An Assessment of Fire Refugia Importance Criteria Ranked by Land Managers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sampling Methodology
2.2. Survey Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Respondent Demographics
3.2. Analysis
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Criteria | Abbreviation | Factor 1 | Factor 2 |
---|---|---|---|
Overall habitat value | Habitat | 0.794 | −0.345 |
Overall uniqueness | Unique | 0.620 | −0.110 |
Overall infrastructure | Infrastr | −0.060 | 0.778 |
Critical habitat | Crit hab | 0.827 | −0.127 |
Invasive species | Invsv | 0.585 | −0.139 |
Isolation | Isol | 0.804 | 0.061 |
Old growth structure | Old growth | 0.817 | 0.112 |
Unique/rare land cover type | Lnd cvr | 0.561 | −0.081 |
Presence of buildings | Bldgs | −0.027 | 0.997 |
Cultural resource | Cult Resc | 0.609 | 0.113 |
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Variable | df 1 | df 2 | Pillai | F | p |
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Ecosystem type | 1 | 22 | 0.548 | 1.577 | 0.218 |
Occupational category | 1 | 22 | 0.388 | 0.824 | 0.614 |
Refugia species of concern | 2 | 21 | 0.898 | 1.059 | 0.439 |
Agency | 5 | 18 | 2.256 | 1.069 | 0.397 |
Management type | 3 | 20 | 1.609 | 1.503 | 0.115 |
Cluster | 1 | 22 | 0.864 | 8.28 | <0.001 |
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Martinez, A.; Meddens, A.; Kolden, C.; Hudak, A. An Assessment of Fire Refugia Importance Criteria Ranked by Land Managers. Fire 2019, 2, 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2020027
Martinez A, Meddens A, Kolden C, Hudak A. An Assessment of Fire Refugia Importance Criteria Ranked by Land Managers. Fire. 2019; 2(2):27. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2020027
Chicago/Turabian StyleMartinez, Anthony, Arjan Meddens, Crystal Kolden, and Andrew Hudak. 2019. "An Assessment of Fire Refugia Importance Criteria Ranked by Land Managers" Fire 2, no. 2: 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2020027