ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
The magnitude and pace of photosynthetic recovery after wildfire in California ecosystems.
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- Carbon, climate, and natural disturbance: a review of mechanisms, challenges, and tools for understanding forest carbon stability in an uncertain future.Carbon balance and management · 2024Review
- The importance of geography in forecasting future fire patterns under climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Fierce fires lessen a forest's appetite for carbon.Nature · 2023Article
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Abstract
Wildfire modifies the short- and long-term exchange of carbon between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, with impacts on ecosystem services such as carbon uptake. Dry western US forests historically experienced low-intensity, frequent fires, with patches across the landscape occupying different points in the fire-recovery trajectory. Contemporary perturbations, such as recent severe fires in California, could shift the historic stand-age distribution and impact the legacy of carbon uptake on the landscape. Here, we combine flux measurements of gross primary production (GPP) and chronosequence analysis using satellite remote sensing to investigate how the last century of fires in California impacted the dynamics of ecosystem carbon uptake on the fire-affected landscape. A GPP recovery trajectory curve of more than five thousand fires in forest ecosystems since 1919 indicated that fire reduced GPP by [Formula: see text] g C m[Formula: see text] y[Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) in the first year after fire, with average recovery to prefire conditions after [Formula: see text] y. The largest fires in forested ecosystems reduced GPP by [Formula: see text] g C m[Formula: see text] y[Formula: see text] (
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