Multi‐scale controls of historical forest‐fire regimes: new insights from fire‐scar networks

DA Falk, EK Heyerdahl, PM Brown… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Anticipating future forest‐fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and
natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time …

Fire and restoration of pinon–juniper woodlands in the western United States: a review

WL Baker, DJ Shinneman - Forest Ecology and Management, 2004 - Elsevier
Piñons and junipers, that dominate many semi-arid landscapes in the western United States,
have invaded some sagebrush and grassland areas and possibly increased in density since …

Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE

CI Roos, CH Guiterman, EQ Margolis, TW Swetnam… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Prior research suggests that Indigenous fire management buffers climate influences on
wildfires, but it is unclear whether these benefits accrue across geographic scales. We use a …

Historical and modern disturbance regimes, stand structures, and landscape dynamics in pinon–juniper vegetation of the western United States

WH Romme, CD Allen, JD Bailey, WL Baker… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2009 - Elsevier
Piñon–juniper is a major vegetation type in western North America. Effective management of
these ecosystems has been hindered by inadequate understanding of 1) the variability in …

Climate and disturbance forcing of episodic tree recruitment in a southwestern ponderosa pine landscape

PM Brown, R Wu - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Strong but relatively short (annual to decadal length) climate change can have broad‐scale
and long‐lasting effects on forest communities. Climate impacts forests through direct effects …

Synthesis of sediment yields after wildland fire in different rainfall regimes in the western United States

JA Moody, DA Martin - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Measurements of post-fire sediment erosion, transport, and deposition collected within 2
years of a wildfire were compiled from the published literature (1927–2007) for sites across …

Restoring composition and structure in southwestern frequent-fire forests: a science-based framework for improving ecosystem resiliency

RT Reynolds, AJS Meador, JA Youtz… - Gen. Tech. Rep …, 2013 - research.fs.usda.gov
Ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests in the Southwest United States are
experiencing, or have become increasingly susceptible to, large-scale severe wildfire …

Tree-ring reconstructions of fire and climate history in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern United States

TW Swetnam, CH Baisan - Fire and climatic change in temperate …, 2003 - Springer
Most of the fire history research conducted in the past century has focused on case studies
and local-scale assessments of pattern and process, with an emphasis on describing typical …

Double whammy: high-severity fire and drought in ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest

M Savage, JN Mast, JJ Feddema - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
We examine regeneration dynamics across landscapes under extreme climate conditions
and a human-altered fire regime in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson & …

Effects of anthropogenic fire history on savanna vegetation in northeastern Namibia

A Sheuyange, G Oba, RB Weladji - Journal of Environmental management, 2005 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic fires in Africa are an ancient form of environmental disturbance, which
probably have shaped the savanna vegetation more than any other human induced …