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Abstract
FIA data from FVS-ready tables packaged with FIADB (Shaw and Gagnon 2020) were used in FFE-FVS to establish prefire carbon pools and fuel loading for trees (live and dead), herbs and shrubs, woody fuels, litter, and duff. FFE was then used to simulate immediate fire effects - tree mortality, fuel consumption, and changes in carbon pools resulting from three wildland fire scenarios (fig. 1). GHG fire emissions were calculated as the product of fuel consumption from the FFE-FVS simulations and pollutant emission factors.
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Keywords
forest management,
forest planning,
growth and yield,
vegetation dynamics,
habitat modeling,
carbon inventory,
landscape dynamics,
fire,
fuels,
climate change,
economics,
tree-rings
Citation
Urbanski, Shawn P.; Shaw, John D.; Riley, Karin L. 2024. Development of carbon entity guidelines for wildfire and prescribed fire in the continental United States. In: Shaw, John D; Battaglia, Mike A.; Castle, Mark, [comps.]. Sixth Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2023 March 7-9; Fort Collins, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-81. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 57-61.
