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The present paper reviews a long-term fire experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, established in 1954 to support fire management. The paper's goals are: (1) to assess learning, with a focus on relevance for fire management; (2) to examine how findings influenced…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, ecosystem dynamics, experimental areas, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, herbaceous vegetation, insects, mammals, mortality, mosaic, mycorrhiza, national parks, N - nitrogen, physiology, precipitation, range management, savannas, season of fire, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, South Africa, vegetation surveys, woody plants, elephants, fire season, Kruger National Park
This paper details some of the recent research findings concerning restoration needs of the Banksia woodland in Western Australia, including the importance of, and recent advances in, smoke-technology research. Research has enabled testing of a wide spectrum of restoration…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, artificial regeneration, Australia, Banksia, coastal plain, erosion, fertilizers, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fragmentation, germination, herbicides, litter, plant communities, plant growth, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, soils, species diversity (plants), weeds, western Australia, wildfires, wind
Fire has been shown to stimulate seed germination in a number of fire-prone ecosystems, mainly in Mediterranean type shrublands and, though not exclusively, in hardseeded species. Stimulation by heat, or by chemical constituents of charred wood and smoke, have been identified as…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, Andropogon lateralis, Asteraceae, Brazil, Cyperaceae, ecosystem dynamics, Elionurus, Eryngium, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forbs, germination, grasses, grasslands, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Mediterranean habitats, Poaceae, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, South America, temperature, wood, germination, grasslands, heat shock, southern Brazil
Though observations on re-colonisation of post-fire sites in the Mediterranean Basin are plentiful, there still is an ongoing debate on the interrelation of fire regimes and species traits related to fire adaptation. Most of the studies found are restricted to particular species…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, char, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evolution, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, forest management, fuel types, land use, light, Mediterranean habitats, post fire recovery, regeneration, resprouting, season of fire, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, smoke effects, soils, surface fires, adaptive trait, disturbance history, evolution, facultative resprouter, pyrophytic, resilience, resprouter, seeder
In the present work, post-burning soil N2O fluxes and related microbial processes were investigated in a Mediterranean shrubland subjected to experimental fires. Nine plots were selected, of which three were used as controls, three were burned with low-intensity fire and three…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fire, fire frequency, fire intensity, low intensity burns, surface fires, air quality, C - carbon, enzymes, N - nitrogen, sampling, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, statistical analysis, Italy, Mediterranean, fire management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, shrublands, denitrification, fire intensity, nitrification, soil nitrogen
Soil seed banks are an important source of new individuals for many plant populations and contribute to future genetic variability. In general, the size and persistence of soil seed banks is predicted to be greater where growth occurs in unpredictable pulses, where opportunities…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, national parks, precipitation, seed dormancy, seed germination, statistical analysis, Tanzania, Africa, fire management, forest management, savannas
At the end of August 2009, wild fires ravaged the north-eastern fringes of Athens destroying invaluable forest wealth of the Greek capital. In this work, the impact of these fires on the air quality of Athens and surface radiation levels is examined. Satellite imagery, smoke…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, fire frequency, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, Greece, Europe, fire management, smoke management, pollution, biomass burning, aerosol, photochemistry, radiation
Austrostipa compressa, a native ephemeral of southwest Western Australia was stimulated to germinate under a range of temperatures, in the presence of light, and exposure to smoke-water. This combination of environmental cues results in winter-maximum germination in immediate…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, introduced species, light, population density, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, soil temperature, temperature, Ehrharta, Poaceae, western Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, disturbance, heat shock, light, reserve management, soil seed bank, temperature
Agricultural residue burning is one of the major causes of greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols in the lndo-Ganges region. In this study, we characterize the fire intensity, seasonality, variability, fire radiative energy (FRE) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) variations during…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, season of fire, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, greenhouse gases, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, India, Asia, fire management, forest management, croplands, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, agricultural residues, biomass burning, aerosol optical depth variations
Wildland fire is a natural force that has shaped most vegetation types of the world. However, its inappropriate management during the last century has led to more frequent and catastrophic fires. Wildland fires are also recognized as one of the sources of CO2 and other…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, wildfires, air quality, carbon dioxide, deforestation, gases, plant growth, Patagonia, Argentina, South America, fire management, forest management, CO2 emissions, Kyoto Protocol, emissions mitigation, biomass growth
Background: During the summer of 2006, a wave of wildfires struck Galicia (north-west Spain), giving rise to a disaster situation in which a great deal of the territory was destroyed. Unlike other occasions, the wildfires in this case also threatened farms, houses and even human…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Fire Effects, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), smoke effects, wildfires, health factors, Spain, Europe, fire management
