Specifically, we used fuels data from unburned plots to estimate pre-disturbance C stocks, and stump surveys and observations of tree mortality during fire to reconstruct pre-thinning and pre-wildfire tree lists.
These rates were chosen to represent a realistic range of post-wildfire forest densities, consistent with re-constructions of pre-wildfire live tree densities at our study site (197 to 1754 trees ha-1).
Within a given landscape or ecosystem, spatial disturbances (such as wildfires and tree blowdowns from windstorms) and biological disturbances (such as disease outbreaks and insect infestations) can create a mosaic of habitat patches separated by various distances.
OO More Extreme Drought, Not Beetle Epidemics, Fuel Wildfires - trees killed by bark beetle epidemics (in turn fueled by longer warmer summers) are usually less flammable than living evergreens, since they quickly lose the flammable biochemicals present in green needles.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke traveled to California on Sunday with advice on how to stop the state's destructive wildfires: Remove trees from national forests.
Fuel treatment effectiveness in Southern forests has been demonstrated using fire behavior modeling and observations of reduced wildfire area and tree damage.
A wildfire burns diseased trees to the ground, but leaves healthy trees dead but still standing.
"Today's scheduled hearing on Senator Mark Udall's bill to protect communities from wildfire and falling trees as a result of bark beetle infestation has been canceled due to Republican obstructionism.
All vegetation is fuel for a wildfire, though some trees and shrubs are more flammable than others.
A spatially explicit landscape model, LANDIS, was used to simulate fine and coarse fuels and their dynamics in the Missouri Ozarks as influenced by forest succession, species establishment, tree mortality, wildfire disturbance and fuel treatments.
Where natural disturbances are an important part of the forest ecology, conservation may or may not contribute to climate change mitigation because of the risk of C loss in the event of wildfire or insect-caused tree mortality.
