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Changing fire regimes and nuanced impacts on a critically imperiled species

Year: 2024

Wildfire activity throughout western North America is increasing which can have important consequences for species persistence. Native species have evolved disturbance-adapted traits that confer resilience to natural disturbance provided disturbances operate within their historical range of variability. This resilience can erode as disturbance regimes change and begin operating outside this range. We assessed wildfire impacts during 1987–2018 on the northern spotted owl, an imperiled species with complex relationships with late and early seral forest in the Pacific Northwest, USA. We analyzed…

Fire Effects and Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fish and Wildlife Habitat

northern spotted owl, wildlife habitat, disturbance regime

Publication Type: Journal Article