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Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Preiss, Wonkka, McGranahan, Lodge, Dickinson, Kavanagh, Starns, Tolleson, Treadwell, Twidwell, Rogers
Questions: Fire regime alterations are pushing open ecosystems worldwide past tipping points where alternative steady states characterized by woody dominance prevail. This reduces the frequency and intensity of surface fires, further limiting their…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Nolan, Anderson, Poulter, Varner
Aim: Each year, wild and managed fires burn roughly 4 million km2 [~400 million hectares (Mha)] of savanna, forest, grassland and agricultural ecosystems. Land use and climate change have altered fire regimes throughout the world, with a trend…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Harvey, Enright
Extreme fire seasons in both hemispheres in 2019 and 2020 have highlighted the strong link between climate warming and altered fire regimes. While shifts in fire regimes alone can drive profound changes in plant populations, communities, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Nimmo, Andersen, Archibald, Boer, Brotons, Parr, Tingley
[from the text] Fire is one of Earth's most potent agents of ecological change. This Special Issue comes in the wake of a series of extreme wildfires across the world, from the Amazon, to Siberia, California, Portugal, South Africa and eastern…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Clark
Climate stressors on forests of the American West are shifting species’ distributions across spatial and vertical scales, lengthening fire seasons, and increasing the incidence of drought and insect-related die-off. Yet, little is known about the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Zouhar
Historical fire regimes in plains grassland and prairie ecosystems of central North America are characterized by frequent fires with return intervals ranging from 1 to 35 years. Frequent fires removed accumulated litter, stimulated native grass…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
New science synthesis to inform pinyon and juniper woodlands management in the Western United States
Pinyon and juniper woodlands occupy over 70,000 square miles of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. In some areas, pinyon and juniper woodlands are expanding into other vegetation types, like sagebrush steppe. In other areas, these woodlands are…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Mueller
Over the last 30 years, in woodland and forested ecosystems across the southwestern US, there has been an increasing trend in fire activity. Altered land use practices and more recent changes in precipitation patterns and warmer temperatures are…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document