We measured the percentage of RBF, which are usually less flammable than older forests, up to a 25-km radius around communities compared to that in the surrounding regional fire regime zone. Our analysis of 160 communities across boreal Canada shows that 54.4% exhibited a deficit or lack of ...
The Canadian Forest Wildfire Weather Index (FWI) system19 is widely used in wildfire studies to indicate fuel moisture, wildfire spread, fuel availability, and wildfire intensity by integrating temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and precipitation over different time lags. The FWI system was ...
Thus, it is necessary to identify how altered fire regimes affect boreal forest resilience or capacity to recover after fire disturbance. In this study, we used the post-fire tree recruitment density, the aboveground biomass, the understory shrub cover, and the herb cover as indicators of forest...
Wildfires in the western Canadian boreal forest: landscape patterns and ecosystem management. Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING WILDFIRES IN THE UPPER MIDWEST, UNITED STATES ...
Impact of wildfire and clear-cutting in the boreal forest on methyl mercury in zooplankton We compared the effects of forest logging and wildfire on methyl mercury (MeHg) concentrations in bulk zooplankton collected in 38 oligotrophic lakes locat... E Garcia,R Carignan - 《Canadian Journal of Fis...
Will climate change drive 21st century burn rates in Canadian boreal forest outside of its natural variability: collating global climate model experiments with sedimentary charcoal data. Int. J. Wildland Fire 19, 1127–1139 (2010). Article Google Scholar Kharuk, V. I. et al. Wildfires in ...
2018a. Large-area mapping of Canadian boreal forest cover, height, biomass and other structural attributes using Landsat composites and lidar plots. Remote Sensing of Environment 209: 90–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RSE.2017.12.020. Article Google Scholar Matasci, G., T. Hermosilla, M...
Fort McMurray is surrounded by wilderness and is Canada's main oil sands town. Despite the size of the town and its importance to the Canadian economy, there are essentially only two ways out via car. The region has the third largest reserves of oil in the world behind Saudi Arabia and ...
et al. Variability and drivers of burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest. Ecosphere 9, e02128 (2018). Article Google Scholar Boby, L. A., Schuur, E. A., Mack, M. C., Verbyla, D. & Johnstone, J. F. Quantifying fire severity, carbon, and nitrogen emissions in ...
This research quantifies the outcomes of short-interval reburns in upland and wetland environments of northwestern Canadian boreal forests and identifies an interactive effect of post-fire drought. Despite adaptations to wildfire amongst boreal plants, post-fire forests at paired short- and long-...