Grass invasion reduces the resilience of tree regeneration to fire in the Central Hardwoods Region

Agriculture & Biology

• hardwood 100%
• fire intensity 81%
• grasses 71%
• forest vegetation simulator 40%
• seedlings 33%
• forest dynamics 30%
• prescribed burning 27%
• forest yields 18%
• Microstegium vimineum 18%
• fire behavior 17%
• forest growth 15%
• Eastern United States 13%
• energy use and consumption 12%
• saplings 11%
• simulation models 11%
• survival rate 8%
• stems 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• regeneration 83%
• seedling 37%
• resprouting 33%
• simulator 13%
• persistence 12%
• sapling 9%
• vegetation 8%
• fuel consumption 8%
• rate 7%
• residence time 6%
• simulation 6%
• mortality 5%
• effect 5%
• filter 5%