Recurring wildfires provoke type conversion in dry western forests
Abstract Recent wildfires across western North America have burned with uncharacteristically high severity, representing a substantial departure from natural fire regimes. In mixed‐conifer and pine–oak ecosystems of the southern Cascade Range, widespread shifts in stand structure and composition hav...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022-08-01
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Series: | Ecosphere |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4184 |