Kendall M. L. Becker

TL;DR: Because large-diameter trees constitute roughly half of the mature forest biomass worldwide, their dynamics and sensitivities to environmental change represent potentially large controls on global forest carbon cycling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of low to moderate-severity fire on the demography of seven prevalent tree species in lower and upper montane forests in Yosemite National Park and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks.

TL;DR: Changing changes in shrub area, biomass, and spatial pattern due to fire reintroduction by a backfire following a century of fire exclusion in lower montane forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA are identified.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a large number of forested plots (1646), detailed selection of species-specific and location-specific allometric equations, vegetation type maps with high levels of accuracy, and Monte Carlo simulation to model the amount and uncertainty of aboveground tree carbon present in tree species within Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks.

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