Annotated Bibliography

The Southwest FireCLIME document library is an annotated bibliography of published research related to the interactions between climate change, wildfire, and subsequent ecosystem effects in the southwestern U.S. The 190 publications contained in the library were identified through a comprehensive literature review, and have each been summarized to distill the outcomes as they pertain to fire and climate.

Each publication has been categorized using a set of 48 ‘linkages’ between climate & fire and/or fire & ecosystem variables. Publication findings specific to each tagged linkage are also summarized in every document record in the annotated bibliography to facilitate targeted searching.


Climate + Fire Interactions

View all results from the annotated bibliography that answer one of 24 questions generated from combinations of one climate variable (4 options) and one fire variable (6 options). Link from the results list to the full entry for each publication.


Fire + Ecosystem Interactions

View all results from the annotated bibliography that answer questions generated from combinations of one fire variable (6 options) and one ecosystem effects variable (4 options). Link from the results list to the full entry for each publication.


Search

Search the Southwest FireCLIME document library for:

  • Author
  • Ecosystem
  • Keywords
  • Title / Description


Climate Variable

View and search publications related to one of the following climate change variables:

  • Drought
  • Fire season length
  • Snowpack & precipitation (snow/rain) balance
  • Temperature, relative humidity (RH), & vapor pressure deficit (VPD)


Fire Variable

View and search publications related to one of the following fire variables:

  • Annual area burned & fire size
  • Fire behavior, type, & intensity
  • Fire frequency, rotation, & return interval
  • Fire severity
  • Fire timing & seasonality
  • Spatial & landscape patterns of fire


Ecosystem Effects Variable

View and search publications related to one of the following ecosystem effects variables:

  • Tree mortality, survivorship, & turnover
  • Tree dispersal, regeneration, & establishment
  • Fuels
  • Species composition, non-natives, & structure

About

Documents included in the FireCLIME annotated bibliography were identified through a network of expert scientists and managers with decades of experience working with fire ecology in the Southwest. Our collaborator group was asked to recommend both peer-reviewed articles (empirical studies, modeling studies, climate change modeling, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and editorials/opinions) and non-peer reviewed sources (GTRs, abstracts, project reports, incident reports, dissertations/theses, interviews). Publications recommended by this network were supplemented with additional sources located through targeted, topical searches of the literature using Web of Science and Google Scholar.

Each entry contains a summary and publication findings that have been written with an eye towards climate, fire regime, and ecosystem effects themes. The unique element of this annotated bibliography is that every entry is tagged with one or more ‘linkage’ between a climate variable (four total) and a fire regime variable (six total), or a fire regime variable and an ecosystem effects variable (four total). There are 48 possible ‘linkages,’ shown in the conceptual diagram below. When a publication was tagged with a certain linkage, the pieces of the summary and findings related to that linkage are also summarized in the entry.

Conceptual Diagram

Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES)

Thank you to FRAMES for hosting the Southwest FireCLIME document library integrating this new content into the FRAMES database.