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Murphy, Yocom, Belmont
The western United States remains well below historical wildfire activity, yet misconceptions abound in the public and news media that the area burning by wildfire each year in the American West is unprecedented. We submit that short‐term records of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Moritz, Topik, Allen, Hessburg, Morgan, Odion, Veblen, McCullough
For millennia, wildfires have markedly influenced forests and non-forested landscapes of the western United States (US), and they are increasingly seen as having substantial impacts on society and nature. There is growing concern over what kinds and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Whitehair, Fulé, Sánchez Meador, Tarancón, Kim
Fire has played an important role in the evolutionary environment of global ecosystems, and Indigenous peoples have long managed natural resources in these fire‐prone environments. We worked with the Navajo Nation Forestry Department to evaluate the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Hawthorne, Mitchell
In recent years a number of studies have suggested that trends in wildfire can be seen at a regional, national and global scale, and can be explained by interactions with factors such as anthropogenic activity and climate. As future susceptibility…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Innes
This synthesis summarizes information available in the scientific literature on historical patterns and contemporary changes in fuels and fire regimes in mountain big sagebrush communities. This literature suggests that presettlement fires in the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Koltz, Burkle, Pressler, Dell, Vidal, Richards, Murphy
Climate change is drastically altering global fire regimes, which may affect the structure and function of insect communities. Insect responses to fire are strongly tied to fire history, plant responses, and changes in species interactions. Many…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Guiterman, Margolis, Allen, Falk, Swetnam
Extensive high-severity fires are creating large shrubfields in many dry conifer forests of the interior western USA, raising concerns about forest-to-shrub conversion. This study evaluates the role of disturbance in shrubfield formation,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Leys, Marlon, Umbanhower, Vannière
Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely linked to human activities, herbivores, and fire, but many have…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Hanan, Tague, Choate, Liu, Kolden, Adam
Disturbances such as wildfire, insect outbreaks, and forest clearing, play an important role in regulating carbon, nitrogen, and hydrologic fluxes in terrestrial watersheds. Evaluating how watersheds respond to disturbance requires understanding…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Baker
Historical evidence suggests natural disturbances could allow more forest persistence, than expected from models, over 40 yr of transition to the net‐zero emissions needed to limit warming to <2.0°C (e.g., Paris Agreement). Forests must…
Year: 2018
Type: Document