Carbon emissions from a temperate coastal peatland wildfire: contributions from natural plant communities and organic soils

Mickler, Robert A.

doi:10.1186/s13021-021-00189-0

Table 2 Area (ha) of land cover/land use, The US National Vegetation Classification Associations, differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) classes, and ground fire frequency classes

From: Carbon emissions from a temperate coastal peatland wildfire: contributions from natural plant communities and organic soils

Land cover/land use and The US National Vegetation Classification Associations^a	Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio classes
	Unburned/very low severity (0)					Low severity (1)					Moderate severity (2)					High severity (3)
	Ground fire frequency classes^b
	0	1	2	3	4	0	1	2	3	4	0	1	2	3	4	0	1	2	3	4
Surface waters	13.8	0.8	0	0	0	40.5	3.6	0	0	0	17.8	10.1	0	0	0	0.8	1.2	0	0	0
Developed lands	36.0	4.9	3.2	0	0	61.5	17.8	4.4	0	0	69.6	29.5	3.6	0	0	19.8	6.1	0	0	0
Atlantic White-cedar/Swamp Bay/Shining Fetterbush—Large Gallberry Swamp Forest Association	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	0	0	0	0	5.7	0.4	0	5.2	2	3.6	4.8	0
Black Needlerush Salt Marsh Association	81.3	0.0	0	0	0	0.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
European Common Reed Eastern Ruderal Marsh Association	2.8	0.0	0	0	0	8.1	0	0	0	0	14.9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Loblolly Pine—Atlantic White-cedar—Swamp Tupelo/Shining fetterbush—Coastal Sweet-pepperbush Swamp Forest Association	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	1.6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.6	0	0
Swamp Tupelo—Tuliptree—(Pond Pine, Loblolly Pine)/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Forest Association	50.9	40.8	0	0	0	57.4	20.2	0	0	0	48.5	38	2	0	0	1.2	23.8	18.6	39.2	0
Loblolly Pine—Red Maple—Sweetgum/Switch Cane Ruderal Wet Forest Association	42.9	31.6	0	0	0	10.9	3.6	0	0	0	40.8	10.9	0	0	0	19	0.8	0	0	0
Pond Pine—Loblolly-bay/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Woodland Association	177.7	40.9	0.4	0	0	610.7	528.5	4.9	0	0	1191.3	1575.8	239.9	5.2	0	1286.1	2436.2	873.3	85.7	15.7
Saltmeadow Cordgrass—Saltgrass—(Black Needlerush) Salt Marsh Association	644.7	0.8	0	0	0	382	1.2	0	0	0	562.5	7.2	0	0	0	126.3	2	1.6	0	0
Swamp Sawgrass Tidal Salt Marsh Association	93.1	0	0	0	0	41.3	0	0	0	0	74.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inkberry—Shining Fetterbush—Honeycup Wet Shrubland Association	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	422.8	280.4	0	0	0	1182.9	1363.7	15.7	0	0
Pond pine/Honeycup—Swamp Titi—Shining Fetterbush Wooded Wet Shrubland Association	12.9	0.8	0	0	0	40.5	3.6	0	0	0	228.2	97.9	21.4	3.6	0	612.7	848.6	372.3	143.3	10.5
Red Maple—Blackgum species—Sweetgum—Water Oak/Royal Fern species Swamp Forest Association	184.5	110.1	0	0	0	44.5	23.9	0	0	0	14.6	9.3	0	0	0	2.4	0	0	0	0
Sweetbay—Swampbay Swamp/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Forest Association	0.4	0	0	0	0	1.2	0	0	0	0	9.3	4.8	0	0	0	24.7	13.7	0	0	0
Sweetgum—Red Maple—Swamp Tupelo/Cypress Swamp Sedge Swamp Forest Association	4.1	0.4	0	0	0	23.1	11.3	0	0	0	108.1	46.9	0	0	0	12.5	7.6	0	0	0
Total area	1345.0	231.0	3.64	0	0	1324.1	613.7	9.7	0	0	2802.9	2110.8	272.6	9.2	0	3293.6	4705.7	1288.7	273	26.2

^aCEGL006146 Atlantic White-cedar/Swamp Bay/Shining Fetterbush—Large Gallberry Swamp Forest Association (Chamaecyparis thyoides/Persea palustris/Lyonia lucida—Ilex coriacea Swamp Forest Swamp Forest Association), CEGL004186 Black Needlerush Salt Marsh Association (Juncus roemerianus Salt Marsh Association), CEGL004141 European Common Reed Eastern Ruderal Marsh Association (Phragmites australis ssp. Australis Eastern Ruderal Marsh Association), CEGL004458 Pond pine/Honeycup—Swamp Titi—Shining Fetterbush Wooded Wet Shrubland Association (Pinus serotina/Zenobia pulverulenta—Cyrilla racemiflora—Lyonia lucida Wooded Wet Shrubland Association), CEGL007558 Loblolly Pine—Atlantic White-cedar—Swamp Tupelo/Shining fetterbush—Coastal Sweet-pepperbush Swamp Forest Association (Pinus taeda—Chamaecyparis thoides—Nyssa biflora/Lyonia lucida—Clethra alnifolia Swamp Forest Association), CEGL004734 Swamp Tupelo—Tuliptree—(Pond Pine, Loblolly Pine)/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Forest Association (Nyssa biflora—Liriodendron tulipifera—Pinus (serotina, taeda)/Lyonia lucida Swamp Forest Association), CEGL004649 Loblolly Pine—Red Maple—Sweetgum/Switch Cane Ruderal Wet Forest Association (Pinus taeda—Acer rubrum—Liquidambar styraciflua/Arundinaria tecta Ruderal Wet Forest Association), CEGL003671 Pond Pine—Loblolly-bay/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Woodland (Pinus serotina—Gordonia lasianthus/Lyonia lucida Swamp Woodland), CEGL004197 Saltmeadow Cordgrass—Saltgrass—(Black Needlerush) Salt Marsh Association (Spartina patens—Distichlis spicata – (Juncus roemerianus) Salt Marsh Association), CEGL004178 Swamp Sawgrass Tidal Salt Marsh (Cladium mariscus Tidal Salt Marsh), CEGL003944 Inkberry—Shining Fetterbush—Honeycup Wet Shrubland Association (Ilex glabra—Lyonia lucida – Zenobia pulverulenta Wet Shrubland Association), CEGL007982 Red Maple—Blackgum species—Sweetgum—Water Oak/Royal Fern species Swamp Forest Association (Acer rubrum—Nyssa spp.—Liquidambar styraciflua—Quercus nigra/Osmunda spp. Swamp Forest Association), CEGL007049 Sweetbay—Swampbay Swamp/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Forest Association (Magnolia virginiana—Persea palustris/Lyonia lucida Swamp Forest Association), CEGL006223 Sweetgum—Red Maple/Wax-myrtle Mid-Atlantic Swamp Forest Association (Liquidambar styraciflua—Acer rubrum—Nyssa biflora/Carex joorii Swamp Forest Association)
^bThe five fire frequency classes are: class 0 = no detects, class 1 = 1–5 detects, class 2 = 6–10 detects, class 3 = 11–15 detects, and class 4 = 16–19 detect

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