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Fire Drives Transcontinental Variation in Tree Birch Defense against Browsing by Snowshoe Hares
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Cleland, D. T., Clausen, T. P., Hawkins, C. D. B., Picone, P. M., Moore, J. E., Bryant, J. P., Stevens, M. T., Kirilenko, A. P., Malone, T., Swihart, R. K., Landhausser, S. M., Cebrian, M., Veitch, A. M., Paragi, T. F., Jakubas, W. J., Packee, E. C., Carriere, S., Bodony, K. L., Williams, J. H., Popko, R. A., Carlson, M. R.
Abstract: Fire has been the dominant disturbance in boreal America since the Pleistocene, resulting in a spatial mosaic in which the most fire occurs in the continental northwest. Spatial variation in snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus) density reflects the fire mosaic. Because fire initiates...