Post-fire structural forest recovery associated with climate extremes in dry sub-boreal forests.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Recent large and high-severity wildfires have burned vast areas of coniferous forests throughout Western North America. These burned landscapes are recovering amid increasingly frequent climate extremes, such as drought. We need to understand how post-fire climate extremes and other ecological drivers (such as fire impacts) influence patterns and trends of coniferous recovery.

Objectives

We worked at a landscape scale (> 400,000 hectares) to investigate the association between distinct post-fire forest recovery and ecological drivers in dry sub-boreal forests. We created structural recovery groups distinct in patterns and trends of coniferous cover and density and then modeled their association with ecological drivers.

Methods

We used Landsat time-series data

SUBMITTER: Smith-Tripp S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12779702 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature