[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 …

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

BR Scheffers, L De Meester, TCL Bridge, AA Hoffmann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate change impacts have now been documented across every
ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only~ 1° C so far. Here, we describe the …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Warming enabled upslope advance in western US forest fires

MR Alizadeh, JT Abatzoglou, CH Luce… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Increases in burned area and large fire occurrence are widely documented over the western
United States over the past half century. Here, we focus on the elevational distribution of …

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive
changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over …

Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

KN Musselman, MP Clark, C Liu, K Ikeda… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
There is general consensus that projected warming will cause earlier snowmelt, but how
snowmelt rates will respond to climate change is poorly known. We present snowpack …

The NorWeST summer stream temperature model and scenarios for the western US: A crowd‐sourced database and new geospatial tools foster a user community …

DJ Isaak, SJ Wenger, EE Peterson… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal regimes are fundamental determinants of aquatic ecosystems, which makes
description and prediction of temperatures critical during a period of rapid global change …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest US from 1980–2009 and implications for salmonid fishes

DJ Isaak, S Wollrab, D Horan, G Chandler - Climatic change, 2012 - Springer
Thermal regimes in rivers and streams are fundamentally important to aquatic ecosystems
and are expected to change in response to climate forcing as the Earth's temperature …

Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change

SJ Wenger, DJ Isaak, CH Luce… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Broad-scale studies of climate change effects on freshwater species have focused mainly on
temperature, ignoring critical drivers such as flow regime and biotic interactions. We use …

The cold‐water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century

DJ Isaak, MK Young, DE Nagel, DL Horan… - Global Change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution and future fate of ectothermic organisms in a warming world will be dictated
by thermalscapes across landscapes. That is particularly true for stream fishes and cold …