DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.043
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84877315907
论文题名: Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the western United States
作者: Restaino J.C. ; Peterson D.L.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2013
卷: 303 起始页码: 460
结束页码: 60
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Carbon
; Fuel treatments
; Prescribed fire
; Wildfire
Scopus关键词: Ecosystem response
; Fuel treatments
; Natural disturbance
; Prescribed fires
; Spatial and temporal scale
; Temperate forests
; Western United States
; Wildfire
; Carbon
; Climate change
; Dynamics
; Forestry
; Fuels
; Greenhouse gases
; Reduction
; Fires
; biogeochemistry
; carbon flux
; carbon sequestration
; climate change
; ecosystem response
; environmental disturbance
; forest management
; fuel
; greenhouse gas
; mortality
; prescribed burning
; wildfire
; Carbon
; Fires
; Forestry
; Fuels
; Greenhouse Gases
; Reduction
; United States
英文摘要: Sequestration of carbon (C) in forests has the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change by offsetting future emissions of greenhouse gases. However, in dry temperate forests, wildfire is a natural disturbance agent with the potential to release large fluxes of C into the atmosphere. Climate-driven increases in wildfire extent and severity are expected to increase the risks of reversal to C stores and affect the potential of dry forests to sequester C. In the western United States, fuel treatments that successfully reduce surface fuels in dry forests can mitigate the spread and severity of wildfire, while reducing both tree mortality and emissions from wildfire. However, heterogeneous burn environments, site-specific variability in post-fire ecosystem response, and uncertainty in future fire frequency and extent complicate assessments of long-term (decades to centuries) C dynamics across large landscapes. Results of studies on the effects of fuel treatments and wildfires on long-term C retention across large landscapes are limited and equivocal. Stand-scale studies, empirical and modeled, describe a wide range of total treatment costs (12-116MgCha-1) and reductions in wildfire emissions between treated and untreated stands (1-40MgCha-1). Conclusions suggest the direction (source, sink) and magnitude of net C effects from fuel treatments are similarly variable (-33MgCha-1 to +3MgCha-1). Studies at large spatial and temporal scales suggest that there is a low likelihood of high-severity wildfire events interacting with treated forests, negating any expected C benefit from fuels reduction. The frequency, extent, and severity of wildfire are expected to increase as a result of changing climate, and additional information on C response to management and disturbance scenarios is needed improve the accuracy and usefulness of assessments of fuel treatment and wildfire effects on C dynamics. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/66521
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作者单位: University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Box 352100, Seattle, WA 98195, United States; US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 400 N. 34th Street, Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98103, United States
Recommended Citation:
Restaino J.C.,Peterson D.L.. Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the western United States[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2013-01-01,303