Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.

This work was presented at the “North America Forest Soils Conference, Montana 2013”, in the “New Technologies in Soil Research” session.

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Autores: Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio, Dubois, David, Littlejohn, Dale, Flanders, David N., Robinson, Peter, Moshofsky, Molly, Welham, Clive
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universidad San Jorge (USJ)
Repositório:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
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Palavra-chave:Forest biomass
Ecological model
Sustainable energy
Green economy
Sustainable forest management
Climate change mitigation
FIRST Heat
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spelling Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.Blanco Vaca, Juan AntonioDubois, DavidLittlejohn, DaleFlanders, David N.Robinson, PeterMoshofsky, MollyWelham, CliveForest biomassEcological modelSustainable energyGreen economySustainable forest managementClimate change mitigationFIRST HeatThis work was presented at the “North America Forest Soils Conference, Montana 2013”, in the “New Technologies in Soil Research” session.Incluye material complementarioMany rural communities in British Columbia (western Canada) are increasingly at risk from wildfire as temperatures rise and droughts become more frequent. In addition, these communities are also faced with rising fuel costs, and a growing demand for heat as their populations increase. The fact these communities are surrounded by forests presents an opportunity to combine community wildfire risk abatement with bioenergy development. Here we show how the ecological model FORECAST was linked with GIS and economic models to create a freely available on-line tool (FIRST Heat) to help other communities make their own screening-level ecological assessments of combining wildfire risk control with district heating systems. The tool incorporates an ecological sustainability index based on the relative change in soil organic matter (SOM) after 50 years of management compared to initial levels. Two thresholds were defined: 10% SOM lost as “warning” level, and 20% SOM lost as “critical” level. The tool was able to adequately capture the influences of ecological zone, stand age, site quality, and intensity of forest management on SOM losses. Stands in the sub-boreal and arid interior were significantly more exposed to SOM losses than in other ecological zones, as well as soils in old-growth forests. Stands in poor sites were significantly more sensitive to forest management than young and fertile sites. All things considered, our results show the suitability of incorporating ecological models and SOM thresholds in user-friendly decision-support tools to successfully transfer scientific knowledge on forest soils to local stakeholders and decision makers.The Soil Science Society of America, Inc.Ciencias del Medio NaturalNatura Ingurunearen Zientziak2014info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/ziphttps://hdl.handle.net/2454/19813reponame:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarrainstname:Universidad San Jorge (USJ)Inglés© Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Permission for printing and for reprinting the material contained herein has been obtained by the publisher (Versión del editor)CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/198132026-06-17T12:41:47Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
title Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
spellingShingle Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio
Forest biomass
Ecological model
Sustainable energy
Green economy
Sustainable forest management
Climate change mitigation
FIRST Heat
title_short Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
title_full Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
title_fullStr Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
title_full_unstemmed Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
title_sort Soil organic matter: a sustainability indicator for wildfire control and bioenergy production in the urban/forest interface.
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio
Dubois, David
Littlejohn, Dale
Flanders, David N.
Robinson, Peter
Moshofsky, Molly
Welham, Clive
author Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio
author_facet Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio
Dubois, David
Littlejohn, Dale
Flanders, David N.
Robinson, Peter
Moshofsky, Molly
Welham, Clive
author_role author
author2 Dubois, David
Littlejohn, Dale
Flanders, David N.
Robinson, Peter
Moshofsky, Molly
Welham, Clive
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias del Medio Natural
Natura Ingurunearen Zientziak
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Forest biomass
Ecological model
Sustainable energy
Green economy
Sustainable forest management
Climate change mitigation
FIRST Heat
topic Forest biomass
Ecological model
Sustainable energy
Green economy
Sustainable forest management
Climate change mitigation
FIRST Heat
description This work was presented at the “North America Forest Soils Conference, Montana 2013”, in the “New Technologies in Soil Research” session.
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