Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

BC McLaughlin, DD Ackerly, PZ Klos… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, physical landscapes, and biota interact to generate heterogeneous hydrologic
conditions in space and over time, which are reflected in spatial patterns of species …

Climatic microrefugia under anthropogenic climate change: implications for species redistribution

J Lenoir, T Hattab, G Pierre - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The role of modern climatic microrefugia is a neglected aspect in the study of biotic
responses to anthropogenic climate change. Current projections of species redistribution at …

Forest restoration and fuels reduction: convergent or divergent?

SL Stephens, MA Battaglia, DJ Churchill… - Bioscience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in
western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of …

Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other …

S Legge, JCZ Woinarski, BC Scheele… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The incidence of major fires is increasing globally, creating extraordinary challenges for
governments, managers and conservation scientists. In 2019–2020, Australia experienced …

Fire refugia: what are they, and why do they matter for global change?

AJH Meddens, CA Kolden, JA Lutz, AMS Smith… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Fire refugia are landscape elements that remain unburned or minimally affected by fire,
thereby supporting postfire ecosystem function, biodiversity, and resilience to disturbances …

Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

AJ Tepley, JR Thompson, HE Epstein… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of ongoing climatic warming, certain landscapes could be near a tipping point
where relatively small changes to their fire regimes or their postfire forest recovery dynamics …

Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires

ZL Steel, D Foster, M Coppoletta… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire can both promote and erode resilience to future disturbances in fire‐adapted
ecosystems. Through a combination of past fire exclusion and climate change, fire patterns …

A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation

SD Crausbay, HR Sofaer, AE Cravens, BC Chaffin… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and
marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially …

Topographic and fire weather controls of fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America

MA Krawchuk, SL Haire, J Coop, MA Parisien… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fire refugia, sometimes referred to as fire islands, shadows, skips, residuals, or fire
remnants, are an important element of the burn mosaic, but we lack a quantitative framework …