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Patterns in the seed germination response to smoke in plants from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

De Lange and Boucher (1990) discovered the germination enhancing effect of plant-derived smoke on seed of fynbos species. This finding has been applied to horti- culturally important fynbos species and to date 301 species have been tested for a response to smoke. Germination in…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, fynbos, germination, plant diseases, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed germination, serotiny, smoke effects, South Africa

Emission and long-range transport of gaseous mercury from a large-scale Canadian boreal forest fire

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, fire management, forest management, fuel types, Massachusetts, New England, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, pollution, Quebec, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind

Smoke gases of wildfires in Pinus hartivegii forests

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion chambers, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fuel types, gases, grasses, live fuels, Lupinus spp., Mexico, Muhlenbergia, pine forests, Pinus hartwegii, Senecio spp., smoke effects, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires

Heat and smoke effects on the germination of seeds from soil seed banks across forest edges between subtropical rainforest and eucalypt forest at Lamington National Park, south-eastern Queensland, Australia

Physical changes and flows of energy at the interface between two contrasting ecosystems affect the distribution of species across the ecotone. The maintenance and stability of the, often abrupt, transition between Australian rainforest and non-rainforests is often attributed to…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Allocasuarina, Australia, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, eucalyptus, forest edges, forest management, germination, heat, heat effects, national parks, post fire recovery, private lands, Queensland, rainforests, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, site treatments, smoke effects, statistical analysis, Syncarpia glomulifera, vines

Influence of timing and spatial extent of savanna fires in southern Africa on atmospheric emissions

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, carbon dioxide, combustion, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, fuel loading, grasslands, precipitation, range management, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Africa, wildfires

Smoke measurements during experimental field fires

Concern associated to smoke from forest fires has been increasing during the last past years. The severe air pollution episodes caused by fires in Amazonia, Indonesia and Philippines in 1997/98 and, more recently, in Australia, drawn worldwide attention to the problem. Currently…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Logistics, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Amazon, Australia, chemical compounds, chemical elements, combustion, computer programs, Europe, evolution, experimental fires, fire management, firefighting personnel, health factors, humidity, Indonesia, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Philippines, pollution, Portugal, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, wind

Numerical simulations of fire behavior in the presence of vertical wind shear

The effects of vertically sheared winds on the behavior of wildland fires are examined via simulations of a coupled atmosphere-fire model. Specifically, the HIGRAD/FIRETEC model developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is employed to explore the dependence of fire…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: computer programs, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Los Alamos, New Mexico, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, vortices, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) -- a multiplatform remote sensing approach to fire and smoke detection

The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is a multiplatform remote sensing approach to detecting fires and smoke over the US and adjacent areas of Canada and Mexico. This system is an integral part of the Satellite Services Division's near realtime hazards detection and mitigation…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, computer programs, fire control, fire management, GIS, heat, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, Mexico, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, US Forest Service, weather observations, web page, wildfires

Fire gels - breakthrough technology for structure protection in the WUI

Fire-blocking gel, a new weapon in the war on wildfires, is being hailed by firefighters, property owners, scientists and government officials as one of the most important developments in fire fighting history. This new technology enables professional firefighters as well as…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: brush, Canada, chemistry, Chile, Colorado, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, Florida, foam, heat, histories, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Montana, South Dakota, water, wildfires, Wyoming

Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal -- ecology and management

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 Amazonia. The Cerrado occupies more…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, aluminum, Amazon, amphibians, biogeography, birds, Bolivia, Brazil, cerrado, charcoal, conservation, cover, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, fire regimes, fishes, grasslands, grazing, health factors, hunting, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning, mammals, native species (animals), native species (plants), nutrient cycling, Paraguay, pest control, reptiles, savannas, soils, South America, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), toxicity, tropical forests, wetlands, wildfires

Fire ecology of the mountain pine, Pinus harwegii

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 disturbances that are…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: bark, coniferous forests, conservation, cover type conversion, crown scorch, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flame length, forbs, grasses, grasslands, grazing, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning, low intensity burns, Mexico, mortality, mountains, native species (plants), pine forests, pine, Pinus hartwegii, public information, scorch, season of fire, seeds, shrubs, succession, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species (plants), trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind, wood

Wildfire policy in transition: where there's smoke, there's... mirrors

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, health factors, Healthy Forests Initiative, heavy fuels, landscape ecology, low intensity burns, Montana, multiple resource management, National Fire Plan, national parks, natural resource legislation, New Mexico, private lands, public information, range management, rangelands, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

Using simulation to map fire regimes: an evaluation of approaches, strategies, and limitations

Spatial depictions of fire regimes are indispensable to fire management because they portray important characteristics of wildland fire, such as severity, intensity, and pattern, across a landscape that serves as important reference for future treatment activities. However,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, catastrophic fires, computer programs, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Eucalyptus spp., fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, ignition, landscape ecology, Montana, Native Americans, presettlement fires, rate of spread, remote sensing, season of fire, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, surface fuels, wildfires, FIRESCAPE, landscape modeling, LANDSUM - LANDscape SUccession Model

