Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Earth system models must predict forest responses to global change in order to simulate
future global climate, hydrology, and ecosystem dynamics. These models are increasingly …

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 …

Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally.
By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn …

Background Forest and nonforest ecosystems of the western United States are experiencing
major transformations in response to land-use change, climate warming, and their …

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 …

A 'resilient'forest endures disturbance and is likely to persist. Resilience to wildfire may arise
from feedback between fire behaviour and forest structure in dry forest systems. Frequent fire …

As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle
existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with …

Abstract Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is causing
increasingly large areas of tree mortality and removing the seed sources required for the …

Environmental conditions that vary from year to year can be strong drivers of ecological
dynamics, including the composition of newly assembled communities. However, ecologists …