Large fires as agents of ecological diversity in the North American boreal forest

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 754-767

  Burton, Philip J ^a   Parisien, Marc Andŕ ^b,c   Hicke, Jeffrey A ^d   Hall, Ronald J ^c   Freeburn, Jason T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 57849168006     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07149     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Amiro BD, Todd JB, Wotton BM, Logan KA, Flannigan MD, Stocks B.T, Mason JA, Martell DL, Hirsch KG (2001) Direct carbon emissions from Canadian forest fires, 1959 to 1999. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31, 512-525. doi:10.1139/CJFR-31-3-512
2. Amiro BD, Logan KA, Wotton BM, Flannigan MD, Todd JB, Stocks B.1, Martell DL (2004) Fire weather index system components for large fires in the Canadian boreal forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13, 391-100. doi:10.1071/WF03066
3. Andison D (2006) 'Determining Island Remnants and Meso-Scale Fire Patterns in Saskatchewan, Part 3. Event Composition and Spatial Controls.' (Bandaloop Landscape-Ecosystem Services: Belcarra, BC)
4. Angelstam P (1998) Maintaining and restoring biodiversity in European boreal forests by developing natural disturbance regimes. Journal of Vegetation Science 9, 593-602. doi: 10.2307/3237275
5. Bergeron Y, Leduc A, Harvey BD, Gauthier S (2002) Natural fire regime: a guide for sustainable forest management of the Canadian boreal forest. Silva Fennica 36, 81-95.
6. Bergeron Y, Gauthier S, Flannigan M, Kafka V (2004) Fire regimes at the transition between mixedwood and coniferous boreal forest in north western Quebec. Ecology 85, 1916-1932. doi:10.1890/02-0716
7. Bonett DG, Seier E (2006) Confidence interval for a coefficient of dispersion in nonnormal distributions. Biometrical Journal 48, 144-148. doi: 10.1002/BIMJ.200410148
8. Bunnell FL (1995) Forest-dwelling vertebrate faunas and natural fire regimes in British Columbia: patterns and implications for conservation. Conservation Biology 9, 636-644. doi:10.1046/.T. 1523-1739.1995.09030636.X
9. Burton PJ, Adamowicz WL, Weetman GF, Messier C, Prepas E, Tittler R (2003) The state of boreal forestry and the drive for change. In 'Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest'. (Eds P.T Burton, C Messier, DW Smith, WL Adamowicz) pp. 1-40. (NRC Research Press: Ottawa, ON)
10. Chapin FS, Viereck LA, Adams P, Van Cleve K, Fastie CL, Ott RA, Mann D, Johnstone JF (2006) Successional processes in the Alaskan boreal forest. In 'Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest'. (Eds FS Chapin, MW Oswood, K Van Cleve, LA Viereck, DL Verbyla) pp. 100-120. (Oxford University Press: New York)
11. Charron I, Greene DF (2002) Post-wildfire seedbeds and tree establishment in the southern mixedwood boreal forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32, 1607-1615. doi:10.1139/X02-085
12. Collins BM, Kelly M, van Wagtendonk JW, Stephens SL (2007) Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas. Landscape Ecology 22, 545-557. doi:10.1007/S10980-006-9047-5
13. Cumming SG (2001) Forest type and wildfire in the Alberta boreal mixedwood: what do fires burn? Ecological Applications 11, 97-110. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0097:FTAWIT]2.0.CO;2
14. Dahlberg A, SchimmelJ, Taylor AFS, Johannesson H (2001) Post-fire legacy of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in the Swedish boreal forest in relation to fire severity and logging intensity. Biological Conservation 100, 151-161. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00230-5
15. de Groot WJ, Landry R, Kurz WA, Anderson KR, Englefield P, Fraser RH, Hall RJ, Banfield E, Raymond DA, Decker V, Lynham TJ, Pritchard JM (2007) Estimating direct carbon emissions from Canadian wildland fires. International Journal of Wildland Fire 16, 593-606. doi: 10.1071/WF06150
16. Díaz-Delgado R, Lloret F, Pons X (2004) Spatial patterns of fire occurrence in Catalonia, NE Spain. Landscape Ecology 19, 731-745. doi:10.1007/S10980-005-0183-1
17. Dyrness CT, Viereck LA, Van Cleve K (1986) Fire in taiga communities of interior Alaska. In 'Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga'. (Eds K Van Cleve, FS Chapin, PW Flanagan, LA Viereck, CT Dyrness) pp. 74-86. (Springer-Verlag: New York)
