Journal
FIRE-SWITZERLAND
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/fire1010005
Keywords
large forest plots; fire severity; Smithsonian ForestGEO; Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot
Funding
- Smithsonian Forest GEO
- National Park Service [P14AC00122, P14AC00197]
- Joint Fire Science Program [16-1-04-02]
- Utah Agricultural Extension Station, Utah State University
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Large, spatially explicit forest plots have the potential to address currently understudied aspects of fire ecology and management, including the validation of physics-based fire behavior models and next-generation fire effects models. Pre-fire forest structures, fire-mediated mortality, and post-fire forest development can be examined in a spatial context, and value can be added to current multidisciplinary approaches by adding a long-term perspective. Here we propose that the fire science community begin to build a collaborative network of fire-related large forest dynamics plots to examine explicit spatial patterns of surface fuels, tree mortality, and post-fire regeneration throughout ecosystems with frequent-fire forests.
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