[HTML][HTML] State of wildfires 2023–2024

MW Jones, DI Kelley, CA Burton… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally,
with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the …

Climate change and California's terrestrial biodiversity

S Harrison, J Franklin, RR Hernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
In this review and synthesis, we argue that California is an important test case for the nation
and world because terrestrial biodiversity is very high, present and anticipated threats to …

Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California

ZL Steel, GM Jones, BM Collins, R Green… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States

DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou, C Kolden, K Shive… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal
impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and impacts to communities have diverse …

[HTML][HTML] The outsized role of California's largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale

G Cova, VR Kane, S Prichard, M North… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although recent large wildfires in California forests are well publicized in media and
scientific literature, their cumulative effects on forest structure and implications for forest …

Scattered tree death contributes to substantial forest loss in California

Y Cheng, S Oehmcke, M Brandt, L Rosenthal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, large-scale tree mortality events linked to global change have occurred
around the world. Current forest monitoring methods are crucial for identifying mortality …

Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

MP Thompson, CD O'Connor, BM Gannon… - Fire Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The PODs (potential operational delineations) concept is an adaptive
framework for cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management planning. Use of …

Forest restoration and fuels reduction work: Different pathways for achieving success in the S ierra N evada

SL Stephens, DE Foster, JJ Battles… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fire suppression and past selective logging of large trees have fundamentally changed
frequent‐fire‐adapted forests in California. The culmination of these changes produced …

Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US watersheds

EJ Francis, P Pourmohammadi, ZL Steel, BM Collins… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context In western US forests, the increasing frequency of large high-severity fires presents
challenges for society. Quantifying how fuel conditions influence high-severity area is …

Novel climate–fire–vegetation interactions and their influence on forest ecosystems in the western USA

S Liang, MD Hurteau - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, disturbance, vegetation response and their interaction are key factors in predicting
the distribution and function of ecosystems across landscapes. A range of factors, operating …