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Fig. 2 | Fire Ecology

Fig. 2

From: Patterns of woodboring beetle activity following fires and bark beetle outbreaks in montane forests of California, USA

Fig. 2

Study sites (a) previously burned by wildfire (n = 11) or attacked by bark beetles (n = 5) were sampled during the summers of 2015 and 2016 in national forests (NF) throughout California’s Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau, Warner Mountains, and California Cascades, USA. The Reading area included a burned site and an unburned bark beetle outbreak (BBO) site. A typical sampling design is shown for the Bald Fire site (b), in which 12 transects (of three plots each) were distributed in a stratified random design to sample two stands of larger trees and two stands of smaller trees within each of three levels of burn severity (Table 1). Darker gray shading indicates topographic relief (b), including lower (darker) and higher (lighter) elevations, while lighter gray shading indicates burn severity within the fire boundary (see legend)

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