Tree mortality and carbon stocks following 2019-20 Australian fires
  • Description

    This study sought to estimate the loss of above-ground carbon (AGC) and conversion of live carbon to dead carbon following understorey and canopy fire. Observations of tree-level canopy response to fire, and plot-level above-ground biomass.

    Location: South-eastern Australia.

    Time period: 2019–2020.

    Major taxa studied: Four widespread resprouting eucalypt forests.

    Methods: Above-ground carbon was measured in 15 plots in each of four forest types one-year post-fire. We also assessed topkill, that is, trees subject to canopy loss that failed to resprout epicormically.

    A description of the data can be found in the associate manuscript "The carbon cost of the 2019-20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type" in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
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      Data publication title Tree mortality and carbon stocks following 2019-20 Australian fires
    • Description

      This study sought to estimate the loss of above-ground carbon (AGC) and conversion of live carbon to dead carbon following understorey and canopy fire. Observations of tree-level canopy response to fire, and plot-level above-ground biomass.

      Location: South-eastern Australia.

      Time period: 2019–2020.

      Major taxa studied: Four widespread resprouting eucalypt forests.

      Methods: Above-ground carbon was measured in 15 plots in each of four forest types one-year post-fire. We also assessed topkill, that is, trees subject to canopy loss that failed to resprout epicormically.

      A description of the data can be found in the associate manuscript "The carbon cost of the 2019-20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type" in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
      • Data type dataset
    • Keywords
      • Black Summer
      • Carbon stocks
      • Defoliation
      • Fire severity
      • Insects
      • Tree mortality
      • Wildfire
      • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    • Funding source
      • Australian Research Council
      • Hermon Slade Foundation
      • New South Wales Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
      • NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub
    • Grant number(s)
      • - DE 210101654
      • FoR codes
      • 410101 - Carbon sequestration science
      • 410205 - Fire ecology
      SEO codes
      • 190401 - Climatological hazards (e.g. extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires)
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      Temporal (time) coverage
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      • Time period 2019-2020 Black Summer Bushfire period Australia
       
      Spatial (location,mapping) coverage
    • Locations
      • South-Eastern Australia
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        Name : Nolan, R. H., Collins, L., Gibson, R. K., Samson, S. A., Rolls, K. T., Milner, K., Medlyn, B. E., Price, O. F., Griebel, A., Choat, B., Jiang, M., & Boer, M. M. (2022). The carbon cost of the 2019–20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 2131–2146.
      • URL https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13548
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      The data will be licensed under CC BY: Attribution 3.0 AU
    • Other license
      • Statement of rights in data Copyright Western Sydney University
    - Citation
      Citation Nolan, Rachael (2022): Tree mortality and carbon stocks following 2019-20 Australian fires. Mendeley Data . https://doi.org/10.17632/4xdgbbf2tx.1

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