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Though often inconspicuous, lichens play critical ecological roles in many terrestrial ecosystems. This paper discusses how lichens respond to fire severity and how fast lichens recolonize after fire.
Miller, Jesse E. D., Heather Root, and Hugh Safford. 2018. Altered fire regimes cause long-term lichen diversity losses. Global Change Biology, in press.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14393
The California Fire Science Consortium is divided into 4 geographic regions and 1 wildland-urban interface (WUI) team. Statewide coordination of this program is based at UC Berkeley.
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