Search Results - "Rother, Monica T."
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Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change
Published in Ecology letters (01-02-2018)“…Forest resilience to climate change is a global concern given the potential effects of increased disturbance activity, warming temperatures and increased…”
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Limited conifer regeneration following wildfires in dry ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-12-2016)“…Abstract In recent years, increased wildfire activity and climate change have raised concern among scientists and land managers regarding current and future…”
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Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States
Published in Environmental research letters (01-10-2020)“…Increased wildfire activity combined with warm and dry post-fire conditions may undermine the mechanisms maintaining forest resilience to wildfires,…”
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Detecting Woody Plants in Southern Arizona Using Data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-01-2023)“…Land cover changes and conversions are occurring rapidly in response to human activities throughout the world. Woody plant encroachment (WPE) is a type of land…”
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Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-02-2024)“…Soil disturbance threatens native perennial grasslands and savannas worldwide, including pine savannas of the North American Coastal Plain. Disk harrows are…”
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Climate Drives Episodic Conifer Establishment after Fire in Dry Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA
Published in Forests (08-05-2017)“…In recent years, warming climate and increased fire activity have raised concern about post-fire recovery of western U.S. forests. We assessed relationships…”
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Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-03-2019)“…Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation…”
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Limitations to recovery following wildfire in dry forests of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, USA
Published in Ecological applications (01-01-2020)“…Climate warming is contributing to increases in wildfire activity throughout the western United States, leading to potentially long-lasting shifts in…”
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A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-11-2020)“…Aim Climate warming is increasing fire activity in many of Earth’s forested ecosystems. Because fire is a catalyst for change, investigation of post‐fire…”
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Climatic influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Zuni Mountains, NM, USA
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-06-2014)“…•The historic wildfire regime was characterized by frequent, low-severity fire.•Wetter conditions typically occurred one to two years prior to fire.•Drought…”
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A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA
Published in Fire ecology (22-12-2022)“…Background Longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystems were historically widespread in the North American Coastal Plain and in some southeastern piedmont…”
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The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data
Published in Progress in physical geography (01-08-2023)“…The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) and related ecosystem is an icon of the southeastern United States (US). Once covering an estimated 37 million ha…”
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Cambial Phenology Informs Tree-Ring Analysis of Fire Seasonality in Coastal Plain Pine Savannas
Published in Fire ecology (01-02-2018)“…Understanding of historical fire seasonality should facilitate development of concepts regarding fire as an ecological and evolutionary process. In tree-ring…”
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Responses of plant species to mechanical soil disturbance in fire-dependent pine communities of the North American Coastal Plain - a synthesis
Published in Forest ecology and management (01-08-2024)“…Research in recent years has increasingly recognized the ecological value of ancient "old-growth" grasslands and savannas and their vulnerability to mechanical…”
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A history of recurrent, low-severity fire without fire exclusion in southeastern pine savannas, USA
Published in Forest ecology and management (01-11-2020)“…•We assessed fire history in southeastern pine savannas using tree-rings methods.•We documented a frequent, low-severity fire regime at all three sites.•Most…”
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Variation in the strength and stationarity of southern longleaf pine seasonwood climate-growth relationships
Published in Dendrochronologia (Verona) (01-06-2024)“…Climate change is predicted to cause asymmetric warming and increased precipitation variability across different seasons. These changes and their effects may…”
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Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-03-2023)“…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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Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States
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Conifer regeneration after wildfire in low-elevation forests of the Colorado Front Range: Implications of a warmer, drier climate
Published 01-01-2015“…In recent years, concern has grown among researchers, land managers, and the public regarding potential shifts in forest resiliency to disturbances such as…”
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