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Wasserman, Mueller
Background: Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to exacerbate impacts to forested ecosystems by increasing the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Young, Ager, Thode
The long-term outcome from accelerated forest restoration using resource objective wildfire in combination with fuel management on fire-excluded landscapes is not well studied. We used simulation modeling to examine long-term trade-offs and…
Year: 2022
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
Singleton, Thode, Sánchez Meador, Iniguez
Background: Fire regimes are shifting in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson)-dominated forests, raising concern regarding future vegetation patterns and forest resilience, particularly within high-severity burn patches. The…
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
O'Connor, Falk, Garfin
Climate stressors on the forests of the American Southwest are shifting species distributions across spatial scales, lengthening potential fire seasons, and increasing the incidence of drought and insect-related die-off. A legacy of fire exclusion…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Grover, Bowker, Fulé, Doherty, Sieg, Antoninka
Fire mosses, including Ceratodon purpureus, Funaria hygrometrica and Bryum argenteum, can achieve high cover within months to years after high-severity fire, but do so heterogeneously across space and time. We conducted a survey of moss cover and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Dunn, O'Connor, Reilly, Calkin, Thompson
Researchers and managers increasingly recognize enterprise risk management as critical to addressing contemporary fire management challenges. Quantitative wildfire risk assessments contribute by parsing and mapping potentially contradictory positive…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Coop
In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest types appear increasingly vulnerable to wildfire-catalyzed conversion to alternate and non-forest vegetation types. However, unburned or only lightly impacted forest stands that…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Coop, DeLory, Downing, Haire, Krawchuk, Miller, Parisien, Walker
Altered fire regimes can drive major and enduring compositional shifts or losses of forest ecosystems. In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed‐conifer forest types appear increasingly vulnerable to uncharacteristically extensive, high…
Year: 2019
Type: Document