18. Eberhart KE, Woodard PM (1987) Distribution of residual vegetation associated with large fires in Alberta. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17, 1207-1212. doi:10.1139/X87-186
19. Ecological Stratification Working Group (1995) 'A National Ecological Framework for Canada.' (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch, Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research and Environment Canada, State of Environment Directorate: Ottawa, ON)
20. Epting J, Verbyla D, Sorbel B (2005) Evaluation of remotely sensed indices for assessing burn severity in interior Alaska using Landsat TM and ETM+. Remote Sensing of Environment 96, 328-339. doi:10.1016/J.RSE.2005.03.002
21. Fenton N, Lecomte N, Légaré S, Bergeron Y (2005) Paludification of black spruce (Picea mariana) forests of eastern Canada: potential factors and management implications. Forest Ecology and Management 213, 151-159. doi:10.1016/J.FORECO.2005.03.017
22. Forestry Canada Fire Danger Group (1992) Development and structure of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System. Forestry Canada, Information Report ST-X-3. (Ottawa, ON)
23. Foster DR (1983) The history and pattern of fire in the boreal forest of south-eastern Labrador. Canadian Journal of Botany 61, 2459-2471. doi:10.1139/B83-269
24. Franklin JF, Lindenmayer DB, MacMahon JA, McKee A, Magnusson J, Perry DA, Waide R, Foster DR (2000) Threads of continuity: ecosystem disturbances, biological legacies and ecosystem recovery. Conservation Biology in Practice 1, 8-16. doi:10.1111/.T. 1526-4629.2000. TB00155.X
25. French NHF, Kasischke ES, Hall RJ, Murphy KA, Verbyla DL, Hoy EE, Allen JL (2008) Using Landsat data to assess fire and burn severity in the North American boreal forest region: an overview and summary of results. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17, 443-462. doi:10.1071/WF08007
26. Greene DF, Zasada JC, Sirois L, Kneeshaw D, Morin H, Charron I, Simard M.T (1999) A review of the regeneration dynamics of North American boreal forest tree species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29, 824-839. doi:10.1139/CJFR-29-6-824
27. Hall RJ, Freeburn JT, de Groot WJ, Pritchard JM, Lynham TJ, Landry R (2008) Remote sensing of burn severity: experience from western Canada boreal fires. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17,476-489. doi:10.1071/WF08013
28. Harper KA, Macdonald SE, Burton PJ, Chen J, Brosofske KD, Saunders SC, Euskirchen ES, Roberts D, JaitehMS, Esseen P-A (2005) Edge influence on forest structure and composition in fragmented landscapes. Conservation Biology 19, 768-782. doi:10.1111/J.1523-1739.2005.00045.X
29. Haydon DT, Friar JK, Pianka ER (2000) Fire-driven mosaics in the Great Victoria Desert, Australia: I. Fire geometry. Landscape Ecology 15, 373-381. doi:10.1023/A:1008138029197
30. Hély C, Flannigan M, Bergeron Y, McRae D (2001) Role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the Canadian mixedwood boreal forest using two fire behavior prediction systems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31, 430-141. doi:10.1139/CJFR-31-3-430
31. Hicke JA, Asner GP, Randerson JT, Tucker C, Los S, Birdsey R, Jenkins JC, Field CB (2002) Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations, 1982-1998. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16, 1018. doi:10.1029/2001GB001550
32. Hicke JA, Asner GP, Kasischke ES, French NHF, Randerson JT, Collate GJ, Stocks BJ, Tucker CJ, Los SO, Field CB (2003) Post-fire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations. Global Change Biology 9, 1145-1157. doi:10.1046/J.1365-2486.2003.00658.X
33. Johnson EA (1992) 'Fire and Vegetation Dynamics: Studies from the North American Boreal Forest.' (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK)
34. Johnson EA, Miyanishi K, Weir JMH (1998) Wildfires in the western Canadian boreal forest: landscape patterns and ecosystem management. Journal of Vegetation Science 9, 603-610. doi:10.2307/3237276
35. Johnstone JF, Chapin FS (2006) Effects of soil burn severity on post-fire tree recruitment in boreal forest. Ecosystems 9, 14-21. doi: 10.1007/S10021- 004-0042-X
36. Kafka V, Gauthier S, Bergeron Y (2001) Fire impacts and crowning in the boreal forest: study of a large wildfire in western Quebec. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10, 119-127. doi:10.1071/WF01012
