Rapid Fuel Recovery after Stand-Replacing Fire in Closed-Cone Pine Forests and Implications for Short-Interval Severe Reburns

Accelerating disturbance activity under a warming climate increases the potential for multiple disturbances to overlap and produce compound effects that erode ecosystem resilience — the capacity to experience disturbance without transitioning to an alternative state. A key concern is the potential for amplifying or attenuating feedbacks via interactions among successive, linked disturbance events. Following severe wildfires, fuel limitation is a negative feedback that may reduce the likelihood of subsequent fire. However, the duration of, and pre-fire vegetation effects on fuel limitation remain uncertain. To address this knowledge gap, we characterized fuel profiles over a 35-year post-fire chronosequence in California...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Fire Hazard, Fuel Dynamics, Pinus attenuata, Pinus muricata, Serotinous forests, All tags... Wildfire, Fewer tags