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SPATIAL PATTERNS AND CONTROLS ON HISTORICAL FIRE REGIMES AND FOREST STRUCTURE IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS
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Fire exclusion in mixed conifer forests has increased the risk of fire due to decades of fuel accumulation. Restoration of fire into altered forests is a challenge because of a poor understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of fire regimes. In this study the spatial and temporal characteristics of fire regimes and forest age structure are reconstructed in a 2325-ha mixed conifer forest in the Klamath Mountains. Forests were multiaged and burned frequently at low and moderate severity, but forest age structure did not vary with aspect, elevation, or topographic position. Recently there has been an increase in forest density and a forest compositional shift to shade-tolerant species. Median fire return intervals (FRI) ranged from 11.5 to 16.5 yr and varied with aspect but not with forest composition or elevation. The median area burned was 106 ha, and the pre-Euro-American fire rotation of 19 yr increased to 238 yr after 1905. Intra-annual position of fire scars in the tree rings indicates that 93% of fires occurred during the dry midsummer through fall period. Spatial patterns of sites with similar fire dates were spatially coherent and separated from others by topographic features that influence fire spread. Thus, patterns of fire occurrence tended to be fixed in space with timing of fires varying among groups of sites. Spatial and temporal patterns of fire occurrence suggest that managers using physical features to contain prescribed fire will create burn patterns consistent with historical fires in the Klamath Mountains. Corresponding Editor: B. J. Bond
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“Some of this variability is due to differences in species composition, vegetation structure and climate within a region (Gartner, Veblen, Sherriff, & Schoennagel, 2012;Heyerdahl, Brubaker, & Agee, 2001;Taylor & Skinner, 2003).”
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“Historical FF forests were highly variable with a mixture of tree densities and size classes, but as a whole, were much more open than they are today (Taylor and Skinner 2003, Knapp et al. 2013, Collins et al. 2015, Stephens et al. 2015, Levine et al. 2017).”
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Drought, Tree Mortality, and Wildfire in Forests Adapted to Frequent Fire
Stephens, S. L., Collins, B. M., Fettig, C. J., Finney, M. A., Hoffman, C. M., Knapp, E. E., North, M. P., Safford, H., & Wayman, R. B. (2018) · BioScience · doi:10.1093/biosci/bix146 · Cited by 407
“Historical FF forests were highly variable with a mixture of tree densities and size classes, but as a whole, were much more open than they are today (Taylor and Skinner 2003, Knapp et al.”
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- Authors
- Taylor, A. H., & Skinner, C. N.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- US Forest Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- Taylor, Alan H.
- Venue
- Ecological Applications
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 704-719
- ISSN
- 1051-0761 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2110220659
- Cited by
- 377
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 13.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ecological Applications (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Forest Service
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Management and Policy
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Keywords
- fire regimes, fire return interval, fire scars, fire history, mixed conifer forest, fire suppression, forest age structure, prescribed burning, fire rotation, fire seasonality, forest restoration, Klamath Mountains, fuel accumulation
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