The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

JS Clark, L Iverson, CW Woodall, CD Allen… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize insights from current understanding of drought impacts at stand‐to‐
biogeographic scales, including management options, and we identify challenges to be …

The changing water cycle: The eco‐hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions

CL Tague, M Moritz, E Hanan - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In seasonally dry Mediterranean regions, forest ecosystems are well adapted to water stress.
However, extended droughts, or droughts that are warmer or more frequent than they have …

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 …

Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

TE Kolb, CJ Fettig, MP Ayres, BJ Bentz, JA Hicke… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Future anthropogenic-induced changes to the earth's climate will likely include increases in
temperature and changes in precipitation that will increase the frequency and severity of …

Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality

SM Hood, JM Varner, P Van Mantgem… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Each year wildland fires kill and injure trees on millions of forested hectares globally,
affecting plant and animal biodiversity, carbon storage, hydrologic processes, and …

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low‐growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

F Lloret, EG Keeling, A Sala - Oikos, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Recent world‐wide episodes of tree dieback have been attributed to increasing
temperatures and associated drought. Because these events are likely to become more …

[BOEK][B] Ecological silviculture: Foundations and applications

BJ Palik, AW D'Amato, JF Franklin, KN Johnson - 2020 - books.google.com
Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in
production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest …

A restoration framework for federal forests in the Pacific Northwest

JF Franklin, KN Johnson - Journal of Forestry, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We outline elements of a forest restoration strategy designed to produce ecological and
economic benefits on federal forests in Oregon and Washington, along with some of their …

Conserving large old trees as small natural features

DB Lindenmayer - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
In many ecosystems globally, large old trees occur as single, spatially isolated individual
trees or as small groups of scattered trees and can therefore be considered to be small …

Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought

EE Knapp, AA Bernal, JM Kane, CJ Fettig… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
California's high density, fire-excluded forests experienced an extreme drought
accompanied by warmer than normal temperatures from 2012 to 2015, resulting in the …