Conifer forests
The Ecological Role of Fire in Natural Conifer Forests of Western and Northern North America—Introduction
... In a comparable way the concept of vege- tational climax has been criticized and rejected by many ecologists, partly because of an inad- equate basis to project the successional devel- opment far into the indefinite ...
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Surface fuel accumulation and decomposition in old-growth pine-mixed conifer forests, northwestern Mexico
... some conifer forests of the SSPM are higher than expected due to this policy and the effi- ciency at which the fire suppression crews are extinguish- ing all fires (Dunbar-Irwin and Safford ...of ...
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Development of a Regional Lidar-Derived Forest Inventory Model with Bayesian Model Averaging for use in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed Conifer Forests in Arizona and New Mexico, USA
... Inventory Model with Bayesian Model Averaging for use in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed Conifer Forests in Arizona and New Mexico, USA1. Karis Tenneson 1 *, Matthew S.[r] ...
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Historical and modern landscape forest structure in fir (Abies)-dominated mixed conifer forests in the northern Sierra Nevada, USA
... The loss of the largest trees was also detected in pine-dominated mixed conifer forests in the central Sierra Nevada (Collins et al. 2017). These decreases were evident in areas managed by the US Forest ...
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Shrub Seed Banks in Mixed Conifer Forests of Northern California and the Role of Fire in Regulating Abundance
... Shrubs play an important ecological role in mixed conifer forests, and historical data (e.g., Hasel et al. 1934) suggest that they were, in many areas, once more abundant than they are today. Fire ...
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Long-term surface fuel accumulation in burned and unburned mixed-conifer forests of the Central and Southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA)
... mixed- conifer forests, dead and down surface fuels have reached high levels without the recurring fires that consume the accumulated organic ...pine forests, 83 percent in white fir-mixed ...
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Effects of fuel treatments on California mixed-conifer forests
... Chiono LA, O’Hara KL, De Lasaux MJ, et al. 2012. Devel- opment of vegetation and surface fuels following fire hazard reduction treatment. Forests 3:700–22. Collins BM, Moghaddas JJ, Stephens SL. 2007. Initial ...
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How does forest recovery following moderate-severity fire influence effects of subsequent wildfire in mixed-conifer forests?
... The field plots used in the analysis spanned portions of the Stanislaus National Forest (NF) and Yosemite National Park (NP) in the central Sierra Nevada, California, USA (Fig. 3). Plot elevations ranged from 1436 to ...
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Controls on Fire Regimes Along an Elevational Gradient on the East Slope of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA
... pine forests in the American southwest ...dominated forests in the American ...mixed conifer forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin were also associated with La Niña conditions (Beaty and Taylor ...
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Human and Climatic Influences on Fire Occurrence in California’s North Coast Range, USA
... mixed conifer forests of the North Coast Range, and because they are rhi- zomatous perennials with short, shallow root- stocks and are considered fire intolerant (Har- rod et ...
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The effects of riparian forest management on the freshwater environment: a literature review of best management practice
... within conifer forests can also be inadequate due to the lack of large woody debris dams; regular thinning and the felling of the crop before maturity limits the supply of such ...on conifer needles ...
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Historical Stand-Replacing Fire in Upper Montane Forests of the Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau, Southwestern USA
... Similar evidence of frequent low-severity fire (i.e., logs and living conifers with multiple scars) was present within and adjacent to the aspen stands on the south slope of SFP (Fig- ures 2 and 5). The lower borders of ...
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Beech and Conifer Community Interactions in Moawhango Ecological Region, North-Island, New Zealand
... plateau conifer forests of the Moawhango Ecological Region cannot be considered as just an expanded horizontal equivalent of the narrow treeline belt of montane conifer forest in western Ruahine ...
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Truffle Abundance in Recently Prescribed Burned and Unburned Forests in Yosemite National Park: Implications for Mycophagous Mammals
... in forests where the soils are relatively dry (Clarkson and Mills 1994, Meyer and North ...mixed-conifer forests of the southern Sierra Nevada, truffles were generally greater in unburned stands with ...
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Did the 2002 Hayman Fire, Colorado, USA, Burn with Uncharacteristic Severity?
... two to four centuries. This increased severity was likely the product of forest densification and homogenization across the landscape and the surrounding area after Euro-American set- tlement (Kaufmann et al. 2000, ...
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Restoring Northern Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest Composition and Structure with Prescribed Fires of Varying Intensities
... The restoration of mixed-conifer forests is complicated by fuel accumulation and profound changes in stand structure. Therefore, the question arises, whether natural stand structures can be restored with ...
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Does Prescribed Fire Promote Resistance to Drought in Low Elevation Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?
... mixed conifer forests at all Sierra Nevada Forest Dynamics plots, and all FMH plots at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national ...elevation forests, here defined as <2100 m ...pine forests in the ...
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Fire-Excluded Relict Forests in the Southeastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA
... mixed-conifer forests across the west- ern United States are transitioning into ecosys- tems dominated by white fir, Douglas-fir, and other species that are fire-intolerant when oc- curring at small sizes ...
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Efficacy of SPLAT® Verb for Protecting Individual Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, and Pinus lambertiana from Mortality Attributed to Dendroctonus ponderosae
... Mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), is a major disturbance agent in conifer forests of western North America, where it colonizes at least 15 native ...
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Rapid Increase in Log Populations in Drought Stressed Mixed Conifer and Ponderosa Pine Forests in Northern Arizona
... The greater increase in log parameters in mixed-conifer for- est is consistent with patterns of climate-mediated tree mortality documented in this area. Observed mortality from 1997 to 2007 was far greater in ...
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