Ecosystems are dynamic systems with complex responses to environmental variation. In
response to pervasive stressors of changing climate and disturbance regimes, many …

Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits,
population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling …

Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

In this review and synthesis, we argue that California is an important test case for the nation
and world because terrestrial biodiversity is very high, present and anticipated threats to …

Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …

Aim Pyrodiversity is the spatial or temporal variability in fire effects across a landscape.
Multiple ecological hypotheses, when applied to the context of post‐fire systems, suggest …

Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

The increasing frequency and severity of fire and drought events have negatively impacted
the capacity and success of reforestation efforts in many dry, western US forests. Challenges …

Although recent large wildfires in California forests are well publicized in media and
scientific literature, their cumulative effects on forest structure and implications for forest …

Although fire is a fundamental ecological process in western North American forests, climate
warming and accumulating forest fuels due to fire suppression have led to wildfires that burn …