A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

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Reintroduction of resistant frogs facilitates landscape-scale recovery in the presence of a lethal fungal disease - Nature Communications The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has devastated amphibian biodiversity, and methods to reverse these impacts are lacking. This study shows that frogs collected from recovering populati...

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This paper offers a gold standard for understanding long-term changes to fire regimes, focused on southwestern US forests.

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