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Spatially extensive reconstructions show variable-severity fire and heterogeneous structure in historical western United States dry forests
Year: 2012
Aim Wildfire is often considered more severe now than historically in dry forestsof the western United States. Tree-ring reconstructions, which suggest that historicaldry forests were park-like with large, old trees maintained by low-severity fires,are from small, scattered studies. To overcome this limitation, we developed spatiallycomprehensive reconstructions across 927,000 ha in four landscapes, using anew method based on land surveys from c. 1880.Location Dry forests of the western United States.Methods We reconstructed forest structure for four large dry-forest landscapesusing forest…
fire regimes, GLO surveys, historical forest structure, ponderosa pine, spatial heterogeneity, western United States
Publication Type: Journal Article