Citation: Biondi, Franco; Jamieson, Leia P.; Strachan, Scotty; Sibold, Jason S. 2011. Dendroecological testing of the pyroclimatic hypothesis in the central Great Basin, Nevada, USA. Ecosphere 2(1):art5.
Summary: The authors reconstructed the fire history of a piñon-juniper woodland and identified climate-fire relationships in a case study for an area of the Great Basin in southeastern Nevada.
Citation: Abatzoglou, John T.; Kolden, Crystal A. 2011. Climate change in western US deserts: potential for increased wildfire and invasive annual grasses. Rangeland Ecology & Management 64(5):471-478.
Summary: The authors looked at the effects of climate change on invasive species establishment in western deserts. Specifically, they examined the effects of the interannual variation of temperature- and precipitation-related indicators associated with the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). Furthermore, they projected the future influence of large fire potential into the mid-21st century using downscaled CGM models.
Citation: Vankat, John L. 2011. Post-1935 changes in forest vegetation of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA: Part 2 - mixed conifer, spruce-fir, and quaking aspen forests. Forest Ecology and Management 261(3):326-341.
Summary: The author resampled vegetation study plots originally sampled in Grand Canyon National Park in 1935 to document changes in forest structure and composition.
Citation: Crimmins, Michael A. 2011. Interannual to decadal changes in extreme fire weather event frequencies across the southwestern United States. International Journal of Climatology 31(11):1573-1583.
Summary: The authors examined the influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on daily fire weather variability and extreme fire weather events.
Citation: Dillon, Gregory K.; Holden, Zachary A.; Morgan, Penelope; Crimmins, Michael A.; Heyerdahl, Emily K.; Luce, Charles H. 2011. Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006. Ecosphere 2(12):art130.
Summary: The authors assessed trends in burn severity from 1984 to 2006 and also analyzed the effects of topography, climate (temperature and precipitation), and weather on burn severity in forested and woodland areas across the Southwest and Northwest regions of the U.S. separately.
Citation: Hunter, Molly E.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Lentile, Leigh B. 2011. Short- and long-term effects on fuels, forest structure, and wildfire potential from prescribed fire and resource benefit fire in southwestern forests, USA. Fire Ecology 7(3):108-121.
Summary: The authors examined the effects of recent prescribed and resource benefit fires on the fuel loads, structure, and potential fire behavior in ponderosa pine and pinyon-juniper woodlands. Additionally, they studied the effects of repeated resource benefit fire on those same ecosystems.
Citation: Hessl, Amy E. 2011. Pathways for climate change effects on fire: models, data, and uncertainties. Progress in Physical Geography 35(3):393-407.
Summary: This article reviews models and fire-history studies of climate change and fire and proposes three potential pathways of how climate may affect fire regimes.
Citation: Allen, Craig D.; Macalady, Alison K.; Chenchouni, Haroun; Bachelet, Dominique; McDowell, Nate G.; Vennetier, Michel; Kitzberger, Thomas; Rigling, Andreas; Breshears, David D.; Hogg, Edward H.; Gonzalez, Patrick; Fensham, Roderick J.; Zhang, Zhen; Castro, Jorge; Demidova, Natalia; Lim, Jong-Hwan; Allard, Gillian; Running, Steven W.; Semerci, Akkin; Cobb, Neil S. 2010. A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests. Forest Ecology and Management 259(4):660-684.
Summary: This article was a review of literature regarding tree mortality due to water stress and increased temperatures as a result of climate change in forests around the world.
Citation: Pechony, O.; Shindell, D.T. 2010. Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107(45):19167-19170.
Summary: The authors developed a model that estimates fire activity based on vegetation and climate/weather conditions as well as availability of ignition sources and fire suppression rates globally. The projected their model to determine how climate may affect future global fire trends.
Citation: Trouet, Valerie; Taylor, Alan H.; Wahl, Eugene R.; Skinner, Carl N. 2010. Fire-climate interactions in the American west since 1400 CE. Geophysical Research Letters 37(4):L04702. 5 p.
Summary: The authors developed tree-ring based fire chronologies across four regions of the western U.S. from approximately 1400 CE to present to examine fire-climate relationships.
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