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Young Forests And Fire: Using Lidar–Imagery Fusion To Explore Fuels And Burn Severity In A Subalpine Forest Reburn, Kristin H. Braziunas, Diane C. Abendroth, Monica G. Turner
Young Forests And Fire: Using Lidar–Imagery Fusion To Explore Fuels And Burn Severity In A Subalpine Forest Reburn, Kristin H. Braziunas, Diane C. Abendroth, Monica G. Turner
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Anticipating fire behavior as climate change and fire activity accelerate is an increasingly pressing management challenge in fire-prone landscapes. In subalpine forests adapted to infrequent, stand-replacing fire, self-limitation of burn severity in short-interval fire is incompletely understood. Spatially explicit fuels data can support assessments of landscape-scale fire risk and fuel feedbacks on burn severity. For a ~1450-km2 largely forested landscape in the US Northern Rocky Mountains, we used airborne lidar and imagery to predict and map canopy and surface fuels. In a fire that burned mature (>125-year-old) and also reburned young (~30-year-old) subalpine forest, we then asked: (1) …