Persistent effects of fire-induced vegetation change on energy partitioning and evapotranspiration in ponderosa pine forests

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 491-500

  Montes Helu, M C ^a   Kolb, T ^a   Dore, S ^a   Sullivan, B ^a   Hart, S C ^a   Koch, G ^a,b   Hungate, B A ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biological Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Eddy covariance; Energy balance; Grassland; Latent heat flux; Net radiation; Pinus ponderosa; Sensible heat flux; Soil heat flux; Soil water balance; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY USE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PARTITIONING; PERSISTENCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 59249102474     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Amiro B.D., Barr A.G., Black T.A., Iwashita H., Kljun N., McCaughey J.H., Morgenstern E.K., Murayama S., Nesic Z., Orchansky A.L., and Saigusa N. Carbon, energy and water fluxes at mature and disturbed forest sites, Saskatchewan, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 136 3-4 (2006) 237-251
2. Aubinet M., Grelle A., Ibrom A., et al. Estimates of the annual net carbon and water exchange of forests: the EUROFLUX methodology. Advances in Ecological Research 30 (2000) 113-175
3. Aubinet M., Heinesh B., and Longdoz B. Estimation of the carbon sequestration by a heterogeneous forest: night flux corrections, heterogeneity of the site and the inter-annual variability. Global Change Biology 8 (2002) 1053-1071
4. Baldocchi D.D., Valentini R., Running S.W., Oechel W., and Dahlman R. Strategies for measuring and modelling carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes over terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 2 3 (1996) 159-168
5. Beringer J., Hutley L.B., Tapper N.J., Coutts A., Kerley A., and O'Grady A.P. Fire impacts on surface heat, moisture and carbon fluxes from a tropical savanna in north Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12 (2003) 333-340 Special Issue "Fire and Savanna Landscapes in Northern Australia: Regional Lessons and Global Challenges"
6. Beringer J., Chapin III F.S., Thompson C.D., and McGuire A.D. Surface energy exchanges along a tundra-forest transition and feedbacks to climate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 131 3-4 (2005) 143-161
7. Beringer J., Hutley L.B., Tapper N.J., and Cernusak L.A. Savanna fires and their impact on net ecosystem productivity in North Australia. Global Change Biology 13 (2007) 990-1004
8. Bonan G.B. Forests and climate change: forcings, feedbacks, and the climate benefits from the forests. Science 320 (2008) 1444-1449
9. Bosch D.D. Comparison of capacitance-based soil water probes in coastal plain soils. Vadose Zone Journal 3 4 (2004) 1380-1389
10. Brown T.J., Hall B., and Westerling A.L. The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective. Climatic Change 62 1 (2004) 365-388
11. Campbell G.S., and Norman J.M. An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics. 2nd ed. (2000), Springer 286 pp.
12. Chambers S.D., Beringer J., Randerson J.T., and Chapin III F.S. Fire effects on net radiation and energy partitioning: contrasting responses of tundra and boreal forest ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research 110 1 (2005) D09106
13. Cooper C.F. Changes in vegetation, structure, and growth of southwestern pine forests since white settlement. Ecological Monographs 30 1 (1960) 129-164
14. Covington W.W., Everett R.L., Steele R., Irwin L.L., and Auclair A. Historical and anticipated changes in forest ecosystems of the inland west of the United States. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 2 1 (1994) 13-62
15. Diffenbaugh N., Pal J., Trapp R., and Giorgi F. Fine-scale processes regulate the response of extreme events to global climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 44 (2005) 15774-15778
16. Dolman A.J., Moors E.J., and Elbers J.A. The carbon uptake of a mid latitude pine forest growing on sandy soil. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 111 3 (2002) 157-170
17. Domingo F., Villagarcia L., Brenner A.J., and Puigdefabregas J. Measuring and modelling the radiation balance of a heterogeneous shrubland. Plant, Cell & Environment 23 1 (2000) 27-38
