2016 Research Brief
Description
The King Fire burned through an area used for a long-term (23 years) demography study of spotted owls in the central Sierra Nevada, allowing the authors to compare the number and distribution of owls both before and one year after the fire.
Contact
For more information, contact: kmerriam@fs.fed.us
Additional Information
Jones, G. M., Gutiérrez, R. J., Tempel, D. J., Whitmore, S. A., Berigan, W. J., & Peery, M. Z. 2016. Megafires: an emerging threat to old‐forest species. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14(6): 300-306. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1298