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Fire Ecology

Table 1 Site information for four upper elevation fire history sites from the Mogollon Plateau and Madrean Sky Islands, USA.

From: Historical Stand-Replacing Fire in Upper Montane Forests of the Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau, Southwestern USA

Site ID

Site name

Vegetation typea

Sampled aspen area (ha)

Sampled spruce-fir area (ha)b

Number of plots

Mean sample elevation (m)

CHI

Chiricahua Mountains

MC/S

139

—

26

2856

GIL

Mogollon Mountains

MC/SF

744

1639

32

3060

PIN

Pinaleño Mountains

MC/SF

0*

521

33

3057

SFP

San Francisco Peaks

MC/SF

990

—

25

2954

  1. a MC = mixed conifer-aspen, SF = spruce-fir, S = spruce
  2. b Spruce-fir was only mapped and sampled at two test sites (GIL and PIN).
  3. * Distinctive seral aspen patches greater than 5 ha were not present.
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