Fire scars, ground vegetation fuels, and prescribed burning: towards better fire management in Fennoscandia
Lindberg H. (2021). Fire scars, ground vegetation fuels, and prescribed burning: towards better fire management in Fennoscandia. https://doi.org/10.14214/df.319
Abstract
Forest fires are an ambivalent issue in Fennoscandia. Although most long-term fire-history studies show a decrease in burned areas, the recent large fires have set challenges for the future given the increasing demand to develop more effective fire management methods. On the other hand, the low impact of fire has raised concerns regarding how to safeguard fire-induced biodiversity. Related to these subjects, in my thesis I have studied fire scar formation, the flammability of the most common ground layer fuels and the state of prescribed burning in Finland.
The main findings of my thesis were:
These major findings of my thesis could be of use in enhancing forest fire prevention and prescribed burnings as well as in interpreting past fire regimes.
Keywords
ignition probability;
bottom layer;
fire history;
flammability;
forest fires;
fuel moisture content
Published 29 November 2021
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Original articles
Piha A, Kuuluvainen T, Lindberg H, Vanha-Majamaa I (2013) Can scar-based fire history reconstructions be biased? An experimental study in boreal Scots pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 43: 669–675.
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2012-0471
Lindberg H, Punttila P, Vanha-Majamaa I (2020) The challenge of combining variable retention and prescribed burning in Finland. Ecological Processes 9, article id 4.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-019-0207-3
Lindberg H, Aakala T, Vanha-Majamaa I (2021) Moisture content variation of ground vegetation fuels in boreal mesic and sub-xeric mineral soil forests in Finland. International Journal of Wildland Fire 30: 283-293.
https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20085
Lindberg H, Aakala T, Vanha-Majamaa I (2021) Ignition probability and fuel consumption of boreal ground vegetation fuels – an experimental study in Finland. Manuscript.