Contact: Ajith Perera
A disturbance is an event that causes a change in the condition and structure of a forest, and fire is the most important disturbance affecting boreal forests.
Researchers have developed and are continuing to refine a GIS-based software tool called BFOLDS, which is designed to allow resource professionals to better understand how fire occurs across the boreal forest landscape at regional and landscape scales and how boreal forest vegetation patterns change after fire.
This tool allows users to characterize potential boreal forest landscape cover patterns in a spatially explicit manner over large areas and large time scales and to determine benchmark values for forest disturbances and forest cover changes for forest management plans. For details, visit http://www.fire-regime-model.com.
Want to read more?
- BFOLDS 1.0: A Spatial Simulation Model For Exploring Large Scale Fire Regimes and Succession in Boreal Forest Landscapes
- A Study of Simulation Errors Caused by Algorithms of Forest Fire Growth Models
Scientific journal articles (to obtain these articles, e-mail OFRI; please specify whether you prefer paper or PDF):
- Spatial Simulation of Broad-Scale Fire Regimes as a Tool For Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbance
- Modelling Land Cover Transitions: A Solution to the Problem of Spatial Dependence in Data
- Synthesizing Published Knowledge of Boreal Forest Cover Change for Large-Scale Landscape Dynamics Modelling
- Predicting the Potential for Old Growth Forests by Spatial Simulation of Landscape Aging Patterns
- A Spatially Explicit Stochastic Model to Simulate Boreal Forest Cover Transitions: General Structure and Properties
