User guide to the FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment (VA) Tool: A rapid and flexible system for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate-fire interactions
USFS, Northern Arizona University, University of Central Arkansas, University of Arizona, The Forest Guild, National Park Service, Utah State University
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Abstract
Decisionmakers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such vulnerability assessment (VA) is FireCLIME VA, which allows users to compare management strategies under various climate scenarios and gauge the potential effectiveness of those strategies for reducing undesirable impacts of climate on wildfire regimes and resulting impacts of wildfire on natural ecosystems. Developed as part of the SW FireCLIME science-management partnership, FireCLIME is meant to be quick, flexible, and amendable to a range of data inputs (literature review, expert, and modeling or monitoring activities), allowing users to easily compare various fire-climate outcomes for one or more ecosystems of interest. Users can use literature, hypothetical scenarios, or quantitative data to implement the FireCLIME VA tool. This tool, unlike other vulnerability assessment, is best used iteratively to explore a range of possible scenarios and management strategies.
Suggested Citation
Friggens, M., Loehman, R.A., Thode, A., Flatley, W.T., Evans, A., Bunn, W., Wilcox, C., Mueller, S., Yocum, L., Falk, D.A., 2019, User guide to the FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment (VA) Tool: A rapid and flexible system for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate-fire interactions, 42 p.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Other Government Series |
| Title | User guide to the FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment (VA) Tool: A rapid and flexible system for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate-fire interactions |
| Year Published | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | US Forest Service |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center Geography |
| Description | 42 p. |