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Fire, climate and changing forests

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Vegetation-type conversions driven by fire and climate change in the western United States forests are altering landscapes.

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Field Station, Three Rivers, CA, USA

    Jon E. Keeley

  2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jon E. Keeley

  3. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Redwoods Field Station, Arcata, CA, USA

    Philip van Mantgem

  4. School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Donald A. Falk

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Keeley, J.E., van Mantgem, P. & Falk, D.A. Fire, climate and changing forests. Nat. Plants 5, 774–775 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0485-x

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