Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration

KT Davis, SZ Dobrowski, PE Higuera… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the
potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation communities. Wildfire can …

Using revegetation to suppress invasive plants in grasslands and forests

MJ Schuster, PD Wragg, PB Reich - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Following the removal of invasive plant species, most land managers rely on natural
succession to re‐establish native plant communities. However, insufficient native propagule …

Assisted migration across fixed seed zones detects adaptation lags in two major North American tree species

JR Etterson, MW Cornett, MA White… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Boreal forests are experiencing dramatic climate change, having warmed 1.0°–1.9° C over
the last century. Yet forest regeneration practices are often still dictated by a fixed seed zone …

Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi‐arid ecosystems

C Grossiord, S Sevanto, HD Adams… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Model scenarios of climate change predict that warming and drought will occur
simultaneously in the future in many regions. The capacity of woody species to modify their …

The demography of tree species response to climate: seedling recruitment and survival

CD Canham, L Murphy - Ecosphere, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Seedling recruitment and survival are critical bottlenecks in tree population dynamics and
are likely to play central roles in shifts in species distributions under climate change. We use …

[HTML][HTML] Response of Iranian lizards to future climate change by poleward expansion, southern contraction, and elevation shifts

S Vaissi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This study explores the relationships between recent Iranian lizard species distributions and
the observed climate, as well as potential future distributions of species. For this purpose, an …

Climate and seed availability initiate alternate post‐fire trajectories in a lower subalpine forest

AK Urza, JS Sibold - Journal of Vegetation Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Do functional traits explain individual tree species' responses to environmental
filters and dispersal limitations following stand‐replacing fire? Can post‐fire conditions …

Climate change experiment suggests divergent responses of tree seedlings in eastern North America's Acadian Forest Region over the 21st century

WR Vaughn, AR Taylor, DA MacLean… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
In this study, we conducted a controlled experiment to assess the growth and survival of
balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.), red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.), and red maple (Acer …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty, complexity and constraints: how do we robustly assess biological responses under a rapidly changing climate?

I Rangwala, W Moss, J Wolken, R Rondeau, K Newlon… - Climate, 2021 - mdpi.com
How robust is our assessment of impacts to ecosystems and species from a rapidly
changing climate during the 21st century? We examine the challenges of uncertainty …

Forest adaptation strategies aimed at climate change: Assessing the performance of future climate-adapted tree species in a northern Minnesota pine ecosystem

JJ Muller, LM Nagel, BJ Palik - Forest Ecology and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to impact the function, health, and productivity of many northern
latitude forests, including North American mixed-pine ecosystems. Additionally, forest …