Origins of abrupt change? Postfire subalpine conifer regeneration declines nonlinearly with warming and drying

WD Hansen, MG Turner - Ecological Monographs, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robust tree regeneration following high‐severity wildfire is key to the resilience of subalpine
and boreal forests, and 21st century climate could initiate abrupt change in forests if postfire …

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 …

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 …

Topographic position amplifies consequences of short-interval stand-replacing fires on postfire tree establishment in subalpine conifer forests

TJ Hoecker, WD Hansen, MG Turner - Forest Ecology and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Stand-replacing fires burned at 100 to 300-year intervals for millennia in subalpine conifer
forests of western North America, but forests are burning more frequently as climate warms …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Disequilibrium of fire-prone forests sets the stage for a rapid decline in conifer dominance during the 21st century

JM Serra-Diaz, C Maxwell, MS Lucash, RM Scheller… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The impacts of climatic changes on forests may appear gradually on time scales of years to
centuries due to the long generation times of trees. Consequently, current forest extent may …

A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests

KC Rodman, TT Veblen, MA Battaglia… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate warming is increasing fire activity in many of Earth's forested ecosystems.
Because fire is a catalyst for change, investigation of post‐fire vegetation response is critical …

Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration

JAE Stewart, PJ van Mantgem, DJN Young… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Large, severe fires are becoming more frequent in many forest types across the western
United States and have resulted in tree mortality across tens of thousands of hectares …

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 …

Post‐fire forest regeneration shows limited climate tracking and potential for drought‐induced type conversion

DJN Young, CM Werner, KR Welch, TP Young… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbance such as wildfire may create opportunities for plant communities to reorganize in
response to climate change. The interaction between climate change and disturbance may …