Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western U.S. coniferous forests

A ‘resilient’ forest endures disturbance and is likely to persist. Resilience to wildfire may arise from feedback between fire behaviour and forest structure in dry forest systems. Frequent fire creates fine‐scale variability in forest structure, which may then interrupt fuel continuity and prevent...

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Published in:	Ecology letters Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 483 - 494
Main Authors:	Koontz, Michael J., North, Malcolm P., Werner, Chhaya M., Fick, Stephen E., Latimer, Andrew M., Swenson, Nathan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2020
Subjects:	California Coniferous forests disturbance Dry forests Ecosystem fire behavior Fire prevention fire severity fire suppression Fires forest Forest ecosystems Forest management forest structure Forests homogenization mountains overstory Resilience severity Sierra Nevada Terrestrial ecosystems texture analysis Tracheophyta tree mortality Trees wildfire Wildfires California Western states forest structure severity disturbance forest wildfire Sierra Nevada resilience texture analysis
ISSN:	1461-023X, 1461-0248, 1461-0248
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