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From drying to frying: drought and fire as interacting drivers of vegetation change in piñon-juniper-oak forests of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, USA

“We used 20 years of permanent-plot data from the Chisos Mountains, Texas, to quantify forest changes in response to a severe drought and subsequent wildfire.”

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Poulos, H.M., Barton, A.M. From drying to frying: drought and fire as interacting drivers of vegetation change in piñon-juniper-oak forests of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, USA. fire ecol 22, 144 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-026-00582-5

Posted by:
Brooke Simmons
Published on:
November 2, 2026

Categories: PublicationTags: Chisos Mountains, drought, Piñon-juniper, Texas

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