The Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP): data description and reference tables

Key message

This document describes a dataset obtained from a field sampling program conducted in Alberta, Canada. Field data were used to describe the structure and composition of forest stands, including several fuel loads (e.g., surface, understory, canopy fuels). The dataset can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ8E4 and metadata is available at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/527efb49-43b4-43eb-88b2-70535ff99fc5

Keywords
Fuel load; Fuel measurement; Fire behavior; Forest structure; Field inventory; Vegetation management; Fuel treatment

Publication
Phelps, N., Cameron, H., Forbes, A.M. et al. The Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP): data description and reference tables. Annals of Forest Science 79, 28 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01144-w

Data and/or Code availability
Data have been deposited to the Open Science Framework repository: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ8E4

Handling Editor
Marianne Peiffer

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