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Remote Sensing Analysis of Vegetation Recovery following Short-Interval Fires in Southern California Shrublands

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  • Ran Meng
  • Philip E Dennison
  • Carla M D’Antonio
  • Max A Moritz

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Increased fire frequency has been shown to promote alien plant invasions in the western United States, resulting in persistent vegetation type change. Short interval fires are widely considered to be detrimental to reestablishment of shrub species in southern California chaparral, facilitating the invasion of exotic annuals and producing “type conversion”. However, supporting evidence for type conversion has largely been at local, site scales and over short post-fire time scales. Type conversion has not been shown to be persistent or widespread in chaparral, and past range improvement studies present evidence that chaparral type conversion may be difficult and a relatively rare phenomenon across the landscape. With the aid of remote sensing data covering coastal southern California and a historical wildfire dataset, the effects of short interval fires (

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  • Ran Meng & Philip E Dennison & Carla M D’Antonio & Max A Moritz, 2014. "Remote Sensing Analysis of Vegetation Recovery following Short-Interval Fires in Southern California Shrublands," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(10), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0110637
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110637
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