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 3 Above-ground C emissions (t C) by National Vegetation Classification Associations and differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) classes

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

National Vegetation Classification Association^a	dNBR classes^b	Area (ha)	Litter (t C)	Shrub (t C)	Foliage (t C)	C emissions (t C)	C emissions (t C ha⁻¹)
Black Needlerush Salt Marsh Association	0	81.3	0	68	0	68	0.84
	1	0.8	0	0	0	0	0.00
	2	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.00
	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Pond pine/Honeycup—Swamp Titi—Shining Fetterbush Wooded Wet Shrubland Association	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.00
	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.00
	2	703.2	3015	12,614	23	15,652	22.26
	3	2562.3	13,042	54,571	90	67,703	26.42
Loblolly Pine—Atlantic White-cedar—Swamp Tupelo/Shining Fetterbush—Sweet-pepperbush Swamp Forest Association	0	91.7	141	0	0	141	1.54
	1	77.6	298	0	0	298	3.84
	2	88.5	543	0	0	543	6.14
	3	82.8	636	0	0	636	7.68
Loblolly Pine—Red Maple—Sweetgum/Switch Cane Ruderal Wet Forest Association	0	157.3	0	212	0	212	1.35
	1	14.5	0	0	0	0	0.00
	2	66.2	236	0	0	236	3.56
	3	19.8	0	0	0	0	0.00
Pond Pine—Loblolly-bay/Shining Fetterbush Swamp Woodland Association	0	219.0	321	0	0	321	1.47
	1	1144.1	4001	4026	688	8715	7.62
	2	3012.2	10,535	16,964	16,312	43,811	14.54
	3	4697.0	24,640	31,410	26,848	82,898	17.65
Saltmeadow Cordgrass—Saltgrass—(Black Needlerush) Salt Marsh Association	0	645.5	0	0	829	829	1.28
	1	383.2	0	0	1231	1231	3.21
	2	569.7	0	0	2929	2929	5.14
	3	129.9	0	0	835	835	6.43
Swamp Sawgrass Tidal Salt Marsh Association	0	93.1	0	0	202	202	2.17
	1	41.3	0	0	224	224	5.42
	2	74.5	0	0	647	647	8.68
	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Inkberry—Shining Fetterbush—Honeycup Wet Shrubland Association	0	13.7	14	0	0	14	1.02
	1	44.1	118	494	0	612	13.88
	2	351.1	1506	6300	12	7818	22.27
	3	1987.4	10,116	42,324	70	52,510	26.42
Red Maple—Blackgum species—Sweetgum—Water Oak/Royal Fern species Swamp Forest Association	0	294.6	291	0	0	291	0.99
	1	68.4	108	0	0	108	1.58
	2	23.9	0	0	0	0	0.00
	3	2.4	0	0	0	0	0.00
Sweetgum—Red Maple—Swamp Tupelo/Cypress Swamp Sedge Swamp Forest Association	0	4.5	0	0	0	0	0.00
	1	34.4	0	0	0	0	0.00
	2	155.0	95	0	0	95	0.61
	3	20.1	0	0	0	0	0.00
Total area		17,955	69,656	1,68,983	50,940	2,89,579	214

^aNational Vegetation Classification Associations with a total area of less than 50 ha (Atlantic White-cedar/Swamp Bay/Shining Fetterbush—Large Gallberry Swamp Forest Association; European Common Reed Eastern Ruderal Marsh Association; Loblolly Pine—Red Maple—Sweetgum/Switch Cane Ruderal Wet Forest Association) and Developed Lands were excluded from C emissions estimation (total area excluded = 367.5 ha)
^bdNBR classes are: 0 = unburned/very low severity (0–134), 1 = low severity (135–168), 2 = moderate severity (169–246), and 3 = high severity (247–255)

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