TY  - JOUR
AU  - Volkova, L
AU  - Meyer, CPM
AU  - Murphy, S
AU  - Fairman, T
AU  - Reisen, F
AU  - Weston, C
Y2  - 2021/01/08
Y1  - 2014/01/01
SN  - 1049-8001
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258600
AB  - 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.
LA  - English
PB  - CSIRO PUBLISHING
T1  - Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission
DO  - 10.1071/WF14009
IS  - International Journal of Wildland Fire
VL  - 23
IS  - 6
SP  - 771-780
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ER  -