Predicting late-successional fire refugia pre-dating European settlement in the Wenatchee Mountains

Camp, Ann E.; Oliver, Chad; Hessburg, Paul F.; Everett, Richard L.

doi:10.1016/s0378-1127(97)00006-6

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“…If the forest would burn unless harvested or partially harvested, even greater CO 2 savings would be achieved by harvesting. And, across a landscape, harvesting so that a diversity of stand structures is created and maintained would both reduce fire danger (Camp, Oliver, Hessburg, & Everett, 1997) and increase biodiversity (Oliver & O'Hara, 2004). Figure 9a shows the mean annual increment (MAI) and Figure 9b shows the cumulative increment of CO 2 stored by harvesting for different products (with residual wood used for wood energy) in a regulated Douglas-fir forest.…”

Section: Global Availability Of Wood and Potential Global Consumptionmentioning

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Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Oliver

Nassar

Lippke

et al. 2014

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

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Section: Global Availability Of Wood and Potential Global Consumptionmentioning

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Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Oliver

Nassar

Lippke

et al. 2014

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

184

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“…Many studies have focused on identifying refugia through establishing a link to topographic heterogeneity (e.g., [9][10][11]). Specifically, refugia may be found where fire interacts with stable landscape features that influence microclimate, reduce flammability or create topographic or hydrologic barriers to fire spread [4,[12][13][14][15].…”

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Characterizing Spatial Neighborhoods of Refugia Following Large Fires in Northern New Mexico USA

Haire¹,

Miller

2017

Land

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Abstract:The spatial patterns resulting from large fires include refugial habitats that support surviving legacies and promote ecosystem recovery. To better understand the diverse ecological functions of refugia on burn mosaics, we used remotely sensed data to quantify neighborhood patterns of areas relatively unchanged following the 2011 Las Conchas fire. Spatial patterns of refugia measured within 10-ha moving windows varied across a gradient from areas of high density, clustered in space, to sparsely populated neighborhoods that occurred in the background matrix. The scaling of these patterns was related to the underlying structure of topography measured by slope, aspect and potential soil wetness, and spatially varying climate. Using a nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis of species cover data collected post-Las Conchas, we found that trees and forest associates were present across the refugial gradient, but communities also exhibited a range of species compositions and potential functions. Spatial patterns of refugia quantified for three previous burns (La Mesa 1977, Dome 1996, Cerro Grande 2000 were dynamic between fire events, but most refugia persisted through at least two fires. Efforts to maintain burn heterogeneity and its ecological functions can begin with identifying where refugia are likely to occur, using terrain-based microclimate models, burn severity models and available field data.

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“…Fire refugia and climate change refugia are similar, but they are also distinct. These refugia share some topographical similarities, and are both often associated with cooler, wetter places on the landscape [5,43,44]. Fire refugia are areas where fire has been excluded [45] whereas climate change refugia are areas that buffer climate change and the fire regime may be dramatically or subtlety different than the surrounding landscape [5].…”

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Climate Change Refugia, Fire Ecology and Management

Wilkin

Ackerly

Stephens

2016

Forests

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Abstract:Early climate change ideas warned of widespread species extinctions. As scientists have probed more deeply into species responses, a more nuanced perspective emerged indicating that some species may persist in microrefugia (refugia), including in mountainous terrain. Refugia are habitats that buffer climate changes and allow species to persist in-and to potentially expand under-changing environmental conditions. While climate and species interactions in refugia have been noted as sources of uncertainty, land management practices and disturbances, such as wildland fire, should also be considered when assessing any given refugium. Our landscape scale study suggests that cold-air pools, an important type of small-scale refugia, have unique fire occurrence, frequency, and severity patterns in frequent-fire mixed conifer forests of California's Sierra Nevada: cold-air pool refugia have less fire and if it occurs, it is lower severity. Therefore, individuals and small populations are less likely to be extirpated by fire. Active management, such as restoration and fuels treatments for climate change adaptation, may be required to maintain these distinctive and potentially important refugia.

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Predicting late-successional fire refugia pre-dating European settlement in the Wenatchee Mountains

Cited by 175 publications

References 14 publications

Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Characterizing Spatial Neighborhoods of Refugia Following Large Fires in Northern New Mexico USA

Climate Change Refugia, Fire Ecology and Management

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