Reburns and their impact on carbon pools, site productivity, and recovery

Deborah S. Page-Dumroese; Martin F. Jurgensen.

Reburns and their impact on carbon pools, site productivity, and recovery

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Authors:	Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Martin F. Jurgensen.
Year:	2015
Type:	General Technical Report
Station:	Southern Research Station
Source:	Potter, K.M., and B.L. Conkling, editors. 2015. Forest Health Monitoring: National Status, Trends and Analysis, 2014. General Technical Report SRS-209. Asheville, North Carolina: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 190 p.

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Abstract

Prior to fire suppression and exclusion, wildfires and other disturbances (e.g.,insects, disease, and weather) sustained ecosystem processes in many landscapes of the Western United States. However, wildfires have been increasing in size, frequency, and intensity in recent years (Kellogg and others 2008). Recognizing the value of wildfire, scientists and land managers now promote allowing non-human-caused fires to burn in these landscapes, hoping fire can recreate the historical distribution and mosaic of presettlement, burned forests.

Parent Publication

Forest Health Monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2014

Citation

Page-Dumroese, Deborah S., Theresa B. Jain, Jonathan E. Sandquist, Joanne M. Tirocke, John Errecart, and Martin F. Jurgensen. 2015. Reburns and their impact on carbon pools, site productivity, and recovery. Chapter 13 in K.M. Potter and B.L. Conkling, eds., Forest Health Monitoring: National Status, Trends and Analysis, 2014. General Technical Report SRS-209. Asheville, North Carolina: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. p. 143-149.