I couldn't have said it better myself. Fires are very much a part of dry land ecosystems. The only reason they are "catastrophic" is that they have been suppressed in the US for the last century or so.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:32 PM cody dooderson <d00d3r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I might be entering into this conversation out of context. I have seen > a lot of forest fire conversations on FRIAM but have been too lazy to read > them. Also I am not an ecologist. > I disagree that wildfires are *always* the last step before > desertification. Forests go through cycles, often called ecological > successions, and often successions include fire. A lot of experts agree > that frequent low intensity wildfires promote biodiversity. The western > United States has been effectively putting out wildfires for about the last > century, which led to dense monocultures that are prime for large > destructive fires. It is believed that before our intervention the forests > were thinner and burned more often. Historic fires were lower intensity and > burned in more of a mosaic pattern. That mosaic pattern of burned > landscapes is a significant contributor to biodiversity. A mature forest > harbors different kinds of organisms than does a freshly burned one or one > in an intermediate stage of growth. When there is a mosaic pattern of say > grassland and mature forest, the forest is usually much more diverse. When > a forest is more diverse it is healthier, usually. > > Cody Smith > > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 7:30 AM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > >> Wildfires are the last step before desertification. We need to prevent it >> confine them. Is it possible to increase the accuracy of wildfire >> predictions using machine learning? >> >> https://towardsdatascience.com/anticipating-wildfires-with-machine-learning-tools-5eb43b450d36 >> >> -J. >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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