Chaparral Thinning Reduces Burn Severity at the Expense of Soil Function in California’s Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)

This paper examines how chaparral thinning used to create defensible space in the southern California WUI affects ecological soil function, and evaluates tradeoffs between fuel reduction and ecosystem impacts, with implications for limiting mechanical thinning distances to 30 m or less.

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