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Middleton
Protection of culturally important indigenous landscapes has become an increasingly important component of environmental management processes, for both companies and individuals striving to comply with environmental regulations, and for indigenous…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Newman
This dissertation explores aspects of resident and community adaptive capacity to environmental disturbance in the context of wildfire and hurricane in Lee County, Florida. It is comprised of an introduction chapter and three articles written for…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Giardina
[from the text] Hawaii and the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, including Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, and the Marshall Islands (fig. A1-3), contain a high…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Swanston, Handler
Forests are a defining landscape feature for much of the Midwest, from boreal forests surrounding the northern Great Lakes to oak-hickory (Quercus spp., Carya spp.) forests blanketing the Ozark Highlands. Savannas and open woodlands mark a major…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Cuthrell
On the central California coast, the low incidence of lightning fires, coupled with a relatively predictable regional vegetation succession pattern, leads to the expectation that in the absence of regular anthropogenic burning, the landscape would…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Alexander, Cruz
Evaluation is a crucial component for model credibility and acceptance by researchers and resource managers. The nature and characteristics of free-burning wildland fires pose challenges to acquiring the kind of quality data necessary for adequate…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Black, McBride
In an effort to improve organizational outcomes, including safety, in wildland fire management, researchers and practitioners have turned to a domain of research on organizational performance known as High Reliability Organizing (HRO). The HRO…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Calhoon, Miller, Jimenez, Harper, Williams
With the advent of the usage of primary fibroblasts in comparative and evolutionary biology, it is important for researchers to know the extent to which cells might be altered during the culturing process and how much species might differ in…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Voggesser, Lynn, Daigle, Lake, Ranco
Climate change related impacts, such as increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, higher temperatures, extreme changes to ecosystem processes, forest conversion and habitat degradation are threatening tribal access to valued resources. Climate…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
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