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The Interaction of Fire Refugia and Climate Refugia: A Case Study within California’s Diablo Mountain Range

Creator:

Turk, Douglas E.

Abstract:

As climate change contributes to larger and more severe wildfires in California, areas of fire refugia – considered unburned and low-severity burn patches – are playing an increasingly important role in sustaining ecosystem resilience, maintaining biodiversity, and supporting post-disturbance recovery. At the same time, climate refugia – which are areas...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

(Fu and Rich 2003; Krawchuk et al. 2016). More broadly, landscape heterogeneity, or ‘rugosity’, can