The recording of the SFE webinar on Importance of Management for Stabilizing Long-Term Carbon Under Extreme Fire Weather is now available on the SFE YouTube channel. Originally recorded on November 5, 2020, the webinar addresses how future extreme fire weather may alter future fire conditions, and how to spatially optimize prescribed fire and timber harvest to manage wildfire risk.
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SFE Webinar: Low-Severity Fires Protect Carbon Stores in Global Peatlands
Host: Southern Fire Exchange, Duke University, University of Florida.
Presenter: Neal Flanagan, Ph.D., Duke University
Abstract:
Severe wildfires can cause smoldering ground fires that oxidize entire carbon stores and threaten peatlands around the globe. However, low‐severity surface fires can physically protect soil organic matter by thermally altering surface carbon chemistry, thus creating a slower cycling carbon pool that positively affects long‐term carbon balances in peatlands worldwide.
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