Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

GM Jones, MW Tingley - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Pyrodiversity is the spatial or temporal variability in fire effects across a landscape.
Multiple ecological hypotheses, when applied to the context of post‐fire systems, suggest …

Lidar boosts 3D ecological observations and modelings: A review and perspective

Q Guo, Y Su, T Hu, H Guan, S **… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of lidar has revolutionized the way we observe and measure vegetation structure
from the ground and from above and represents a major advance toward the quantification …

Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests

MP North, RA York, BM Collins, MD Hurteau… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A significant increase in treatment pace and scale is needed to restore dry western US forest
resilience owing to increasingly frequent and severe wildfire and drought. We propose a …

Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California

ZL Steel, GM Jones, BM Collins, R Green… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests

MP North, RE Tompkins, AA Bernal, BM Collins… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing frequency and severity of altered disturbance regimes in dry, western US
forests, treatments promoting resilience have become a management objective but have …

Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible

SL Stephens, ALR Westerling… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The destructive wildfires that occurred recently in the western US starkly foreshadow the
possible future of forest ecosystems and human communities in the region. With increases in …

Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western US forests

MP North, JT Stevens, DF Greene, M Coppoletta… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing frequency and severity of fire and drought events have negatively impacted
the capacity and success of reforestation efforts in many dry, western US forests. Challenges …

Applying LiDAR individual tree detection to management of structurally diverse forest landscapes

SMA Jeronimo, VR Kane, DJ Churchill… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
LiDAR individual tree detection (ITD) is a promising tool for measuring forests at a scale that
is meaningful ecologically and useful for forest managers. However, most ITD research …

Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather

EG Brodie, EE Knapp, WR Brooks, SA Drury… - Fire Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Background The capacity of forest fuel treatments to moderate the behavior and severity of
subsequent wildfires depends on weather and fuel conditions at the time of burning …

Innovative wood use can enable carbon-beneficial forest management in California

B Cabiyo, JS Fried, BM Collins, W Stewart… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Responsible stewardship of temperate forests can address key challenges posed by climate
change through sequestering carbon, producing low-carbon products, and mitigating …