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Stands recovered to an old-growth condition with a stable size distribution ('quasi-steady state') 175 years after disturbances removing 60% of the aggregate crown area, compared to 280 years after a disturbance with no residual trees.
Severely burned stands recovered carbon about 20 years more slowly than stands experiencing low mortality rates, when regeneration rates were high.
We used observations of tree mortality, tree regeneration, and forest structure made in TB and NTB stands in 2010 (three years after wildfire) to initialize FVS, grow the stands forward, and calculate the years elapsed before stands recovered baseline carbon stocks.
When we used post-treatment C stocks (112 and 175 C ha-1 in treated and untreated stands, respectively) to define baseline conditions, we found that treated stands recovered pre-fire C more quickly even if treatments did not reduce mortality rates during wildfire.
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As a consequence, stands recovering from intensive management would need at least two stand-replacing events (400 years) to reach a productivity status similar to non-managed stands.
Using pre-treatment carbon (175.51 Mg C ha-1) as a baseline, treated stands recover baseline C stocks 10 years more quickly on average than untreated stands (83 vs. 93 years, respectively, Figure 2a), when simulations were parameterized by observed mortality rates.
Using post-treatment carbon storage (111.85 Mg C ha-1) as a baseline, TB stands recover baseline C stocks 35 years more quickly than NTB stands (28 vs. 63 years, respectively, Figure 2b) when simulations were parameterized by observed mortality rates.
When the composite service index was calculated using a separate set of importance weights for each of the three groupings of the education factor, we see similar patterns; where harvested biomass is utilized for the production of ethanol (and product substitution is not assumed), the index initially declines after harvest and increases as harvested stands recover biomass and carbon (Fig. 4).
If treatments do reduce wildfire related mortality from 88%to49%9%, our simulations suggest that treated stands recover baseline C five times faster than untreated stands (17 vs. 85 years).
Using post-treatment carbon storage (111.85 Mg C ha-1) as a baseline, TB stands recover baseline C stocks 35 years more quickly than NTB stands (28 vs. 63 years, respectively, Figure 2b) when simulations were parameterized by observed mortality rates.
Using pre-treatment carbon (175.51 Mg C ha-1) as a baseline, treated stands recover baseline C stocks 10 years more quickly on average than untreated stands (83 vs. 93 years, respectively, Figure 2a), when simulations were parameterized by observed mortality rates.
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