Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. We review the environmental
factors controlling their structure and global distribution and evaluate their current and future …

Plant height is a central part of plant ecological strategy. It is strongly correlated with life
span, seed mass and time to maturity, and is a major determinant of a species' ability to …

We evaluate the implications of ten twenty-first century climate scenarios for snow, soil
moisture, and fuel moisture across the conterminous western USA using the Variable …

Changes in tree growth rates can affect tree mortality and forest feedbacks to the global
carbon cycle. As air temperature increases, evaporative demand also increases, increasing …

Stand-level spatial pattern influences key aspects of resilience and ecosystem function such
as disturbance behavior, regeneration, snow retention, and habitat quality in frequent-fire …

Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are to
restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and …

Abstract Changes in key drivers (eg, climate, disturbance regimes and land use) may affect
the sustainability of forest landscapes and set the stage for increased tension among …

Outbreaks of aggressive bark beetle species cause widespread tree mortality, affecting
timber production, wildlife habitat, wildfire, forest composition and structure, biogeochemical …

Rapid climate change has the potential to affect economic, social, and biological systems. A
concern for species conservation is whether or not the rate of on‐going climate change will …