Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the
potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation communities. Wildfire can …

Abstract Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson) is a prominent tree
species in forests of the western United States. Wildfire activity in ponderosa pine dominated …

The dominant paradigm for assessing ecological responses to climate change assumes that
future states of individuals and populations can be predicted by current, species-wide …

Regional reconstructions of air temperature over the past millennium provide critical context
for ongoing climate change, but they are temporally limited in the recent period or absent for …

Robust ecological forecasting of tree growth under future climate conditions is critical to
anticipate future forest carbon storage and flux. Here, we apply three ingredients of …

Climate change is shifting the structure and function of global forests, underscoring the
critical need to predict which forests are most vulnerable to a hotter and drier future. We …

Despite widespread interest in drought legacies—multiyear impacts of drought on tree
growth—the key implication of reported drought legacies remains unaddressed: as impaired …

Although climate change has emerged as a major threat to biodiversity, few assessments
exist of the sensitivity of desert riparian forests to climate in extremely arid plain areas. We …

Phenotypic plasticity is a main mechanism for organisms to cope with changing
environments and broaden their ecological range. Plasticity is genetically based and can …

Height-diameter (HD) allometry plays an important role in exploring forest growth dynamics
and estimating forest biomass and carbon storage. Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) is …