Global Environmental Change Lab - GEC Lab

Kudos to Cody Evers, Sebastian Busby, and Max Nielsen-Pincus for our piece on high severity of the 2020 Wildfires in Oregon (https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/5/2/41/htm).

Extreme Winds Alter Influence of Fuels and Topography on Megafire Burn Severity in Seasonal Temperate Rainforests under Record Fuel Aridity Nearly 0.8 million hectares of land were burned in the North American Pacific Northwest (PNW) over two weeks under record-breaking fuel aridity and winds during the extraordinary 2020 fire season, representing a rare example of megafires in forests west of the Cascade Mountains. We quantified the re...

Kudos to Nacho Mundo and colleagues for their Araucaria masting reconstruction!

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Multi-centennial phase-locking between reproduction of a South American conifer and large-scale drivers of climate - Nature Plants This study establishes the effect of ENSO cycles modulated by SAM in South America on a native conifer over multiple centuries and the reproductive cycle of individual plants on a regional scale in line with climate events.