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Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States
BackgroundIncreases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in recent decades across the western United States. Climate...
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Abiotic Factors Modify Ponderosa Pine Regeneration Outcomes After High-Severity Fire
Large high-severity burn patches are increasingly common in southwestern US dry conifer forests. Seed-obligate conifers often fail to quickly...
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Ponderosa pine introduction methods following a high-severity stand-replacing fire to promote forest regeneration
BackgroundIn July 2012, a lightning strike ignited the Arapaho Fire in the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming and burned approximately 39,700 ha. This...
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Post-fire Regeneration Traits of Understorey Shrub Species Modulate Successional Responses to High Severity Fire in Mediterranean Pine Forests
Recurrent fires can impede the spontaneous recruitment capacity of pine forests. Empirical studies have suggested that this can lead to a prolonged...
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Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests
BackgroundFire-adapted forests in western North America are experiencing rapid changes to fire regimes that are outside the range of historic norms....
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Climate limits vegetation green-up more than slope, soil erodibility, and immediate precipitation following high-severity wildfire
BackgroundIn the southwestern United States, post-fire vegetation recovery is increasingly variable in forest burned at high severity. Many factors,...
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Cyclone–Fire Interactions Enhance Fire Extent and Severity in a Tropical Montane Pine Forest
Interactions between tropical cyclones and wildfires occur widely and can tip closed forests into open-canopy structures that initiate a ‘grass–fire’...
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Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US watersheds
ContextIn western US forests, the increasing frequency of large high-severity fires presents challenges for society. Quantifying how fuel conditions...
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Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin
BackgroundFire-vegetation feedbacks can modulate the global change effects conducive to extreme fire behavior and high fire severity of subsequent...
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Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes
BackgroundWhen fire intervals are shorter than the time required for plants to reproduce, plant populations are threatened by “immaturity risk.”...
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Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain
BackgroundDesigning effective land management actions addressed to increase ecosystem resilience requires us to understand how shifting fire regimes...
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Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades
BackgroundSix synchronous, wind-driven, high severity megafires burned over 300,000 hectares of mesic temperate forest in the western Cascades of NW...
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Vegetation type and fire severity mediate short-term post fire soil microbial responses
BackgroundWildfire severity mediates key dynamics, such as nutrient pulses, that regulate the recovery of ecosystem functioning. Large shifts in...
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Fire frequency and severity mediate recruitment response of a threatened shrub following severe megafire
BackgroundClimate change is driving global fire regimes toward greater extremes, potentially threatening plant species that are adapted to historic...
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Modeling wildland fire burn severity in California using a spatial Super Learner approach
Given the increasing prevalence of wildland fires in the Western US, there is a critical need to develop tools to understand and accurately predict...
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Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather
BackgroundThe capacity of forest fuel treatments to moderate the behavior and severity of subsequent wildfires depends on weather and fuel conditions...
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Frequent burning and limited stand-replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy
Changing fire regimes have the potential to threaten wildlife populations and communities. Understanding species’ responses to novel fire regimes is...
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Fire season and time since fire determine arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal trait responses to fire
Background and aimsArbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are common mutualists in grassland and savanna systems that are adapted to recurrent fire...
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Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room
BackgroundDespite recent advances in understanding the drivers of tree-level delayed mortality, we lack a method for map** delayed mortality at...
