From: The Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP): data description and reference tables
Fuel type: M-1/M-2 Boreal Mixedwood | Natural (94 sampling events) | Treated (24 sampling events) | ||||||
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Minimum | Maximum | Mean | Standard deviation | Minimum | Maximum | Mean | Standard deviation | |
SDCanopyAll (trees hectare−1) | 250.2 | 4149 | 1365 | 741.0 | 175.12 | 1799 | 805.3 | 457.6 |
SDCanopyLiveConifers (trees hectare−1) | 50.03 | 2699 | 540.8 | 418.7 | 50.03 | 1249 | 434.4 | 358.9 |
SDUndAll (trees hectare−1) | 0 | 13 990 | 1674 | 1980 | 0 | 1701 | 418.7 | 501.8 |
SDUndLiveConifers (trees hectare−1) | 0 | 2902 | 553.1 | 656.0 | 0 | 800.5 | 91.69 | 206.3 |
BACanopyAll (m2 hectare−1) | 6.158 | 80.83 | 41.58 | 15.72 | 1.620 | 46.56 | 27.07 | 12.39 |
BACanopyLiveConifers (m2 hectare−1) | 0.0542 | 51.91 | 14.86 | 10.93 | 0.0237 | 42.07 | 13.20 | 9.269 |
BAUndAll (m2 hectare−1) | 0 | 8.408 | 1.195 | 1.582 | 0 | 4.525 | 0.4543 | 0.9960 |
BAUndLiveConifers (m2 hectare−1) | 0 | 3.770 | 0.5208 | 0.7053 | 0 | 1.265 | 0.0973 | 0.2786 |
Height (m) | 1.850 | 27.05 | 14.00 | 5.283 | 1.500 | 27.05 | 15.57 | 5.074 |
CBH (m) | 0.2333 | 10.36 | 4.138 | 2.415 | 0.9500 | 9.113 | 5.301 | 2.238 |
ConiferProportion | 0.2069 | 0.800 | 0.5241 | 0.1922 | 0.2083 | 0.800 | 0.5226 | 0.1907 |
LiveProportion | 0.1667 | 1.000 | 0.7712 | 0.2062 | 0.5385 | 1.000 | 0.9158 | 0.1118 |
ConiferousAge (years) | 24.50 | 140.0 | 64.35 | 22.85 | 30.00 | 92.00 | 63.46 | 17.37 |
DeciduousAge (years) | 20.75 | 118.0 | 60.21 | 22.88 | 37.00 | 101.0 | 70.38 | 21.86 |
CanopyFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0.0100 | 1.887 | 0.5275 | 0.3673 | 0.0046 | 0.9512 | 0.4290 | 0.2795 |
CanopyBulkDensity (kg m−3) | 0.0055 | 0.2185 | 0.0560 | 0.0413 | 0.0057 | 0.1172 | 0.0436 | 0.0305 |
UnderstoryFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 0.2677 | 0.0450 | 0.0546 | 0 | 0.0961 | 0.0089 | 0.0229 |
ForbFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 0.0327 | 0.0087 | 0.0075 | 0.0015 | 0.0515 | 0.0135 | 0.0112 |
GrassFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 0.0758 | 0.0115 | 0.0140 | 0.0001 | 0.1657 | 0.0287 | 0.0364 |
ShrubFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 2.854 | 0.4142 | 0.5792 | 0.0232 | 0.7564 | 0.1425 | 0.1673 |
FWDFuelLoad1cm (kg m−2) | 0.0072 | 0.1160 | 0.0281 | 0.0201 | 0.0062 | 0.1447 | 0.0330 | 0.0316 |
FWDFuelLoad3cm (kg m−2) | 0.0182 | 0.3069 | 0.0950 | 0.0613 | 0.0105 | 0.2478 | 0.0837 | 0.0595 |
FWDFuelLoad7cm (kg m−2) | 0.0266 | 0.7650 | 0.2457 | 0.1645 | 0.0077 | 0.4117 | 0.1461 | 0.1094 |
CWDFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 6.614 | 2.007 | 1.541 | 0 | 3.219 | 0.6965 | 1.003 |
LitterFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0.2451 | 2.059 | 0.8471 | 0.3357 | 0.2005 | 3.862 | 0.9870 | 0.7913 |
LitterAvgBulkDensity (kg m−3) | 13.45 | 148.9 | 48.15 | 26.27 | 10.18 | 154.0 | 54.08 | 33.46 |
LitterAvgDepth (cm) | 0.5625 | 4.500 | 2.232 | 0.7840 | 0.4375 | 4.714 | 2.214 | 1.133 |
DuffFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 6.678 | 1.941 | 0.8732 | 0.4964 | 9.092 | 2.210 | 1.663 |
DuffAvgBulkDens (kg m−3) | 0 | 333.9 | 103.8 | 44.08 | 55.83 | 454.6 | 128.5 | 81.51 |
DuffAvgDepth (cm) | 0 | 9.238 | 5.628 | 1.878 | 0.5625 | 8.438 | 4.685 | 2.050 |
MulchFuelLoad (kg m−2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.849 | 0.4405 | 0.9346 |
MulchAvgDepth (cm) | NA | NA | NA | NA | 2.200 | 8.833 | 4.414 | 2.577 |