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blowdown: a standalone construct

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blowdown1 CONSTRUCTBlowdown (forest)BLOWDOWN · WIND-FELLED

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Forest ecology

Trees felled en masse by wind

In forestry, blowdown is the uprooting or snapping of trees by wind, from scattered stems to whole stands flattened in a storm, a major natural disturbance that triggers salvage and reshapes stand structure (closely related to windthrow). Dupont's 2016 A simple wind–tree interaction model predicting the probability of wind damage at stand level models the stand-scale probability of such damage. The referent is a wind-caused tree-mortality event, measured by the area and volume of trees felled, unrelated to an intermittent wind tunnel, sharing only the word.[1]

Unit
The area and volume of trees felled by a wind event
Recovery means
The stand regenerates through salvage, release of survivors, and new cohorts in the created openings
Measured by
Assessed by area affected, volume downed, and the modelled probability of stand-level wind damage

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References

  1. Dupont, S. (2016). A simple wind–tree interaction model predicting the probability of wind damage at stand level. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 224, 49–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.04.014

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