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Less fuel for the next fire? Short-interval fire delays forest recovery and interacting drivers amplify effects

Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type

As 21st-century climate and disturbance dynamics depart from historic baselines, ecosystem resilience is uncertain. Multiple drivers are changing simultaneously, and interactions among drivers could amplify ecosystem vulnerability to change. Subalpine forests in Greater Yellowstone (Northern Rocky Mountains, USA) were historically resilient to infrequent (100–300 year), severe fire.

Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the western United States?

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

There is a widespread view among land managers and others that the protected status of many forestlands in the western United States corresponds with higher fire severity levels due to historical restrictions on logging that contribute to greater amounts of biomass and fuel loading in less intensively managed areas, particularly after decades of fire suppression.