Carbon cycling in lodgepole pine forests after mountain pine beetle outbreaks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Matthew Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Cycling ◽  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle

scholarly journals Resilience of Ponderosa and Lodgepole Pine Forests to Mountain Pine Beetle Disturbance and Limited Regeneration

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Briggs ◽  
Todd J. Hawbaker ◽  
Don Vandendriesche
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle

scholarly journals Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests?

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Simard ◽  
William H. Romme ◽  
Jacob M. Griffin ◽  
Monica G. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Crown Fire ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle

Dendroecological reconstruction of 1980s mountain pine beetle outbreak in lodgepole pine forests in northwestern Colorado

Ecoscience ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy M. Smith ◽  
Sarah J. Hart ◽  
Teresa B. Chapman ◽  
Thomas T. Veblen ◽  
Tania Schoennagel
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle

scholarly journals Firefighter Observations of “Surprising” Fire Behavior in Mountain Pine Beetle-Attacked Lodgepole Pine Forests

Fire ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Moriarty ◽  
Antony S. Cheng ◽  
Chad M. Hoffman ◽  
Stuart P. Cottrell ◽  
Martin E. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Fuel Moisture ◽  
Crown Fire ◽  
Gray Phase ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle ◽  
Moisture Conditions

The recent mountain pine beetle outbreak affecting lodgepole pine forests in the Rocky Mountains has created a novel fire environment for wildland firefighters. This paper presents results from an examination of firefighters’ observations of fire behavior in post-outbreak lodgepole pine forests, with a focus on what they considered surprising from a fire behavior standpoint and how this in turn affected their suppression tactics. The surprises in fire behavior experienced by firefighters during the red phase of post-outbreak forests included an elevated level of fire spread and intensity under moderate weather and fuel moisture conditions, increased spotting, and faster surface-to-crown fire transitions with limited or no ladder fuels. Unexpectedly, during the gray phase in mountain pine beetle-attacked stands, crown ignition and crown fire propagation was observed for short periods of time. Firefighters are now more likely to expect to see active fire behavior in nearly all fire weather and fuel moisture conditions, not just under critically dry and windy situations, and across all mountain pine beetle attack phases, not just the red phase. Firefighters changed their suppression tactics by adopting indirect methods due to the potential fire behavior and tree-fall hazards associated with mountain pine beetle-attacked lodgepole pine forests.

scholarly journals Surface Fire Intensity Influences Simulated Crown Fire Behavior in Lodgepole Pine Forests with Recent Mountain Pine Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad M. Hoffman ◽  
Penelope Morgan ◽  
William Mell ◽  
Russell Parsons ◽  
Eva Strand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Tree Mortality ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
Fire Intensity ◽  
Crown Fire ◽  
Surface Fire ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle
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