| Does Environment Filtering or Seed Limitation Determine Post-fire Forest Recovery Patterns in Boreal Larch Forests? | |
| Cai, Wen H.1,2,3; Liu, Zhihua1; Yang, Yuan Z.2,3; Yang, Jian4 | |
| Corresponding Author | Liu, Zhihua(liuzh@iae.ac.cn) ; Yang, Jian(jian.yang@uky.edu) |
| 2018-09-11 | |
| Source Publication | FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
 |
| ISSN | 1664-462X |
| Volume | 9Pages:12 |
| Abstract | Wildfire is a primary natural disturbance in boreal forests, and post-fire vegetation recovery rate influences carbon, water, and energy exchange between the land and atmosphere in the region. Seed availability and environmental filtering are two important determinants in regulating post-fire vegetation recovery in boreal forests. Quantifying how these determinants change over time is helpful for understanding post-fire forest successional trajectory. Time series of remote sensing data offer considerable potential in monitoring the trajectory of post-fire vegetation recovery dynamics beyond current field surveys about structural attributes, which generally lack a temporal perspective across large burned areas. We used a time series of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference shortwave infrared reflectance index (NDSWIR) derived from Landsat images to investigate post-fire dynamics in a Chinese boreal larch forest. An adjacent, unburned patch of a similar forest type and environmental conditions was selected as a control to separate interannual fluctuation in NDVI and NDSWIR caused by climate from changes due to wildfire. Temporal anomalies in NDVI and NDSWIR showed that more than 10 years were needed for ecosystems to recover to a pre-fire state. The boosted regression tree analysis showed that fire severity exerted a persistent, dominant influence on vegetation recovery during the early post-fire successional stage and explained more than 60% of variation in vegetation recovery, whereas distance to the nearest unburned area and environmental conditions exhibited a relatively small influence. This result indicated that the legacy effects of fire disturbance, which control seed availability for tree recruitment, would persist for decades. The influence of environmental filtering could increase with succession and could mitigate the initial heterogeneity in recovery caused by wildfire. |
| Keyword | fire disturbance climate change environmental filtering seed availability forest recovery boosted regression tree analysis |
| Funding Organization | National Key Research and Development Program of China ; CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program ; National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpls.2018.01318 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| Funding Project | National Key Research and Development Program of China[2017YFA0604403] ; CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31470517] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31500387] |
| WOS Research Area | Plant Sciences |
| WOS Subject | Plant Sciences |
| WOS ID | WOS:000444245400001 |
| Publisher | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.imr.ac.cn/handle/321006/129361 |
| Collection | 中国科学院金属研究所 |
| Corresponding Author | Liu, Zhihua; Yang, Jian |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, CAS Key Lab Forest Ecol & Management, Shenyang, Liaoning, Peoples R China 2.Guangxi Teachers Educ Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Environm Change & Resources Use Beibu Gul, Nanning, Peoples R China 3.Guangxi Teachers Educ Univ, Guangxi Key Lab Earth Surface Proc & Intelligent, Nanning, Peoples R China 4.Univ Kentucky, Dept Forestry & Nat Resources, Thomas Poe Cooper Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506 USA |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Cai, Wen H.,Liu, Zhihua,Yang, Yuan Z.,et al. Does Environment Filtering or Seed Limitation Determine Post-fire Forest Recovery Patterns in Boreal Larch Forests?[J]. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,2018,9:12. |
| APA | Cai, Wen H.,Liu, Zhihua,Yang, Yuan Z.,&Yang, Jian.(2018).Does Environment Filtering or Seed Limitation Determine Post-fire Forest Recovery Patterns in Boreal Larch Forests?.FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,9,12. |
| MLA | Cai, Wen H.,et al."Does Environment Filtering or Seed Limitation Determine Post-fire Forest Recovery Patterns in Boreal Larch Forests?".FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 9(2018):12. |
| Files in This Item: | There are no files associated with this item. | |||||
Items in the repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Edit Comment