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Survey Data for Chaparral Vegetation in Masticated Fuel Treatments on the Four Southern California National Forests (2011-2012)

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2003
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2011

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Brennan, T.J., and Keeley, J.E., 2021, Survey data for chaparral vegetation in masticated fuel treatments on the four southern California national forests (2011-2012): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F73776V9.

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Mechanical fuel treatments are a primary pre-fire strategy for potentially mitigating the threat of wildland fire, yet there is limited information on how they impact shrubland ecosystems. This publication contains data related to vegetation structure and composition in mechanically masticated chaparral communities used to assess the impact of these fuel treatments on shrubland vegetation and to determine the extent to which they emulate postfire succession. Data were collected from within chaparral dominated communities on the Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino national forests of southern California. The climate of the region is Mediterranean with mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers and the topography is rugged [...]

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The data were collected with the purpose of analyzing the response and recovery of chaparral vegetation to mastication fuel treatments.

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