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Long‐term climate and competition explain forest mortality patterns under extreme drought by Young, Derek J. N., Stevens, Jens T., Earles, J. Mason, Moore, Jeffrey, Ellis, Adam, Jirka, Amy L., Latimer, Andrew M., Lloret, Francisco

“…Rising temperatures are amplifying drought‐induced stress and mortality in forests globally. It remains uncertain, however, whether tree mortality across…”
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Forest disturbance accelerates thermophilization of understory plant communities by Stevens, Jens T, Safford, Hugh D, Harrison, Susan, Latimer, Andrew M, Gilliam, Frank

“…Climate change is likely to shift plant communities towards species from warmer regions, a process termed ‘thermophilization’. In forests, canopy disturbances…”
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Extreme mid-winter drought weakens tree hydraulic–carbohydrate systems and slows growth by Earles, J. Mason, Stevens, Jens T., Sperling, Or, Orozco, Jessica, North, Malcolm P., Zwieniecki, Maciej A.

“…Rising temperatures and extended periods of drought compromise tree hydraulic and carbohydrate systems, threatening forest health globally. Despite winter’s…”
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Give seeds a chance? Opportunities and techniques for post‐fire reforestation using tree seeding by Rodman, Kyle C., Schloegel, Catherine A., Chapman, Teresa B., Pineda, Mykael, Chambers, Marin E., Fornwalt, Paula J., Stevens, Jens T.

“…Altered fire regimes and post‐fire tree regeneration failures have the potential to drive forest cover losses throughout western North America, but management…”
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Average Stand Age from Forest Inventory Plots Does Not Describe Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America by Stevens, Jens T., Safford, Hugh D., North, Malcolm P., Fried, Jeremy S., Gray, Andrew N., Brown, Peter M., Dolanc, Christopher R., Dobrowski, Solomon Z., Falk, Donald A., Farris, Calvin A., Franklin, Jerry F., Fulé, Peter Z., Hagmann, R. Keala, Knapp, Eric E., Miller, Jay D., Smith, Douglas F., Swetnam, Thomas W., Taylor, Alan H.

“…Quantifying historical fire regimes provides important information for managing contemporary forests. Historical fire frequency and severity can be estimated…”
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Scale-dependent effects of post-fire canopy cover on snowpack depth in montane coniferous forests by Stevens, Jens T.

“…Winter snowpack in dry montane regions provides a valuable ecosystem service by storing water into the growing season. Wildfire in coniferous montane forests…”
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Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait‐based approach by Stevens, Jens T., Kling, Matthew M., Schwilk, Dylan W., Varner, J. Morgan, Kane, Jeffrey M., Gillespie, Thomas

“…Aim Functional traits are a crucial link between species distributions and the ecosystem processes that structure those species’ niches. Concurrent increases…”
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Changing spatial patterns of stand-replacing fire in California conifer forests by Stevens, Jens T., Collins, Brandon M., Miller, Jay D., North, Malcolm P., Stephens, Scott L.

“…•A novel metric for analyzing spatial pattern in stand-replacing fire is analyzed.•Stand-replacing patches have become larger and more regularly-shaped over…”
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Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions by Prichard, Susan J., Hessburg, Paul F., Hagmann, R. Keala, Povak, Nicholas A., Dobrowski, Solomon Z., Hurteau, Matthew D., Kane, Van R., Keane, Robert E., Kobziar, Leda N., Kolden, Crystal A., North, Malcolm, Parks, Sean A., Safford, Hugh D., Stevens, Jens T., Yocom, Larissa L., Churchill, Derek J., Gray, Robert W., Huffman, David W., Lake, Frank K., Khatri-Chhetri, Pratima

“…We review science-based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient…”
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Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding by Wion, Andreas P., Stevens, Jens T., Beeley, Kay, Oertel, Rebecca, Margolis, Ellis Q., Allen, Craig D.

“…Wildfires and climate change increasingly are transforming vegetation composition and structure, and postfire management may have long‐lasting effects on…”
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Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States by Davis, Kimberley T, Robles, Marcos D, Kemp, Kerry B, Higuera, Philip E, Chapman, Teresa, Metlen, Kerry L, Peeler, Jamie L, Rodman, Kyle C, Woolley, Travis, Addington, Robert N, Buma, Brian J, Cansler, C Alina, Case, Michael J, Collins, Brandon M, Coop, Jonathan D, Dobrowski, Solomon Z, Gill, Nathan S, Haffey, Collin, Harris, Lucas B, Harvey, Brian J, Haugo, Ryan D, Hurteau, Matthew D, Kulakowski, Dominik, Littlefield, Caitlin E, McCauley, Lisa A, Povak, Nicholas, Shive, Kristen L, Smith, Edward, Stevens, Jens T, Stevens-Rumann, Camille S, Taylor, Alan H, Tepley, Alan J, Young, Derek J N, Andrus, Robert A, Battaglia, Mike A, Berkey, Julia K, Busby, Sebastian U, Carlson, Amanda R, Chambers, Marin E, Dodson, Erich Kyle, Donato, Daniel C, Downing, William M, Fornwalt, Paula J, Halofsky, Joshua S, Hoffman, Ashley, Holz, Andrés, Iniguez, Jose M, Krawchuk, Meg A, Kreider, Mark R, Larson, Andrew J, Meigs, Garrett W, Roccaforte, John Paul, Rother, Monica T, Safford, Hugh, Schaedel, Michael, Sibold, Jason S, Singleton, Megan P, Turner, Monica G, Urza, Alexandra K, Clark-Wolf, Kyra D, Yocom, Larissa, Fontaine, Joseph B, Campbell, John L

