Recent fire history enhances semi-arid conifer forest drought resistance

Interaction effects from past climate change-amplified disturbances in fire-prone forests can produce ecological feedbacks that amplify or dampen subsequent disturbances. Climate change is increasing wildfire burned area, wildfire severity, and incidents of drought-induced forest dieback (widespread tree mortality). These climate change amplified disturbances threaten forest’s ability to regulate climate, provide water, and store carbon. Greater burned area makes interaction effects due to past fires more likely, which highlights the importance of understanding whether interaction effects produce negative or positive feedback on subsequent disturbances such as forest dieback. We constructed a forest chrono-sequence by combining a geospatial database of historical fire with a time series of Landsat satellite observations for forests in the Sierra Nevada of California to assess the impact of fire history on vegetation recovery, water use (evapotranspiration), and as feedback on subsequent..., , , # Recent fire history enhances semi-arid conifer forest drought resistance

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These data sets and scripts allow for the creation of all figures and supplementary figures, and tables in the following manuscript. When using these data and script, please cite the following manuscript.
Norlen, C.A.; Hemes, K.S.; Wang, J.A.; Randerson, J.T.; Battles, J.J.; Tubbesing, C.L.; Goulden, M.L. (2024) \"Recent fire history enhances semi-arid conifer forest drought resistance\" *Forest Ecology and Management*. 573 (2024): 122331. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122331](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122331)

## Data Access

The data sets required to create the figures are available in the following DRYAD repository:
Norlen, C.A.; Hemes, K.S.; Wang, J.A.; Randerson, J.T.; Battles, J.J.; Tubbesing, C.L.; Goulden, M.L. (2024). \"Recent fire history enhances semi-arid conifer forest drought resistance\" [Dataset]. Dryad. [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s4mw6m9f2](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad...,