Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

JE Halofsky, DL Peterson, BJ Harvey - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of …

A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

JS Littell, DL Peterson, KL Riley, Y Liu… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well
documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in …

[HTML][HTML] Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

JT Abatzoglou, DS Battisti, AP Williams… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has
heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories. As fires …

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

WRL Anderegg, C Schwalm, F Biondi, JJ Camarero… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The impacts of climate extremes on terrestrial ecosystems are poorly understood but
important for predicting carbon cycle feedbacks to climate change. Coupled climate–carbon …

Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

S Beguería, SM Vicente Serrano, F Reig-Gracia… - 2014 - digital.csic.es
The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was developed in 2010 and
has been used in an increasing number of climatology and hydrology studies. The objective …

Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests

PF Hessburg, CL Miller, SA Parks, NA Povak… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards

A AghaKouchak, LS Huning, M Sadegh, Y Qin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Growth in satellite observations and modelling capabilities has transformed drought
monitoring, offering near-real-time information. However, current monitoring efforts focus on …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

S Ratcliffe, C Wirth, T Jucker, F van Der Plas… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning is generally well
accepted. However, most evidence comes from small‐scale studies, and scaling‐up …

Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes

T Jucker, J Caspersen, J Chave, C Antin… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing is revolutionizing the way we study forests, and recent technological
advances mean we are now able–for the first time–to identify and measure the crown …

Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes

SZ Dobrowski, CE Littlefield, DS Lyons… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Expanding the global protected area network is critical for addressing biodiversity declines
and the climate crisis. However, how climate change will affect ecosystem representation …