Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission
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Volkova, L; Meyer, CPM; Murphy, S; Fairman, T; Reisen, F; Weston, CDate
2014-01-01Source Title
International Journal of Wildland FirePublisher
CSIRO PUBLISHINGUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Volkova, Liubov; Murphy, Simon; Fairman, Thomas; Weston, Christopher; Fairman, ThomasAffiliation
School of Ecosystem and Forest SciencesMetadata
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Volkova, L., Meyer, C. P. M., Murphy, S., Fairman, T., Reisen, F. & Weston, C. (2014). Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE, 23 (6), pp.771-780. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF14009.Access Status
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10.1071/WF14009Abstract
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A high-intensity wildfire burnt through a dry Eucalyptus forest in south-eastern Australia that had been fuel reduced with fire 3 months prior, presenting a unique opportunity to measure the effects of fuel reduction (FR) on forest carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wildfires at the start of the fuel accumulation cycle. Less than 3% of total forest carbon to 30-cm soil depth was transferred to the atmosphere in FR burning; the subsequent wildfire transferred a further 6% to the atmosphere. There was a 9% loss in carbon for the FR–wildfire sequence. In nearby forest, last burnt 25 years previously, the wildfire burning transferred 16% of forest carbon to the atmosphere and was characterised by more complete combustion of all fuels and less surface charcoal deposition, compared with fuel-reduced forest. Compared to the fuel-reduced forests, release of non-CO2 GHG doubled following wildfire in long-unburnt forest. Although this is the maximum emission mitigation likely within a planned burning cycle, it suggests a significant potential for FR burns to mitigate GHG emissions in forests at high risk from wildfires.
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