Adrian J. Das

May 14, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Nathan L. Stephenson |Anthony C. Caprio |Adrian J. Das |Eva Lopez |Eva López

Many forests globally are experiencing increases in large, high-severity wildfires, often with increasingly inadequate post-fire tree regeneration. To identify areas that might need post-fire planting, forest managers have a growing need for seedling reference densities – the natural seedling densities expected to be adequate to regenerate a forest – to compare with observed post-fire seedling densities.