Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1173-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1173-2018
Research article
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27 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 27 Feb 2018

Fire intensity impacts on post-fire temperate coniferous forest net primary productivity

Aaron M. Sparks, Crystal A. Kolden, Alistair M. S. Smith, Luigi Boschetti, Daniel M. Johnson, and Mark A. Cochrane

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Through landscape-scale satellite observations we demonstrate that fire intensity has a dose–response relationship with temperate forest net primary productivity. Increasing fire intensity resulted in persisting step-wise reductions in post-fire net primary productivity. Forests with higher proportions of fire-resistant species generally had lower reductions in post-fire net primary productivity. A conceptual framework for assessing spatiotemporal post-fire effects is presented.
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