Fire Ecology

Table 2 Characteristics of 11 burned sites sampled in the greater Sierra Nevada region of California, USA, during the summers of 2015 and 2016, including the date on which each wildfire ignited (Ignition date)

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

				Survey
Burned site (fire name)	National forest	Area^a (ha)	Ignition date	Year	Transects (n)	Elevation (m)
Wheeler	Plumas	9 484	5 Jul 2007	2015	12	1588–1726
Moonlight	Plumas	26 509	3 Sep 2007	2015	12	1565–2016
Sugarloaf	Lassen	3 897	1 Aug 2009	2015	11	1225–1590
Reading^b	Lassen	11 478	23 Jul 2012	2015	12	1659–2003
Reading^b	Lassen	11 478	23 Jul 2012	2016	12	1669–2162
Chips	Plumas and Lassen	31 210	28 Jul 2012	2016	12	1221–1834
Rim	Stanislaus	104 460	17 Aug 2013	2015	12	1160–2073
Bald	Lassen	16 258	30 Jul 2014	2016	12	1269–1599
Eiler	Lassen	13 624	31 Jul 2014	2015	10	1154–1715
King	Eldorado	39 843	13 Sep 2014	2015	12	1362–2206
Washington	Humboldt-Toiyabe	7 444	19 Jul 2015	2016	6	1866–2050
Frog	Modoc	2 036	30 Jul 2015	2016	6	1340–1358

^aTotal area within fire boundary (Additional file 1, g), regardless of jurisdiction
^bn = 24 separate transects sampled during 2015 and 2016

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