How much boreal lake shoreline is burned by wildfire? Implications for emulating natural disturbance in riparian forest management

Understanding of post-fire residual vegetation patterns is important when shoreline vegetation management aims to emulate natural disturbance (END) patterns. To assess the impacts of fire, lake and lakeshed sizes on the burning pattern of shorelines and lakesheds, we quantified the burned shorelines and post-fire residual vegetation patterns in the lakesheds of 123 lakes of Ontario affected by 26 wildfires between 2005 and 2007. We used ArcGIS...