Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are to
restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and …

Climate, disturbance, vegetation response and their interaction are key factors in predicting
the distribution and function of ecosystems across landscapes. A range of factors, operating …

Following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate, large
wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western United States. Given this …

Fire suppression in many dry forest types has left a legacy of dense, homogeneous forests.
Such landscapes have high water demands and fuel loads, and when burned can result in …

Understanding how alternative vegetation types co-exist in a landscape is important in
managing for biodiversity within an ecosystem. In California, mixed conifer forest is often …

In fire‐prone forests, self‐reinforcing fire behavior may generate a mosaic of vegetation
types and structures. In forests long subject to fire exclusion, such feedbacks may result in …

The area burned by Southern California wildfires has increased in recent decades, with
implications for human health, infrastructure, and ecosystem management. Meteorology and …

Abstract Many western North American forest types have experienced considerable
changes in ecosystem structure, composition, and function as a result of both fire exclusion …

The number of large, high-severity fires has increased in the western United States over the
past 30 years due to climate change and increasing tree density from fire suppression. Fuel …

Fire severity patterns are driven by interactions between fire, vegetation, and terrain, and
they generate legacy effects that influence future fire severity. A century of fire exclusion and …