DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.10.017
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84992457655
论文题名: Using one year post-fire fire severity assessments to estimate longer-term effects of fire in conifer forests of northern and eastern California, USA
作者: Miller J.D. ; Safford H.D. ; Welch K.R.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2016
卷: 382 起始页码: 168
结束页码: 183
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Basal area
; California
; Canopy cover
; Composite burn index
; Fire effects
; Severity
Scopus关键词: Ecology
; Fires
; Managers
; Reforestation
; Restoration
; Basal area
; California
; Canopy cover
; Composite burn indices
; Fire effect
; Severity
; Forestry
; basal area
; coniferous forest
; conservation planning
; environmental effect
; environmental impact assessment
; estimation method
; habitat restoration
; index method
; Landsat
; long-term change
; management practice
; restoration ecology
; satellite data
; satellite imagery
; vegetation cover
; wildfire
; California
; United States
; Abies
; Coniferophyta
英文摘要: Fire severity maps derived from immediate or one year post-fire satellite images are commonly used by US federal land managers for making post-fire management decisions and provide fundamental insights into broad scale fire ecology questions. How these maps relate to longer term post-fire conditions in the absence of management actions is an unanswered question, and a key issue for post-fire restoration planning. We characterized field-measured fire effects in forests 5–7 years after fire in severity categories as they were mapped with one year post-fire satellite data. The severity maps we used were produced from a relativized differenced normalized burn ratio (RdNBR) derived from Landsat images and calibrated to three severity metrics: composite burn index (CBI), percent change in basal area (BA), and percent change in tree canopy cover (CC). Relationships of field-measured values with severity generally followed expected patterns. BA of dead trees and shrub cover increased with increasing fire severity. BA of live trees, total tree CC, conifer CC, litter cover, litter depth and duff depth all decreased with increasing severity. When forest type (yellow pine, dry mixed conifer, moist mixed conifer, fir) was added as an interaction term there were differences in the relationships of field-measured values to severity, some of which can be attributed to differences between pine and fir dominated forests. We did not find any difference in live BA between unburned, unchanged, low and moderate severity plots for yellow pine forests; the only significant decrease in live BA was in high severity plots. In contrast, both dry and moist mixed conifer forests showed more or less steadily decreasing live BA with increasing fire severity. For yellow pine dead BA there were no significant differences between unchanged, low and moderate categories, while there was a difference between unchanged and moderate for all other forest types. In the high-severity categories ⩾91% of plots had <10% conifer CC, and ⩾82% of plots had <10% total tree CC. Comparing our 5–7 year post-fire dataset to a separate dataset measured one year post-fire demonstrates that delayed tree mortality occurs at all levels of severity, and notable snag fall (especially pines) is already underway a half-decade after fire. The effects we measured provide useful information for managers interested in planning for post-fire activities up to 5–7 years after fire, including soil erosion abatement, habitat restoration, fuel and snag management, and tree regeneration management. © 2016 Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/64636
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作者单位: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Fire and Aviation Management, 3237 Peacekeeper Way, Suite 101, McClellanCA, United States; USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo, CA, United States; Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Miller J.D.,Safford H.D.,Welch K.R.. Using one year post-fire fire severity assessments to estimate longer-term effects of fire in conifer forests of northern and eastern California, USA[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2016-01-01,382