Remote sensing of burned areas in tropical savannas

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Australia, biomass, Brazil, char, charcoal, deciduous plants, distribution, eucalyptus, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire management, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS, grasslands, habitat types, leaves, mosaic, overstory, population density, remote sensing, savannas, smoke behavior, smoke effects, South Africa, South America, statistical analysis, surface fuels, tropical forests, tropical regions, understory vegetation, wildfires, Zambia

Fire-related cues break seed dormancy of six legumes of tropical eucalypt savannas in north-eastern Australia

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Chamaecrista, Crotalaria, eucalyptus, fire management, Galactia, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Indigofera, legumes, range management, savannas, seed dormancy, seed germination, statistical analysis, temperature, Tephrosia

How fire regimes interact with other forms of ecosystem disturbance and modification

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia acuminata, Andropogon gayanus, annual plants, Australia, Callitris, deforestation, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Eucalyptus loxophleba, evapotranspiration, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, flammability, forbs, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel loading, climate change, grasses, grasslands, grazing, herbivory, introduced species, invasive species, logging, Melaleuca, mining, Pennisetum, perennial plants, post fire recovery, precipitation, regeneration, savannas, season of fire, storms, temperature, weed control, weeds, western Australia, wildfires, woody plants

An evolutionary perspective on south-west Western Australian landscapes, biodiversity and fire: a review and management implications

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Acacia spp., Australia, Banksia, biogeography, conifers, conservation, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, evolution, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, firebreaks, flowering, fossils, glaciers, herbicides, histories, invasive species, land use, landscape ecology, Mediterranean habitats, mosaic, native species (plants), nongame birds, Nothofagus, orchids, paleoecology, plant diseases, range management, resprouting, scrub, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), vegetation surveys, weed control, weeds, western Australia, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Effect of smoke, charred wood, and nitrogenous compounds on seed germination of ten species from woodland in Central-Western Spain

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asteraceae, char, chemistry, Cistus ladaniferus, Cistus monspeliensis, Cistus salviifolius, Dactylis glomerata, Europe, Fabaceae, germination, Holcus lanatus, Mediterranean habitats, N - nitrogen, pH, plant communities, Poaceae, seed dormancy, seed germination, Senecio spp., shrublands, smoke effects, smoke management, Spain, Trifolium spp., wildfires, wood

A local-scale study of the trace gas emissions from vegetation burning around the village of Dalun, Ghana, with respect to seasonal vegetation changes and burning practices

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Andropogon, backfires, biogeochemical cycles, Butyrospermum parkii, chemistry, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, gases, Ghana, headfires, land use, range management, rangelands, savannas, season of fire, vegetation surveys, West Africa

Response of the soil seed-bank of Cumberland Plain Woodland to heating

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: annual plants, ash, Australia, eucalyptus, Fabaceae, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire resistant plants, fire sensitive plants, forest management, grasses, grasslands, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Hypericum, litter, military lands, New South Wales, overstory, Oxalis, Paspalidium, perennial plants, plant communities, plant growth, post fire recovery, regeneration, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, soil management, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, Themeda australis, threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation

The effects of fire and predators on the long-term persistence of an endangered shrub, Grevillea caleyi

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, Australia, biogeography, competition, conservation, distribution, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fragmentation, Grevillea, heat, light, mortality, mosaic, national parks, New South Wales, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, predation, predators, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seeds, shrublands, shrubs, size classes, soil temperature, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities

SAFARI-2000 characterization of fuels, fire behavior, combustion completeness, and emissions,from experimental burns in infertile grass savannas in western Zambia

Fires in African savannas produce emissions contributing to changes in global biogeochemical processes. In the Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI-2000), fuels characteristics were measured before and after experimental burns in two different western Zambian…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, experimental fires, fire intensity, flame length, fuel loading, rate of spread, moisture, Zambia, Africa, fire management, range management, grasslands, savannas, Kalahari, biomass, moisture content, fire intensity, rate of spread, flame length

Management implications of fire and climate changes in the western Americas

From the text ... 'This chapter focuses on the practical, management implications of the fire and climate change research that is reported in the earlier chapters of this volume. We start with an overview of fire management goals and strategies, and then draw some parallels…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, International
Keywords: fire damage (property), fire regimes, fire suppression, wildfires, air quality, climate change, Canada, Argentina, Chile, South America, fire management, forest management

Defining the role of fire in south-west Western Australian plants

Smoke and smoke-like analogues play a key role in the release of deep seed dormancy for a wide variety of geosporous (and three bradysporous) Australian plant species. Heat and ash were thought to be the primary cues for release of dormancy and subsequent germination. It is now…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire sensitive plants, wildfires, seed germination, western Australia, Australia, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, jarrah

Fire science for rainforests [literature review]

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, bibliographies, Brazil, catastrophic fires, cover type conversion, deforestation, distribution, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest edges, forest fragmentation, fuel appraisal, health factors, human caused fires, hydrology, land use, landscape ecology, post fire recovery, precipitation, rainforests, remote sensing, slash, South America, tropical forests, wildfires