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IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND WILDFIRE ON WESTERN LARCH REGENERATION

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Spencer T. Vieira, 2023, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND WILDFIRE ON WESTERN LARCH REGENERATION: Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers.

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Fire plays a critical role in forests of the western United States (US), but as wildfire and climate deviate from historical patterns, increasing fire activity may significantly alter forest ecosystems. To understand the impacts of changing climate and wildfire activity on conifer forests, we studied the impact of wildfire and annual post-fire climate on western larch (Larix occidentalis) regeneration. We destructively sampled 1651 seedlings from 57 sites within 32 fires that burned at moderate or high severity from 2000-2015 in the northwestern US. Using dendrochronological methods, we estimated germination years of seedlings to calculate annual recruitment rates. We used boosted regression trees to.03 model the annual probability [...]

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Spencer T. Vieira
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North Central CASC

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • North Central CASC

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