Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

Forest hydrology modeling tools for watershed management: A review

G Sun, X Wei, L Hao, MG Sanchis, Y Hou… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Demands for water services from forested watersheds have dramatically increased since the
1950s and the trend continues as global environmental change intensifies in the 21st …

Forest management for carbon sequestration and climate adaptation

TA Ontl, MK Janowiak, CW Swanston, J Daley… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The importance of forests for sequestering carbon has created widespread interest among
land managers for identifying actions that maintain or enhance carbon storage in forests …

Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity

CA Cansler, VR Kane, PF Hessburg, JT Kane… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigated the relative importance of daily fire weather, landscape position, climate,
recent forest and fuels management, and fire history to explaining patterns of remotely …

Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought

EE Knapp, AA Bernal, JM Kane, CJ Fettig… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
California's high density, fire-excluded forests experienced an extreme drought
accompanied by warmer than normal temperatures from 2012 to 2015, resulting in the …

Climate change and existential threats

A Kumar, S Nagar, S Anand - Global climate change, 2021 - Elsevier
The unprecedented intrusion of human beings into nature has given rise to worldwide
devastations. Animals and plants have been suffering on a massive scale. Newer problems …

The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water‐limited systems

SM Wineland, H Bașağaoğlu, J Fleming… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental flows (e‐flows) are powerful tools for sustaining freshwater biodiversity and
ecosystem services, but their widespread implementation faces numerous social, political …

Climate change determines the sign of productivity trends in US forests

JA Hogan, GM Domke, K Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Forests are integral to the global land carbon sink, which has sequestered~ 30% of
anthropogenic carbon emissions over recent decades. The persistence of this sink depends …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality

MJ Koontz, AM Latimer, LA Mortenson, CJ Fettig… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The recent Californian hot drought (2012–2016) precipitated unprecedented ponderosa
pine (Pinus ponderosa) mortality, largely attributable to the western pine beetle …

Future climate change effects on US forest composition may offset benefits of reduced atmospheric deposition of N and S

CM Clark, J Phelan, J Ash, J Buckley… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) are important
drivers of forest demography. Here we apply previously derived growth and survival …