Topographic and fire weather controls of fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America
Abstract Fire refugia, sometimes referred to as fire islands, shadows, skips, residuals, or fire remnants, are an important element of the burn mosaic, but we lack a quantitative framework that links observations of fire refugia from different environmental contexts. Here, we develop and test a conc...
Main Authors: | Meg A. Krawchuk, Sandra L. Haire, Jonathan Coop, Marc‐André Parisien, Ellen Whitman, Geneva Chong, Carol Miller |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2016-12-01
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Series: | Ecosphere |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1632 |
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