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Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America
Jager, Long, Malison, Murphy, Rust, Silva, Sollmann, Steel, Bowen, Dunham, Ebersole, Flitcroft
Wildfires in many western North American forests are becoming more frequent, larger, and severe, with changed seasonal patterns. In response, coniferous forest ecosystems will transition toward dominance by fire-adapted hardwoods, shrubs, meadows,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Surface fire to crown fire: fire history in the Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico, USA
Johnson, Margolis
Tree-ring fire scars, tree ages, historical photographs, and historical surveys indicate that, for centuries, fire played different ecological roles across gradients of elevation, forest, and fire regimes in the Taos Valley Watersheds. Historical…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

A statement of common ground regarding the role of wildfire in forested landscapes of the western United States
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

Long-term persistence and fire resilience of oak shrubfields in dry conifer forests of northern New Mexico
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

Efficacy of Resource Objective Wildfires for Restoring Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in Northern Arizona
Huffman
Historical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion have resulted in degraded ecological conditions in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the American Southwest. Presently, there is much interest in…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires
Hutto, Keane, Sherriff, Rota, Eby, Saab
We use the historical presence of high-severity fire patches in mixed-conifer forests of the western United States to make several points that we hope will encourage development of a more ecologically informed view of severe wildland fire effects.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document

Historical high-severity fire patches in mixed-conifer forests
Yocom, Fulé, Bunn, Gdula
Two ends of the fire regime spectrum are a frequent low-intensity fire regime and an infrequent high-intensity fire regime, but intermediate fire regimes combine high- and low-severity fire over space and time. We used fire-scar and tree-age data to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Are high-severity fires burning at much higher rates recently than historically in dry-forest landscapes of the western USA?
Baker
Dry forests at low elevations in temperate-zone mountains are commonly hypothesized to be at risk of exceptional rates of severe fire from climatic change and land-use effects. Their setting is fire-prone, they have been altered by land-uses, and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Dendroecological methods for reconstructing high-severity fire in pine-oak forests
Guiterman, Margolis, Swetnam
Recent high-severity fires in pine-oak forests of the southwestern United States are creating shrubfields that may persist for decades to centuries. Shrubfields embedded in conifer forests that pre-date documentary records are potential evidence of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Fire severity, size, and climate associations diverge from historical precedent along an ecological gradient in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona, USA
O'Connor, Falk, Lynch, Swetnam
In recent decades fire size and severity have been increasing in high elevation forests of the American Southwest. Ecological outcomes of these increases are difficult to gauge without an historical context for the role of fire in these systems…
Year: 2014
Type: Document