Add to ORKGAbstract. Structural heterogeneity in forests of the Sierra Nevada was historically produced through variation in fire regimes and local environmental factors. The amount of heterogeneity that prescription burning can achieve might now be more limited owing to high fuel loads and increased fuel continuity. Topography, woody fuel loading, and vegetative composition were quantified in plots within replicated early and late season burn units. Two indices of fire severity were evaluated in the same plots after the burns. Scorch height ranged from 2.8 to 25.4 m in early season plots and 3.1 to 38.5 m in late season plots, whereas percentage of ground surface burned ranged from 24 to 96 % in early season plots and from 47 to 100 % in late season ...
In ecosystems with frequent surface fire regimes, fire and fuel heterogeneity has been largely overl...
Fire-scar-based studies have provided robust reconstructions of past fire regimes. The season in whi...
A significant expansion of prescribed fire activity will be necessary to mitigate growing wildfire h...
Management efforts to promote forest resiliency as climate changes have often used historical forest...
Of the many historical fire regime studies conducted throughout the Sierra Nevada only a few have be...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143)Fire is a key natural process that shapes the str...
The extent and severity of fires in the United States during the last decade has been remarkable. Si...
We quantified fire behavior, fuel consumption, and forest-floor responses to understory fires prescr...
The 1988 fires that burned in Yellowstone National Park presented ecologists with a unique opportuni...
Wildfire can create a mosaic of impacts of varying severity across the landscape. Although widely re...
Under a rapidly warming climate, a critical management issue in semiarid forests of western North Am...
Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of fire regimes is critically important for sustainable ...
For some time, ecologists have known that spatial patterns of forest structure reflected disturbance...
The 1988 fires that burned in Yellowstone National Park presented ecologists with a unique opportuni...
Prior to historical logging and fire suppression, forests of the Sierra Nevada were extremely hetero...
In ecosystems with frequent surface fire regimes, fire and fuel heterogeneity has been largely overl...
Fire-scar-based studies have provided robust reconstructions of past fire regimes. The season in whi...
A significant expansion of prescribed fire activity will be necessary to mitigate growing wildfire h...
Management efforts to promote forest resiliency as climate changes have often used historical forest...
Of the many historical fire regime studies conducted throughout the Sierra Nevada only a few have be...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143)Fire is a key natural process that shapes the str...
The extent and severity of fires in the United States during the last decade has been remarkable. Si...
We quantified fire behavior, fuel consumption, and forest-floor responses to understory fires prescr...
The 1988 fires that burned in Yellowstone National Park presented ecologists with a unique opportuni...
Wildfire can create a mosaic of impacts of varying severity across the landscape. Although widely re...
Under a rapidly warming climate, a critical management issue in semiarid forests of western North Am...
Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of fire regimes is critically important for sustainable ...
For some time, ecologists have known that spatial patterns of forest structure reflected disturbance...
The 1988 fires that burned in Yellowstone National Park presented ecologists with a unique opportuni...
Prior to historical logging and fire suppression, forests of the Sierra Nevada were extremely hetero...
In ecosystems with frequent surface fire regimes, fire and fuel heterogeneity has been largely overl...
Fire-scar-based studies have provided robust reconstructions of past fire regimes. The season in whi...
A significant expansion of prescribed fire activity will be necessary to mitigate growing wildfire h...