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The combustion of sound and rotten coarse woody debris: a review

Joshua C. Hyde A D , Alistair M. S. Smith A , Roger D. Ottmar B , Ernesto C. Alvarado C and Penelope Morgan A
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A Department of Forest Ecology and Biogeosciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1133, USA.

B USDA Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA 98103-8600, USA.

C College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2100, USA.

D Corresponding author. Email: hyde.017@gmail.com

International Journal of Wildland Fire 20(2) 163-174 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF09113
Submitted: 17 October 2009  Accepted: 17 June 2010   Published: 30 March 2011

Abstract

Coarse woody debris serves many functions in forest ecosystem processes and has important implications for fire management as it affects air quality, soil heating and carbon budgets when it combusts. There is relatively little research evaluating the physical properties relating to the combustion of this coarse woody debris with even less specifically addressing decomposition, a condition that eventually affects all debris. We review studies evaluating the combustion and consumption of coarse woody debris in the field and under controlled conditions. The thermal properties affected by decomposition are also reviewed, as are current modelling tools to represent their combustion. Management implications and suggestions for future research are then presented.


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