The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests

By T. Schoennagel, Thomas T. Veblen, W. H. Romme. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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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): “…driven by prolonged periods of warm, dry and windy conditions (Arno, 1980; Romme & Despain, 1989; Barrett et al ., 1991; Barrett, 1994; Kipfmueller & Baker, 2000; Schoennagel et al ., 2004) and are often followed by generally abundant post-fire tree regeneration (e.g. Romme et al ., 2011).”
What causes large fires in Southern France (2013, positive): “This is consistent with several works carried out in Northern America (Allen, 2002; Baker, 2003; Schoennagel et al., 2004), in Australia (Cunningham, 1984; Gill, 1984) and in other countries of Southern Europe (Viegas et al., 1992; Pereira et al., 2005; Hoinka et al., 2009; Dimitrakopoulos et al.,…”
Ecological consequences of mountain pine beetle outbreaks for wildlife in western North American forests (2014, background): “Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) landscapes in western North America are typically composed of dense, even-aged stands often maintained by infrequent, high-severity fires (Schoennagel et al. 2004).”
Perpetuating old ponderosa pine (2007, background): “…because fire regimes were not completely disrupted (e.g., Grand Canyon; Fulé et al., 2003), or because some mixed-conifer forests containing ponderosa pine historically had relatively high density or infrequent fires (e.g., Colorado Front Range; Brown et al., 1999; Schoennagel et al., 2004).”
Evaluating wildland fire danger and prioritizing vegetation and fuels treatments (2007, background): “Wildland fuels have accumulated in many western forests of the United States (US) for the past 100 years due to 20th century management activities (Agee, 1998; Hessburg and Agee, 2003), and ever-changing climatic conditions (Burkett et al., 2005; Schoennagel et al., 2004).”
Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916-2003. (2009, background): “…trends in wildfire area burned (WFAB) have increases in fuel accumulation caused by fire exclusion, especially when the time frame of effective fire exclusion approximates or is less than the range of return intervals characteristic of fire regimes (Johnson et al. 2001, Schoennagel et al. 2004).”
Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low‐growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests (2011, neutral): “Pure and mixed ponderosa pine Pinus ponderosa forests dominate much of the low to mid-elevation mountain forests of western North America, where frequent, low intensity and mixed severity ﬁ res regimes were common prior to European settlement (Schoennagel et al. 2004).”
Carbon protection and fire risk reduction: toward a full accounting of forest carbon offsets (2008, background): “1996) to low-frequency, high-severity fires in forests at higher elevations, such as spruce–fir and northern latitude coastal forests (Agee 1993; Schoennagel et al. 2004).”
Recommendations for Integrating Restoration Ecology and Conservation Biology in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwestern United States (2006, background): “Studies of the Rodeo-Chediski fire suggested that several kinds of treatments, including salvage logging, were effective in reducing fire severity and spread (Wilmes et al. 2002; Schoennagel et al. 2004).”
Early settlement forest structure in Black Hills ponderosa pine forests (2006, background): “A ‘‘one-size-fits-all’’ approach to forest management is rarely appropriate even within specific forest types (Allen et al., 2002; Schoennagel et al., 2004).”
Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world. (2010, background): “In forests with a natural crown-fire regime, including boreal and subalpine forests, fires are driven by climate rather than variation in fuel (Bessie and Johnson 1995, Schoennagel et al. 2004, Littell et al. 2009).”
The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution (2015, background): “Some of this homogenization results from suppression of natural disturbance regimes, such as floods and fires; from land conversion; and from captive breeding programs that reduce genetic diversity (Poff et al. 1997; Schoennagel et al. 2004; Moore et al. 2010; Griffiths et al. 2014).”