Recent bark beetle outbreaks in North America and Europe have impacted forested
landscapes and the provisioning of critical ecosystem services. The scale and intensity of …

With near unanimity, climate scientists project natural disasters to increase in frequency,
severity, and geographic scope over the next century. We survey academic literature at the …

Despite striking global change, management to ensure healthy landscapes and sustained
natural resources has tended to set objectives on the basis of the historical range of …

Due to recent outbreaks of native bark beetles, forest ecosystems have experienced
substantial changes in landscape structure and function, which also affect nearby human …

The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has raised questions about
changes in economic production and subsequent effects on the environment. This article …

Forested landscapes in the Western United States are subject to growing size and severity
of wildfires, in part due to historical management strategies focusing on wildfire suppression …

Fire is a naturally occurring process of most terrestrial ecosystems as well as a tool for
changing land use. Since the beginning of history humans have used fire as a mechanism …

Inter-annual climate variability (hereafter climate variability) is increasing in many forested
regions due to climate change. This variability could have larger near-term impacts on …

The global environment is susceptible to many types of change, including alterations to the
world's climate. Climate change has been linked to a host of modifications to the natural …

This article uses satellite data on real-time active fire locations to evaluate the effect of forest
fires on property values in Nepal. Results show that an additional unit increase in fire …