Citation: Huffman, David W.; Crouse, Joseph E.; Chancellor, W. Walker; Fulé, Peter Z. 2012. Influence of time since fire on pinyon-juniper woodland structure. Forest Ecology and Management 274:29-37.
Summary: The authors studied the effects of time since fire on the structural development of regeneration and complexity in pinyon-juniper woodlands along a long-term chronosequence of ~370 years.
Citation: Roccaforte, John P.; Fulé, Peter Z.; Chancellor, W. Walker; Laughlin, Daniel C. 2012. Woody debris and tree regeneration dynamics following severe wildfires in Arizona ponderosa pine forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42(3):593-604.
Summary: The authors sampled post-fire surface fuels, woody debris and regeneration along a chronosequence of eighteen years within ponderosa pine stands that burned at high severity to understand how surface fuels change with time since fire.
Citation: Teske, Casey C.; Seielstad, Carl A.; Queen, Lloyd P. 2012. Characterizing fire-on-fire interactions in three large wilderness areas. Fire Ecology 8(2):82-106.
Summary: The authors assessed fire-on-fire interactions in three wilderness areas to see how past fire area burned and fire severity affect subsequent fire.
Citation: Gartner, Meredith H.; Veblen, Thomas T.; Sherriff, Rosemary L.; Schoennagel, Tania L. 2012. Proximity to grasslands influences fire frequency and sensitivity to climate variability in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range. International Journal of Wildland Fire 21(5):562-571.
Summary: The authors examined the relationship between fire frequency in ponderosa pine forests and their proximity to grassland and shrubland sites as well as the sensitivity to climate variation also related to the adjacency to these sites.
Citation: Moritz, Max A.; Parisien, Marc-André; Batllori, Enric; Krawchuk, Meg A.; Van Dorn, Jeff; Ganz, David J.; Hayhoe, Katharine. 2012. Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity. Ecosphere 3(6):art49
Summary: The authors derived future fire probability at a 0.5° resolution from a range of global climate models. Climate variables consisted of precipitation, the precipitation of the driest month, temperature seasonality, the mean temperature of the wettest month, and the mean temperature of the warmest month.
Citation: Westerling, Anthony L.; Turner, Monica G.; Smithwick, Erica A.H.; Romme, William H.; Ryan, Michael G. 2011. Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st Century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(32):13165-13170.
Summary: The authors projected how large fire (> 200 ha) occurrence, size, and spatial location may be affected by climate change in the forests of the Greater Yellowstone area.
Citation: Krawchuk, Meg A.; Moritz, Max A. 2011. Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient. Ecology 92(1):121-132.
Summary: The authors examined the potential relationship between global fire activity and biomass resource availability based on monthly soil moisture metrics before and during the fire season. They also examined the efficacy of a potential global fire weather metric, anomaly in mean monthly 500 hPa geopotential height.
Citation: Margolis, Ellis Q.; Swetnam, Thomas W.; Allen, Craig D. 2011. Historical stand-replacing fire in upper montane forests of the Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau, southwestern USA. Fire Ecology 7(3):88-107.
Summary: The authors reconstructed fire dates and stand-replacing fire patch sizes using four dendrological approaches to document the historical role of high severity and/or stand-replacing fire in upper elevation mixed-conifer, aspen, and spruce-fir forests.
Citation: van Mantgem, Phillip J.; Stephenson, Nathan L.; Knapp, Eric; Battles, John; Keeley, Jon E. 2011. Long-term effects of prescribed fire on mixed conifer forest structure in the Sierra Nevada, California. Forest Ecology and Management 261(6):989-994.
Summary: The authors monitored prescribed fire in old-growth mixed conifer stands for eight consecutive years to examine the long-term effects on forest structure and how the actual results compared to restoration objectives.
Citation: Vankat, John L. 2011. Post-1935 changes in forest vegetation of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA: Part 1 - ponderosa pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management 261(3):309-325.
Summary: The author resampled vegetation study plots originally sampled in Grand Canyon National Park in 1935 to document changes in forest structure and composition.
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