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6 - Re-envisioning Fire and Vegetation Feedbacks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

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Eric Rowell ,
Susan Prichard ,
J. Morgan Varner  and
Timothy M. Shearman
Edited by
Kevin Speer  and
Scott Goodrick
Kevin Speer
Affiliation:
Florida State University
Scott Goodrick
Affiliation:
US Forest Service
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Summary

This chapter describes the interactions between three-dimensional fuel metrics, intrinsic fuel properties, plant functional traits, and physical characteristics of fuels that inform a new understanding of fire and vegetation feedbacks. The integration of these themes introduces a new synthetic model of fire–vegetation feedbacks. Interrelated concepts of fire, fluid flow, functional traits, and computational fluid dynamics fire behavior models are discussed within the synthetic model framework.

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vegetationfluid flowintrinsic fuel propertiesfunctional traitsfire behaviorcombustible biomass
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Wildland Fire Dynamics
Fire Effects and Behavior from a Fluid Dynamics Perspective
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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