Additionally, for certain tests we brought in ancillary data on forest type, topographic position, and regional biomass time series.
In early years, red attack was associated with forest and topographic characteristics known to influence susceptibility to MPB.
However, the two models can produce very different SWE values at sites with forests or topographic slopes, which leads to significant differences in the basin-wide SWE values of the two models.
Frequent fire can simplify forest structure, though topographic mitigation of fire effects could potentially preserve structurally more complex habitat within certain topographic locations of fire prone landscapes.
The developed model incorporates topographic, forest fuel and weather variables.
Model results indicated that forest connectivity and topographic conditions, rather than forest type or age, were the strongest predictors of nesting owl presence.
These LMUs provide a framework that can potentially be applied to other fire-dependent western forests with steep topographic relief.
In rugged terrain subject to active geomorphological processes, the species composition of forest communities changes along topographic gradients over short distances.
In contrast, larger tree-fall gaps tend to occur on slopes and in valleys rather than on ridges, or may be fairly evenly distributed among the three topographic positions in specific forest types, such as oak forests, Abies-Picea forests, and rain forests [ 23- 25].
The Michelin maps use color and shading to show topographic features like forest cover and elevation.
