Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for
sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to …

Most forests today are multi-specific and heterogeneous forests ('mixed forests'). However,
forest modelling has been focusing on mono-specific stands for a long time, only recently …

Wildland fire is a critical process in forests of the western United States (US). Variation in fire
behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type …

Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of
ecosystems. Historical perspectives increase our understanding of the dynamic nature of …

Climate is a driver of biotic systems. It affects individual fitness, population dynamics,
distribution and abundance of species, and ecosystem structure and function. Regional …

Recent and projected increases in the frequency and severity of large wildfires in the
western US makes understanding the factors that strongly affect landscape fire patterns a …

Forest ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California are greatly influenced by
wildfire as a natural disturbance, and increased fire severity and drought occurrence may …

Fire regime characteristics in North America are expected to change over the next several
decades as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Although some fire regime …

The impacts of climate change on Mediterranean‐type ecosystems may result from complex
interactions between direct effects on water stress and subsequent modifications in …

Mountainous topography creates fine-scale environmental mosaics that vary in precipitation,
temperature, insolation, and slope position. This mosaic in turn influences fuel accumulation …