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Figure 3 | Fire Ecology

Figure 3

From: Modeling Climate-Fire Connections within the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States

Figure 3

(A) Area burned per year by each cluster. Drought severity (SCPDSI) is overlaid to show how area burned is associated with fluctuations in drought severity. Fires preceded by anomalously dry conditions (red bars) remain relatively constant, while fires preceded by anomalously wet conditions (blue bars) appear during and after periods of anomalously high SCPDSI (low drought severity). (B) Comparison of fire sizes between clusters. Blue lines are associated with clusters characterized by antecedent wet conditions, while red lines are associated with antecedent dry clusters. Fire size is calculated as the log10 of the fire size in hectares. Fires that were preceded by wet conditions tended to be larger than those preceded by dry conditions.

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