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

Regions and localities may lose many species to extinction under rapid climate change and
may gain other species that colonize from nearby warmer environments. Here, it is argued …

Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience.
Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed …

Ecosystem transformation involves the emergence of persistent ecological or social–
ecological systems that diverge, dramatically and irreversibly, from prior ecosystem structure …

Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by
ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred …

Over the last several decades in forest and woodland ecosystems of the southwestern
United States, wildfire size and severity have increased, thereby increasing the vulnerability …

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

The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–
urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it …

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 …