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 …

Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong
perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face …

Mountain forests are at particular risk of climate change impacts due to their temperature
limitation and high exposure to warming. At the same time, their complex topography may …

Subalpine forests in the northern Rocky Mountains have been resilient to stand-replacing
fires that historically burned at 100-to 300-year intervals. Fire intervals are projected to …

To assess the impacts of climate change on vegetation from stand to global scales, models
of forest dynamics that include tree demography are needed. Such models are now …

Disturbances are key drivers of forest ecosystem dynamics, and forests are well adapted to
their natural disturbance regimes. However, as a result of climate change, disturbance …

While various relationships between productivity and biodiversity are found in forests, the
processes underlying these relationships remain unclear and theory struggles to coherently …

Context Growing evidence suggests that climate change could substantially alter forest
disturbances. Interactions between individual disturbance agents are a major component of …

The ongoing changes to climate challenge the conservation of forest biodiversity. Yet, in
thermally limited systems, such as temperate forests, not all species groups might be …

Gross primary production (GPP) is partitioned to autotrophic respiration (R a) and net
primary production (NPP), the latter being used to build plant tissues and synthesize non …