Tree recruitment over centuries: influences of climate and wildfire

This study uses tree cores gathered at three 4-hectare plots to make inferences about temporal aspects of tree recruitment in pine-dominated ecosystems of the California Sierra Nevada and the Sierra San Petro Martir in northwestern Mexico.

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Stephens, Scott L., Zachary L. Steel, Brandon M. Collins, Danny L. Fry, Samantha J. Gill, Hiram Rivera-Huerta, and Carl N. Skinner. 2023. “Climate and Fire Impacts on Tree Recruitment in Mixed Conifer Forests in Northwestern Mexico and California.” Ecological Applications: e2844. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2844.