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Pre-fire structure drives variability in post-fire aboveground carbon and fuel profiles in wet temperate forests

Year: 2025

Biological legacies (i.e., materials that persist following disturbance; “legacies”) shape ecosystem functioning and feedbacks to future disturbances, yet how legacies are driven by pre-disturbance ecosystem state and disturbance severity is poorly understood—especially in ecosystems influenced by infrequent and severe disturbances. Focusing on wet temperate forests as an archetype of these ecosystems, we characterized live and dead aboveground biomass 2–5 years post-fire in western Washington and northwestern Oregon, USA, to ask: How do pre-fire stand age (i.e., pre-disturbance ecosystem…

Fire Effects and Fire Ecology, Fuels and Fuel Treatments

fire severity, western Cascades, carbon

Publication Type: Journal Article

Following megafires fishes thrive and amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds

Year: 2025

Wildfires are increasing in severity, frequency and size, potentially threatening freshwater species that adapted under different disturbance regimes. However, few wildfire studies have comprehensively evaluated freshwater populations and assemblages following wildfire over broad spatial scales while accounting for post-fire salvage practices in the watershed. We reveal that stream vertebrate assemblages across thirty 4th order streams, spanning a range of both watershed fire severity and post-fire forest management extent, were minimally influenced by immediate effects of fire alone (…

Fire Effects and Fire Ecology, Fish and Wildlife Habitat

riparian, fire severity, western Cascades

Publication Type: Journal Article

Going slow to go fast: landscape designs to achieve multiple benefits

Year: 2025

Introduction: Growing concerns about fire across the western United States, and commensurate emphasis on treating expansive areas over the next 2 decades, have created a need to develop tools for managers to assess management benefits and impacts across spatial scales. We modeled outcomes associated with two common forest management objectives: fire risk reduction (fire), and enhancing multiple resource benefits (ecosystem resilience).Method: We evaluated the compatibility of these two objectives across ca. 1-million ha in the central Sierra Nevada,…

Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction, Risk Assessment and Analysis

ecosystem resilience, forest conservation, fire risk, carbon, multiple criteria decision making

Publication Type: Journal Article