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Above-ground biomass accumulation patterns in moorlands after prescribed burning and low-intensity grazing

Alday, Santana, Lee, Allen, Marrs
Shrub-dominated ecosystems such as moorlands are recognized internationally as cultural landscapes with high biodiversity conservation value. These ecosystems are commonly managed using prescribed burning to reduce the impact of wildfires, increase…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Conifer encroachment in California oak woodlands

Cocking, Varner, Engber
California deciduous oak woodlands provide many ecological, cultural, and economic benefits, and often represent unique plant communities that harbor native rare and declining species. Oak woodlands have suffered substantial losses in area and…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Fire in the northeast: learning from the past, planning for the future

Poulos
Fire is an important disturbance process that regulates forest stand structure and species diversity in many ecosystems across the northeastern United States. Fires have promoted the growth and regeneration of shade intolerant genera throughout the…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Introduction to fire ecology of the northeast: restoring native and cultural ecosystems

Robertson, Poulos, Camp, Tyrrell
This special issue is composed of papers presented at a conference hosted jointly by the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (New Haven, Connecticut) and Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy (Tallahassee,…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Local and global pyrogeographic evidence that indigenous fire management creates pyrodiversity

Trauernicht, Brook, Murphy, Williamson, Bowman
Despite the challenges wildland fire poses to contemporary resource management, many fire-prone ecosystems have adapted over centuries to millennia to intentional landscape burning by people to maintain resources. We combine fieldwork, modeling, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Local and global pyrogeographic evidence that indigenous fire management creates pyrodiversity

Trauernicht, Brook, Murphy, Williamson
Despite the challenges wildland fire poses to contemporary resource management, many fire-prone ecosystems have adapted over centuries to millennia to intentional landscape burning by people to maintain resources. We combine fieldwork, modeling, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Paleoecology and fire history of Garry oak ecosystems in Canada: implications for conservation and environmental management

Pellatt, Mccoy, Mathewes
Garry oak (Quercus garryana) ecosystems are listed as 'at-risk' or endangered throughout their global range. In Canada, they are an umbrella for over one hundred species that are endangered to some degree. In order to effectively recover or allow…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Radiant heat effects on ceramic artifacts from the American southwest: from experimental results to site treatment guidelines

Kneifel
Archaeological assemblages in the American Southwest are currently subjected to periodic wildfires and prescribed burns, and have been exposed to fires in the past. Ceramics are a key constituent of these assemblages, leading to questions regarding…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Restoring California black oak to support tribal values and wildlife

Long, Quinn-Davidson, Goode, Lake, Skinner
Mature California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) trees are a keystone for many Native American cultures and support important ecological values. Black oaks depend on low-intensity, relatively frequent fires to reduce competition from conifers, yet…
Type: Document
Year: 2015

Restoring indigenous prescribed fires to California oak woodlands

Hankins
It is recognized that California Indians have stewarded the landscape for millennia. As such, the coupling of fire and culture are interrelated and interdependent in many California ecosystems including oak woodlands. Colonization and subsequent…
Type: Document
Year: 2015