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Spatial heterogeneity of soil CO2 efflux after harvest and prescribed fire in a California mixed conifer forest by Dore, Sabina, Fry, Danny L., Stephens, Scott L.

“…•We assessed the effects of forest management on spatial variability of soil CO2 efflux.•We compared a control, a harvested and a burned stand in a mixed…”
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Contrasting spatial patterns in active-fire and fire-suppressed Mediterranean climate old-growth mixed conifer forests by Fry, Danny L, Stephens, Scott L, Collins, Brandon M, North, Malcolm P, Franco-Vizcaíno, Ernesto, Gill, Samantha J

“…In Mediterranean environments in western North America, historic fire regimes in frequent-fire conifer forests are highly variable both temporally and…”
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Management Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest by Dore, Sabina, Fry, Danny L, Collins, Brandon M, Vargas, Rodrigo, York, Robert A, Stephens, Scott L

“…Forest ecosystems can act as sinks of carbon and thus mitigate anthropogenic carbon emissions. When forests are actively managed, treatments can alter forests…”
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Wildfire and Spatial Patterns in Forests in Northwestern Mexico: The United States Wishes It Had Similar Fire Problems by Stephens, Scott L., Fry, Danny L., Franco-Vizcaíno, Ernesto

“…Knowledge of the ecological effect of wildfire is important to resource managers, especially from forests in which past anthropogenic influences, e.g., fire…”
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Prescribed Fire Effects on Population Dynamics of an Annual Grassland by Berleman, Sasha A., Suding, Katharine N., Fry, Danny L., Bartolome, James W., Stephens, Scott L.

“…Medusahead (Elymus caput-medusae [L.] Nevski) is a highly damaging invasive annual grass in California rangelands. While it has been shown that prescribed fire…”
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Impacts of different land management histories on forest change by Collins, Brandon M., Fry, Danny L., Lydersen, Jamie M., Everett, Richard, Stephens, Scott L.

“…Many western North American forest types have experienced considerable changes in ecosystem structure, composition, and function as a result of both fire…”
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Variability in vegetation and surface fuels across mixed-conifer-dominated landscapes with over 40 years of natural fire by Collins, Brandon M., Lydersen, Jamie M., Fry, Danny L., Wilkin, Katherine, Moody, Tadashi, Stephens, Scott L.

“…•Restored contemporary fire regimes produce highly heterogeneous forest conditions.•Forest structure and composition were related to moisture availability and…”
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Novel characterization of landscape-level variability in historical vegetation structure by Collins, Brandon M, Lydersen, Jamie M, Everett, Richard G, Fry, Danny L, Stephens, Scott L

“…We analyzed historical timber inventory data collected systematically across a large mixed-conifer-dominated landscape to gain insight into the interaction…”
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Historical and current landscape-scale ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest structure in the Southern Sierra Nevada by Stephens, Scott L, Lydersen, Jamie M, Collins, Brandon M, Fry, Danny L, Meyer, Marc D

“…Many managers today are tasked with restoring forests to mitigate the potential for uncharacteristically severe fire. One challenge to this mandate is the lack…”
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Forest fuel treatment detection using multi-temporal airborne lidar data and high-resolution aerial imagery: a case study in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California by Su, Yanjun, Guo, Qinghua, Collins, Brandon M., Fry, Danny L., Hu, Tianyu, Kelly, Maggi

“…Treatments to reduce forest fuels are often performed in forests to enhance forest health, regulate stand density, and reduce the risk of wildfires. Although…”
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Climate and fire impacts on tree recruitment in mixed conifer forests in northwestern Mexico and California by Stephens, Scott L., Steel, Zachary L., Collins, Brandon M., Fry, Danny L., Gill, Samantha J., Rivera‐Huerta, Hiram, Skinner, Carl N.

“…Frequent‐fire forests were once heterogeneous at multiple spatial scales, which contributed to their resilience to severe fire. While many studies have…”
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Spatial, temporal and latitudinal components of historical fire regimes in mixed conifer forests, California by Krasnow, Kevin D., Fry, Danny L., Stephens, Scott L.

“…Aim: This study seeks to document and compare historical temporal and spatial components of fire regimes in two watersheds in mixed conifer forests of the…”
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Fire history and management of Pinuscanariensis forests on the western Canary Islands Archipelago, Spain by Molina-Terrén, Domingo M., Fry, Danny L., Grillo, Federico F., Cardil, Adrián, Stephens, Scott L.

“…•Fire was very frequent early in the tree-ring record (2.5–4years between fires).•After 1960, the fire regime changed to a lower frequency.•After 1960,…”
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Beyond reducing fire hazard: fuel treatment impacts on overstory tree survival by Collins, Brandon M, Das, Adrian J, Battles, John J, Fry, Danny L, Krasnow, Kevin D, Stephens, Scott L

“…Fuel treatment implementation in dry forest types throughout the western United States is likely to increase in pace and scale in response to increasing…”
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Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity by Wilkin, Kate, Ponisio, Lauren, Fry, Danny L., Collins, Brandon M., Moody, Tadashi, Stephens, Scott L.

“…Background Fire suppression in western North America increased and homogenized overstory cover in conifer forests, which likely affected understory plant…”
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Relating Fire-Caused Change in Forest Structure to Remotely Sensed Estimates of Fire Severity by Lydersen, Jamie M., Collins, Brandon M., Miller, Jay D., Fry, Danny L., Stephens, Scott L.

“…Fire severity maps are an important tool for understanding fire effects on a landscape. The relative differenced normalized burn ratio (RdNBR) is a commonly…”
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Impact of Error in Lidar-Derived Canopy Height and Canopy Base Height on Modeled Wildfire Behavior in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA by Kelly, Maggi, Su, Yanjun, Di Tommaso, Stefania, Fry, Danny, Collins, Brandon, Stephens, Scott, Guo, Qinghua

“…Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to create wall-to-wall forest structure and fuel products that are required for wildfire behavior…”
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Landscape‐scale fuel treatment and wildfire impacts on carbon stocks and fire hazard in California spotted owl habitat by Chiono, Lindsay A., Fry, Danny L., Collins, Brandon M., Chatfield, Andrea H., Stephens, Scott L.

“…Forest managers are challenged with meeting numerous demands that often include wildlife habitat and carbon (C) sequestration. We used a probabilistic…”
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Evaluating short- and long-term impacts of fuels treatments and simulated wildfire on an old-forest species by Tempel, Douglas J, Gutiérrez, R. J, Battles, John J, Fry, Danny L, Su, Yanjun, Guo, Qinghua, Reetz, Matthew J, Whitmore, Sheila A, Jones, Gavin M, Collins, Brandon M, Stephens, Scott L, Kelly, Maggi, Berigan, William J, Peery, M. Zachariah

“…Fuels-reduction treatments are commonly implemented in the western U.S. to reduce the risk of high-severity fire, but they may have negative short-term impacts…”
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Surface fuel accumulation and decomposition in old-growth pine-mixed conifer forests, northwestern Mexico by Fry, Danny L., Stevens, Jens T., Potter, Andrew T., Collins, Brandon M., Stephens, Scott L.

“…Background Stand-level forest structure varies spatially and surface fuels would be expected to vary as well. We measured surface fuel deposition and…”
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