Webinar: How and why to incorporate partial stand mortality in landscape dynamic models of mixed-severity fire regimes

In this webinar from November 2019, Ceres Barros of the LIM Modelling Team explains the concept of fire severity, describes many of the methods used to study mixed-severity fire regimes, and discusses a question she is addressing with Landscapes in Motion: What is the influence of stand-replacing vs partial mortality fires on post-fire vegetation recovery? She also provides some preliminary results using a subset of her data.

You can learn more about modelling partial mortality by visiting Ceres’ blog post from late 2019: Why Model Partial Mortality?

How and why to incorporate partial stand mortality in landscape dynamic models of mixed-severity fire regimes

Ceres Barros, Cameron Naficy, Alex Chubaty, Ian Eddy, Steve Cumming, David W. Andison, Eliot J. B. McIntire

Presented by Ceres Barros

Recorded on Nov. 6, 2019

In this presentation as part of the fRI Research Webinar Wednesdays series, Ceres Barros (LIM Modelling Team) provides an overview of her research to date with the Landscapes in Motion project.

Topics covered include:

• What is (mixed) fire severity?

• Why should we study it and how?

• Developing models of mixed-severity fire regimes

  • Some essential components of mixed-severity fire models

  • Using data to fill knowledge gaps

• Some results