Rethinking resilience to wildfire

DB McWethy, T Schoennagel, PE Higuera… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large
wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of …

Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

E Nicholson, KE Watermeyer, JA Rowland… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite substantial conservation efforts, the loss of ecosystems continues globally, along
with related declines in species and nature's contributions to people. An effective ecosystem …

[PDF][PDF] Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes

JD Coop, SA Parks, CS Stevens-Rumann… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience.
Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed …

Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests

MP North, RE Tompkins, AA Bernal, BM Collins… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing frequency and severity of altered disturbance regimes in dry, western US
forests, treatments promoting resilience have become a management objective but have …

[PDF][PDF] Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States

JT Stevens, CM Haffey, JD Coop, PJ Fornwalt… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing incidence of wildfires across the southwestern United States (US) is altering
the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests …

Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm

S Wunder, DE Calkin, V Charlton, S Feder… - Forest policy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Extreme wildfires are a major environmental and socioeconomic threat across many regions
worldwide. The limits of fire suppression-centred strategies have become evident even in …

Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire

K Copes-Gerbitz, SM Hagerman, LD Daniels - Regional environmental …, 2022 - Springer
The dominant command and control fire governance paradigm is proven ineffective at
coping with modern wildfire challenges. In response, jurisdictions globally are calling for …

[HTML][HTML] Ecology and evolution of dormant metastasis

MT Blasco, I Espuny, RR Gomis - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Genetic studies suggest that sequential dissemination from a primary metastasis, usually at
the bone, is a major route of metastatic progression in early, radically resected cancer …

Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western US coniferous forests

MJ Koontz, MP North, CM Werner, SE Fick… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A 'resilient'forest endures disturbance and is likely to persist. Resilience to wildfire may arise
from feedback between fire behaviour and forest structure in dry forest systems. Frequent fire …