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Table 2 Means of pre-burn fuel loads, “mean fire temperature”, and post-burn fuel loads (burn-only plots) for 4 plots burned in the spring of 2002 (burn-only plot) or 2003 (herbicide-and-burn plots) in a longleaf pine forest in the southeastern USA (SD in parentheses).

From: Modeling spatial patterns of fuels and fire behavior in a longleaf pine forest in the Southeastern USA

   

Pre-burn

  

Post-burn

 
  

Litter

Standing

Woody debris

“Mean

Litter

Standing

Woody debris

  

mass

fuel mass

mass

fire temp.”

mass

fuel mass

mass

Treatment

Plot

g m-2

g m-2

g m-2

C

g m-2

g m-2

g m-2

Burn-only

        
 

6

1486 (956)

159 (58)

496 (814)

164 (75)

850 (437)

84 (56)

434 (634)

Herbicide-and-burn

       
 

4

1151 (640)

242 (73)

160 (337)

154 (70)

   
 

7

1136 (693)

204 (78)

106 (238)

156 (62)

   
 

12

1099 (488)

188 (89)

188 (381)

236 (212)