils and soil minerals, and dead, damaged, and living …

There is widespread concern that fire exclusion has led to an unprecedented threat of
uncharacteristically severe fires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws) and …

Many forest species are adapted to long-interval, high-severity fires, but the intervals
between severe fires are decreasing with changes in climate, land use, and biological …

Although mixed‐severity fires are among the most widespread disturbances influencing
western North American forests, they remain the least understood. A major question is the …

Prescribed fire is a management tool used to reduce fuel loads on public lands in forested
areas in the western United States. Identifying the impacts of prescribed fire on bird …

An important question in ecology is how mechanistic processes occurring among individuals
drive large-scale patterns of community formation and change. Here we show that in two …