Wildfire Regime in the Boreal Forest and the Idea of Suppression and Fuel Buildup

Authors

E A. Johnson
K Miyanishi
SRJ Bridge

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Conservation Biology

Publication Date

2001

Issue

6

Volume

15

First Page

1554

Last Page

1557

Abstract

The idea of unnatural fuel buildup due to fire suppression causing a change in fire regime has little support for closed-canopy ecosystems such as chaparral and boreal and subalpine forests. The change in fire regime observed in the ponderosa-pine ecosystem results primarily from a change in fuel structure (i.e., development of intermediate-height fuels connecting surface and crown fuels and an increase in crown-fuel continuity and density)...

Comments

Originally published by Wiley-Blackwell. Publisher's PDF and HTML fulltext available through remote link.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, E., Miyanishi, K. and Bridge, S. (2001). Wildfire Regime in the Boreal Forest and the Idea of Suppression and Fuel Buildup. Conservation Biology, 15(6): 1554-1557.