Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century

By A. Westerling, Monica G. Turner, E. Smithwick, W. H. Romme, Michael G. Ryan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring (2016, methodology): “Fire records were compared using simple algorithms linking date, name, approximate size and location, and obvious duplications and errors were corrected [1,4].”
Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes (2015, background): “The net effect of these changes will be to shorten fire intervals, reducing the time available to plants for seed accumulation, selecting for more flammable species (D’Antonio and Vitousek 1992), and elevating the probability of local extirpation of slow growing and slowly maturing species after fir”
Considerations for restoring temperate forests of tomorrow: forest restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering (2015, background): “…2008), given that reductions in fire frequency from 100–300 years to 30 years, for example, have the potential to quickly shift some North American forest systems to woodlands and grasslands (Westerling et al. 2011), thereby reducing the availability of genetic resources needed to adapt or move.”
A New Metric for Quantifying Burn Severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio (2014, background): “Areas of relatively sparse or spatially discontinuous vegetation are fairly common throughout the western US and will potentially become more common as climate becomes more arid and fire becomes more frequent [24,25].”