Vegetation fire spread database: 85 wood wool shaving experiments at laboratory scale

Broad-Scale Environmental Conditions Responsible for Post-Fire Vegetation Dynamics

Ecosystem response to disturbance is influenced by environmental conditions at a number of scales. Changes in climate have altered fire regimes across the western United States, and have also likely altered spatio-temporal patterns of post-fire vegetation regeneration. Fire occurrence data and a vegetation index (NDVI) derived from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) were ...

Alternative fire-driven vegetation states

Traditionally, most vegetation patterns were thought to be driven by environmental conditions (Holdridge 1947; Whittaker 1975). The role of animals in determining patterns of vegetation has also long been recognized (Hairston et al. 1960; Terborgh et al. 2006), given that herbivores consume vegetation and, in turn, are controlled by carnivores and parasites. There is an increasing volume of lit...

Variability of vegetation fire emissions

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Abstract Biomass burning has long been recognised as an important source of trace gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. The burning of vegetation has a repeating seasonal pattern, but the intensity of burning and the exact localisation of fires vary considerably f...

Fire-retardant Treatments for Wood

Fire Performance Testing of WPCs at the Forest Products Laboratory

Wood-plastic composites represent a growing class of materials used by the residential construction industry and the furniture industry. For some applications in these industries, the fire performance of the material must be known, and in some cases improved. Lab-scale fire performance tests allow for comparisons between WPC formulations. At the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) oxygen index tes...