Our first Klamath paper is out and published in Global Change Biology! We found: - Postfire conifer recruitment was limited to a narrow window,
with 89% of recruitment in the first 4 years. - With increasing climatic water deficit, higher propagule pressure (i.e.,
smaller patch sizes for high-severity fire) was needed to support a given
conifer seedling density. - Under a more severe prospective warming scenario, more than half of the area currently capable of supporting montane
conifer forest could become subject to minimal conifer regeneration in even
moderate-sized (10s of ha) high-severity patches by the end of the century. Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains Alan J. Tepley, Jonathan R. Thompson, Howard E. Epstein, and Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13704/abstract |
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