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Invasions by non-native plant species after fire can negatively affect important ecosystem services and lead to invasion-fire cycles that further degrade ecosystems. The relationship between fire and plant invasion is complex, and the risk of…
Author(s): Janet S. Prevéy, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Ian S. Pearse, Seth Munson, Jens T. Stevens, Kevin J. Barrett, Jonathan D. Coop, Michelle A. Day, David H. Firmage, Paula J. Fornwalt, Katharine Haynes, James D. Johnston, Becky K. Kerns, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky A. Miller, Ty Nietupski, Jacquilyn Roque, Judith D. Springer, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard, Claire Tortorelli
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Background Prescribed fire is a critical tool for building resilience to changing fire regimes. Policymakers can accelerate the development of effective, adaptation-oriented fire governance by learning from other jurisdictions. Aims We analyse…
Author(s): Phillipa C. McCormack, Rebecca K. Miller, Jan McDonald
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Climate warming, land use change, and altered fire regimes are driving ecological transformations that can have critical effects on Earth's biota. Fire refugia - locations that are burned less frequently or severely than their surroundings - may act…
Author(s): Kyle Rodman, Kimberly T. Davis, Sean A. Parks, Teresa B. Chapman, Jonathan D. Coop, Jose M. Iniguez, John Paul Roccaforte, Andrew Sanchez Meador, Judith D. Springer, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard, Amy E. M. Waltz, Tzeidle N. Wasserman
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Background: Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity across taxa and geographies. Pyrodiversity, or heterogeneity in fire history, is…
Author(s): Zachary L. Steel, Jesse E. D. Miller, Lauren C. Ponisio, Morgan W. Tingley, Kate Wilkin, Rachel V. Blakey, Kira M. Hoffman, Gavin M. Jones
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In the United States (US), forest ecosystems are the largest terrestrial carbon sink, offsetting the equivalent of >12 % of economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually. In the Western US, wildfires have shaped much of the landscape by…
Author(s): Panmei Jiang, Matthew B. Russell, Lee E. Frelich, Chad Babcock, James E. Smith
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Temperate conifer forests stressed by climate change could be lost through tree regeneration decline in the interior of high-severity fires, resulting in type conversion to non-forest vegetation from seed-dispersal limitation, competition, drought…
Author(s): William L. Baker
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Context In western US forests, the increasing frequency of large high-severity fires presents challenges for society. Quantifying how fuel conditions influence high-severity area is important for managing risks of large high-severity fires and…
Author(s): Emily J. Francis, Pariya Pourmohammadi, Zachary L. Steel, Brandon M. Collins, Matthew D. Hurteau
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Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical…
Author(s): Amy East, Amir AghaKouchak, Graziella Caprarelli, Gabriel Filippelli, Fabio Florindo, Charles H. Luce, Harihar Rajaram, Lynn M. Russell, Cristina Santin, Isaac Santos
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Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Author(s): Hamish G. Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, Michael A. Storey, Mark K. J. Ooi, Katharine Haynes, Ross A. Bradstock, Owen F. Price, Trent D. Penman
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Background: Wildfire simultaneity affects the availability and distribution of resources for fire management: multiple small fires require more resources to fight than one large fire does. Aims: The aim of this study was to project the effects of…
Author(s): Seth McGinnis, Lee Kessenich, Linda Mearns, Alison Cullen, Harry Podschwit, Melissa S. Bukovsky
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1. Animal ecology and evolution are shaped by environmental perturbations, which are undergoing unprecedented alterations due to climate change. Fire is one such perturbation that causes significant disruption by causing mortality and altering…
Author(s): Blyssalyn V. Bieber, Dhaval K. Vyas, Amanda M. Koltz, Laura A. Burkle, Kiaryce S. Bey, Claire Guzinski, Shannon M. Murphy, Mayra C. Vidal
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Agricultural production in the western United States relies on water supplies from mountain source-water systems that are sensitive to impacts from wildfire and a changing climate. The resultant challenges to water supply forecasting directly impact…
Author(s): David M Barnard, Timothy R. Green, Kyle R. Mankin, Kendall C. DeJonge, Charles C. Rhoades, Stephanie Kampf, Jeremy Giovando, Michael J. Wilkins, Adam L. Mahood, Megan Sears, Louise H. Comas, Sean M. Gleason, Huihui Zhang, Steven R. Fassnacht, R. Daren Harmel, Jon Altenhofen
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Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) has a reputation for indestructibility, but recent events in the Southern Rockies may have pushed even this stalwart species to the edge. Research by Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) scientist…
Author(s): Charles C. Rhoades
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1. 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 through different pathways, are amplifying the feedbacks…
Author(s): Shuang Liang, Matthew D. Hurteau
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The surge of extreme wildfires around the world, most recently in Canada, provides a frightening glimpse of the potential for intense fires driven by climate change to cause remarkable damage to human and environmental life. From 2019 to 2020,…
Author(s): David M. J. S. Bowman, J. Sharples
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Structure loss is an acute, costly impact of the wildfire crisis in the western conterminous United States (“West”), motivating the need to understand recent trends and causes. We document a 246% rise in West-wide structure loss from wildfires…
Author(s): Philip E. Higuera, Maxwell C. Cook, Jennifer Balch, E. Natasha Stavros, Adam L. Mahood, Lise A. St. Denis
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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 exacerbate impacts to forested ecosystems by increasing the…
Author(s): Tzeidle N. Wasserman, Stephanie E. Mueller
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An atmospheric river (AR) is a strong filamentary water vapor transport that plays a critical role in regional hydroclimate systems. While climate conditions can affect wildfire activities, the process by which ARs are associated with wildfire…
Author(s): Ju-Mee Ryoo, Taejin Park
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Biodiversity is in chronic decline, and extreme events - such as wildfires - can add further episodes of acute losses. Fires of increasing magnitude will often overwhelm response capacity, and decision-makers need to make choices about what to…
Author(s): John C. Z. Woinarski, Phillipa C. McCormack, Jan McDonald, Sarah Legge, Stephen T. Garnett, Brendan A. Wintle, Libby Rumpff
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Fire–vegetation feedbacks potentially maintain global savanna and forest distributions. Accordingly, vegetation in savanna and forest ecosystems should have differential responses to fire, but fire response data for herbaceous vegetation have yet to…
Author(s): Zachary J. Gold, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Tyler Refsland, Romina J. Andrioli, Marlin L. Bowles, Dale G. Brockway, Neil D. Burrows, Augusto C. Franco, Stephen W. Hallgren, Sarah E. Hobbie, William A. Hoffmann, Kevin P. Kirkman, Peter B. Reich, Patrice Savadogo, Divino V. Silverio, Kirsten Stephan, Tercia Strydom, J. Morgan Varner, Dale D. Wade, Allan J. Wills, A. Carla Staver
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