Research Summary: Projecting Vegetation and Wildfire Response to Changing Climate and Fire Management in Interior Alaska

Abstract

An extensive suite of empirical studies was completed with modeling to improve understanding of the mechanistic linkages among fire, vegetation, the soil organic layer (SOL), and permafrost thaw across interior Alaska. The primary project objectives were to: (1)determine mechanistic links among fire, soils, permafrost, and vegetation succession in order to develop and test field-based ecosystem indicators that can be used to directly predict ecosystem vulnerability to state change, and (2) forecast landscape change in response to projected changes in climate, fire regime, and fire management.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 21, 2016
Accession Number
AD1028991

Entities

People

  • A. D. Mcguire
  • Alec Bennett
  • Amy Breen
  • Julien Schroder
  • Michael Lindgren
  • T. S. Rupp
  • Tom Kurkowski

Organizations

  • University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ecosystems
  • Fire Protection
  • Fire Suppression
  • Fires
  • Greenhouse Gases
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Military Training
  • Permafrost
  • Soils
  • Training
  • Urban Areas
  • Vegetation
  • Wildfires

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design