FireCaster Wildland Fire Fuels Database for Corsican - Mediterranean Forest stand types

This database includes wildland fuels data for Mediterranean basin vegetation stands types and in particular for those in Corsica, for fire/forest management, risk assessment and decision-support purposes. It gathers together some of the most common input parameters needed by wildfire’s models at several vegetation scales (i.e., stand, elements, particles). It has been conceived by using a layering approach, this is, assuming that a vegetation stand type is constituted by one or more structurally distinct pseudo-homogenous layers of vegetation. Vegetation stand types considered are based on the fuel classification and mapping of the BDForêt® 2.0 – Corsica. Fuel attributes have been defined to be meaningful at regional/landscape scales and are representative of stand-level characteristics. National Forest Inventory (NFI) data have been mainly used for determining the fuel attributes for forest stand types. The building methods and the different data sources have been detailed in a paper which is under review. The attached dataset consists of two tables and one text document: - The first table (FuelLayersData.csv) contains fuel layers and fuel elements attributes for each vegetation stand type. The table has 15 columns. The first one (CODE_TFV) corresponds to the code assigned to each vegetation stand type following the BDForêt® nomenclature. Next columns, refer to the layer numbering, the stratum of the layer and the species scientific name. After that, next six columns correspond to the layer attributes and four columns correspond to the fuel element attributes. The last column is the diameter at breast height (DBH) for canopy layers. The empty cells in the table indicate that the corresponding attribute is not applicable for this particular layer. - The second table (FuelParticlesData.csv) contains the particle attributes, this is, the surface-to-volume ratio, particles density and low heat content. - The text document (StandTypesDescription.docx) is derived from BDForêt® version 2.0 – Corsica (https://geo.isula.corsica/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/descriptif-contenu-bd_foret-IGN.pdf) and contains a short description of the different stand types considered according to the CODE_TFV. This work was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France (grant number ANR-16-CE04-0006 FIRECASTER) and by H2020-EU.3.5. Programme (FIRE-RES, Grant agreement ID: 101037419). Pérez-Ramirez Y, Ferrat L, Filippi JB. (2024) Wildland Fire Fuels Database for Corsican – Mediterranean Forest stand types. Forest Ecology and Management, 565, 122002.