Dr. Brian Buma recently coauthored a Tamm Review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances?
Dr. Brian Buma, Assistant Professor with CU Denver Integrative Biology, recently coauthored a Tamm Review on the effects of salvage logging in forests around the world. Tamm reviews are an invited, high-profile series of reviews on rapidly changing topics of interest worldwide. Salvage logging is when disturbed forests, like post-fire or post-beetle trees, are harvested, often justified as a way to reduce the chance of a subsequent disturbance. The review finds that the salvage logging, far from being a simple process, can be counter-productive in preventing future disturbances depending on the process and location, for example in some cases increasing the chance of future fire.
Leverkus AB, Buma B, Wagenbrenner J, Burton P, Lingua E, Marzano R, Thorn S. 2021. Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances? Forest Ecology and Management. 481:118721.
Brian Buma on Record Breaking Wildfires
Published: Nov. 5, 2020 • By Dean's Notes, Oct. 28, 10/20/2020
Scientists say that wildfires have become hotter, more intense and more destructive in recent years. In Colorado, the threat has also intensified as the fire season has grown longer. “This is exactly what we expect from climate change,” Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Brian Buma said. “It’s not going to get any better — that’s the hard part. It’s becoming more and more regular, and that time in the fall when they can breathe a sigh of relief is being pushed out further and further.”
Colorado Wildfire Grows Into Largest in State History
The New York Times, Oct18
CU Denver Professor to Examine History of Forest Harvests and the Influence on Climate Change
Published: Oct. 23, 2020 • By CU Denver News, October 8, 2020
University of Colorado Denver Assistant Professor Brian Buma was awarded a $476,254 grant from the National Science Foundation. With this grant, Buma will explore what limits, if any, historical management patterns of carbon place on current carbon-management actions, and what that means for carbon management in the future. Carbon management is an important tool in promoting environmental health. It can be used to help organizations limit the amount of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. You can read the full article from CU Denver News here.
World's southernmost tree and forests newly documented and published by Brian Buma
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Buma, Asst. Professor at UC Denver Integrative Biology on the peer reviewed paper officially announcing “The world's southernmost tree and the forests at the extreme tip of South America”. You can read the full article here.
Brian Buma awarded grant from the National Science Foundation
Brian Buma was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of historical management patterns on future carbon sequestration projects in the US and Canada. The support totals $476,254 over three years and will result in the first spatially explicit carbon maps of the entire coastal region, one of the densest carbon hotspots on the globe, as well as a new public-private partnership with carbon market experts.