Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Post-fire landscapes are the frontline of forest ecosystem change. As such, they represent
opportunities to foster conditions that are better adapted to future climate and wildfires with …

Although recent large wildfires in California forests are well publicized in media and
scientific literature, their cumulative effects on forest structure and implications for forest …

Background Forest and nonforest ecosystems of the western United States are experiencing
major transformations in response to land-use change, climate warming, and their …

We investigated the relative importance of daily fire weather, landscape position, climate,
recent forest and fuels management, and fire history to explaining patterns of remotely …

Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the
western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. Yet, the relative …

Abstract Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is causing
increasingly large areas of tree mortality and removing the seed sources required for the …

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 …

Southwestern ponderosa pine forests are vulnerable to fire‐driven conversion in a warming
and drying climate, yet little is known about what kinds of ecological communities may …

Climate, disturbance, vegetation response and their interaction are key factors in predicting
the distribution and function of ecosystems across landscapes. A range of factors, operating …