Tree spatial patterns in fire-frequent forests of western North America, including mechanisms of pattern formation and implications for designing fuel reduction and …

AJ Larson, D Churchill - Forest Ecology and Management, 2012 - Elsevier
Restoring characteristic fire regimes and forest structures are central objectives of many
restoration and fuel reduction projects. Within-stand spatial pattern is a fundamental attribute …

The genetics of drought tolerance in conifers

E Moran, J Lauder, C Musser, A Stathos… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As temperatures warm and precipitation patterns shift as a result of climate change, interest
in the identification of tree genotypes that will thrive under more arid conditions has grown …

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

M Cailleret, S Jansen, EMR Robert… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tree mortality is a key factor influencing forest functions and dynamics, but our
understanding of the mechanisms leading to mortality and the associated changes in tree …

Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests

MP North, RE Tompkins, AA Bernal, BM Collins… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing frequency and severity of altered disturbance regimes in dry, western US
forests, treatments promoting resilience have become a management objective but have …

Half-century evidence from western Canada shows forest dynamics are primarily driven by competition followed by climate

J Zhang, S Huang, F He - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Tree mortality, growth, and recruitment are essential components of forest dynamics and
resiliency, for which there is great concern as climate change progresses at high latitudes …

Ecological importance of large-diameter trees in a temperate mixed-conifer forest

JA Lutz, AJ Larson, ME Swanson, JA Freund - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Large-diameter trees dominate the structure, dynamics and function of many temperate and
tropical forests. Although both scaling theory and competition theory make predictions about …

Applying LiDAR individual tree detection to management of structurally diverse forest landscapes

SMA Jeronimo, VR Kane, DJ Churchill… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
LiDAR individual tree detection (ITD) is a promising tool for measuring forests at a scale that
is meaningful ecologically and useful for forest managers. However, most ITD research …

Patterns and drivers of tree mortality in Iberian forests: climatic effects are modified by competition

P Ruiz-Benito, ER Lines, L Gómez-Aparicio… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Tree mortality is a key process underlying forest dynamics and community assembly.
Understanding how tree mortality is driven by simultaneous drivers is needed to evaluate …

Competition modulates the adaptation capacity of forests to climatic stress: insights from recent growth decline and death in relict stands of the Mediterranean fir Abies …

JC Linares, JJ Camarero, JA Carreira - Journal of Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term basal area increment (BAI) in Abies pinsapo was studied to investigate the way
density‐dependent factors modulate the responses of radial growth to climatic stresses in …

Interactions among wildland fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area

BM Collins, JD Miller, AE Thode, M Kelly… - Ecosystems, 2009 - Springer
We investigate interactions between successive naturally occurring fires, and assess to what
extent the environments in which fires burn influence these interactions. Using mapped fire …