Fire is an integral part of the Earth System and humans have skillfully used fire for millennia.
Yet human activities are scaling up and reinforcing each other in ways that are reshaping …

Lagoecia cuminoides L. is a very rare and threatened taxon in Italy, never studied before for
its ecology and potential use for human consumption. Furthermore, few data are available …

Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Understanding the severity and extent of near surface critical zone (CZ) disturbances and
their ecosystem response is a pressing concern in the face of increasing human and natural …

The climate crisis has exacerbated many ecological and cultural problems including wildfire
and drought vulnerability, biodiversity declines, and social justice and equity. While there …

Although recent large wildfires in California forests are well publicized in media and
scientific literature, their cumulative effects on forest structure and implications for forest …

Although fire is a fundamental ecological process in western North American forests, climate
warming and accumulating forest fuels due to fire suppression have led to wildfires that burn …

Fire suppression and past selective logging of large trees have fundamentally changed
frequent‐fire‐adapted forests in California. The culmination of these changes produced …

Restoration of fire-prone forests can promote resiliency to disturbances, yet such activities
may reduce biomass stocks to levels that conflict with climate mitigation goals. Using a set of …

Over the past four decades, annual area burned has increased significantly in California and
across the western USA. This trend reflects a confluence of intersecting factors that affect …