Fire regimes of the conterminous United States

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Fire regime information on 256 vegetation communities in the conterminous United States. This information is taken from the US Forest Service's LANDFIRE Rapid Assessment Vegetation Models, which were developed by local experts using available literature, local data, and/or expert opinion. This table summarizes fire regime characteristics for each plant community listed. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Jager, H.I., J.W. Long, R. Malison, B.P. Murphy, A. Rust, L.G.M. Silva, R. Sollmann, Z.L. Steel, M.D. Bowen, J. Dunham, J. Ebersole, and R. Flitcroft. Resilience of Terrestrial and Aquatic Fauna to Historical and Future Wildfire Regimes in Western North American Forests. Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 11(18): 12259-12284, (2021).

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bureauCode	[ "020:00" ]
identifier	https://doi.org/10.23719/1519025
programCode	[ "020:000" ]
references	[ "https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8026", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462151" ]
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