Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

Implementation of wildfire- and climate-adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more than a century of resource and land use change, some question the need for proactive management, particularly given novel...

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Published in:	Ecological applications Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 1 - 34
Main Authors:	Hagmann, R. K., Hessburg, P. F., Prichard, S. J., Povak, N. A., Brown, P. M., Fulé, P. Z., Keane, R. E., Knapp, E. E., Lydersen, J. M., Metlen, K. L., Reilly, M. J., Meador, A. J. Sánchez, Stephens, S. L., Stevens, J. T., Taylor, A. H., Yocom, L. L., Battaglia, M. A., Churchill, D. J., Daniels, L. D., Falk, D. A., Henson, P., Johnston, J. D., Krawchuk, M. A., Levine, C. R., Meigs, G. W., Merschel, A. G., North, M. P., Safford, H. D., Swetnam, T. W., Waltz, A. E. M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States John Wiley and Sons, Inc 01.12.2021 Ecological Society of America John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:	Adaptation canopy Climate climate adaptation Climate change Climate Change and Western Wildfires Climatic conditions Disturbances Drought Dry forests Ecological effects Ecological function Ecosystem ecosystem management Ecosystems Evaluation fire exclusion Fires forested landscapes Forests frequent fire Global warming Herbivores Heterogeneity high‐severity fire Human influences Humans INVITED FEATURE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WESTERN WILDFIRES Land use land use change Landscape landscape restoration landscapes multi‐dimensional fire regimes multi‐scale spatial patterns North America Questions reference conditions Uncertainty Vegetation wildfire adaptation Wildfires North America Climate Change and Western Wildfires multi-dimensional fire regimes reference conditions wildfire adaptation ecosystem management high-severity fire forested landscapes multi-scale spatial patterns fire exclusion climate adaptation frequent fire landscape restoration
ISSN:	1051-0761, 1939-5582
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