Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes
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Abstract
Mountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native disturbance agent across most pine forests in the western US. Climate changes will directly and indirectly impact frequencies and severities of MPB outbreaks, which can then alter fuel characteristics and wildland fire dynamics via changes in stand structure and composition. To investigate the importance of MPB to past and future landscape dynamics, we used the mechanistic, spatially explicit ecosystem process model FireBGCv2 to quantify interactions among climate, MPB, wildfire, fire suppression, and fuel management under historical and projected future climates for three western US landscapes. We compared simulated FireBGCv2 output from three MPB modules (none, simple empirical, and complex mechanistic) using three focus variables and six exploratory variables to evaluate the importance of MPB to landscape dynamics.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes |
| Series title | Fire Ecology |
| DOI | 10.1186/s42408-022-00137-4 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center Geography |
| Description | 12, 18 p. |
| Country | United States |
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