@article{ref1,
title="Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission",
journal="International journal of wildland fire",
year="2014",
author="Volkova, Liubov and Meyer, C. P. (Mick) and Murphy, Simon and Fairman, Thomas and Reisen, Fabienne and Weston, Christopher",
volume="23",
number="6",
pages="771-780",
abstract="A high-intensity wildfire burnt through a dry Eucalyptus forest in south-eastern Australia that had been fuel reduced with fire 3 months prior, presenting a unique opportunity to measure the effects of fuel reduction (FR) on forest carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wildfires at the start of the fuel accumulation cycle. Less than 3% of total forest carbon to 30-cm soil depth was transferred to the atmosphere in FR burning; the subsequent wildfire transferred a further 6% to the atmosphere. There was a 9% loss in carbon for the FR-wildfire sequence. In nearby forest, last burnt 25 years previously, the wildfire burning transferred 16% of forest carbon to the atmosphere and was characterised by more complete combustion of all fuels and less surface charcoal deposition, compared with fuel-reduced forest. Compared to the fuel-reduced forests, release of non-CO2 GHG doubled following wildfire in long-unburnt forest. Although this is the maximum emission mitigation likely within a planned burning cycle, it suggests a significant potential for FR burns to mitigate GHG emissions in forests at high risk from wildfires.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-8001",
doi="10.1071/WF14009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF14009"
}