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Fire is known to structure tree populations, but the role of broad-scale climate variability is less clear. For example, the influence of climatic “teleconnections” (the relationship between oceanic–atmospheric fluctuations and anomalous weather patterns across broad scales) on forest age structure is relatively unexplored. We sampled semiarid piñon–juniper (Pinus edulis–Juniperus osteosperma) woodlands in western Colorado, USA, to test the hypothesis that woodland age structures are shaped by climate, including links to oceanic–atmospheric fluctuations, and by past fires and livestock grazing. Low-severity surface fire was lacking, as fire scars were absent, and did not influence woodland densities, but stand-replacing...
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Tags: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation,
Ecological Applications,
Ecological Society of America,
Juniperus osteosperma,
Pacific Decadal Oscillation, All tags...
Pinus edulis,
climate teleconnections,
disturbance dynamics,
ecological restoration,
piñon–juniper woodland,
regeneration, Fewer tags
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