Prescribed burning and productivity in southern pine forests: a review

Carter, Mason C.; Foster, C. Darwin

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2003.11.006

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“…Impacts of fire on soil depend upon its intensity, frequency, forest type, the slope, and fuel load (Knicker 2007). In general, immediate impacts of fire are the loss of C and N as gases and particulates into atmosphere from the ecosystem, while P remains in soil (Hungate et al 2003;Carter andFoster 2004: Alexis et al 2007). Some work has also shown that low intensity fire may have minor effects (e.g., Knicker 2007).…”

Section: Forest Firementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some work has also shown that low intensity fire may have minor effects (e.g., Knicker 2007). Fire can increase immediate N availability (increases in NO 3 --N and/or NH 4 + -N; Carter and Foster 2004). However, little is known about the impacts of fires on the amount and nature of soil P. Fires may increase P availability (Carter and Foster 2004).…”

Section: Forest Firementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fire can increase immediate N availability (increases in NO 3 --N and/or NH 4 + -N; Carter and Foster 2004). However, little is known about the impacts of fires on the amount and nature of soil P. Fires may increase P availability (Carter and Foster 2004). Changes in stoichiometry (i.e., decreased C: P and N:P ratios) induced by fires can have significant impacts on the soil P cycling and the interactions of biogeochemical cycles of C and N, which is still largely unknown.…”

Section: Forest Firementioning

confidence: 99%

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Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Chen

2009

J Soils Sediments

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Section: Forest Firementioning

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Section: Forest Firementioning

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Chen

2009

J Soils Sediments

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“…For a fixed burned area A, forest fire emissions change proportionally with Fa (1), which increases with longer FRIs. Prescribed fires in Georgia are currently applied to specific areas periodically in intervals of 2-5 years (2,14), and would burn too severely if FRIs were longer than 5 years (2). The characteristic Fa (FaC) for the prescribed fires in Georgia is 4 tons/acre for a 3.5-year FRI (the mean interval when considering 2 to 5 years), which has been used to develop the most recent emission inventory (28).…”

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Air Quality Impacts from Prescribed Forest Fires under Different Management Practices

Tian

Wang

Bergin

et al. 2008

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Large amounts of air pollutants are emitted during prescribed forest fires. Such emissions and corresponding air quality impacts can be modulated by different forest management practices. The impacts of changing burning seasons and frequencies and of controlling emissions during smoldering on regional air quality in Georgia are quantified using source-oriented air quality modeling, with modified emissions from prescribed fires reflecting effects of each practice. Equivalent fires in the spring and winter are found to have a greater impact on PM 2.5 than those in summer, though ozone impacts are larger from spring and summer fires. If prescribed fires are less frequent, more biofuel is burnt in each fire, leading to larger emissions and air quality impacts per fire. For example, emissions from a fire with a 5-year fire return interval (FRI) are 72% larger than those from a fire of the same acreage with a 2-year FRI. However, corresponding long-term regional impacts are reduced with the longer FRI since the annual burned area is reduced. Total emissions for fires in Georgia with a 5-year FRI are 32% less than those with a 2-year FRI. Smoldering emissions can lead to approximately 1.0 or 1.9 µg/m 3 of PM 2.5 in the Atlanta PM 2.5 nonattainment area during March 2002.

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“…Although it is generally accepted that soil temperatures are not significantly altered during the prescribed fire episode on forest area, as this is a relatively fast process, the same cannot be said about the loss of soil moisture and the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil (Anderson and Diniz, 2006;Carter and Foster, 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prescribed burning impact on forest soil properties–A Fuzzy Boolean Nets approach

Castro¹,

Carvalho

Ribeiro

2011

Environmental Research

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a b s t r a c tThe Portuguese northern forests are often and severely affected by wildfires during the Summer season. These occurrences significantly affect and negatively impact all ecosystems, namely soil, fauna and flora. In order to reduce the occurrences of natural wildfires, some measures to control the availability of fuel mass are regularly implemented. Those preventive actions concern mainly prescribed burnings and vegetation pruning.This work reports on the impact of a prescribed burning on several forest soil properties, namely pH, soil moisture, organic matter content and iron content, by monitoring the soil self-recovery capabilities during a one year span. The experiments were carried out in soil cover over a natural site of Andaluzitic schist, in Gramelas, Caminha, Portugal, which was kept intact from prescribed burnings during a period of four years. Soil samples were collected from five plots at three different layers (0-3, 3-6 and 6-18) 1 day before prescribed fire and at regular intervals after the prescribed fire.This paper presents an approach where Fuzzy Boolean Nets (FBN) and Fuzzy reasoning are used to extract qualitative knowledge regarding the effect of prescribed fire burning on soil properties. FBN were chosen due to the scarcity on available quantitative data.The results showed that soil properties were affected by prescribed burning practice and were unable to recover their initial values after one year.

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Prescribed burning and productivity in southern pine forests: a review

Cited by 179 publications

References 107 publications

Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Forest ecosystem responses to environmental changes: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling

Air Quality Impacts from Prescribed Forest Fires under Different Management Practices

Prescribed burning impact on forest soil properties–A Fuzzy Boolean Nets approach

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