Average Stand Age from Forest Inventory Plots Does Not Describe Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America

Quantifying historical fire regimes provides important information for managing contemporary forests. Historical fire frequency and severity can be estimated using several methods; each method has strengths and weaknesses and presents challenges for interpretation and verification. Recent efforts to...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Stevens, Jens T., Safford, Hugh D., North, Malcolm P., Fried, Jeremy S., Gray, Andrew N., Brown, Peter M., Dolanc, Christopher R., Dobrowski, Solomon Z., Falk, Donald A., Farris, Calvin A., Franklin, Jerry F., Fulé, Peter Z., Hagmann, R. Keala, Knapp, Eric E., Miller, Jay D., Smith, Douglas F., Swetnam, Thomas W., Taylor, Alan H.
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Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873010/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27196621
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147688
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