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 …

[HTML][HTML] Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

JE Halofsky, DL Peterson, BJ Harvey - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change

CS Stevens‐Rumann, KB Kemp, PE Higuera… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Forest resilience to climate change is a global concern given the potential effects of
increased disturbance activity, warming temperatures and increased moisture stress on …

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 …

Forest and woodland replacement patterns following drought-related mortality

E Batllori, F Lloret, T Aakala… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Forest vulnerability to drought is expected to increase under anthropogenic climate change,
and drought-induced mortality and community dynamics following drought have major …

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

JS Clark, L Iverson, CW Woodall, CD Allen… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize insights from current understanding of drought impacts at stand‐to‐
biogeographic scales, including management options, and we identify challenges to be …

Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

J Franklin, JM Serra-Diaz… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic drivers of global change include rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gasses and resulting changes in the climate, as well as …

[HTML][HTML] Tree regeneration following wildfires in the western US: a review

CS Stevens-Rumann, P Morgan - Fire Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Background Wildfires, like many disturbances, can be catalysts for ecosystem change. Given
projected climate change, tree regeneration declines and ecosystem shifts following severe …

Spatial models reveal the microclimatic buffering capacity of old-growth forests

SJK Frey, AS Hadley, SL Johnson, M Schulze… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Climate change is predicted to cause widespread declines in biodiversity, but these
predictions are derived from coarse-resolution climate models applied at global scales …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges to the reforestation pipeline in the United States

J Fargione, DL Haase, OT Burney… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale global reforestation goals have been proposed to help mitigate climate change
and provide other ecosystem services. To explore reforestation potential in the United …