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Patterns of canopy and surface layer consumption in a boreal forest fire from repeat airborne lidar

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Michael, Alonzo, Douglas, C. Morton, Bruce, D. Cook, Hans-Erik, Andersen, Chad, Babcock, and Robert, Pattison, 2017, Patterns of canopy and surface layer consumption in a boreal forest fire from repeat airborne lidar: Environmental Research Letters, v. 12, no. 6, 065004 p.

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Fire in the boreal region is the dominant agent of forest disturbance with direct impacts on ecosystem structure, carbon cycling, and global climate. Global and biome-scale impacts are mediated by burn severity, measured as loss of forest canopy and consumption of the soil organic layer. To date, knowledge of the spatial variability in burn severity has been limited by sparse field sampling and moderate resolution satellite data. Here, we used pre- and post-fire airborne lidar data to directly estimate changes in canopy vertical structure and surface elevation for a 2005 boreal forest fire on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. We found that both canopy and surface losses were strongly linked to pre-fire species composition and exhibited important [...]

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