37. Kareiva P, Marvier M (2003) Conserving biodiversity coldspots. American Scientist 91,344-351.
38. Kasischke ES, Turetsky MR (2006) Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region - spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L09703. doi:10.1029/2006GL025677
39. Kasischke ES, Williams D, Barry D (2002) Analysis of the patterns of large fires in the boreal forest region of Alaska. International Journal of Wildland Fire 11, 131-144. doi:10.1071/WF02023
40. Key CH, Benson NC (2006) Landscape assessment: sampling and analysis methods. In 'FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System'. (Eds DC Lutes, RE Keane, JF Caratti, CH Key, NC Benson, S Sutherland, LH Gangi) USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-164, pp. LA1-LA51. (Fort Collins, CO)
41. Larsen JA (1980) 'The Boreal Ecosystem.' (Academic Press: New York)
42. Lecomte N, Simard M, Bergeron Y (2006a) Effects of fire severity and initial tree composition on stand structural development in the coniferous boreal forest of north-western Québec, Canada. Ecoscience 13, 152-163. doi:10.2980/Il 195-6860-13-2-152.1
43. Lecomte N, Simard M, Fenton N, Bergeron Y (2006b) Fire severity and long-term ecosystem biomass dynamics in coniferous forests of eastern Canada. Ecosystems 9, 1215-1230. doi:10.1007/S10021-004-0168-X
44. Leroux S.T, Schmiegelow FKA (2007) Biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism. Conservation Biology 21, 266-268. doi:10.1111/J. 1523- 1739.2006.00628.X
45. Lertzman K, Fall J, Dorner B (1998) Three kinds of heterogeneity in fire regimes: at the crossroads of fire history and landscape ecology. Northwest Science 72, 4-23.
46. Lewis HT, Ferguson TA (1988) Yards, corridors, and mosaics: how to burn a boreal forest. Human Ecology 16, 57-76. doi:10.1007/BF01262026
47. Lidicker WZ, Jr (1999) Responses of mammals to habitat edges: an overview. Landscape Ecology 14, 333-343. doi:10.1023/A: 1008056817939
48. Lindenmayer DB, Foster D, Franklin JF, Hunter M, Noss R, Schiemegelow F, Perry D (2004) Salvage harvesting after natural disturbance. Science 303, 1303. doi: 10.1126/SCIENCE. 1093438
49. Los SO, Collatz G.T, Sellers P.T, Malmstrom CM, Pollack NH, DeFries RS, Bounoua L, Parris MT, Tucker CJ, Dazlich DA (2000) A global 9-yr biophysical land surface dataset from NOAA AVHRR data. Journal of Hydrometeorology 1, 183-199. doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2000)001 <0183 :AGYBLS> 2.0.CO;2
50. Miyanishi K (2001) Duff consumption. In 'Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects'. (Eds EA Johnson, K Miyanishi) pp. 437-475. (Academic Press: San Diego, CA)
51. Myers N, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeier CC, da Fonseca GAB, Kent J (2000) Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403, 853-858. doi:10.1038/35002501
52. Parisien MA, Hirsch KG, Lavoie SG, Todd JB, Kafka VG (2004) Saskatchewan fire regime analysis. Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Information Report NOR-X-194. (Edmonton, AB)
53. Parisien M-A, Peters VS, Wang Y, Little JM, Bosch EM, Stocks BJ (2006) Spatial patterns of forest fires in Canada, 1980-1999. International Journal of midland Fire 15, 361-374. doi:10.1071/WF06009
54. Perera AH, Buse LJ, Weber MG (Eds) (2004) 'Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: Concepts and Applications.' (Columbia University Press: New York)
55. Potter CS, Randerson JT, Field CB, Matson PA, Vitousek PM, Mooney HA, Klooster SA (1993) Terrestrial ecosystem production: a process model based on global satellite and surface data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 7, 811-842. doi:10.1029/93GB02725
56. R Development Core Team (2008) R: a language and environment for statistical computing - reference index version 2.8.0. (R Foundation for Statistical Computing: Vienna, Austria) Available at http://eran.r-project.org/ doc/manuals/refman.pdf [Verified 16 November 2008]
57. Rees DC, Juday GP (2002) Plant species diversity on logged versus burned sites in central Alaska. Forest Ecology and Management 155, 291-302. doi:10.1016/S0378-l 127(01)00566-7
58. Rempel RS, Carr AP (2003) Patch analyst extension for ArcView: Version 3. Available at http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~rrempel/patch/index.html [Verified 16 November 2008]
59. Rowe JS (1961) Critique of some vegetational concepts as applied to forests of north-western Alberta. Canadian Journal of Botany 39, 1007-1017. doi:10.1139/B61-086
60. Rowe JS, Scotter GW (1973) Fire in the boreal forest. Quaternary Research 3, 444-464. doi:10.1016/0033-5894(73)90008-2
61. Schimmel J, Granström A (1996) Fire severity and vegetation response in the boreal Swedish forest. Ecology 77, 1436-1450. doi:10.2307/2265541
62. Sehmiegelow FKA, Stepnisky DP, Stambaugh CA, Koivula M (2006) Reconciling salvage logging of boreal forests with a natural-disturbance management model. Conservation Biology 20, 971-983.
