Search Results - "Veblen, Thomas 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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Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-09-2020)“…Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon…”
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Influences of fire-vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-09-2018)“…1. In the context of ongoing climatic warming, forest landscapes face increasing risk of conversion to non-forest vegetation through alteration of their fire…”
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Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome
Published in Nature communications (19-10-2018)“…Increasing evidence indicates that forest disturbances are changing in response to global change, yet local variability in disturbance remains high. We…”
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Increased early growth rates decrease longevities of conifers in subalpine forests
Published in Oikos (01-08-2009)“…For trees, fast growth rates and large size seem to be a fitness benefit because of increased competitiveness, attainment of reproductive size earlier,…”
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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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Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-04-2015)“…Significance Across western North America, abundant susceptible pine hosts and a suitable climate during the early 21st century have promoted widespread…”
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Drought induces spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks across northwestern Colorado
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-04-2014)“…This study examines influences of climate variability on spruce beetle ( Dendroctonus rufipennis ) outbreak across northwestern Colorado during the period…”
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Landscape drivers of recent fire activity (2001-2017) in south-central Chile
Published in PloS one (22-08-2018)“…In recent decades large fires have affected communities throughout central and southern Chile with great social and ecological consequences. Despite this high…”
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Spatiotemporal patterns of mountain pine beetle activity in the southern Rocky Mountains
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-10-2012)“…The current mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae ) outbreak in the southern Rocky Mountains has impacted ∼ 750 000 ha of forest. Weather and…”
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Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-01-2009)“…Persistent changes in tree mortality rates can alter forest structure, composition, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration. Our analyses of…”
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Field-Validated Burn-Severity Mapping in North Patagonian Forests
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-01-2020)“…Burn severity, which can be reliably estimated by validated spectral indices, is a key element for understanding ecosystem dynamics and informing management…”
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Drought induces lagged tree mortality in a subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains
Published in Oikos (01-12-2007)“…Extreme climatic events are key factors in initiating gradual or sudden changes in forest ecosystems through the promotion of severe, tree-killing disturbances…”
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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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North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-01-2022)“…Tree fecundity and recruitment have not yet been quantified at scales needed to anticipate biogeographic shifts in response to climate change. By separating…”
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Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America
Published in PloS one (03-02-2014)“…There is widespread concern that fire exclusion has led to an unprecedented threat of uncharacteristically severe fires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa…”
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Negative feedbacks on bark beetle outbreaks: widespread and severe spruce beetle infestation restricts subsequent infestation
Published in PloS one (22-05-2015)“…Understanding disturbance interactions and their ecological consequences remains a major challenge for research on the response of forests to a changing…”
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Still standing: Recent patterns of post-fire conifer refugia in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of the Colorado Front Range
Published in PloS one (01-01-2020)“…Forested fire refugia (trees that survive fires) are important disturbance legacies that provide seed sources for post-fire regeneration. Conifer regeneration…”
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Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-01-2007)“…Widespread synchronous wildfires driven by climatic variation, such as those that swept western North America during 1996, 2000, and 2002, can result in major…”
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Effects of high‐severity fire drove the population collapse of the subalpine Tasmanian endemic conifer Athrotaxis cupressoides
Published in Global change biology (01-01-2015)“…Athrotaxis cupressoides is a slow‐growing and long‐lived conifer that occurs in the subalpine temperate forests of Tasmania, a continental island to the south…”
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