Ladder fuels rather than canopy volumes consistently predict wildfire severity even in extreme topographic-weather conditions
Christopher R. Hakkenberg, Matthew L. Clark, Tim Bailey, Patrick Burns, Scott J. Goetz · Communications Earth & Environment 2024 · 2024
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Uses GEDI spaceborne LiDAR over 42 California wildfires (2019–2021) to show that ladder fuels, rather than canopy volume, consistently predict wildfire severity, even in extreme topographic and weather conditions.
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@article{hakkenberg2024-ladder-fuels,
title = {{Ladder fuels rather than canopy volumes consistently predict wildfire severity even in extreme topographic-weather conditions}},
author = {Christopher R. Hakkenberg and Matthew L. Clark and Tim Bailey and Patrick Burns and Scott J. Goetz},
journal = {Communications Earth \& Environment 2024},
year = {2024},
doi = {10.1038/s43247-024-01893-8}
}