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How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

Fire regime characteristics in North America are expected to change over the next several decades as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Although some fire regime characteristics (e.g., area burned and fire season length) are relatively well-studied in the context of a changing climate, fire severity has received less attention.

Do insect outbreaks reduce the severity of subsequent forest fires?

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

Understanding the causes and consequences of rapid environmental change is an essential scientific frontier, particularly given the threat of climate- and land use-induced changes in disturbance regimes. In western North America, recent widespread insect outbreaks and wildfires have sparked acute concerns about potential insect–fire interactions.

Employing resilience in the United States Forest Service

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

The concept of resilience has permeated the discourse of many land use and environmental agencies in an attempt to articulate how to develop and implement policies concerned with the social and ecological dimensions of natural disturbances. Several distinct definitions of resilience exist, each with its own concepts, focus and contexts related to land use policy and management.

Disturbance, tree mortality, and implications for contemporary regional forest change in the Pacific Northwest

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

Tree mortality is an important demographic process and primary driver of forest dynamics, yet there are relatively few plot-based studies that explicitly quantify mortality and compare the relative contribution of endogenous and exogenous disturbances at regional scales. We used repeated observations on 289,390 trees in 3673 1 ha plots on U.S.

Tamm Review: Are fuel treatments effective at achieving ecological and social objectives? A systematic review

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

The prevailing paradigm in the western U.S. is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from management activities including fire suppression, logging, and grazing, combined with more severe drought conditions and increasing temperatures.