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Table 3 Difference between available live fuel calculated as available energy

From: Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers

1-h distribution

Species

Crown biomass proportion

Total crown weight

Crown available energy

\(\varvec{\Delta }\) Energy between 1/2 1–h and modeled available fuel

fol

1-h

kg

MJ

MJ

%

Fine skew

ABGR

0.52

0.19

76.9

1057.3

85.3

8.8

THPL

0.54

0.12

42.4

573.3

33.8

6.3

TSHE

0.36

0.18

145.6

1620.1

256.1

18.8

PSME

0.40

0.19

95.5

1051.0

54.7

5.5

Normal

LAOC

0.23

0.30

63.1

319.2

− 164.1

− 34.0

ABLA

0.45

0.22

63.7

816.2

41.2

5.3

PIEN

0.43

0.23

130.5

1473.9

68.2

4.9

Coarse skew

PIAL

0.38

0.30

56.3

507.2

− 124.2

− 19.7

PICO

0.41

0.26

46.4

513.0

− 24.5

− 4.6

PIMO

0.42

0.22

51.9

615.0

52.5

9.3

PIPO

0.32

0.02

205.3

1399.4

− 55.0

− 3.8