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Fixing a snag in carbon emissions estimates from wildfires

... standing dead trees that decompose over decades to centuries after fire (“snags”). ... Global Change Biology. Year: 2019. Volume: 25. Issue: 11. Pages: 3985-3994.

Would it be better fire prevention if dead trees were left standing or ...

Therefore at least some wood should be left alone. However, the decomposition of a tree produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Burning the ...

Effects of post-fire logging on fuel dynamics in a mixed-conifer forest ...

Fire-killed snags for the dominant species (Pseudotsuga menziesii) decayed while standing at a statistically significant rate (single-exponential k = 0.011), ...

Fuel Succession, Post-Fire Logging, and Future Fire Behavior

After stand-replacing wildfires, there is often considerable conflict over post-fire ... snag decay. From these data, we will generate ...

Post-Fire-Logging-Forest-Ecology-and-Management.pdf

Our objectives were to (1) describe patterns of woody fuel succession following stand-replacing wildfires for logged and unlogged stands, (2) test the effects ...

Journal Article | Northwest Fire Science Consortium

Snag decomposition following stand-replacing wildfires alters wildlife habitat use and surface woody fuels through time. Year of Publication. 2023. Publication ...

Short-interval severe fire erodes the resilience of subalpine ... - PNAS

Short-interval stand-replacing fires in lodgepole pine forests of Greater Yellowstone led to substantial losses of biological legacies and reduced tree ...

Effects of Repeated Fires | Northern Rockies Fire Science Network

In many cases, previous fires have been shown to reduce the spread and severity of subsequent wildfires on the landscape, thereby serving as a natural fuel ...

Post-wildfire salvage logging effects on snag structure and dead ...

Overall, salvage logging did reduce snag basal area and, relative to unlogged controls, significantly increased measured fine woody fuel loading ...

Stand Development Following Stand-replacing Wildfire - WA - DNR

Historically, stand-replacing fire events were most common in the Cascade western hemlock, Pacific silver fir, mountain hemlock, Columbia Rocky Mountain western ...

Managing Forests After Fire

Fire hazard changes over time as forest conditions change. The reburn ... stand-replacing fires or mixed-severity fires create habitat patchiness ...

Snag abundance 20, 30, and 40 years following fire and harvesting ...

were killed during the last stand-replacing disturbance, such as fire (Maser ... Decomposition of standing dead trees in the southern Appalachian mountains.

post-fire vegetation and pyrodiversity influence breeding

Snag decomposition following stand-replacing wildfires alters wildlife habitat use and surface woody fuels through time. Ecosphere 14:e4635. Picardi, S ...

Post-wildfire salvage logging effects on snag structure and dead ...

Overall, salvage logging did reduce snag basal area and, relative to unlogged controls, significantly increased measured fine woody fuel loading (10 and 100 h).

Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Fauna

these snags fall, other fire-killed trees decay and provide habitat for cavity nesters. For 10 to 20 years after stand-replacing fire, biomass is concentrated ...

Tree regeneration, understory development, and biomass dynamics ...

In the first 15 years following wildfire in a mountain hemlock forest, total biomass has declined due to snag attrition, decay, and fragmentation. While ...

Extending forest restoration to post-fire management

Changes in snag decay class with increasing time since fire. ◇ Most ... forests after stand-replacing fire. ◇ Mature forests. – Reduce surface fuels.

Fuel Dynamics Following Wildfire in US Northern Rockies Forests

Surface fuel loads varied by burn severity and years since fires, with the highest loadings at longer years since fire and sites burned in stand replacing fire.

Variation in tree mortality and regeneration affect forest carbon ...

Treated and untreated stands stored similar amounts of carbon three years after wildfire, but differences in fire severity were such that untreated stands ...