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

Crown fires create broad-scale patterns in vegetation by producing a patch mosaic of stand
age classes, but the spread and behavior of crown fires also may be constrained by spatial …

Disturbance regimes are changing rapidly, and the consequences of such changes for
ecosystems and linked social‐ecological systems will be profound. This paper synthesizes …

This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to
all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

The author is grateful for permission to include the following previously copyrighted
materials in redrafted form, except where noted: Figures 4.5 and I li t are from Forest Ecology …

Climate change is likely to alter wildfire regimes, but the magnitude and timing of potential
climate-driven changes in regional fire regimes are not well understood. We considered how …

Charcoal analysis of lake sediments is used to reconstruct long-term variations in fire
occurrence that can complement and extend reconstructions provided by …

Sediment influx to channel networks is stochastically driven by rainstorms and other
perturbations, which are discrete in time and space and which occur on a landscape with its …

High-resolution analysis of macroscopic charcoal in sediment cores from Little Lake was
used to reconstruct the fire history of the last 9000 years. Variations in sediment magnetism …