Articles | Volume 14, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3873-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3873-2017
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

Tara W. Hudiburg, Philip E. Higuera, and Jeffrey A. Hicke

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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.
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