Fire activity and severity in the western US vary along proxy gradients representing fuel amount and fuel moisture.

Numerous theoretical and empirical studies have shown that wildfire activity (e.g., area burned) at regional to global scales may be limited at the extremes of environmental gradients such as productivity or moisture. Fire activity, however, represents only one component of the fire regime, and no s...

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Main Authors: Sean A Parks, Marc-André Parisien, Carol Miller, Solomon Z Dobrowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4062429?pdf=render