Describing Fire Regimes Using State and Transition Models
The descriptions also contain the rules for mapping each modeled state in the succession classes geospatial product. Model input using the Vegetation Dynamics Development outputs describing the long-term mean Tool VDDT. Pdf Mega Fires Tipping Points And Ecosystem Services Managing Forests And Woodlands In An Uncertain Future 2010 Weisz et al. . STMs are widely used in land management across both forest and rangeland landscapes Forbis et al. STMs are primarily based for expert opinion and literature reviews lacking analytical testing to support vegetation community dynamics thresholds and state changes. BPS models represent unique potential vegetation units with distinct disturbance regimes based on vegetation soils climate and topography Pratt et al. 1 a quantitative state-and-transition model and 2 a description. Nations of biophysical data. Data describing the historical fire return inter-vals of Texas thereby aiding fut...