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 …

Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California

PF Hessburg, TA Spies, DA Perry, CN Skinner… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are to
restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and …

The fire frequency‐severity relationship and the legacy of fire suppression in California forests

ZL Steel, HD Safford, JH Viers - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is one of the most important natural disturbance processes in the western United States
and ecosystems differ markedly with respect to their ecological and evolutionary …

Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

AJ Tepley, JR Thompson, HE Epstein… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of ongoing climatic warming, certain landscapes could be near a tipping point
where relatively small changes to their fire regimes or their postfire forest recovery dynamics …

Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006

GK Dillon, ZA Holden, P Morgan, MA Crimmins… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a keystone process in many ecosystems of western North America. Severe fires kill
and consume large amounts of above‐and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting …

Contemporary patterns of fire extent and severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA (1985–2010)

MJ Reilly, CJ Dunn, GW Meigs, TA Spies… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fire is an important disturbance in many forest landscapes, but there is heightened concern
regarding recent wildfire activity in western North America. Several regional‐scale studies …

Consequences of spatial heterogeneity for ecosystem services in changing forest landscapes: priorities for future research

MG Turner, DC Donato, WH Romme - Landscape ecology, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Changes in key drivers (eg, climate, disturbance regimes and land use) may affect
the sustainability of forest landscapes and set the stage for increased tension among …

Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the US northern Rockies

KB Kemp, PE Higuera, P Morgan - Landscape Ecology, 2016 - Springer
Context An increase in the incidence of large wildfires worldwide has prompted concerns
about the resilience of forest ecosystems, particularly in the western US, where recent …

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 …

Meta‐analysis of avian and small‐mammal response to fire severity and fire surrogate treatments in US fire‐prone forests

JB Fontaine, PL Kennedy - Ecological Applications, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Management in fire‐prone ecosystems relies widely upon application of prescribed fire
and/or fire surrogate (eg, forest thinning) treatments to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem …