Colorado Landcarbon: Accounting for Wildfire

Disturbance disrupts the balance between gross primary productivity and respiration, resulting in a net C loss for some time after a stand-replacing fire. However, our understanding of this process is based on a limited number of studies. Ecosystem C recovery post-fire must be explicitly and carefully examined in order to generate accurate predictions of C cycle impacts of future wildfires and change in fire regimes. Montane ponderosa and lodgepole pine forests, either single-species stands or mixed, dominate surface area in the Southern Rockies. These species have drastically different relationships with wildfire; the current narrative portrays ponderosa pine as accustomed to low-severity surface fires with low...

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Ecosystem water balance and ecological drought patterns under historical and future climate conditions for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Landscape

These data were compiled for research pertaining to the effects of stand density treatments on growth rates in semi-arid, ponderosa pine forests. Also, these data examined how the planned restoration treatments in the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest forest restoration project being implemented in the United States, would alter landscape-scale patterns of forest growth and drought vulnerability throughout the 21st century. Using drought-growth relationships developed within the landscape, we considered a suite of climate and thinning scenarios and estimated both average forest growth and the proportion of years with extremely low growth as a measure of vulnerability to long-term decline. The...

Tags: 21st century, 4FRI, Arizona, Climatology, Coconino National Forest, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Flagstaff, Forestry, Four Forests Restoration Initiative, Geography, Information Sciences, Kaibab National Forest, RCP, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, basal area, basal area increment, basal area reduction, biomass, biomass increment, climate, climate change, climate impacts, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, density treatment, drought severity, drought vulnerability, drought-growth relationships, droughts, ecological distribution, ecological drought, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecosystem restoration, environmental driver, environmental restoration, forest density, forest ecosystems, forest growth, forest stand, forest treatment, future time period (late), future time period (near), geography, geoscientificInformation, growth, growth rate, growth rates, growth vulnerability, historical time period, landscape, landscape, landscape structure, landscape-scale patterns, northern Arizona, pine forests, ponderosa pine forests, precipitation, precipitation (atmospheric), predicted growth, relative growth, representative concentration pathway, restoration treatments, semi-arid forests, shifting climate, soil moisture, stand density treatments, stand driver, temperature, thinning, thinning treatments, Fewer tags

Ecosystem water balance and ecological drought patterns under historical and future climate conditions for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Landscape (COPY)

These data were compiled for research pertaining to the effects of stand density treatments on growth rates in semi-arid, ponderosa pine forests. Also, these data examined how the planned restoration treatments in the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest forest restoration project being implemented in the United States, would alter landscape-scale patterns of forest growth and drought vulnerability throughout the 21st century. Using drought-growth relationships developed within the landscape, we considered a suite of climate and thinning scenarios and estimated both average forest growth and the proportion of years with extremely low growth as a measure of vulnerability to long-term decline. The...

Tags: 21st century, 4FRI, Arizona, Climatology, Coconino National Forest, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Flagstaff, Forestry, Four Forests Restoration Initiative, Geography, Information Sciences, Kaibab National Forest, RCP, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, basal area, basal area increment, basal area reduction, biomass, biomass increment, climate, climate change, climate impacts, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, density treatment, drought severity, drought vulnerability, drought-growth relationships, droughts, ecological distribution, ecological drought, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecosystem restoration, environmental driver, environmental restoration, forest density, forest ecosystems, forest growth, forest stand, forest treatment, future time period (late), future time period (near), geography, geoscientificInformation, growth, growth rate, growth rates, growth vulnerability, historical time period, landscape, landscape, landscape structure, landscape-scale patterns, northern Arizona, pine forests, ponderosa pine forests, precipitation, precipitation (atmospheric), predicted growth, relative growth, representative concentration pathway, restoration treatments, semi-arid forests, shifting climate, soil moisture, stand density treatments, stand driver, temperature, thinning, thinning treatments, Fewer tags