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Fig. 12

From: Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?

Fig. 12

FCCS predicted flame length (top) and rate of spread (bottom) for three hypothetical scenarios, initialized using FCCS standard fuel bed 56 (sagebrush shrubland − exotic species), under two wind speeds (solid line/primary y-axis = average wind speed, dashed line/secondary y-axis = high wind speed). Hypothetical scenarios were (1) a shrub reduction (orange line), (2) a shrub reduction with a simultaneous increase in wood litter coverage (gray line), and (3) a shrub reduction with a simultaneous increase in standing herbaceous cover and loading (blue line). X-axes are color coded to match their corresponding scenarios. Herb fuel height in these scenarios was ~ 0.3 m

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