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Incorporating fire severity into estimates of carbon losses in Ontario's boreal forest.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Incorporating fire severity into estimates of carbon losses in Ontario's boreal forest./
Author:	Galarza-Macias, Jessica.
Description:	195 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: B, page: 4726.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-08B.
Subject:	Biogeochemistry. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR64091
ISBN:	9780494640913

Incorporating fire severity into estimates of carbon losses in Ontario's boreal forest.
Galarza-Macias, Jessica.

Incorporating fire severity into estimates of carbon losses in Ontario's boreal forest. - 195 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: B, page: 4726.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trent University (Canada), 2010.

Forest fires exhibit considerable spatial heterogeneity with respect to fire severity with obvious implications for carbon losses to the atmosphere, and yet fire severity is poorly quantified at the landscape level. In this study we evaluated the impacts of including estimates of fire severity on carbon losses in north western Ontario, Canada. Field studies from 162 plots were used to characterize carbon losses and transfer among the major carbon pools from four fire severity classes that were identified based on losses of above ground live biomass. Carbon losses to the atmosphere were dominated by above ground live biomass and forest floor pools, with percentage losses from each pool increasing with fire severity class. Carbon losses from coarse woody debris and standing dead biomass were highly variable but exhibited no relationship with fire severity. For application to the landscape level, pre-fire carbon above ground pools were obtained using Landsat images and a multiple regression equation using three vegetation indices that was derived from data from 129 forest plots in Ontario. This equation did not require prior species classification and based on 42 independent sampling plots had a RMSE of 24.2 Mg C ha-1. Forest floor carbon exhibited no relationship with above ground biomass and a median carbon pool obtained from field data was used for all sites. The fire severity classes that we developed could be identified by remote sensing with an overall accuracy of 75% using an error matrix. Based upon the evaluation of 13 fires (> 5 ha) that occurred in 2005, only 37.5% of the area burned was classified as stand replacing. Estimated carbon losses that incorporate fire severity were approximately 30% lower than if stand replacing fires had been assumed. Carbon losses estimated using the remote sensing approach were very similar (&sim; 2%) to independent estimates obtained using the CBM-CFS3 model when fire severity was included demonstrating that fire severity can and should be incorporated into hindcast and forecast modelling.

ISBN: 9780494640913Subjects--Topical Terms:

545717
Biogeochemistry.

Incorporating fire severity into estimates of carbon losses in Ontario's boreal forest.
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