63. Stocks BJ, Mason JA, Todd JB, Bosch EM, Wotton BM, Amiro BD, Flannigan MD, Hirsch KG, Logan KA, Martell DL, Skinner WR (2002) Large forest fires in Canada, 1959-1997. Journal of Geophysical Research 107, 8149. doi:10.1029/2001JD000484
64. Suffling R, Lihou K, Morand Y (1988) Control of landscape diversity by catastrophic disturbance: a theory and a case study of fire in a Canadian boreal forest. Environmental Management 12, 73-78. doi:10.1007/ BF01867378
65. Thomas DC, Barry S.J, Alaie G (1996) Fire-caribou-winter range relationships in northern Canada. Rangifer 16, 57-67.
66. Tucker CJ, Slayback DA, Pinzon JE, Los SO, Myneni RB, Taylor MG (2001) Higher northern latitude normalized difference vegetation index and growing season trends from 1982 to 1999. International Journal of Biometeorology 45(4), 184-190. doi:10.1007/S00484-001-0109-8
67. Turetsky MK, Wieder K, Halsey L, Vitt D (2002) Current disturbance and the diminishing peatland carbon sink. Geophysical Research Letters 29, 1526. doi:10.1029/2001GL014000
68. Turner MG, Romme WH (1994) Landscape dynamics in crown fire ecosystems. Landscape Ecology 9, 59-77. doi:10.1007/BF00135079
69. Turner MG, Baker WL, Peterson CJ, PeetRK( 1998) Factors influencing succession: lessons form large, infrequent natural disturbances. Ecosystems 1, 51 1-523. doi:10.1007/S100219900047
70. van Wagtendonk JW, Root RR, Key CH (2004) Comparison of AVIRIS and Landsat ETM+ detection capabilities for burn severity. Remote Sensing of Environment 92, 397-408. doi:10.1016/J.RSE.2003.12.015
71. Viedma O, Meliá J, Segarra D, Garcia-Haro J (1997) Modeling rates of ecosystem recovery after fires by using Landsat TM data. Remote Sensing of Environment 61, 383-398. doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00048-5
72. Weber MG, Flannigan MD (1997) Canadian boreal forest ecosystem structure and function in a changing climate: impact on fire regimes. Environmental Reviews 5(3-4), 145-166. doi:10.1139/ER-5-3-4-145
73. Weber MG, Stocks BJ (1998) Forest fires and sustainability in the boreal forest of Canada. Ambio 27, 545-550.
74. Weir JMH, Johnson EA, Miyanishi K (2000) Fire frequency and the spatial age mosaic of the mixed-wood boreal forest in western Canada. Ecological Applications 10, 1162-1177. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010 [1162:FFATSA]2.0.CO;2
75. Wikars L-O, Schimmel J (2001) Immediate effects of fire-severity on soil invertebrates in cut and uncut pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 141, 189-200. doi:10.1016/S0378-l 127(00)00328-5
76. Wulder MA, Dechka JA, Gills MA, Luther JE, Hall RJ, Beaudoin A, Franklin SE (2003) Operational mapping of the land cover of the forested area of Canada with Landsat data: EOSD land cover program. Forestry Chronicle 79, 1075-1083.
77. Zasada JC, Sharik TL, Nygren M (1992) The reproductive process in boreal forest trees. In 'A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest'. (Eds HH Shugart, RLeemans, GB Bonan)pp. 85-125. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK)