Simulating the effects of fire and climate change on northern Rocky Mountain landscapes using the ecological process model FIRE-BGC
Keane RE, Ryan KC, Running SW. 1995. Simulating the effects of fire and climate change on northern Rocky Mountain landscapes using the ecological process model FIRE-BGC. Pages 39-47. In Interior West global change workshop. Fort Collins, CO. April 25-27, 1995. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. Fort Collins, CO. RM-GTR-262
A mechanistic successional model, FIRE-BGC (a FIRE BioGeoChemical succession model), has been developed to investigate the role of fire and climate on long-term landscape dynamics in northern Rocky Mountain coniferous forests. This FIRE-BGC application explicitly simulates fire behavior and effects on landscape characteristics. Predictions of evapotranspiration are contrasted with and without fire over 200 years of simulation for the McDonald Drainage, Glacier National Park under current climate conditions are provided as an example of the potential of FIRE-BGC.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Keane, Robert; Ryan, Kevin; Running, Steven
- Units
- CRCO , GLAC
- Keywords
- Biomass, Ecology, Evapotranspiration, Fire Ecology, Glacier National Park MT, Modeling, Plant Studies, Primary Productivity