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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

Spotted owls and forest fire: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence
Lee
Forest and Spotted Owl management documents often state that severe wildfire is a cause of recent declines in populations of Spotted Owls and that mixed‐severity fires (5-70% of burned area in high‐severity patches with >75% mortality of dominant…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Forest restoration as a strategy to mitigate climate impacts on wildfire, vegetation, and water in semiarid forests
O'Donnell, Flatley, Springer, Fulé
Climate change and wildfire are interacting to drive vegetation change and potentially reduce water quantity and quality in the southwestern United States, Forest restoration is a management approach that could mitigate some of these negative…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Forest structure and regeneration responses 15 years after wildfire in a ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer ecotone, Arizona, USA
Stoddard, Huffman, Fulé, Crouse, Sánchez Meador
Background: Accelerated vegetation changes are predicted for Southwestern forests due to changing disturbance regimes and climate. The 2001 Leroux Fire burned across a landscape with pre-existing permanent plots during one of the most extreme…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Fire Severity and Regeneration Strategy Influence Shrub Patch Size and Structure
Minor
Shrub species demonstrate flexible responses to wildfire disturbance severity that are reflected in shrub patch dynamics at small and intermediate scales. Prior research has examined the dynamics and persistence of large shrub patches on the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Geomorphic influences on the distribution and accumulation of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) following a low severity wildfire in northern New Mexico
Galanter, Cadol, Lohse
The distribution, transport, and accumulation of wildfire‐generated pyrogenic carbon (PyC) has important consequences for contaminant transport and carbon cycling, but a conceptual model for PyC accumulation and loss that includes geomorphic…
Year: 2018
Type: Document