Sentence examples for mean fire intervals from inspiring English sources

Third, there are no reliable estimates of mean fire intervals for low-severity surface fires in these woodlands because of methodological problems.

mean fire intervals (mfi) reduced since the Lateglacial, peaking at 9 7.7 cal ka BP while from 7.7 to 6 cal ka BP no fire is recorded.

Multiple fire-scarred trees from randomly selected 2-ha plots were used to develop plot composite mean fire intervals (PCMFIs) within the Butterfly Peak (BP) and Rose Canyon (RC) landscapes.

We found that only about one-fourth of the 46 research papers assessed for this review could be considered fire history studies (in which mean fire intervals were calculated), and all but one of these were based primarily on data from fire-scarred conifers.

Before Anglo settlement of the area, the mean fire interval was 14 years and no fires were recorded after 1879.

Estimates of point mean fire interval varied more than 10-fold at both BMC (7.8 125.6 years) and LAW (13.3 138.4 years).

Fire-scar dendrochronology resulted in a 653 years long chronology, indicating a point mean fire return interval of 5.2 years, and an area wide grand mean fire interval of 32.2 years.

The overall mean fire interval between 1845 and 2007 was 4.9 years, while for the larger fires this time window was 16.2 years.

The mean fire interval (MFI) for the entire Holocene was estimated to be 150 yr, with a minimum around 80 yr and a maximum around 450 yr.

Even at the individual-sample scale, with the sample mean fire interval equaling 29.5 years, the fire frequency still falls within the range of the ''predictable stand-thinning fire'' regime.

The long-term simulation (1200 years) indicated that the mean fire interval of the larch forest was as short as 64 years, and most fires (94% of burnt area) occurred as ground fires.