Multi-scalar analyses of the historical cumulative disturbance patterns on three boreal Alberta landscapes

了解自然干扰机制产生的景观格局是基于生态系统的土地管理的基石之一。该方法允许将自然干扰的频率、大小和严重程度作为人为干扰的指南，目的是保持更高水平的生物多样性、生境连通性和异质性，并保持更具弹性的景观生态系统。将这一概念应用于北方地区的森林和土地管理，是改进自然资源开采最佳做法的关键。要使这一战略奏效，我们需要了解自然干扰模式如何以及在多大程度上有别于过去和现在的人为干扰活动。这项研究方案将艾伯塔省三个森林覆盖、高度管理的森林管理区(FMA)的后工业干扰模式与现有研究得出的前工业时代的自然干扰模式进行了比较。

Understanding landscape patterns that result from natural disturbance regimes is one of the cornerstones of ecosystem-based land management. The approach allows the frequency, size, and severity of natural disturbances to be used as a guide for anthropogenic disturbances with the intent of maintaining higher levels of biodiversity habitat connectivity and heterogeneity and maintain more resilient landscape ecosystems. Applying this concept to forest and land management in the boreal is key to improving best practices for the extraction of natural resources. For such a strategy to work we require an understanding of how, and to what degree, patterns of natural disturbance regimes differ from past and current anthropogenic disturbance activity. This research proposal compares the post-industrial disturbance patterns of three forested, highly managed, forest management areas (FMA) in Alberta to the natural disturbance patterns from the pre-industrial era drawn from existing research