Sentence examples for burn severity level from inspiring English sources

Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR), a satellite-derived index widely used to map the burned area and to assess burn severity level, was reconceptualized to propose the indices of post-fire recovery condition and resilience.

Within each stratum, four to five variables were scored to generate a CBI ranking between 0 and 3 for the level of burn severity.

We used a stratified sampling design to quantify post-fire vegetation dynamics across four levels of burn severity and three forest types on the Lassen National Forest nine and ten years following fire.

This study evaluated whether visually different levels of soil burn severity (SBS) reflect changes in SOM quality.

Soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration and quality of mineral soil samples (0 5 cm depth) were analyzed after the fires, in relation to three visually different levels of soil burn severity (SBS): control (unburned), moderate (bare soil and soil structure unaffected) and high (bare soil and surface soil structure and color altered).

Urinary KIM-1 levels increased with burn severity, and significant differences were observed among groups.

The stands differed in the amount and composition of residual tree retention, salvage- and aquatic-edges, degree of burn severity (all measured at 100 and 500 m buffers), as well as landscape-level variables such as distance to previously burned forests.

Live trees within each plot were measured and cumulative burn severity metrics were assessed at the tree and plot levels.

Tests of trait-habitat relationships showed that canopy-nesters and bark- and foliage- insectivores required high levels of residual trees of low burn severity, with the feeding guilds showing affinity for different stand composition.

During the past years, there has been increasing interest in CFD levels as a potential marker for burn severity.

About 35% of the burned area had either moderate or high burn severity (Sierra NF, 1995).