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

[摘要] 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.

[学科分类] 植物学

[关键词] large forest plots;fire severity;Smithsonian ForestGEO;Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot