The increasing incidence of wildfires across the southwestern United States (US) is altering
the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests …

It may be possible to avert threatened species declines by protecting refuges that promote
species persistence during times of stress. To do this, we need to know where refuges are …

Extensive high‐severity wildfires have driven major losses of ponderosa pine and mixed‐
conifer forests in the southwestern United States, in some settings catalyzing enduring …

High-severity fires in dry conifer forests of the United States Southwest have created large (>
1000 ha) treeless areas that are unprecedented in the regional historical record. These fires …

Fire refugia—locations that burn less severely or less frequently than surrounding areas—
support late-successional and old-growth forest structure and function. This study …

Altered fire regimes can drive major and enduring compositional shifts or losses of forest
ecosystems. In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed‐conifer forest types …

Investigations of compound disturbances that alter forest resilience (ie, recovery time or
trajectory) have escalated over the past two decades. We used a systematic approach to …

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 …

Tree loss is increasing rapidly due to drought-and heat-related mortality and intensifying fire
activity. Consequently, the fate of many forests depends on the ability of juvenile trees to …

Fire refugia–the unburned areas within fire perimeters–are important to the survival of many
taxa through fire events and the revegetation of post-fire landscapes. Previous work has …