Historical, observed, and modeled wildfire severity in montane forests of the Colorado Front Range.

Large recent fires in the western U.S. have contributed to a perception that fire exclusion has caused an unprecedented occurrence of uncharacteristically severe fires, particularly in lower elevation dry pine forests. In the absence of long-term fire severity records, it is unknown how short-term t...

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Main Authors: Rosemary L Sherriff, Rutherford V Platt, Thomas T Veblen, Tania L Schoennagel, Meredith H Gartner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4175072?pdf=render