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Remote Sensing Analysis of Vegetation Recovery following Short-Interval Fires in Southern California Shrublands

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Meng, Ran, Dennison, Philip E., D’Antonio, Carla M., Moritz, Max A.·2014·PLoS ONE

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Increased fire frequency has been shown to promote alien plant invasions in the western United States, resulting in persistent vegetation type change. Short interval fires are widely considered to be detrimental to reestablishment of shrub species in southern California chaparral, facilitating the invasion of exotic annuals and producing "type conversion". However, supporting evidence for type conversion has largely been at local, site scales and over short post-fire time scales. Type conversion has not been shown to be persistent or widespread in chaparral, and past range improvement studies present evidence that chaparral type conversion may be difficult and a relatively rare phenomenon across the landscape. With the aid of remote sensing data covering coastal southern California and a historical wildfire dataset, the effects of short interval fires (<8 years) on chaparral recovery were evaluated by comparing areas that burned twice to adjacent areas burned only once. Twelve pairs of once- and twice-burned areas were compared using normalized burn ratio (NBR) distributions. Correlations between measures of recovery and explanatory factors (fire history, climate and elevation) were analyzed by linear regression. Reduced vegetation cover was found in some lower elevation areas that were burned twice in short interval fires, where non-sprouting species are more common. However, extensive type conversion of chaparral to grassland was not evident in this study. Most variables, with the exception of elevation, were moderately or poorly correlated with differences in vegetation recovery.

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  1. [8]Jacobsen AL, Davis SD, Fabritius SL (2004) Fire frequency impacts non-sprouting chaparral shrubs in the Santa Monica Mountains of southern California. In: Arianoutsou M, Papanastasis VP, editors. Proceedings 10th MEDECOS Conference. Rotterdam: Millpress Press. pp. 1–5.
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Authors
Meng, R., Dennison, P. E., D’Antonio, C. M., & Moritz, M. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Utah (US)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Meng, Ran
Venue
PLoS ONE
Published
2014-10-22
Volume
9
Issue
10
Pages
e110637
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2088034319
Cited by
65
References
66
Citations by year
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2.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
California Energy Commission (500-10-045)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Keywords
chaparral, vegetation recovery, type conversion, fire frequency, alien plant invasion, Normalized Burn Ratio, fire history, altitude, climate, grassland conversion, Southern California
MeSH terms
California, Climate, Fires, Plants, Ecosystem, Remote Sensing Technology, Plant Dispersal, Plant Development

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