Van R. Kane

TL;DR: This article synthesizes a growing body of evidence of fire-driven conversion and understanding of its causes across western North America and proposes key themes for applied research coproduced by scientists and managers to support decision-making in an era when the prefire forest may not return.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use evidence from ten ecoregions, spanning forests from Canada to Mexico, to review the properties of these forests that reinforced those qualities and highlight geographic similarities and differences in the structure and organization of historical landscapes, their forest types, and in the conditions that have changed resilience and resistance to abrupt or large-scale disruptions.

TL;DR: Forest structure, as measured by the physical arrangement of trees and their crowns, is a fundamental attribute of forest ecosystems that changes as forests progress through a series of stages as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of variations in the local environment on burn severity patterns on the large 2013 Rim fire that burned under extreme drought with those of previous smaller fires for a study area in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of varying environmental conditions across a 27,104 ha landscape within Yosemite National Park, California, USA, on the number of fires and burn severity (measured from Landsat data for 1984-2010) and on canopy cover at two heights (>2 m and 2-8 m) and dominant tree height measured with airborne LiDAR data.