Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

• Published in: Ecological applications Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. e02432 - n/a
• Main Authors: Hessburg, Paul F., Prichard, Susan J., Hagmann, R. Keala, Povak, Nicholas A., Lake, Frank K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Climate Change; Climate Change and Western Wildfires; climate warming; Fires; forest landscape changes; Forests; Indigenous fire use; landscape realignment; landscape resilience; landscape resistance; North America; social‐ecological systems; Trees; wildfire regime changes; Wildfires; North America; Climate Change and Western Wildfires; wildfire regime changes; landscape resilience; social-ecological systems; climate warming; forest landscape changes; Indigenous fire use; landscape realignment; landscape resistance

Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over the last four decades. Resulting interactions between historical increases in forested area and density and recent rapid warmin...