18. 2 exchange of a ponderosa pine forest. Global Change Biology 14 (2008) 1801-1820
19. Falge E., Baldocchi D., Olson R., et al. Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 107 (2001) 43-69
20. Feddema J.J., Oleson K.W., Bonan G., Mearns L.O., Buja L.E., Meehl G.A., and Washington W.M. The importance of land-cover change in simulating future climates. Science 310 5754 (2005) 1674-1678
21. Feeney S.R., Kolb T.E., Wagner M.R., and Covington W.W. Influence of thinning and burning restoration treatments on presettlement ponderosa pines at the Gus Pearson Natural Area. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28 (1998) 1295-1306
22. Finney M.A., McHugh C.W., and Grenfell I.C. Stand- and landscape-level effects of prescribed burning on two Arizona wildfires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35 (2005) 1714-1722
23. Fulé P.Z., Covington W.W., and Morecroft M.M. Determining reference conditions for ecosystem management of southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Ecological Applications 7 1 (1997) 895-908
24. Fulé P.Z., Crouse J.E., Cocke A.E., Moore M.M., and Covington W.W. Changes in canopy fuels and potential fire behavior 1880-2040: Grand Canyon, Arizona. Ecological Modelling 175 1 (2004) 231-248
25. Gaylord M.L., Kolb T.E., Wallin K.F., and Wagner M.R. Seasonal dynamics of tree growth, physiology and resin defenses in a northern Arizona ponderosa pine forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37 (2007) 1173-1183
26. Gibbard S., Caldeira K., Bala G., Phillips T.J., and Wickett M. Climate effects of global land cover change. Geophysical Research Letters 32 1 (2005) L23705
27. Gu L., Meyers T., Pallardy S.G., Hanson P.J., Yang B., Heuer M., Hosman K.P., Riggs J.S., Sluss D., and Wullschleger S.D. Direct and indirect effects of atmospheric conditions and soil moisture on surface energy partitioning revealed by a prolonged drought at a temperate forest site. Journal of Geophysics Research 111 1 (2006) D16102
28. Hamlet A.F., Mote P.W., Clark M.P., and Lettenmaier D.P. Effects of temperature and precipitation variability on snowpack trends in the western United States. Journal of Climate 18 21 (2005) 4545-4561
29. Hart S.C. Potential impacts of climate change on nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas fluxes in forests: a soil transfer study. Global Change Biology 12 (2006) 1032-1046
30. Hart S.C., Selmants P.C., Boyle S.I., and Overby S.T. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Forest Science 52 6 (2006) 683-693
31. Hoffmann W.A., and Jackson R.B. Vegetation-climate feedbacks in the conversion of tropical savanna to grassland. Journal of Climate 13 9 (2000) 1593
32. Humphreys E.R., Black T.A., Morgenstern K., Cai T., Drewitt G.B., Nesic Z., and Trofymow J.A. Carbon fluxes in coastal Douglas-fir stands at differents stages of development after clearcut harvesting. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140 (2006) 6-22
33. Iziomon M.G., and Mayer H. On the variability and modelling of surface albedo and long-wave radiation components. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 111 2 (2002) 141-152
34. Jin Y., and Roy P.D. Fire-induced albedo change and its radiative forcing at the surface in northern Australia. Geophysical Research Letters 32 1 (2005) L13401
35. Kolb T.E., Holmberg K.M., Wagner M.R., and Stone J.E. Regulation of ponderosa pine foliar physiology and insect resistance mechanisms by basal area treatments. Tree Physiology 18 (1998) 375-381
36. Kotani A., and Sugita M. Seasonal variation of surface fluxes and scalar roughness of suburban land covers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 135 1-4 (2005) 1-21
37. Kumagai T., Saitoh T.M., Sato Y., Morooka T., Manfroi O.J., Kuraji K., and Suzuki M. Transpiration, canopy conductance and the decoupling coefficient of a lowland mixed Dipterocarp forest in Sarawak, Borneo: dry spell effects. Journal of Hydrology 287 1-4 (2004) 237-251
38. Li S., Eugster W., Asanuma J., Kotani A., Davaa G., Oyunbaatar D., and Sugita M. Energy partitioning and its biophysical controls above a grazing steppe in central Mongolia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 137 1-2 (2006) 89-106
39. Long D.W., and Wagner M.R. Effects of southwestern pine tip moth and vegetation competition on ponderosa pine growth. Forest Science 38 (1992) 173-186
