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Research article
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31 Aug 2017
Research article |
| 31 Aug 2017
Fire-regime variability impacts forest carbon dynamics for centuries to millennia
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of
Idaho, 875 Perimeter Dr., Moscow, ID 83844-1133, USA
Philip E. Higuera
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences,
University of Montana, 32 Campus Dr., Missoula, MT 59812, USA
Jeffrey A. Hicke
Department of Geography, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Dr., Moscow, ID 83844-3021, USA
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Short summary
Wildfire is a dominant disturbance agent in forest ecosystems, shaping important processes including net carbon (C) balance. Our results imply that fire-regime variability is a major driver of C trajectories in stand-replacing fire regimes. Predicting carbon balance in these systems, therefore, will depend strongly on the ability of ecosystem models to represent a realistic range of fire-regime variability over the past several centuries to millennia.
Wildfire is a dominant disturbance agent in forest ecosystems, shaping important processes...
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