Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long‐term forest regeneration

Following a wildfire, regeneration to forest can take decades to centuries and is no longer assured in many western U.S. environments given escalating wildfire severity and warming trends. After large fire years, managers prioritize where to allocate scarce planting resources, often with limited inf...

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Published in:	Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) Vol. 11; no. 8
Main Authors:	Povak, Nicholas A., Churchill, Derek J., Cansler, C. Alina, Hessburg, Paul F., Kane, Van R., Kane, Jonathan T., Lutz, James A., Larson, Andrew J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.2020 Wiley
Subjects:	Climate change climatic tolerance cold Coniferous forests Dispersal Douglas fir dry forest fire severity Forest & brush fires forest regeneration forests Global warming Harvesting high severity Influence Larix occidentalis lodgepole pine managers Physiology Picea engelmannii Pine trees Pinus contorta var. latifolia Pinus ponderosa planting ponderosa pine Prescribed fire Pseudotsuga menziesii regeneration resilience salvage harvest salvage logging Salvage operations Seed dispersal stems timber production Trees Trends uncertainty Vegetation Washington (state) Water stress weather western larch wildfire Wildfires United States > US Washington (state)
ISSN:	2150-8925, 2150-8925
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