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Climate limits vegetation green-up more than slope, soil erodibility, and immediate precipitation following high-severity wildfire
Crockett, Hurteau
Background: In the southwestern United States, post-fire vegetation recovery is increasingly variable in forest burned at high severity. Many factors, including temperature, drought, and erosion, can reduce post-fire vegetation recovery rates. Here…
Year: 2024
Type: Document

Editorial: Wildfire severity and forest soils: impacts and post-fire restoration strategies to mitigate climate change
Fernández-García, Marcos-Porras, Francos, Jiménez-Morillo, Calvo
[from the text] Impacts of fire on forest soils have been widely studied in the last decades. Early studies compared burned and unburned areas, revealing that soil properties and dynamics are significantly affected by fire. Moreover, the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Roadmap for wildfire resilience: solutions for a paradigm shift
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Will They Survive? Management Solutions to Increase the Resilience of High-elevation 5-needle Pine Forests to Climate Change, Pests, and Pathogens
Schoettle, Keane, Bentz, Goeking, Jenkins
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by Anna Schoettle, Research Plant Ecophysiologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Bob Keane, Emeritus Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station. .
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management
Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

The impact of post-fire smoke on plant communities: a global approach
Zahed, Bączek-Kwinta
Smoke is one of the fire-related cues that can alter vegetation communities’ compositions, by promoting or excluding different plant species. For over 30 years, smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. Research in…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Tree-regeneration decline and type-conversion after high-severity fires will likely cause little western USA forest loss from climate change
Baker
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…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy: Addendum Update
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

The Right Seedling for Reforestation: Success, Partners, and Policy
Crotteau, Dixit, Richardson, Calabaza, Souther, Dumroese
Land-manager-focused series of LIGHTNING TALKS during this webinar dedicated to forest regeneration, climate change, and Indigenous knowledge exchange in the West. Short science presentations will highlight how climate impacts different genotypes…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

A sagebrush conservation design to proactively restore America’s sagebrush biome
Doherty, Theobald, Bradford, Wiechman, Bedrosian, Boyd, Cahill, Coates, Creutzburg, Crist, Finn, Kumar, Littlefield, Maestas, Prentice, Prochazka, Remington, Sparklin, Tull, Wurtzebach, Zeller
A working group of experts with diverse professional backgrounds and disciplinary expertise was assembled to conceptualize a spatially explicit conservation design to support and inform the Sagebrush Conservation Strategy Part 2. The goal was to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document