Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Fire |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2018 |
Funding
Acknowledgments: We thank the ecologists, students, and field staff who collected data and who are each individually acknowledged at http://yfdp.org. YFDP funding was provided by the Smithsonian ForestGEO, the National Park Service (P14AC00122 and P14AC00197), the Joint Fire Science Program (16-1-04-02), and the Utah Agricultural Extension Station, Utah State University. The Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot was made possible by a grant from Jennifer Walston Johnson to the Smithsonian ForestGEO.
| Funder number |
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| P14AC00122, P14AC00197 |
| 16-1-04-02 |
Keywords
- Fire severity
- Large forest plots
- Smithsonian ForestGEO
- Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot