Boreal forest and forest fires

Y Kim, H Kobayashi, S Nagai, M Ueyama… - Arctic hydrology …, 2021 - Springer
… fire, which is largely controlled by local weather and vegetation, is a major disturbance in
boreal forests with its occurrence closely coupled to climate patterns. Therefore, changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Natural disturbance-based forest management: moving beyond retention and continuous-cover forestry

T Kuuluvainen, P Angelstam, L Frelich… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… It is grounded on the premise that disturbance is a key process maintaining diversity of … of
natural disturbance-based forest management. With emphasis on boreal forests, we compare …

[HTML][HTML] Future increases in lightning ignition efficiency and wildfire occurrence expected from drier fuels in boreal forest ecosystems of western North America

TD Hessilt, JT Abatzoglou, Y Chen… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
… Lightning-induced fire is the primary disturbance agent in boreal forests. Recent large fire
years have been linked to anomalously high numbers of lightning-caused fire starts, yet the …

[HTML][HTML] The state of conservation in North America's boreal forest: issues and opportunities

JV Wells, N Dawson, N Culver, FA Reid… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… A variety of other types of industrial disturbances occur within the North American Boreal
Forest biome. In the western Canada portion of the biome, oil and gas extraction and …

Modeling post-logging height growth of black spruce-dominated boreal forests by combining airborne LiDAR and time since harvest maps

B Bour, V Danneyrolles, Y Boucher, RA Fournier… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Increase in forest disturbance due to land use as well as climate change has led to an …
harvest maps) to model forest height growth of post-logged boreal forests that are dominated by …

Post-fire recruitment failure as a driver of forest to non-forest ecosystem shifts in boreal regions

A Burrell, E Kukavskaya, R Baxter, Q Sun… - Ecosystem collapse and …, 2021 - Springer
… We provide multiple lines of evidence for boreal forests, and more specifically … disturbance
detection in boreal forests. The first assesses forest loss regardless of the type of disturbance

Short‐and long‐term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest

DA Dawe, MA Parisien, Y Boulanger… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Such changes in boreal forest composition would have a significant dampening effect on …
changing climate, vegetation, disturbance, and forest management. However, assessing how …

[HTML][HTML] Change in forest condition: Characterizing non-stand replacing disturbances using time series satellite imagery

NC Coops, C Shang, MA Wulder, JC White… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… the Boreal Plains, in stands with very high pre-disturbance spectral values, indicating that it
impacts stands with high cover. The impact on the structure is also notable with a 30% loss in …

Global review on interactions between insect pests and other forest disturbances

Q Canelles, N Aquilué, PMA James, J Lawler… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
… Web of Science looking for publications on forest disturbances, in order to then calculate the
… interactions with other forest disturbances to articles only addressing forest disturbances. …

[HTML][HTML] How do forest fires affect soil greenhouse gas emissions in upland boreal forests? A review

C Ribeiro-Kumara, E Köster, H Aaltonen… - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
… Wildfires strongly regulate carbon (C) cycling and storage in boreal forests and account for
almost … Time after a fire (ie time since disturbance) is often used to determine the ecosystem C …