2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.08.055
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Young jack pine and high severity fire combine to create potentially expansive areas of understocked forest

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“…Large fires are expected to become more common in northern boreal forests in the future with a changing climate [1], and these fire events are often characterized by highly variable burn severity [2][3][4]. Many studies have examined tree regeneration after variable severity burns in the boreal forest [5,6], but in terms of overall plant diversity, understory species are most important, especially in the tree species-poor, xeric jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests of the northern boreal [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Large fires are expected to become more common in northern boreal forests in the future with a changing climate [1], and these fire events are often characterized by highly variable burn severity [2][3][4]. Many studies have examined tree regeneration after variable severity burns in the boreal forest [5,6], but in terms of overall plant diversity, understory species are most important, especially in the tree species-poor, xeric jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests of the northern boreal [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore we suggest that this tool be applied only to stands exhibiting 100% tree mortality and subjected to moderate to high severity fires. Extreme fire severity may greatly reduce seed viability, even in the well-protected cones of jack pine (Pinno et al 2013). Additionally, due to limited data on post-fire granivory rates, actual fire-wide values may differ from our expected values (including the fixed lethal proportion).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 69%
“…was ∼ 0.3 m lower than the water table observed midJune 2011 (Fig. 5), a period without rainfall and with high burned area in the spring when the 2011 Richardson Fire reached a size similar to the Horse river wildfire (Pinno et al, 2013). Surprisingly, spring 2016 water tables were more comparable to levels measured in the spring of 2012 (Fig.…”
Section: Pre-fire Hydrologymentioning
confidence: 71%
“…During these fires large quantities of terrestrial carbon stock held within WBP peatlands are liberated to the atmosphere, estimated at 4700 Gg C released per year, from continental western Canada alone (Turetsky et al, 2002); the peat is vulnerable to combustion and deep smouldering (Benscoter et al, 2011;Turetsky et al, 2011). Over the past decade, there has been increasing concern over longer fire seasons in Alberta (Wotton and Flannigan, 1993;Flannigan et al, 2013;KirchmeierYoung et al, 2017) and an increase in large high-intensity wildfires (Tymstra et al, 2007) and total burned area each year (Podur and Wotton, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%