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Tree regeneration following wildfires in the western US: a review
Stevens-Rumann, Morgan
Background: Wildfires, like many disturbances, can be catalysts for ecosystem change. Given projected climate change, tree regeneration declines and ecosystem shifts following severe wildfires are predicted. We reviewed scientific literature on post…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Spatial and temporal assessment of responder exposure to snag hazards in post-fire environments
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

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

Large, high-severity burn patches limit fungal recovery 13 years after wildfire in a ponderosa pine forest
Owen, Patterson, Gehring, Sieg, Baggett, Fulé
Over the past three decades, wildfires in southwestern US ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson) forests have increased in size and severity. These wildfires can remove large, contiguous patches of mature forests, alter dominant…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Contributions of Fire Refugia to Resilient Ponderosa Pine and Dry Mixed-conifer Forest Landscapes
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

How much forest persists through fire? High-resolution mapping of tree cover to characterize the abundance and spatial pattern of fire refugia across mosaics of burn severity
Walker, Coop, Downing, Krawchuk, Malone, Meigs
Wildfires in forest ecosystems produce landscape mosaics that include relatively unaffected areas, termed fire refugia. These patches of persistent forest cover can support fire-sensitive species and the biotic legacies important for post-fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest landscapes
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