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To Do: Use this cheatsheet to calculate the fuel loading for the downed woody debris, litter
and duff, and shrub and herbaceous fuels in the two sites. Input the data into the Excel
worksheet you were given, and email to lkobziar@ufl.edu before Tuesday of next week.
Where:
n = total number of intersections over all sample points (for each of the 1-hr, 10-hr and 100-hr
samples)
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For 1, 10 and 100-hr fuels these have been measured in the field and constants for
different species and systems have been derived. For our purposes, use the following
(nonslash composite values from Brown 1974):
For 1000-hr fuels (3+ in), the actual diameters of each piece are squared and added
together to get ∑d2
The correction factor adjusts weight estimates for the fact that all particles do not lie
horizontally as assumed in the planar intersect theory.
Brown provides the following:
0 to 3 inches: 1.13
3+ inches: 1.00
These lengths are different for different protocols: FIREMON Sampling Scheme:
1-hr 6ft
10-hr 6ft
100-hr 15ft
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1000-hr 60ft
Where:
B = biomass (kg/sq. m)
H = height (m)
C = percent cover/100
BD = bulk density (kg/cu. m)
Bulk density used for the herbaceous and shrub components are 0.8 kg/m3 and 1.8
kg/m3, respectively.
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