Contents

Fire Effects at Landscape Scales 1

Overview of Dynamic General Vegetation Models –

Ronald P. Neilson, James M. Lenihan, and Dominique Bachelet 3

Landscape Fire Succession Modeling: Linking Ecosystem Simulations

For Comprehensive Applications – Robert E. Keane 5

Canadian Forest Service Perspectives and Vision of Landscape

Fire Modeling – Sylvie Gauthier 9

Fire Impact Management – David L. Martell 11

Applications in Forest and Vegetation Management – Alberta’s 13

Perspective – Cordy Tymstra

Description and Uses of FARSITE – Mark A. Finney 16

Exploring Possibilities in Nature using LANDMINE – David W. Andison 18

Spatial Fire Regime Simulation in a Spatially Explicit Model for 20

Landscape Dynamics (SEM-LAND) – Chao Li

TELSA: the tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analyses - 21

Werner A. Kurz, Sarah J. Beukema and Walt Klenner

Multiscale Models of Fire in Boreal Forests – Steve Cumming 23

LAMOS: a Landscape Modelling Shell – Sandra Lavorel, Ian D. Davies, 25

and Ian R. Noble

Exploring the Envelope of Variation with LANDIS, a Spatially Explicit 29

Model of Forest Disturbance and Succession – Frèdèrik Doyon

Toward a Language for General Fire Modeling – Andrew Fall 30

Simulating fire regimes with FIRESCAPE – Geoffrey J. Cary

A Regional-Scale Fire Model for a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model - 34

Sergey Venevsky, Kirsten Thonicke, Stephen Sitch and Wolfgang Cramer

Break-Out Sessions 36

1. Incorporating Fire into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models 36

2. Gaps and Information Needs in Fire Models 38

3. Application of Fire Models with Respect to Forest and 39

Vegetation Management

4. Questions for Future Landscape Fire Models 42

Summary 44

Participant List 45