Sentence examples for low intensity fire from inspiring English sources

Though the FRE release of each of these low intensity fire pixels is relatively low, their comparatively large number makes their overall FRE significant.

We suggest that the rapid growth of the deciduous shrub canopy in the drained scenario can promote a high frequency, low intensity fire cycle20 in which the compact, high density peat15 is vulnerable to deep smouldering21.

A low intensity fire regime, which usually consists of surface fires, may therefore favor the growth dominance of larch.

Non-natives with this ability can benefit from a low intensity fire burns that removes surface vegetation, leaving natives that rely on seeds for propagation to find their niches occupied when their seeds finally sprout.

In the selected scenario we investigate here, the forest treatment results in 14.76 Mg ha−1 of avoided C emissions, while the C emissions offset through bioenergy electricity production is 10.3 Mg ha−1, indicating that a reduction from high intensity to low intensity fire in this region could potentially have a larger effect on stand C balance that the use of bioenergy along.

Western ecosystems are adapted to periodic, low intensity fires that clean out accumulated debris and thin the trees.

"We want to go back to the more natural, low intensity fires, that act to reduce fuels, and actually, for a lot of these dry pine types, help to regenerate and renew those forests," says the USDA's Robert Bonnie.

In addition, area burned by high intensity fire can be tremendously reduced by increasing low intensity fires with a higher level of treatment area under the various PR scenarios.

Most pyrogenic emissions result from the combustion of surface fuels that burn comparably in both high and low intensity fires [17].

High intensity fires produce only 30% more direct emissions than low intensity fires, and fuel reduction treatments can remove as much or more biomass from the forest as is lost in a high intensity wildfire [16].

Low intensity fires are fueled primarily by the ground cover and ground vegetation and besides climate factors the specific fuel conditions (fine fuel) have been suggested to be one potential control on the fire regime (Hessl et al. 2012).