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 …

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 …

Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: The importance of land‐use legacies

MP Perring, P De Frenne, L Baeten… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major challenges in ecology is to predict how multiple global environmental
changes will affect future ecosystem patterns (eg plant community composition) and …

Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire

W Rammer, KH Braziunas, WD Hansen… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Changing climate and disturbance regimes are increasingly challenging the resilience of
forest ecosystems around the globe. A powerful indicator for the loss of resilience is …

Climate–vegetation–fire interactions and feedbacks: trivial detail or major barrier to projecting the future of the Earth system?

RMB Harris, TA Remenyi, GJ Williamson… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a complex process involving interactions and feedbacks between biological,
socioeconomic, and physical drivers across multiple spatial and temporal scales. This …

Widespread severe wildfires under climate change lead to increased forest homogeneity in dry mixed‐conifer forests

BA Cassell, RM Scheller, MS Lucash, MD Hurteau… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming in the western United States is causing changes to the wildfire regime in
mixed‐conifer forests. Rising temperatures, longer fire seasons, increased drought, as well …

The proximal drivers of large fires: A pyrogeographic study

H Clarke, T Penman, M Boer, GJ Cary… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Variations in global patterns of burning and fire regimes are relatively well measured,
however, the degree of influence of the complex suite of biophysical and human drivers of …

Climate change, wildfire, and vegetation shifts in a high-inertia forest landscape: Western Washington, USA

JS Halofsky, DR Conklin, DC Donato, JE Halofsky… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Future vegetation shifts under changing climate are uncertain for forests with infrequent
stand-replacing disturbance regimes. These high-inertia forests may have long persistence …

The nature of the beast: examining climate adaptation options in forests with stand‐replacing fire regimes

JS Halofsky, DC Donato, JF Franklin, JE Halofsky… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Building resilience to natural disturbances is a key to managing forests for adaptation to
climate change. To date, most climate adaptation guidance has focused on …

[HTML][HTML] The cost of climate change: Ecosystem services and wildland fires

C Lee, C Schlemme, J Murray, R Unsworth - Ecological Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Little research has focused on the economic impact associated with climate-change induced
wildland fire on natural ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. We examine …