Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring

By A. Westerling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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• Cell2Fire: A Cell-Based Forest Fire Growth Model to Support Strategic Landscape Management Planning (2019, background): “The effects of global warming on temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, and other forest and wildland fire regime drivers have increased and are expected to continue to increase in terms of both the number of and area burned by wildfires around the globe (Westerling, 2016).”
• Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests (2016, background): “W increases in fire activity, including area burned (1, 2), number of large fires (3), and fire-season length (4, 5), have been documented across the western United States (US) and in other temperate and high-latitude ecosystems over the past half century (6, 7).”
• Declining old‐forest species as a legacy of large trees lost (2018, background): “Agriculture (Laurance, Sayer, & Cassman, 2014), fire (Jones, Gutiérrez, Tempel, Whitmore et al., 2016; Westerling, 2016) and disproportionate drought susceptibility (Bennett, McDowell, Allen, & Anderson- Teixeira, 2015) also increasingly threaten large old trees and conservation of old-…”
• Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (2019, background): “in turn increases the rate of forest fires [430]).”
• Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States (2017, background): “In the past few decades, early onset of warmer and drier conditions has promoted greater fire activity across the western United States (6, 7, 40).”
• Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States. (2020, background): “…andWilliams, 2016), and reduced summer precipitation (Dennison et al., 2014; Holden et al., 2018) have increased fire season length and area burned across the western U.S. (Abatzoglou and Kolden, 2013; Gergel et al., 2017; Luce et al., 2014; McKenzie and Littell, 2017; Westerling, 2016).”
• Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society (2020, background): “One of the regions with the largest increases in wildfire globally is the western US (Dennison et al 2014, Westerling 2016, Balch et al 2017).”
• Invasive grasses: A new perfect storm for forested ecosystems? (2020, background): “These communities evolved under pressure from mixed severity fire regimes burning in patchy mosaics at moderate return intervals, and lack the adaptations to recover quickly after fire (Whisenant and Uresk, 1990; D'Antonio and Vitousek, 1992).”
• Influences of fire–vegetation feedbacks and post‐fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes (2018, background): “…persisting later into fall; leads to larger annual area burned Flannigan et al. (2013), Gergel, Nijssen, Abatzoglou, Lettenmaier, and Stumbaugh (2017), Westerling (2016) ↑ λ1 Hotter summer temperatures and increased vapour pressure deficit lead to reduced soil and fuel moisture and larger…”