Publication
 

Advancing Fire Science with Large Forest Plots and a Long-Term Multidisciplinary Approach

Large, spatially explicit forest plots have the potential to address currently understudied aspects of fire ecology and management, including the validation of physics-based fire behavior models and next-generation fire effects models. Pre-fire forest structures, fire-mediated mortality, and post-fire forest development can be examined in a spatial context, and value can be added to current multidisciplinary approaches by adding a long-term perspective. Here we propose that the fire science community begin to build a collaborative network of fire-related large forest dynamics plots to examine explicit spatial patterns of surface fuels, tree mortality, and post-fire regeneration throughout ecosystems with frequent-fire forests.

Authors: 
Lutz, James A. Larson, Andrew J. Swanson, Mark E.
Journal: 
Fire
Year: 
2018
Volume: 
1
Issue: 
1
Pages: 
1-7
DOI: 
10.3390/fire1010005
Site: 
Yosemite