Conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire varies along an elevation gradient in a ponderosa pine forest, Oregon, USA

EK Dodson, HT Root - Forest Ecology and Management, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to increase disturbances such as stand-replacing wildfire in
many ecosystems, which have the potential to drive rapid turnover in ecological …

Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration

KT Davis, SZ Dobrowski, PE Higuera… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the
potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation communities. Wildfire can …

Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

AJ Tepley, JR Thompson, HE Epstein… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of ongoing climatic warming, certain landscapes could be near a tipping point
where relatively small changes to their fire regimes or their postfire forest recovery dynamics …

It takes a few to tango: changing climate and fire regimes can cause regeneration failure of two subalpine conifers

WD Hansen, KH Braziunas, W Rammer, R Seidl… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is accelerating in the 21st century, but how multiple drivers may
interact to alter forest resilience remains uncertain. In forests affected by large high‐severity …

Long‐term empirical evidence shows post‐disturbance climate controls post‐fire regeneration

J Guz, NS Gill, D Kulakowski - Journal of Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increased wildfire activity and climate change have intensified disturbance regimes globally
and have raised concern among scientists and land managers about the resilience of …

Rain‐shadow forest margins resilient to low‐severity fire and climate change but not high‐severity fire

LB Harris, AH Taylor - Ecosphere, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
At semi‐arid forest margins, increasing climatic stress combined with disturbances like
wildfire threatens to cause widespread forest loss. However, forest resilience is likely to vary …

Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States

KT Davis, MD Robles, KB Kemp… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the
western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. Yet, the relative …

[HTML][HTML] Climate drives episodic conifer establishment after fire in dry ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA

MT Rother, TT Veblen - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
In recent years, warming climate and increased fire activity have raised concern about post-
fire recovery of western US forests. We assessed relationships between climate variability …

Climate will increasingly determine post‐fire tree regeneration success in low‐elevation forests, Northern Rockies, USA

KB Kemp, PE Higuera, P Morgan, JT Abatzoglou - Ecosphere, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to cause widespread shifts in the distribution and abundance of
plant species through direct impacts on mortality, regeneration, and survival. At landscape …

[HTML][HTML] Topography and post-fire climatic conditions shape spatio-temporal patterns of conifer establishment and growth

CE Littlefield - Fire Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Background Concern is mounting that larger, stand-replacing forest fires may accelerate
compositional shifts or conversions to non-forested states under a warming climate. Post-fire …