Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity

By A. Westerling, Hugo G. Hidalgo, D. Cayan, T. Swetnam. Science, 2006

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High and dry: post‐fire tree seedling establishment in subalpine forests decreases with post‐fire drought and large stand‐replacing burn patches (2016, background): “Climate change has a serious potential to compromise post-fire forest resilience by altering fire activity (Westerling et al ., 2006) and/or increasing drought stress on post-fire tree seedlings (Johnstone et al ., 2010b; Williams et al ., 2012).”
Fire Information for Resource Management System: Archiving and Distributing MODIS Active Fire Data (2009, background): “duration in response to global warming [5], [6].”
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests (2016, background): “Given the strong empirical relationship between fuel aridity and wildfire activity identified here and in other studies (1, 2, 4, 8), and substantial increases in western US fuel aridity and fire-weather season length in recent decades, it appears clear from empirical data alone that increased fuel ”
Genetic maladaptation of coastal Douglas‐fir seedlings to future climates (2007, background): “In coastal Douglasfir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), for example, stand replacing disturbances typically occur at a fre- quency of 200 years or more, although they may become more frequent in the future (Bachelet et al., 2001; Westerling et al., 2006).”
Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes (2013, background): “Some of the most pressing fire science and management questions concern changes in fire regimes caused by the introduction of invasive species (15), altered ignition patterns (16), or climate change (17).”
Fire severity and landscape context effects on arboreal marsupials (2013, positive): “It is imperative to remedy this deficiency quickly because 99 fires are predicted to become larger, more frequent and more severe as a result of climate 100 change (Driscoll et al. 2012; Westerling et al. 2006; Cary et al. 2012).”
Range‐wide patterns of greater sage‐grouse persistence (2008, background): “Climate change has been demonstrated to enhance non-native plant invasions (Smith et al., 2000; Bradley & Mustard, 2006; Chambers et al., 2007) and dramatically alter fire frequencies (Westerling et al., 2006).”
Climatic constraints on trait‐based forest assembly (2011, background): “Climate influences fire regimes by controlling fuel loadings, fuel moisture andweather conditions (Westerling et al. 2006).”
Discrete-time growth-dispersal models with shifting species ranges (2011, background): “Since wildfires are expected to increase with global warming (Westerling et al. 2006), we believe that global warming could have an effect on the distribution of prairie species such as Kincaid’s lupine and Fender’s blue butterfly.”
Perpetuating old ponderosa pine (2007, background): “that often kill old pines have been linked to temperature increases since the mid 1980s (Westerling et al., 2006) and fuel accumulation resulting from a century of fire exclusion (Habeck, 1994; Arno et al.”
Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire (2009, background): “Although recent perceived increases in fire through many parts of western North America are causing ecological, economic, and social concern [6, 66 ], our results suggest a challenge to any simplistic view that climate change will lead to more fire in all locations.”