Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA

M Burke, ML Childs, B de la Cuesta, M Qiu, J Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Steady improvements in ambient air quality in the USA over the past several decades, in
part a result of public policy,, have led to public health benefits,,–. However, recent trends in …

Post-disturbance reorganization of forest ecosystems in a changing world

R Seidl, MG Turner - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Forest ecosystems are strongly impacted by continuing climate change and increasing
disturbance activity, but how forest dynamics will respond remains highly uncertain. Here …

Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function

AR Nelson, AB Narrowe, CC Rhoades, TS Fegel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and
rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

SJ Prichard, PF Hessburg, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review science‐based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests
that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of …

Mechanisms of forest resilience

DA Falk, PJ van Mantgem, JE Keeley, RM Gregg… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States

Y Zhuang, R Fu, BD Santer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Previous studies have identified a recent increase in wildfire activity in the western United
States (WUS). However, the extent to which this trend is due to weather pattern changes …

US fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s

V Iglesias, JK Balch, WR Travis - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Recent fires have fueled concerns that regional and global warming trends are leading to
more extreme burning. We found compelling evidence that average fire events in regions of …