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Yocom, Fulé, Bunn, Gdula
Two ends of the fire regime spectrum are a frequent low-intensity fire regime and an infrequent high-intensity fire regime, but intermediate fire regimes combine high- and low-severity fire over space and time. We used fire-scar and tree-age data to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Kolden, Abatzoglou, Lutz, Cansler, Kane, van Wagtendonk, Key
It is hypothesized that climate impacts forest mosaics through dynamic ecological processes such as wildfires. However, climate-fire research has primarily focused on understanding drivers of fire frequency and area burned, largely due to scale…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Koprowski, Merrick
Intensified forest disturbance from frequent and often severe wildfires has driven increased proactive fuel management in the form of thinning and prescribed fire in an effort to reduce fuels, maintain ecosystem functioning, and protect wildlife…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Abella
Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) clones have several different growth forms in southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests, and these growth forms each provide unique wildlife habitat and resource values. The purposes of this note are to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Baker
Dry forests at low elevations in temperate-zone mountains are commonly hypothesized to be at risk of exceptional rates of severe fire from climatic change and land-use effects. Their setting is fire-prone, they have been altered by land-uses, and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Guiterman, Margolis, Swetnam
Recent high-severity fires in pine-oak forests of the southwestern United States are creating shrubfields that may persist for decades to centuries. Shrubfields embedded in conifer forests that pre-date documentary records are potential evidence of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document