Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change

RH Nolan, L Collins, A Leigh, MKJ Ooi… - Plant, cell & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Record‐breaking fire seasons in many regions across the globe raise important questions
about plant community responses to shifting fire regimes (ie, changing fire frequency …

Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

AG Konings, SS Saatchi, C Frankenberg… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia

L Collins, H Clarke, MF Clarke… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The aims were:(1) to identify the environmental drivers of interannual variation
in wildfire extent and severity;(2) to examine temporal trends in climatic potential for large …

[PDF][PDF] Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Integrating plant physiology into simulation of fire behavior and effects

LT Dickman, AK Jonko, RR Linn, I Altintas… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to
changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of …

The fuel–climate–fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change?

SC McColl‐Gausden, LT Bennett… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire regimes are changing across the globe in response to complex interactions between
climate, fuel, and fire across space and time. Despite these complex interactions, research …

Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought

JMR Peters, R López, M Nolf, LB Hutley… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, forests are facing an increasing risk of mass tree mortality events associated with
extreme droughts and higher temperatures. Hydraulic dysfunction is considered a key …

Fuel reduction burning reduces wildfire severity during extreme fire events in south-eastern Australia

L Collins, R Trouvé, PJ Baker, B Cirulus… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme fire events have increased across south-eastern Australia owing to warmer and
drier conditions driven by anthropogenic climate change. Fuel reduction burning is widely …

Climate change induced declines in fuel moisture may turn currently fire-free Pyrenean mountain forests into fire-prone ecosystems

VR de Dios, J Hedo, ÀC Camprubí, P Thapa… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuel moisture limits the availability of fuel to wildfires in many forest areas worldwide, but the
effects of climate change on moisture constraints remain largely unknown. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand

NM Holtzman, LDL Anderegg, S Kraatz… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) retrieved from microwave radiometry correlates with the total
amount of water in vegetation, based on theoretical and empirical evidence. Because the …