"Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Agricultural Fires in the Centra" by Mirela G. Tulbure, Michael Wimberly et al.

GSCE Faculty Publications

Title

Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Agricultural Fires in the Central United States in Relation to Land Cover and Land Use

Authors

Mirela G. Tulbure, South Dakota State UniversityFollow
Michael Wimberly, South Dakota State UniversityFollow
David P. Roy, South Dakota State UniversityFollow
Geoffrey Henebry, South Dakota State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-6-2010

Keywords

Agricultural burning, Active fires, Biodiversity, Emissions, Patterns of fire detections, Cloud cover, Local spatial analysis, Fire detections

Description

Agricultural burning is an important land use practice in the central U.S. but has received little attention in the literature, whereas most of the focus has been on wildfires in forested areas. Given the effects that agricultural burning can have on biodiversity and emissions of greenhouse gasses, there is a need to quantify the spatial and temporal patterns of fire in agricultural landscapes of the central U.S. Three years (2006–2008) of the MODIS 1 km daily active fire product generated from the MODIS Terra and Aqua satellite data were used. The 2007 Cropland Data Layer developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture was used to examine fire distribution by land cover/land use (LCLU) type. Global ordinary least square (OLS) models and local geographically weighted regression (GWR) analyses were used to explore spatial variability in relationships between fire detection density and LCLU classes. The monthly total number of fire detections peaked in April and the density of fire detections (number of fires/km2/ 3 years) was generally higher in areas dominated by agriculture than areas dominated by forest. Fire seasonality varied among areas dominated by different types of agriculture and land use. The effects of LCLU classes on fire detection density varied spatially, with grassland being the primary correlate of fire detection density in eastern Kansas; whereas wheat cropping was important in central Kansas, northeast North Dakota, and northwest Minnesota.

Publication Title

Landscape Ecology

Volume

First Page

211

Last Page

224

DOI of Published Version

10.1007/s10980-010-9548-0

Language

Comments

Springer, http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-010-9548-0 posted with permission

Recommended Citation

Tulbure, Mirela G.; Wimberly, Michael; Roy, David P.; and Henebry, Geoffrey, "Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Agricultural Fires in the Central United States in Relation to Land Cover and Land Use" (2010). GSCE Faculty Publications. 62.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/gsce_pubs/62

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