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 …

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 …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Novel disturbance regimes and ecological responses

MG Turner, R Seidl - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Many natural disturbances have a strong climate forcing, and concern is rising about how
ecosystems will respond to disturbance regimes to which they are not adapted. Novelty can …

Tamm Review: Shifting global fire regimes: Lessons from reburns and research needs

SJ Prichard, CS Stevens-Rumann… - Forest Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused
persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather …

High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and map** its probability across western US forests

SA Parks, LM Holsinger, MH Panunto… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Wildland fire is a critical process in forests of the western United States (US). Variation in fire
behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type …

Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States

TN Wasserman, SE Mueller - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …

Mean composite fire severity metrics computed with Google Earth Engine offer improved accuracy and expanded map** potential

SA Parks, LM Holsinger, MA Voss, RA Loehman… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Landsat-based fire severity datasets are an invaluable resource for monitoring and research
purposes. These gridded fire severity datasets are generally produced with pre-and post-fire …

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 …

Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity

CA Cansler, VR Kane, PF Hessburg, JT Kane… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …