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A collaborative scientific framework for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico [abstract]

McCarthy, Wood
The Jemez Mountains Project is a part of the North American Fire Learning Network (FLN), a collaborative venture of the USDA Forest Service, the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Project partners include Bandelier National…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Biodiversity and ecosystem management

Ditchkoff, Masters, Hitch
From the text ... 'Ecosystem management includes biological, social, cultural, and economic values. Ecosystem management attempts to sustain these values across landscapes by managing biological issues in both large and small landscapes with the…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Combining physical, cultural and biological methods: prospects for integrated non-chemical weed management strategies

Hatcher, Melander
Physical, cultural and biological methods for weed control have developed largely independently and are often concerned with weed control in different systems: physical and cultural control in annual crops and biocontrol in extensive grasslands. We…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Customary use of fire by indigenous peoples in northern Australia: its contemporary role in savanna management

Whitehead, Bowman, Preece, Fraser, Cooke
The extent to which use of fire by Aboriginal peoples shaped the landscapes and biota of Australia is a contentious issue. Equally contentious is the proposition that attempts should be made to support and re-establish customary practice. Some…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Fire ecology of the mountain pine, Pinus harwegii

Rodríguez-Trejo
Pinus hartwegii is found in 17 states in Mexico, from 3 000 to more than 4 000 m above sea level. It is typical of the highest portions of mountains and above 3 500 m forms pure open stands associated with grasses and some shrubs. Among the natural…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal -- ecology and management

Mendes-Ramos
The Portuguese term Cerrado means closed and designates a vast phytogeographic province dominated by an unambiguous savanna like vegetation, once it can only be found in Central Brazil and some fragments in the Southeast, Northeast and in the…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Fire use in rural tropics: cultural perspectives from Mesoamerica

Otterstrom
Throughout the world's tropical regions, humans play a central role in determining the frequency of fire because the majority of fires have an anthropogenic ignition source. Many cultures use fire in shifting cultivation systems and also for hunting…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Integrating fire ecology, fire science and fire management to maintain and restore appropriate fire regimes in the tropics

Myers
As we have seen in this Special Session on fire regimes in tropical environments, the alteration of fire regimes is a significant threat to biodiversity and human livelihoods in a wide-variety of tropical ecosystems, both fire-maintained and fire-…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Introducing the Kakadu Landscape Change Project: a multidisciplinary assessment of 50 years of landscape change in the tropical savanna region of northern Australia

Petty, Banfai, Prior, Lehmann, Bowman
The Kakadu landscape change assessment project is an ongoing, multidisciplinary project to assess landscape level changes in riparian, closed forest, and savanna ecosystems in the World Heritage Kakadu National Park, located tropical northern…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Land use and vegetation fires in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

Stolle, Chomitz, Lambin, Tomich
In Indonesia, vegetation fires occur every year in the dry season. To determine where and why fires occur, the natural and cultural landscape features that influence the location of fires were analysed. We investigated the probability of fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2003