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Trauernicht, Murphy, Tangalin, Bowman
We use the fire ecology and biogeographical patterns of Callitris intratropica, a fire-sensitive conifer, and the Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), an introduced mega-herbivore, to examine the hypothesis that the continuation of Aboriginal…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Fleishman, Chambers, Dobkin, Dickson
Prescribed fire and other fuels management treatments have been suggested as mechanisms to slow expansion of pinyon and juniper woodlands while minimizing potential expansion of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and increasing habitat quality and…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Rutigliano, Migliorini, Maggi, D'Ascoli, Fanciulli, Persiani
In a Mediterranean area of Southern Italy, affected by low- and high-severity experimental fires, burned and unburned soils were analysed, at 245, 364 and 728 days after fire, for total and active fungal mycelium mass, abundance, species density and…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Johnson
This study brought together a team of ecologists, archaeologists, environmental historians, indigenous peoples, and land managers within a research framework combining an ethnographic investigation of traditional practices with cutting-edge…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Stowe, Johnson, Noss, Juras, Park
Johnny Stowe: The use of fire is unique to humans, People have for scores of thousands of generations used fire to shape landscapes and lifeways, and conversely, fire has shaped us -- warming our hearths and our hearts. This inextricable link…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Flatley, Lafon, Grissino-Mayer, LaForest
Fire-maintained ecosystems and associated species are becoming increasingly rare in the southern Appalachian Mountains because of fire suppression policies implemented in the early 20th century. Restoration of these communities through prescribed…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Lake
Indigenous people’s detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists. . . .…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
The Madrean Archipelago or Sky Islands region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico is recognized for its unique biological diversity, natural beauty, and cultural heritage. This 2012 conference brought together scientists, managers…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Stucki, Rodhouse, Lyon, Garrett
The ecological significance of cultural parks and protected areas, such as battlefields, has frequently been overlooked. Yet small cultural parks with rare populations can provide refugia and colonists for re-establishment elsewhere, and thus are…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Sneeuwjagt, Kline, Stephens
As the large scale of fuel treatments needed to promote ecosystem health and reduce heavy fuel loads becomes clear in California's mixed conifer forests, managers are beginning to focus on how to scale up prescribed fire use in order to treat a…
Type: Document
Year: 2013