Adapting Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) to assess environmental loss and compensatory restoration following severe forest fires

Hanson, David A.; Britney, E. M.; Earle, Christopher J.; Stewart, Thomas G.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2012.12.032

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“…Rohr et al (9) discuss the potential impacts of climate change on the definition of baseline conditions and both the extent and recovery of environmental service loss. Hanson et al [3,4] describes how the use of Monte Carlo (MC) and/or Bayesian Network (BN) simulation can be used to evaluate the potential impacts of environmental uncertainty into restoration scaling. The purpose of this section is to discuss how recommendations in Section 4 can be incorporated into the recommendations from Hanson et al to address connectivity and non-stationarity concerns at complex NRDA sites.…”

Section: Accommodating Landscape Connectivity and Uncertainty Into Rementioning

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“…Unsworth and Bishop [5], NOAA [6], and Dunford et al [7] provide an overview of the elements, underlying assumptions, and methods for HEA. The objective of this paper is to build upon the work of Hanson et al [3,4] addressing how to adapt restoration scaling using HEA to accommodate environmental uncertainty and landscape connectivity for restoration scaling at ecologically or socially complex sites. Figure 1 illustrates the basic elements of HEA.…”

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Incorporating landscape connectivity and uncertainty into ecosystem restoration scaling of environmental damage

Hanson¹,

Wolfson²,

Buckley³

et al. 2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The dramatic loss of wildlife habitat and ecosystem functions has been well documented, and much of the remaining habitat and services are highly stressed and/or fragmented. Valued biological and natural systems are threatened by rapid, non-stationary changes in environmental conditions associated with climate change, high severity wildfires, and other major perturbations. In response to these threats, resource management plans and climate adaptation strategies commonly call for the need to restore landscape connectivity in order to increase the resistance and resilience of natural systems. Although preservation and restoration of connectivity is well accepted as a desired management objective, few of the existing resource management tools explicitly or effectively address this need, especially when determining mitigation and compensatory restoration requirements to offset loss of ecosystem services due to releases of hazardous substances, human-caused high severity wildfires, and infrastructure development projects. When resources are valued and managed by enhancing the total amount of a desirable habitat or ecosystem function without metrics available to determine the effects of landscape connectivity, the restoration benefits cannot be reliably and defensibly estimated. This presentation explores the importance of incorporating the geospatial and temporal dynamics associated with landscape connectivity and non-stationarity in establishing compensatory restoration requirements at complex environmental settings. Furthermore, we present the conceptual framework for integrating connectivity and uncertainty into restoration scaling of lost environmental services.

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Incorporating landscape connectivity and uncertainty into ecosystem restoration scaling of environmental damage

Hanson¹,

Wolfson²,

Buckley³

et al. 2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…On a global scale, they cause changes in the atmosphere due to greenhouse gas emissions that are generated by fires, which contribute to the emergence of the greenhouse effect [1][2][3][4]. The sustained global tendency [5], for both the number of fires and the increase in the burnt area, which is primarily caused by a warming climate [6,7] is a cause for concern.…”

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Application Tests of New Wetting Compositions for Wildland Firefighting

Rakowska

Szczygieł²,

Kwiatkowski³

et al. 2017

Fire Technol

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Abstract. Extinguishing forest fires is a critical issue for fire brigades; fire can spread throughout vast areas in a relatively short period of time. The studies presented in this paper describe the results of laboratory and field tests of new compositions of wetting agents for extinguishing wildland fires. The studies assessed the ability to penetrate surface fuels using 0.5 and 1% solution of wetting compositions. The penetration of the liquid through the layer of the loose rotting wood with solutions of obtained wetting agents was up to 68 times faster than with water. The absorption of water droplet was even 40 times slower in comparison to wetting agent solutions. Based on laboratory research, compositions that exhibit the best wetting properties were analysed in real conditions in field tests to assess their capacity to penetrate in surface fuels, their ability to make fire barriers and their efficiency in suppressing fires of soil cover and thickets. In tests performed in 4 m 2 plots, the wetting compositions hold the flames from crossing a thin firebreak for up to three times longer periods than water. The results of the studies confirmed a significant increase in efficiency when new biodegradable wetting agents are employed to extinguish forest fires.

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“…Forest management entails long-term decisions and addresses uncertain trends of future conditions and, thus, is often ancillary to other impending issues (e.g., [10,11]). Studies focusing on specific forest ecosystem processes (e.g., [12,13]) and on the effects of land use change on FES provision [14,15]) are still rare. In Italy, FESs have been mainly linked to the concepts of multi-functionality (i.e., the capacity of forests to provide several services simultaneously), naturalness, and biodiversity conservation [16].…”

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Forest Ecosystem Services: Issues and Challenges for Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management in Italy

Vizzarri

Tognetti

Marchetti

2015

Forests

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Although forest ecosystems are fundamental sources of services and global biodiversity, their capacity to maintain these benefits in the future is potentially threatened by anthropogenic impacts such as climate change, land use, and unsustainable management practices. Thus far, studies focusing on forests and their services have gained less attention compared with studies on other biomes. Additionally, management practices may potentially undermine the capacity of forests to sustain biodiversity conservation and services in the future, especially outside protected areas. This study linked the concepts of biodiversity and forest ecosystem services at the national level in Italy. Through a downscaled review, we first analyzed management issues, challenges, and needs within the context of forest ecosystem services. We then carried out a survey on protected areas. The results show that forest biodiversity supports the provision of other services and, hence, needs to be preserved and supported by adaptive management practices. Current research on forest ecosystem services must extend policy trajectories to protected areas (i.e., National Parks) as centers of biodiversity and models of the sustainable use of resources.

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Adapting Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) to assess environmental loss and compensatory restoration following severe forest fires

Cited by 23 publications

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Incorporating landscape connectivity and uncertainty into ecosystem restoration scaling of environmental damage

Incorporating landscape connectivity and uncertainty into ecosystem restoration scaling of environmental damage

Application Tests of New Wetting Compositions for Wildland Firefighting

Forest Ecosystem Services: Issues and Challenges for Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management in Italy

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