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 …

Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States

JT Stevens, CM Haffey, JD Coop, PJ Fornwalt… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing incidence of wildfires across the southwestern United States (US) is altering
the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests …

Forest restoration and fuels reduction: convergent or divergent?

SL Stephens, MA Battaglia, DJ Churchill… - Bioscience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in
western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of …

A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests

KC Rodman, TT Veblen, MA Battaglia… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate warming is increasing fire activity in many of Earth's forested ecosystems.
Because fire is a catalyst for change, investigation of post‐fire vegetation response is critical …

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 …

High-severity wildfire reduces richness and alters composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi in low-severity adapted ponderosa pine forests

MF Pulido-Chavez, EC Alvarado, TH DeLuca… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests are increasingly experiencing high-severity,
stand-replacing fires. Whereas alterations to aboveground ecosystems have been …

Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America

CS Stevens-Rumann, SJ Prichard… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Wildfire-mediated changes to forests have prompted numerous studies on post-fire forest
recovery of coniferous forests. Given climate change, a growing body of work demonstrates …

Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States

KT Davis, PE Higuera, SZ Dobrowski… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Increased wildfire activity combined with warm and dry post-fire conditions may undermine
the mechanisms maintaining forest resilience to wildfires, potentially causing ecosystem …

Refuge‐yeah or refuge‐nah? Predicting locations of forest resistance and recruitment in a fiery world

KC Rodman, KT Davis, SA Parks… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming, land use change, and altered fire regimes are driving ecological
transformations that can have critical effects on Earth's biota. Fire refugia—locations that are …

Widespread regeneration failure in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern United States

MD Petrie, RM Hubbard, JB Bradford, TE Kolb… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As climate changes in coming decades, ponderosa pine forest persistence may be
increasingly dictated by their regeneration. Sustained regeneration failure has been …