Campus Units
Natural Resource Ecology and Management
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2016
Journal or Book Title
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
Volume
82
Issue
11
First Page
853
Last Page
863
DOI
10.14358/PERS.82.11.853
Abstract
Spatially explicit modeling of recovering forest structure within two years following wildfire disturbance has not been attempted, yet such knowledge is critical for determining successional pathways. We used remote sensing and field data, along with digital climate and terrain data, to model and map early-seral aspen structure and vegetation species richness following wildfire. Richness was the strongest model (RMSE = 2.47 species, Adj. R2 = 0.60), followed by aspen stem diameter, basal area (BA), height, density, and percent cover (Adj. R2 range = 0.22 to 0.53). Effects of pre-fire aspen BA and fire severity on post-fire aspen structure and richness were analyzed. Post-fire recovery attributes were not significantly related to fire severity, while all but percent cover and richness were sensitive to pre-fire aspen BA (Adj. R2 range = 0.12 to 0.33, p <0.001). This remote mapping capability will enable improved prediction of future forest composition and structure, and associated carbon stocks.
Rights
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Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cooley, Rayma a.; Wolter, Peter T.; and Sturtevant, Brian R., "Quantifying Early-Seral Forest Composition with Remote Sensing" (2016). Natural Resource Ecology and Management Publications. 202.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/nrem_pubs/202
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Comments
This is an article from Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 82 (2016): 853, doi: 10.14358/PERS.82.11.853. Posted with permission.