Forest managers working in dry forest ecosystems must contend with the costs and benefits of fire, and they are seeking forest management strategies that enhance the resilience of forests and landscapes to future disturbances in a changing climate. An interdisciplinary science team worked with resource managers and stakeholders to assess future forest ecosystem dynamics, given potential climatic changes and management strategies, across a 23,000-ha landscape in the Lake Tahoe basin of California and Nevada in support of the Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership. We projected forest growth and fire dynamics using a landscape change model, upon which the science team layered additional modeling to evaluate changes in wildlife habitat, water, and economics. Managers and stakeholders used the findings of this integrated modeling effort to inform the design of a landscape restoration strategy that balanced risks and benefits based on a robust scientific foundation. The results, published in this Special Feature, suggest that a continuation of status quo management would be less effective at protecting and improving desired outcomes than more active and extensive management approaches. In addition, the types of management activity also affected ecosystem outcomes. Results from across the studies in this special feature suggest that thinning and prescribed fire were complementary, although they resulted in somewhat different effects, and that low-severity use of fire had the greatest array and magnitude of ecosystem benefits. A notable exception was carbon storage, which declined with more active management and prescribed fire in particular. We highlight key findings from this Special Feature and summarize key challenges and some lessons learned in our experience of co-producing science. In short, science-management partnerships require cooperation, patience, and skill, but they are effective in increasing the capacity of land managers to navigate in an environment of rapid change and increasing uncertainty.

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在干燥森林生态系统中工作的森林管理者必须应对火灾的成本和效益，他们正在寻求森林管理战略，以增强森林和景观对未来气候变化干扰的恢复能力。一个跨学科科学团队与资源管理者和利益相关者合作，根据潜在的气候变化和管理策略，在加利福尼亚州和内华达州太浩湖盆地 23,000 公顷的景观中评估未来的森林生态系统动态，以支持西太浩湖恢复合作伙伴关系。我们使用景观变化模型预测了森林生长和火灾动态，科学团队在此基础上分层了额外的模型来评估野生动物栖息地、水和经济的变化。管理者和利益相关者利用这一综合建模工作的结果为景观恢复策略的设计提供信息，该策略在坚实的科学基础上平衡风险和收益。本专题发表的结果表明，与更积极和广泛的管理方法相比，继续维持现状管理在保护和改善预期结果方面的效果较差。此外，管理活动的类型也影响生态系统的结果。本专题各项研究的结果表明，间伐和规定用火是互补的，尽管它们产生的效果有所不同，而且低强度的用火具有最大的生态系统效益。一个值得注意的例外是碳储存，随着更积极的管理，特别是规定的火，碳储存量有所下降。我们重点介绍本专题的主要发现，并总结我们在共同制作科学的经验中面临的主要挑战和一些经验教训。简而言之，科学管理伙伴关系需要合作、耐心和技能，但它们可以有效提高土地管理者在快速变化和不确定性增加的环境中驾驭的能力。

与景观保持同步：促进动态社会生态系统的复原力一文首次出现在《生态与社会》上。