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Fire Regimes in the Mojave Desert (1972-2010) This U.S. Geological Survey data release consists of 3 raster datasets representing estimates of probability of ignition (ProbIgnitPredict.tif), fire frequency (FrequencyPredictRF.tif), and burn severity (dNBRPredictRF.tif) in the Mojave Desert from 1984 to 2010. The data include: (1) A shapefile of the Mojave Desert that was used as our study area boundary (MojaveEcoregion_TNS_UTM83.shp). The original shapefile was obtained from NatureServe in 2009; (2) Three Tagged-Interchange Format (TIF) raster datasets representing probability of ignition, fire frequency, and burn severity. Resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. These data support the following publication: Klinger, R., Underwood, E.C.,... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ecology, Environmental Health, Mojave Desert, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, burn severity, co-occurence invasives, desert ecosystems, ecosystems, environmental gradients, field methods, fire disturbance, fire frequency, fires, geographic gradients, geographic information systems, grass-fire cycle, habitat alteration, ignition, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive plant species, invasive species, machine learning, maximum entropy, plants (organisms), random forests, remote sensing, spatial dynamics, vegetation, Fewer tags Cover of Woody and Herbaceous Functional Groups in Burned and Unburned Plots, Mojave Desert, 2009-2013 Arid ecosystems are often vulnerable to transformation to invasive-dominated states following fire, but data on persistence of these states are sparse. The grass/fire cycle is a feedback process between invasive annual grasses and fire frequency that often leads to the formation of alternative vegetation states dominated by the invasive grasses. However, other components of fire regimes, such as burn severity, also have the potential to produce long-term vegetation transformations. Our goal was to evaluate the influence of both fire frequency and burn severity on the transformation of woody-dominated communities to communities dominated by invasive grasses in major elevation zones of the Mojave Desert of western... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Mojave desert, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biological invasions, chronosequence, community structure, All tags... deserts, disturbance, ecological processes, ecosystems, fire regimes, fires, habitat alteration, invasive species, plants, resilience, resistance, secondary succession, Fewer tags