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Canopy Fuels

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Biomass that is 2 m above the ground is considered canopy fuels and this chapter discusses the biophysical aspects of the forest and shrub canopies and then presents how canopy fuels are used to simulate fire behavior to identify the five canopy fuel characteristics that are needed as inputs to the fire models.

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Keane, R. (2015). Canopy Fuels. In: Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09015-3_4

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