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Era of Megafires
Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Living (Dangerously) in an Era of Megafires
Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Alternative pathways to landscape transformation: invasive grasses, burn severity and fire frequency in arid ecosystems
Klinger, Brooks
1. Arid ecosystems are often vulnerable to transformation to invasive-dominated states following fire, but data on persistence of these states are sparse. The grass/fire cycle is a feedback process between invasive annual grasses and fire frequency…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Mixed-severity fire history at a forest-grassland ecotone in west central British Columbia, Canada
Harvey, Smith, Veblen
This study examines spatially variable stand structure and fire-climate relationships at a low elevation forest-grassland ecotone in west central British Columbia, Canada. Fire history reconstructions were based on samples from 92 fire-scarred trees…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

A critique of the historical-fire-regime concept in conservation
Freeman, Kobziar, Rose, Cropper
Prescribed fire is widely accepted as a conservation tool because fire is essential to the maintenance of native biodiversity in many terrestrial communities. Approaches to this land-management technique vary greatly among continents, and sharing…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Where you stand depends on where you sit: qualitative inquiry into notions of fire adaptation
Brenkert-Smith, Meldrum, Champ, Barth
Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States
Balch, Bradley, Abatzoglou, Nagy, Fusco, Mahood
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Wildfire and exotic grass invasion alter plant productivity in response to climate variability in the Mojave Desert
Horn, St Clair
Annual grass invasions often increase the frequency and extent of wildfire. Climate variability and fire history may have modifying effects on invasion success and its link to changing fire regimes. Characterize the role of climate variability and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Assessing the climate change vulnerability of ecosystem types of the Southwestern U.S.
Triepke
Climate change is challenging scientists and decision-makers to understand the complexities of climate change and to predict the related effects at scales relevant to environmental policy and the management of ecosystem services. Extraordinary…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Dendroecology - tree-ring analyses applied to ecological studies
Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change. In this fast-growing field, tree rings are used to investigate forest development and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document