ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 2. COMPLEMENTARY RESULTS AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION ABOUT CATALONIA
MEDITERRANEAN FIRE REGIME EFFECTS ON PINE-OAK FOREST LANDSCAPE MOSAICSUNDER GLOBAL CHANGE IN NE SPAIN
European Journal of Forest Research
Assu GIL-TENA1,* – Núria AQUILUÉ1, 2 – Andrea DUANE1 – Miquel DE CÁCERES1,3 – Lluís BROTONS1,3,4
1. CEMFOR – CTFC, InForestJointResearch Unit, Solsona, 25280, Spain.
2. Universitédu Québec à Montréal, Centre d'Étude de laForêt, H2X 3Y7, Canada
3. CREAF, CerdanyoladelVallés, 08193, Spain.
4. CSIC, CerdanyoladelVallés, 08193, Spain
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ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 2. COMPLEMENTARY RESULTS AND SUPPORTING INFORMATIONABOUT CATALONIA
Table 2.1.Afforestation (ha) occurred between the time elapsed among the first and fourth version of the Land Cover Map of Catalonia (1993-2009) (Ibàñez et al. 2002; Burriel et al. 2005; Ibàñez et al. 2010). Only the results regarding the main forest tree species modelled in MEDFIRE are shown.
Species / Afforestation (ha)Pinushalepensis / 49721
P. nigra / 9940
P. pinea / 1343
P. sylvestris / 13281
Quercusilex / 29090
Q. suber / 3028
Other Quercus / 19828
TOTAL / 126231
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Fig. 2.1 Percentage of post-fire regeneration in burnt plots of the Spanish National Forest Inventory (NFI; Ministerio de MedioAmbiente 2006) after fires greater than 50ha occurred in Catalonia between the second and third NFI (1989-1991 and 2000-2001, respectively). In the third NFI, stems with diameter at breast height smaller than 7.5 cm growing in subplots of 5 m radius were identified as recruits. Plot species dominance was set according to basal area in the second NFI (1989-1991). Pure plots by species were those with more than 80% of the total percentage of basal area and mixed plots are those between 50 and 80% of the total percentage of basal area in the second NFI. Post-fire regeneration was only assessed for those species with more than 10 burnt plots (i.e. Pinushalepensis and P. nigra). The effect of Time since fire (TSF) was also considered in order to control for it. P. halep.:Pinushalepensis; Q. spp: Quercus spp.; Other P.: Other Pinus spp.. Other species (Other spp) mainly encompassed shrubby trees such as Rhamnusalaternus, Arbutus unedo, Buxussempervirens, Juniperusoxycedrus, Crataegusmonogyna
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Fig.2.2 Statistical distributions for the number of large fires with an area burnt greater than 500 ha, obtained after 100 fifty-year simulations of the MEDFIRE model under different fire regime scenarios. See scenario definition in Table 2(manuscript). Lower and upper whiskers indicate the 5% and 95% quartiles, lower and upper hinges indicate the first and third quartile and the central black line indicates the median value
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Fig. 2.3 Maps of the frequency of fire recurrence (burning more than one time) over the simulated period under different fire regime scenarios and 100 replicas per scenario. See scenario definition in Table 2(manuscript)
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