Mixed-Conifer Forest
Negligible Influence of Spatial Autocorrelation in the Assessment of Fire Effects in a Mixed Conifer Forest
... We conducted the study in an old growth mixed conifer forest within the Giant Forest region of Sequoia National Park, California, USA. The sites have never been logged. Fre- quent fires ...
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Restoring Northern Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest Composition and Structure with Prescribed Fires of Varying Intensities
... old-growth mixed conifer forests contained regeneration patches, were local high fire intensities created gaps, and stimulated tree recruitment (Stephenson et ...natural mixed conifer ...
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Large-tree removal in a mixed-conifer forest halves productivity and increases white fir
... a mixed-conifer forest type (Barbour et ...the mixed-conifer forest in the Sierra Nevada, the study area was clear-fell harvested for timber extrac- tion in the early 1900s, and ...
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Fuel dynamics and reburn severity following high-severity fire in a Sierra Nevada, USA, mixed-conifer forest
... of conifer forest (68%), conifer–hardwood forest (14%), shrubland (7%), hardwood forest (5%), and herb- aceous vegetation (4%; 1997 to 1999 USFS Region 5 existing vegetation type, ...
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Fire decreases arthropod abundance but increases diversity: Early and late season prescribed fire effects in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
... old-growth mixed-conifer forest on west to northwest facing aspects adjacent to the Giant Forest sequoia grove in Sequoia National Park (California, USA), at elevations ranging from 1900 to ...
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Fuel dynamics after reintroduced fire in an old-growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
... The pre-fire fuel loadings in our study site, which had not been burned since 1900 (Barth et al. 2015) and had not been previously logged, were similar to those of Lydersen et al. (2015), who characterized fuel loadings ...
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Fire History of a Lower Elevation Jeffrey Pine-Mixed Conifer Forest in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
... For thousands of years, fire has shaped coniferous forests of the western United States. In more recent time, land use practices have altered the role fire plays in the Sierra Nevada. By understanding the past, land ...
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A Case Study Comparison of LANDFIRE Fuel Loading and Emissions Generation on a Mixed Conifer Forest in Northern Idaho, USA
... The use of fire as a land management tool is well recognized for its ecolog- ical benefits in many natural systems. To continue to use fire while comply- ing with air quality regulations, land managers are often tasked ...
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Black Carbon on Coarse Woody Debris in Once- and Twice-Burned Mixed-Conifer Forest
... Short-interval, high-severity wildfire re- burn patches contribute to forest landscape structural (Stevens-Rumann and Morgan 2016) and compositional (Coop et al. 2016) diversity. While short-interval reburns are ...
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Forest Densification Over 85 Years in a Sierra Nevada Mixed-Conifer Forest Decreases Conifer Regeneration and Limits Survival
... determines conifer regeneration success, which is driven by species-specific responses to establishment ...for conifer seedlings in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests means that these species ...
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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)
... sequoia-mixed conifer forests, surface fuel accumulation may have slowed in untreated ...these mixed conifer forest types, the analysis indicates no significant difference between ...
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Forest structure and regeneration responses 15 years after wildfire in a ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer ecotone, Arizona, USA
... increase forest resiliency to subsequent disturbance and environmental stressors compared with dense stand con- ditions widely reported where frequent-fire regimes have been disrupted (Agee and Skinner 2005, Waltz ...
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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
... the mixed conifer type, which are comprised of six species: pon- derosa pine, Jeffery pine, incense cedar (Calo- cedrus decurrens ...the mixed conifer forest belt are dominated by a ...
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How does forest recovery following moderate-severity fire influence effects of subsequent wildfire in mixed-conifer forests?
... Our findings have a few important limitations worth noting. First, the fact that we only examined field plots that initially burned at moderate severity limits the infer- ence that can be drawn. As we stated previously, ...
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Effects of fuel treatments on California mixed-conifer forests
... USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research ...from forest thinning in fire-adapted forests of the west- ern United ...States. Forest Ecol Manag ...by forest type, Sierra Nevada and ...
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A study of aspects of the nutrient cycle in a New South Wales conifer forest
... Australia tends to be exploitive. Inimical effects on several properties of forest soils that evolved under indigenous broadleaf vegetation have been recorded and may prove significant over the course of a number ...
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Monitoring dynamics of land use/ land cover changes of the river Yamuna in upper stretch using multi temporal satellite data
... %). Forest area(including all tree cover) covered about ...of forest cover (540 ha) in all the forest types i.e. dense mixed forest, fairly dense mixed forest and open ...
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New Silvicultural Treatments for Conifer Peri Urban Forests Having Broadleaves in the Understory The First Application in the Peri Urban of Xanthi in Northeastern Greece
... planted conifer trees became older, exhibiting larger dimensions, and the density of broadleaf trees increased as a result of a continuous establishment, the competition among trees ...peri-urban forest can ...
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Basidiomycetes of Temska village area (Eastern Serbia, Mt Stara Planina)
... the forest Mycorrhizal Russula aeruginea ...broadleaf forest Mycorrhizal Russula chloroides (Krombholz) Bresadola Broadleaf forest Mycorrhizal Russula cyanoxantha ...Broadleaf forest ...
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conifer and broadleaf deciduous forest tree species to regulated water deficit in a
... of Abies alba and Pinus sylvestris leaves in seedlings grown under different levels of irrigation. 979[r] ...
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