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Table 2 Fire regime characteristics that are significant to plant and animal survival and recovery.

From: Faunal Responses to Fire in Chaparral and Sage Scrub in California, USA

Fire regime parameter

Plants

Animals

Endogenous diapause

Shelter in refugia

Flee and recolonize

Frequency

X

   

Size or patchiness

  

X

X

Rate of spread

  

X

X

Intensity

 

X

X

 

Season

X

X

X

X