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Creator:: Hessburg, Paul F., Spies, Thomas A., Perry, David A., Skinner, Carl N., Taylor, Alan H., Brown, Peter M., Stephens, Scott L., Larson, Andrew J., Churchill, Derek J., Povak, Nicholas A., Singleton, Peter H., McComb, Brenda, Zielinski, William J., Collins, Brandon M., Salter, R. Brion, Keane, John J., Franklin, Jerry F., and Riegel, Greg
Abstract:: Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate- or mixed-severity fire regimes are to restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and future stressors. Maintaining native species and characteristic processes requires this successional diversity, but methods to achieve it are poorly explained in the literature. In the Inland...
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Creator:: Stephenson, Nathan L., van Mantgem, Phillip J., Bunn, Andrew G., Bruner, Howard, Harmon, Mark E., O'Connell, Kari B., Urban, Dean L., and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: At global and regional scales, tree mortality rates are positively correlated with forest net primary productivity (NPP). Yet causes of the correlation are unknown, in spite of potentially profound implications for our understanding of environmental controls of forest structure and dynamics and, more generally, our understanding of broad-scale environmental controls...
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Creator:: Oakley, Brian B., North, Malcolm P., and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: In Sierra Nevada forests, shrubs are considered strong soil moisture competitors with regenerating trees, reducing seedling establishment, and slowing growth. Recent studies, however, suggest that in some circumstances shrubs can facilitate tree establishment and growth by modifying harsh microclimate conditions; increasing acquisition of water, carbon, and/or nutrients via shared mycorrhizal...
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Creator:: Oakley, Brian B., North, Malcolm P., and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: Nitrogen is a limiting resource in many temperate forests and nitrogen-fixing plants are usually limited to the early stages of post-disturbance succession. In fire-dependent Sierra Nevada forests, however, Ceanothus cordulatus is relatively abundant even in old-growth forest conditions which are at least partly maintained by fire.We conducted a field experiment...
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Creator:: Noss, Reed F., Franklin, Jerry F., Baker, William L., Schoennagel, Tania, and Moyle, Peter B.
Abstract:: The management of fire-prone forests is one of the most controversial natural resource issues in the US today, particularly in the west of the country. Although vegetation and wildlife in these forests are adapted to fire, the historical range of fire frequency and severity was huge. When fire regimes are...
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Creator:: Dellasala, Dominick A., Williams, Jack E., Deacon Williams, Cindy, and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis, including widespread logging, road building, fire suppression, habitat...
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Creator:: Oakley, Brian, North, Malcolm, Franklin, Jerry F., Hedlund, Brian P., and Staley, James T.
Abstract:: Frankia strains symbiotic with Ceanothus present an interesting opportunity to study the patterns and causes of Frankia diversity and distribution within a particular host infectivity group. We intensively sampled Frankia from nodules on Ceanothus plants along an elevational gradient in the southern Sierra Nevada of California, and we also collected...
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Creator:: Oakley, Brian B., North, Malcolm P., and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: In Sierra Nevada forests, shrubs are considered strong soil moisture competitors with regenerating trees, reducing seedling establishment, and slowing growth. Recent studies, however, suggest that in some circumstances shrubs can facilitate tree establishment and growth by modifying harsh microclimate conditions; increasing acquisition of water, carbon, and/or nutrients via shared mycorrhizal...
Resource Type:: Article

Creator:: Oakley, Brian B., North, Malcolm P., and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: Nitrogen is a limiting resource in many temperate forests and nitrogen-fixing plants are usually limited to the early stages of post-disturbance succession. In fire-dependent Sierra Nevada forests, however, Ceanothus cordulatus is relatively abundant even in old-growth forest conditions which are at least partly maintained by fire. We conducted a field...
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