ArticleNature communications2021
Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US.
Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Climate change and the global redistribution of biodiversity: substantial variation in empirical support for expected range shifts.Environmental evidence · 2023Pooled it
- Eco-evolutionary responses of species distributions to climate change.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Can fire exclusion zones enhance postfire tree regeneration? A simulation study in subalpine conifer forests.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Population structure limits the use of genomic data for predicting phenotypes and managing genetic resources in forest trees.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Climate mismatches with ectomycorrhizal fungi contribute to migration lag in North American tree range shifts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Climate Change Habitat Model Forecasts for Eight Owl Species in the Southwestern US.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
Due to climate change, plant populations experience environmental conditions to which they are not adapted. Our understanding of the next century's vegetation geography depends on the distance, direction, and rate at which plant distributions shift in response to a changing climate. In this study we test the sensitivity of tree range shifts (measured as the difference between seedling and mature tree ranges in climate space) to wildfire occurrence, using 74,069 Forest Inventory Analysis plots across nine states in the western United States. Wildfire significantly increased the seedling-only range displacement for 2 of the 8 tree species in which seedling-only plots were displaced from tree-plus-seedling plots in the same direction with and without recent fire. The direction of climatic displacement was consistent with that expected for warmer and drier conditions. The greater seedling-only range displacement observed across burned plots suggests that fire can accelerate climate-related range shifts and that fire and fire management will play a role in the rate of vegetation redistribution in response to climate change.
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