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Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Wilder, Jarnevich, Baldwin, Black, Franklin, Grissom, Hovanes, Olsson, Malusa, Kibria, Li, Lien, Ponce, Rowe, Soto, Stahl, Young, Betancourt
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in deserts and the likelihood of fire spread to and from other biomes with disparate fire regimes. The elevational transition between desertscrub and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Hurteau, Krofcheck, Allen
Fire-exclusion and changing climatic conditions are increasing the area burned and the size of high-severity burn patches in historically frequent-fire forests. In the southwestern US, distance to seed source and hot, dry conditions in high-severity…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Lesmeister, Jones, Ganey
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development
Quantification of wildfire severity in forests for northern spotted owls, Damon Lesmeister, Research Wildlife…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Lynch, Evans
Wildfire is part of the landscape in the Southwest. It can be a threat to lives and property, but it is also crucial to maintaining healthy ecosystems. Forests in the Southwest are adapted to fire and many trees can easily survive low-intensity…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Keyser, Krofcheck, Remy, Allen, Hurteau
Fire exclusion in historically frequent-fire forests of the southwestern United States has altered forest structure and increased the probability of high-severity fire. Warmer and drier conditions, coupled with dispersal distance limitations, are…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
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
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
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
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