W. Keith Moser

TL;DR: In 2006, the Society of American Foresters commissioned an ad hoc team to prepare a white paper on the effect of nonnative invasive species (NNIS) on America's forests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss five factors that will be extraordinarily influential in large-scale northern forest management needs over the next 50 years: (1) northern forests lack age-class diversity and will uniformly grow old without management interventions or natural disturbances, (2) the area of forestland in the North will decrease as a consequence of expanding urban areas, (3) invasive species will alter forest density, diversity, and function, (4) management intensity for timber is low in northern forests and likely to remain so, and (5) management for nontimber objectives will gain

TL;DR: In this article , the authors outline barriers and opportunities in the next generation of fire science and provide guidance for investment in future research and synthesize insights needed to better address the long-standing challenges of innovation across disciplines to promote coordinated research efforts; embrace different ways of knowing and knowledge generation; promote exploration of fundamental science; capitalize on the "firehose" of data for societal benefit; and integrate human and natural systems into models across multiple scales.

TL;DR: In this article, the overall effects of fire on tree communities and the factors controlling their sensitivity in 29 sites that experienced multi-decadal alterations in fire frequencies in savanna and forest ecosystems across tropical and temperate regions.