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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. 2020. Information from LANDFIRE on fire regimes of Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub communities.
In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online].
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer).
Available: www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/fire_regimes/Chihuahuan_creosotebush_desert_scrub/all.html
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A complete Fire Regime Synthesis for Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub communities has not yet been published in the Fire Effects Information System. However, information is available from LANDFIRE succession modeling of Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub Biophysical Settings (BpS). Table 1 summarizes LANDFIRE data for Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub BpSs. Figure 1 shows where they occur. Appendix A lists the Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub BpSs and provides results of LANDFIRE succession modeling and links to descriptions for each BpS.
| Table 1—Range of modeled historical mean fire intervals and percentage of historical fires in each of three fire severity classes for Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub Biophysical Settings (BpS), and the number of these BpSs in each fire regime group [2]. See Appendix A for details specific to each BpS. | |||||||||
| Mean Fire Interval (years) | Replacement-severity Fires (%) |
Mixed-severity Fires (%) | Low-severity Fires (%) | Fire Regime Group I |
Fire Regime Group II | Fire Regime Group III | Fire Regime Group IV | Fire Regime Group V | Fire Regime Group NA |
| 332–841 | 59–100 | 0–41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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| Figure 1—Land cover distribution of Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub Biophysical Settings (BpS) based on the LANDFIRE (2020) BpS data layer [1]. Numbers indicate LANDFIRE map zones. Click on the map for a larger image. |
1. LANDFIRE. 2020. Biophysical settings layer, CONUS (LANDFIRE 2.2.0). In: LANDFIRE download data mosaic products, [Online]. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey; U.S. Department of Agriculture (Producer). Available: https://www.landfire.gov/version_download.php [2023, June 20]. [98050]
2. LANDFIRE. 2020. Biophysical settings models and descriptions, [Online]. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; U.S. Department of the Interior; U.S. Geological Survey; Arlington, VA: The Nature Conservancy, (Producers). Available: http://www.landfirereview.org/search.php [2022, February 2]. [96496]