40. McHugh, C., unpublished data. USADA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program.
41. McMichael B., and Lascano R.J. Laboratory evaluation of a commercial dielectric soil water sensor. Vadose Zone Journal 2 4 (2003) 650-654
42. Moore M.M., Huffman D.W., Fule P.Z., Covington W.W., and Crouse J.W. Comparison of historical and contemporary forest structure and composition on permanent plots in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Forest Science 50 1 (2004) 162-176
43. Morecroft M.D., Taylor M.E., and Oliver H.R. Air and soil microclimates of deciduous woodland compared to an open site. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 90 (1998) 141-156
44. Morgenstern K., Black T.A., Humphreys, et al. Sensitivity and uncertainty of the carbon balance of a Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forest during and El Niño/La Niña cycle. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 123 (2004) 201-219
45. O'Brien, R.A., 2002. Arizona's Forest Resources, 1999. Resource Bulletin RMRS-RB-2. USDA Forest Service, Ogden, UT, 166 pp.
46. O'Brien, R.A., 2003. New Mexico's forest resources, 2000. Resource Bolletin RMRS-RB-3. USDA Forest Service, Ft. Collins, CO, 117 p.
47. Plauborg F., Iversen B.V., and Laerke P.E. In situ comparison of three dielectric soil moisture sensors in drip irrigated sandy soils. Vadose Zone Journal 4 4 (2005) 1037-1047
48. Savage M., Brown P.M., and Feddema J. The role of climate in a pine forest regeneration pulse in the southwestern United States. Ecoscience 3 (1996) 310-318
49. Schmid H.P. Experimental design for flux measurements: matching scales of observations and fluxes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 82 (1997) 179-200
50. Sheppard P.R., Comrie A.C., Packin G.D., Angersbach K., and Hughes M.K. The climate of the US southwest. Climate Research 21 1 (2002) 219-238
51. Simonin K., Kolb T.E., Montes-Helu M., and Koch G.W. Restoration thinning and the influence of tree size and leaf area to sapwood area ratio on Pinus ponderosa Laws. Water relations. Tree Physiology 26 (2006) 493-503
52. Springer A.E., Amentt M.A., Kolb T.E., and Mullen R.M. Evapotranspiration of two vegetation communities in a high-elevation riparian meadow at Hart Prairie, Arizona. Water Resources Research 42 (2006) W03412 10.1029/2004WR003863
53. Suleimann A.A., and Ritchie J.T. Modeling soil water redistribution during second-stage evaporation. Soil Science Society of America 67 (2003) 377-386
54. Sullivan B.W., Kolb T.E., Hart S.C., Kaye J.P., Dore S., and Montes-Helu M. Thinning reduces soil carbon dioxide but not methane flux from southwestern USA ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 255 (2008) 4047-4055
55. Swetnam, T.W., Baisan, C.H., 1996. Historical fire regime patterns in the southwestern United States since AD 1700. RM: USDA Forest Service. Report nr RM-246, 11 pp. Available from: CD.
56. Swetnam T.W., and Betancourt J.L. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11 (1998) 3128-3147
57. Thompson C., Beringer J., Chapin I.,F.S., and McGuire A.D. Structural complexity and land-surface energy exchange along a gradient from arctic tundra to boreal forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 15 3 (2004) 397-406
58. Went C.K., Beringer J., Tapper N.J., and Hutley L.B. Local boundary-layer development over burnt and unburnt savanna and observational study. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 124 (2007) 291-304
59. Westerling A.L., Hidalgo H.G., Cayan D.R., and Swetnam T.W. Warming and earlier spring increases western U.S. forest wildfire activity. Science 313 (2006) 940-943