TY - JOUR
T1 - User guide to the fireCLIME vulnerability assessment (VA) tool
T2 - A rapid and flexible system for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate-fire interactions
AU - Friggens, Megan
AU - Loehman, Rachel
AU - Thode, Andrea
AU - Flatley, William
AU - Evans, Alexander
AU - Bunn, Windy
AU - Wilcox, Craig
AU - Mueller, Stephanie
AU - Yocom, Larissa
AU - Falk, Donald
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, USDA Forest Service. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such vulnerability assessment (VA) is FireCLIME VA, which allows users to compare management strategies under various climate scenarios and gauge the potential effectiveness of those strategies for reducing undesirable impacts of climate on wildfire regimes and resulting impacts of wildfire on natural ecosystems. Developed as part of the SW FireCLIME science-management partnership, FireCLIME is meant to be quick, flexible, and amendable to a range of data inputs (literature review, expert, and modeling or monitoring activities). These inputs allow users to easily compare various fire-climate outcomes for one or more ecosystems of interest. Users can use literature, hypothetical scenarios, or quantitative data to implement the FireCLIME VA tool. This tool, unlike other vulnerability assessment, is best used iteratively to explore a range of possible scenarios and management strategies.
AB - Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such vulnerability assessment (VA) is FireCLIME VA, which allows users to compare management strategies under various climate scenarios and gauge the potential effectiveness of those strategies for reducing undesirable impacts of climate on wildfire regimes and resulting impacts of wildfire on natural ecosystems. Developed as part of the SW FireCLIME science-management partnership, FireCLIME is meant to be quick, flexible, and amendable to a range of data inputs (literature review, expert, and modeling or monitoring activities). These inputs allow users to easily compare various fire-climate outcomes for one or more ecosystems of interest. Users can use literature, hypothetical scenarios, or quantitative data to implement the FireCLIME VA tool. This tool, unlike other vulnerability assessment, is best used iteratively to explore a range of possible scenarios and management strategies.
KW - Climate change
KW - Forests
KW - Fuel treatments
KW - Natural resource planning
KW - Vulnerability assessment
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075585170
SN - 0277-5786
VL - 2019
SP - 1
EP - 42
JO - USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report RMRS-GTR
JF - USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report RMRS-GTR
IS - 395
ER -