Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits,
population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling …

Intensifying wildfire activity and climate change can drive rapid forest compositional shifts. In
boreal North America, black spruce shapes forest flammability and depends on fire for …

Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent
fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing sequestered carbon to the …

Mechanisms of Arctic amplification and Arctic climate change are difficult to pinpoint, and
current climate models do not represent the complex local processes and feedbacks at play …

Increased forest fire activity across the western continental United States (US) in recent
decades has likely been enabled by a number of factors, including the legacy of fire …

Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained
by two types of legacies–information and material. Species life‐history traits represent an …

Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a
pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes …

Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the
combustion of soil organic matter,–. During each fire, a portion of this soil beneath the …