Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

By T. Schoennagel, Jennifer K. Balch, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Philip E. Dennison, Brian J. Harvey, M. Krawchuk, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, P. Morgan, M. Moritz, R. Rasker and 2 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

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

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Spatial patterns of ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches (2017, neutral): “Post-wild ﬁ re non-forested patches or alternative vegetation types can also be areas of resilience to climate variability and resistance to subsequent ﬁ re within portions of the pine-dominant landscape (Coop et al., 2016; Schoennagel et al., 2017).”
Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society (2020, background): “As a result, there has been contentious debate surrounding wildfire management and policy strategies (e.g. North et al 2015, Schoennagel et al 2017, Hurteau et al 2019, Schultz and Moseley 2019).”
Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals (2018, background): “Developing this understanding is critical in the face of the current rapid global changes, which certainly include fire regime changes (mostly increasing in size and intensity, although it depends on the ecosystem; see Keeley and Syphard 2016; Schoennagel et al. 2017; Chergui et al. 2018).”
High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests (2018, background): “…nexus of increasingly large and intense wildfires linked to a warming climate and more frequent drought, landscapes with heavy fuel accumulations due to prolonged fire exclusion, and a rapid expansion of the wildland-urban interface (Littell et al 2016, Stephens et al2016, Schoennagel et al2017).”
Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk (2018, background): “Housing development in the WUI greatly exacerbates wildfire problems and other environmental issues in the United States (1, 5, 8), and globally (16, 18–20).”