“…Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation…”
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Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States by Stevens, Jens T., Haffey, Collin M., Coop, Jonathan D., Fornwalt, Paula J., Yocom, Larissa, Allen, Craig D., Bradley, Anne, Burney, Owen T., Carril, Dennis, Chambers, Marin E., Chapman, Teresa B., Haire, Sandra L., Hurteau, Matthew D., Iniguez, Jose M., Margolis, Ellis Q., Marks, Christopher, Marshall, Laura A.E., Rodman, Kyle C., Stevens-Rumann, Camille S., Thode, Andrea E., Walker, Jessica J.

“…•Recently-burned area in southwestern US forests is increasing.•Landscape context, values, and future trajectories of change can inform management.•Postfire…”
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Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western U.S. forests by North, Malcolm P., Stevens, Jens T., Greene, David F., Coppoletta, Michelle, Knapp, Eric E., Latimer, Andrew M., Restaino, Christina M., Tompkins, Ryan E., Welch, Kevin R., York, Rob A., Young, Derek J.N., Axelson, Jodi N., Buckley, Tom N., Estes, Becky L., Hager, Rachel N., Long, Jonathan W., Meyer, Marc D., Ostoja, Steven M., Safford, Hugh D., Shive, Kristen L., Tubbesing, Carmen L., Vice, Heather, Walsh, Dana, Werner, Chhaya M., Wyrsch, Peter

“…•Current reforestation often focuses on planting regularly-spaced pine seedlings.•‘Course correction’ depends on increasingly rare follow-up treatments.•This…”
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Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns by Collins, Brandon M., Stevens, Jens T., Miller, Jay D., Stephens, Scott L., Brown, Peter M., North, Malcolm P.

“…Context The proportion of fire area that experienced stand-replacing fire effects is an important attribute of individual fires and fire regimes in forests,…”
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Mixed-conifer forest reference conditions for privately owned timberland in the southern Cascade Range by Collins, Brandon M., Bernal, Alexis, York, Robert A., Stevens, Jens T., Juska, Andrew, Stephens, Scott L.

“…The overwhelming majority of information on historical forest conditions in western North America comes from public lands, which may provide an incomplete…”
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Management strategy influences landscape patterns of high-severity burn patches in the southwestern United States by Singleton, Megan P., Thode, Andrea E., Sánchez Meador, Andrew J., Iniguez, Jose M., Stevens, Jens T.

“…Context Spatial patterns of high-severity wildfire in forests affect vegetation recovery pathways, watershed dynamics, and wildlife habitat across landscapes…”
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Fire severity and changing composition of forest understory plant communities by Stevens, Jens T., Miller, Jesse E. D., Fornwalt, Paula J.

“…Questions Gradients of fire severity in dry conifer forests can be associated with variation in understory floristic composition. Recent work in dry conifer…”
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What influences planted tree seedling survival in burned Colorado montane forests? by Marshall, Laura A.E., Fornwalt, Paula J., Stevens-Rumann, Camille S., Rodman, Kyle C., Chapman, Teresa B., Schloegel, Catherine A., Stevens, Jens T.

“…Across the western United States, large, severe wildfires in montane forests are creating treeless patches that can fail to reforest naturally due to a lack of…”
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Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management by D’Evelyn, Savannah M., Jung, Jihoon, Alvarado, Ernesto, Baumgartner, Jill, Caligiuri, Pete, Hagmann, R. Keala, Henderson, Sarah B., Hessburg, Paul F., Hopkins, Sean, Kasner, Edward J., Krawchuk, Meg A., Krenz, Jennifer E., Lydersen, Jamie M., Marlier, Miriam E., Masuda, Yuta J., Metlen, Kerry, Mittelstaedt, Gillian, Prichard, Susan J., Schollaert, Claire L., Smith, Edward B., Stevens, Jens T., Tessum, Christopher W., Reeb-Whitaker, Carolyn, Wilkins, Joseph L., Wolff, Nicholas H., Wood, Leah M., Haugo, Ryan D., Spector, June T.

“…Purpose of Review Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached…”
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Fire Effects on Demography of the Invasive Shrub Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) in Florida Pine Savannas by Stevens, Jens T., Beckage, Brian

“…Fire is a common disturbance in savanna ecosystems that may either facilitate or impede non-native plant invasions. Although fire can create recruitment…”
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