“We leveraged a unique long-term prescribed burn experiment and evaluated the responses of different understory vegetation components to differing fire return intervals (5-, 10-, 20-year) including two common shrub species of interest in western forests, antelope bitterbrush (bitterbrush) and snowbrush ceanothus (snowbrush).”
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Kerns, B.K., Riegel, G., Wade, N.M. et al. Long-term forest understory recovery and tradeoffs in response to prescribed fire return interval. fire ecol 22, 93 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-026-00532-1