Presettlement and modern disturbance regimes in coast redwood forests: implications for the conservation of old-growth stands

CG Lorimer, DJ Porter, MA Madej, JD Stuart… - Forest Ecology and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a western North American conifer of ancient
lineage, has a paradoxical combination of late-successional characteristics and strong …

Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands

SL Stephens, RE Martin, NE Clinton - Forest Ecology and Management, 2007 - Elsevier
In the majority of US political settings wildland fire is still discussed as a negative force.
Lacking from current wildfire discussions are estimates of the spatial extent of fire and their …

A summary of fire frequency estimates for California vegetation before Euro-American settlement

KM Van de Water, HD Safford - Fire Ecology, 2011 - Springer
California fire regimes have been altered from those that occurred prior to Euro-American
settlement, and are predicted to continue to change as global climates warm. Inclusion of fire …

Fire ecology and management in Pacific Northwest forests

MJ Reilly, JE Halofsky, MA Krawchuk… - Fire Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Fire has been an important catalyst of change in Pacific Northwest forests throughout the
Holocene. The role of fire varied across this biophysically diverse region prior to European …

Fire history in coast redwood stands in the northeastern Santa Cruz Mountains, California

SL Stephens, DL Fry - Fire Ecology, 2005 - Springer
Fire regimes in coast redwood forests in the northeastern Santa Cruz Mountains were
determined by ring counts from 48 coast redwood stumps, downed logs, and live trees …

Seed bank dynamics of French broom in coastal California grasslands: effects of stand age and prescribed burning on control and restoration

JM Alexander, CM D'Antonio - Restoration Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Successful control of invasive exotic plants depends to a large degree on the regeneration
potential of the target exotic species and other species that might also be influenced by the …

Millennium-scale crossdating and inter-annual climate sensitivities of standing California redwoods

AL Carroll, SC Sillett, RD Kramer - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Extremely decay-resistant wood and fire-resistant bark allow California's redwoods to
accumulate millennia of annual growth rings that can be useful in biological research …

Disturbance macroecology: a comparative study of community structure metrics in a high‐severity disturbance regime

EA Newman, MQ Wilber, KE Kopper, MA Moritz… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Macroecological studies have established widespread patterns of species diversity and
abundance in ecosystems but have generally restricted their scope to relatively steady‐state …

[PDF][PDF] Fire regimes, fire history and forest conditions in the Klamath-Siskiyou Region: an overview and synthesis of knowledge

EJ Frost, R Sweeney - World Wildlife Fund, Klamath-Siskiyou …, 2000 - academia.edu
For thousands of years, fire has been a major evolutionary force in the Klamath Mountains 1
of northwest California and southwest Oregon, influencing forest structure, species …