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As wildfires across the U.S. West become increasingly severe, scientists are aiming to unravel the ways such large-scale blazes are impacting the survival of species and their habitats — for better and for worse.
About 100 species surveyed in California’s Sierra Nevada, southern Cascades and Klamath regions are experiencing high severity conditions over more than 10 percent of the geographic ranges, a new study has found.
For about 50 species of the more than 600 surveyed, fires spanned 15 percent to 30 percent of the habitat within their range in the Golden State, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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