Plant hydraulic modelling of leaf and canopy fuel moisture content reveals increasing vulnerability of a Mediterranean forest to wildfires under extreme drought.
climate change
drought
forest flammability
live fuel moisture content
plant hydraulics
process-based modelling
tree mortality
wildfire
Journal
The New phytologist
ISSN: 1469-8137
Titre abrégé: New Phytol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9882884
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2023
02 2023
Historique:
received:
17
07
2022
accepted:
03
11
2022
pubmed:
12
11
2022
medline:
21
1
2023
entrez:
11
11
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Fuel moisture content (FMC) is a crucial driver of forest fires in many regions world-wide. Yet, the dynamics of FMC in forest canopies as well as their physiological and environmental determinants remain poorly understood, especially under extreme drought. We embedded a FMC module in the trait-based, plant-hydraulic SurEau-Ecos model to provide innovative process-based predictions of leaf live fuel moisture content (LFMC) and canopy fuel moisture content (CFMC) based on leaf water potential (
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Water
059QF0KO0R
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
1256-1269Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2022 New Phytologist Foundation. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.
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