Potential fire behavior in pine flatwood forests following three different fuel reduction techniques

Brose, Patrick H.; Wade, Dale D.

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“…A modelling study by Brose and Wade (2002) reported similar results, in that herbicide treatments were predicted to decrease fire intensity 2-6 years post treatment in mature forest. However, these authors also suggested that herbicide application could potentially result in pine mortality following prescribed burning in drought conditions due to a greater biomass on the forest floor and subsequent root-kill.…”

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“…Herbicide treatment has been considered as an alternative technique for managing hazardous forest fuels and has been predicted to reduce fire intensity for 2-6 years following treatment (Brose and Wade 2002). However, the applicability of these predictions from a mature pine forest in Florida (from Brose and Wade 2002) to young pine plantations in southern Queensland is uncertain as the effectiveness of herbicide treatments can be influenced by the type and rates of herbicide used, the understorey vegetation composition, weather conditions and soil type (Miller and Miller 2004). For example, effectiveness of glyphosate treatments may only last one growing season in some cases (e.g.…”

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“…Stephens 1998;Brose and Wade 2002;Raymond and Peterson 2005;Stephens and Moghaddas 2005;Battaglia et al 2008). However, there is little published information on the potential changes in fuel biomass, composition and structure following herbicide treatments.…”

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Fuel manipulation with herbicide treatments to reduce fire hazard in young pine (Pinus elliottii × P. caribaea) plantations in south-east Queensland, Australia

Lewis

Faveri²

2012

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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Fuel manipulation with herbicide treatments to reduce fire hazard in young pine (Pinus elliottii 3 P. caribaea) plantations in south-east Queensland, Australia Abstract. Wildfire represents a major risk to pine plantations. This risk is particularly great for young plantations (generally less than 10 m in height) where prescribed fire cannot be used to manipulate fuel biomass, and where flammable grasses are abundant in the understorey. We report results from a replicated field experiment designed to determine the effects of two rates of glyphosate (450 g L À1 ) application, two extents of application (inter-row only and inter-row and row) with applications being applied once or twice, on understorey fine fuel biomass, fuel structure and composition in south-east Queensland, Australia. Two herbicide applications (,9 months apart) were more effective than a once-off treatment for reducing standing biomass, grass continuity, grass height, percentage grass dry weight and the density of shrubs. In addition, the 6-L ha À1 rate of application was more effective than the 3-L ha À1 rate of application in periodically reducing grass continuity and shrub density in the inter-rows and in reducing standing biomass in the tree rows, and application in the inter-rows and rows significantly reduced shrub density relative to the inter-row-only application. Herbicide treatment in the inter-rows and rows is likely to be useful for managing fuels before prescribed fire in young pine plantations because such treatment minimised tree scorch height during prescribed burns. Further, herbicide treatments had no adverse effects on plantation trees, and in some cases tree growth was enhanced by treatments. However, the effectiveness of herbicide treatments in reducing the risk of tree damage or mortality under wildfire conditions remains untested.

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Fuel manipulation with herbicide treatments to reduce fire hazard in young pine (Pinus elliottii × P. caribaea) plantations in south-east Queensland, Australia

Lewis

Faveri²

2012

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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“…Bannister 2001;Dustin 2002;Goodman 2006;Ramirez 2006;Cagle 2008;Sanchey 2011). BehavePlus serves as a research tool to examine potential fire behaviour for various fuel and weather conditions (Hély et al 2000;Fulé et al 2001;Brose and Wade 2002;Dimitrakopoulos 2002;Sargis and Adams 2004;Glitzenstein et al 2006;Cronan and Jandt 2008;Diamond et al 2009;Fontaine et al 2012). It is used to develop custom fire behaviour fuel models (Grabner et al 2001;Wu et al 2011) and to exercise and evaluate the Rothermel surface fire spread model (Sauvagnargues-Lesage et al 2001;Streeks et al 2005;Jolly 2007).…”

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Current status and future needs of the BehavePlus Fire Modeling System

Andrews¹

2014

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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Abstract. The BehavePlus Fire Modeling System is among the most widely used systems for wildland fire prediction. It is designed for use in a range of tasks including wildfire behaviour prediction, prescribed fire planning, fire investigation, fuel hazard assessment, fire model understanding, communication and research. BehavePlus is based on mathematical models for fire behaviour, fire effects and fire environment. It is a point system for which conditions are constant for each calculation, but is designed to encourage examination of the effect of a range of conditions through tables and graphs. BehavePlus is successor to BEHAVE, which was developed in 1977 and became available for field application in 1984. It was updated to BehavePlus in 2002. Updates through version 5 have added features and modelling capabilities. It is becoming increasingly difficult to expand the system. A redesign will address the need for consolidation with other systems and make it easier to incorporate new research results. This paper describes the development history and application of BehavePlus. The design, features and modelling foundation of the current system are described. Considerations for the next generation are presented.

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“…These changes have altered fire ecology, led to unprecedented fuel accumulations (Harmon et al, 1986;Stephens 2004) and an increasing risk of catastrophic wildland fire (Agee, 1998;Hessburg et al, 2000;Hessburg and Agee, 2003;Moore et al, 1999). Researchers have demonstrated the ecological importance of snags and coarse woody debris (CWD) for structural diversity and wildlife management issues (e.g., Bull et al, 1997;Harmon et al, 1986;Rabe et al, 1998), and many studies have evaluated the effectiveness of fuel reduction treatments in managed forests following prescribed burning, chemical application, or thinning (e.g., Agee and Skinner, 2005;Bilgili, 2003;Brose and Wade, 2002;Stratton, 2004). Such management techniques intend to mimic the role of fire and restore forest structure and function to historical levels, yet little is known about fuels and ecosystem functioning in natural, unmanaged landscapes (Weatherspoon and McIver, 2000).…”

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Fuel and stand conditions in an isolated, unmanaged forest landscape in central Oregon

Stanton

Arabas

2009

Ann. For. Sci.

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Abstract• Mature, unmanaged forests in western North America provide important reference conditions for managers, yet little is known about fuel composition and the factors that influence fuel accumulation in such stands. Our objectives were to characterize fuels in a passively managed landscape of dry forests in central Oregon and identify environmental factors influencing fuel accumulation.• Ordination techniques and analysis of variance revealed no statistical differences in total fuel loads across a wide range of environmental conditions.• Individual fuel size classes, however, did vary by stand location and composition. Interior stands had more 1-to 100-h fuels and snags than stands at or near the edge, stands dominated by ponderosa pine had fewer small-diameter fuels and snags, lodgepole pine stands had more 1-h fuels and snags, and white fir stands had more 10-h fuels, duff, and snag basal area.• Tree species, density and age, and years since last fire were the most important environmental variables, explaining 23% of the variation in fuels.• Our results present further evidence that fuel composition is highly variable at many spatial and temporal scales. They also provide useful baseline information for managers of fire-prone western forests.

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Potential fire behavior in pine flatwood forests following three different fuel reduction techniques

Cited by 84 publications

References 7 publications

Fuel manipulation with herbicide treatments to reduce fire hazard in young pine (Pinus elliottii × P. caribaea) plantations in south-east Queensland, Australia

Fuel manipulation with herbicide treatments to reduce fire hazard in young pine (Pinus elliottii × P. caribaea) plantations in south-east Queensland, Australia

Current status and future needs of the BehavePlus Fire Modeling System

Fuel and stand conditions in an isolated, unmanaged forest landscape in central Oregon

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