Webinar: What Does a Mixed Severity Fire Regime Mean?
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Learn the final research findings and next steps of the Modelling Team in this presentation from the Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop.
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Webinar: A Lens into Past Landscapes and Fire Regimes
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Learn the final research findings and next steps of the Visual Applications Team in this presentation from the Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop.
Read MoreWebinar: Re-imagining Foothills Forests: Young, Complex and in Flux
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Learn the final research findings and next steps of the Fire Regime Team in this presentation from the Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop.
Read MoreReport: Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Modelling of Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes in the SW Foothills of Alberta
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This final report by the Modelling Team describes their rationale and methods to create a partial mortality module that addresses a critical gap in available landscape dynamics models by accounting for partial mortality and potential fire-vegetation feedbacks within the SW Alberta Foothills. The results of their model are presented and implications discussed.
Read MoreReport: Fire Regime Dynamics of the Southwestern Alberta Foothills
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This final report by the Fire Regime Team describes their landscape-scale assessment of fire frequency, severity and age structures for six study areas distributed throughout the montane and lower subalpine zone of the Foothills using dendroecological methods. They describe and contrast the fire regimes and ecological outcomes for the lodgepole pine and Douglas-fir zones of their study sites and implications of these results.
Read MoreReport: Advances in Visual Applications
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This final report by the Visual Applications Team outlines their work, accomplishments and contributions to the Landscapes in Motion project. The report details the steps taken to develop an end-to-end image analysis process for visualizing, classifying, and quantifying landscape change as seen in images from the study area.
Read MoreWebinar: Fire severity-mediated dynamics of the southwestern Alberta Foothills
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In this webinar from October 2020, Cameron Naficy of the LIM Fire Regime Team presents his research findings as part of the Landscapes in Motion project.
Read MoreWebinar: Unraveling the Complexity of Mixed Severity Fire Regimes
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In this webinar from May 2019, Cameron Naficy of the LIM Fire Regime Team synthesizes research findings from forests in the LIM study area, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and the Glacier/Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.
Read MoreWebinar: A Lens into Past Landscapes and Fire Regimes
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In this webinar from March 2020, Eric Higgs and Mary Sanseverino of the LIM Oblique Photo Team provide an overview of the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) and describe MLP’s role in Landscapes in Motion. They demonstrate cutting edge software being developed to allow researchers to extract information from the vast trove of historical and modern-day images MLP has collected, and provide case studies of three different applications.
Read MoreWebinar: How and why to incorporate partial stand mortality in landscape dynamic models of mixed-severity fire regimes
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In this webinar from November 2019, Ceres Barros of the LIM Modelling Team explains the concept of fire severity, describes many of the methods used to study mixed-severity fire regimes, and discusses a question she is addressing with Landscapes in Motion: What is the influence of stand-replacing vs partial mortality fires on post-fire vegetation recovery? She also provides some preliminary results using a subset of her data.
Read MoreVideo: Waterton Lakes National Park, one year post-fire
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Curious what Waterton Lakes National Park looks like, one year after the Kenow wildfire? This video by the Weather Network shows how things are growing back.
Read MorePoster: Modelling the effects of vegetation on fire spread
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Ceres Barros presented some preliminary findings of her modelling work at the Ecological Society of America Annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Learn what she found when she accounted for feedbacks between vegetation and fire, and what she plans to do next.
Read MoreWebinar: Altered fire regimes and reduced montane forest diversity
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This presentation from the Webinar Wednesdays series of the Healthy Landscapes Program (fRI Research) explores the reconstructed fire history of sites within Jasper National Park. Raphael found evidence of mixed-severity fire regimes, and explores how altering these regimes has affected the landscape. You can register to view the presentation or download the presentation slides.
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Mountain Legacy Project Guidebook
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What is the Mountain Legacy Project, and how on earth do they manage to take photos that line up perfectly with century-old images? This handy resource by Julie Fortin breaks it all down - download the Guidebook here.
Read MoreAltered mixed-severity fire regime has homogenised montane forests of Jasper National Park
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Fire suppression has altered the forests of Jasper National Park. Historically, the sites we studied experienced a mix of high-severity fires and low-to-moderate severity fires. With no fires since 1905, these forests have aged together and homogenised, making them more susceptible to high-severity fire. Prescribed burning is recommended to promote forest resilience. Available for purchase here.
Read MoreEvidence of mixed-severity fires in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
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Industrial disturbances like harvesting are increasingly trying to mimic wildfire, but first we need to understand how wildfire has historically affected forests. This study shows that the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta historically experienced high-severity, stand replacing fires, but also low-to-moderate-severity fires that resulted in stands with complex structure. Available for download here.
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