TRANSITION FROM FIRE-DEPENDENT OPEN FORESTS: ALTERNATIVE ECOSYSTEM STATES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

Land use and fire exclusion have influenced ecosystems worldwide, resulting in alternative ecosystem states.Here, I provide two examples from the southeastern United States of fire-dependent open pine and pine-oak forest loss and examine dynamics of the replacement forests, given continued long-term declines in foundation longleaf (Pinus deroyal fi

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