As climate change increases vegetation combustibility, humans are impacted by wildfires through loss of lives and property, leading to an increased emphasis on prescribed burning practices to reduce hazards. A key and pervading concept accepted by most environmental managers is…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire resistant plants, smoke effects, wildfires, conservation, flowering, resprouting, seed germination, serotiny, Australia, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats
Soil seed banks that persist after a fire are important in fire-prone habitats as they minimise the risk of decline or local extinction in plants, should the fire-free interval be less than the primary juvenile periods of the species. In two common woody plant genera (Acacia and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Acacia suaveolens, Australia, distribution, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, germination, Grevillea, heat, low intensity burns, mortality, national parks, New South Wales, population density, range management, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, shrublands, smoke management, wildfires, Acacia spp., depth of burial, fire frequency, Grevillea, soil seed bank, southeastern Australia, seedling emergence
Fire, natural or of anthropologic origin, is a recurrent phenomenon in South African mesic grassland. The species composition of these grasslands is sensitive to fire, particularly fire frequency. However, the mechanisms involved in influencing species composition are not fully…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Aristida, chemical compounds, fire frequency, fire management, fire sensitive plants, germination, grasses, grasslands, human caused fires, Hyparrhenia, Hyparrhenia hirta, Panicum, Panicum maximum, Poaceae, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, roots, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, temperature, Themeda, Themeda triandra, Tristachya, vegetation surveys, wildfires, butenolide, germination, grassland species, seedling vigor, smoke-water, temperature
To evaluate the effect of increasing forest disturbances on greenhouse gas budgets in a taiga forest in eastern Siberia, CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes from the soils were measured during the growing season in intact, burnt and clear-felled larch forests (4-5 years after the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, air temperature, Asia, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, clearcutting, deciduous forests, decomposition, disturbance, fire frequency, forest management, Larix, moisture, nutrition, organic matter, plant nutrition, population density, precipitation, roots, Russia, Siberia, size classes, soil management, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis, taiga, temperature, tundra, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, wildfires, clear-felling, greenhouse gas flux, permafrost, Siberian Taiga, wild fire
In this study, we used fire count datasets derived from Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) satellite to characterize spatial patterns in fire occurrences across highly diverse geographical, vegetation and topographic gradients in the Indian region. For characterizing the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, ignition, India, montane forests, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fires, spatial patterns, point pattern analysis, vegetation fires, India
From the text...'The benefits of prescribed fire are many, but prescribed fire is a complex tool and should be used only by those trained in its use. Proper diagnosis and detailed planning are needed for every area where burning is contemplated. The incomplete assessment of any…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, backing fires, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, distribution, Drymarchon corais, Felis concolor, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, game birds, general interest, Gopherus polyphemus, hardwoods, headfires, landscape ecology, liability, mammals, mosaic, nesting cover, nongame birds, Odocoileus, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant communities, recreation, reptiles, riparian habitats, season of fire, smoke effects, spot fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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
1. The South and Middle American tropics contain the world's largest area of moist savanna. Despite an apparent uniformity in appearance, floristic groupings can be detected and four zones are provisionally outlined with a number of characteristic plants.2. Although currect…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Central America, cerrado, deciduous forests, drainage, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, grasslands, land use, Mexico, mosaic, paleoecology, range management, reproduction, savannas, scrub, soil nutrients, South America, species diversity (plants), temperature, topography, neotropical savannas, biogeographical zones, cerrados, plant diversity, palaeoecology, topography, drainage, soil nutrients
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, clearcutting, Digitaria, eucalyptus, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, grasslands, grazing, hydrology, logging, nutrients, peat fires, Pinus, precipitation, rainforests, runoff, soil leaching, soil permeability, soils, Southeast Asia, streams, succession, tropical forests, water quality, wildfires
Seed burial in nylon mesh bags over a 2-year period was used to examine seed longevity patterns in 12 shrub and two graminoid species in fire-prone habitats around Sydney, south-eastern Australia. Most species released a large fraction of their annual seed-crop in a dormant…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Adenostoma, Arctostaphylos, artificial regeneration, Australia, birds, Ceanothus, char, competition, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire sensitive plants, grasslands, Grevillea, heat, insects, landscape ecology, Persoonia, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, predation, regeneration, resprouting, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seeds, shrublands, soils, South Africa
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, Alnus glutinosa, Asphodelus, Australia, chaparral, Chile, Cistus incanus, Clematis, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Erica arborea, Erica australis, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, Fraxinus, fynbos, germination, Juniperus oxycedrus, Lavandula, Mediterranean habitats, plant communities, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, resprouting, Rhamnus, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, South Africa, South America, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, Mediterranean basin, chapparal, fynbos, kwongan, matorral, Erica, Juniperus
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Central America, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, human caused fires, Italy, land use, CH4 - methane, natural areas management, nutrient cycling, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, season of fire, statistical analysis, United Kingdom, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The Nature Conservancy, World Wide Fund for Nature and IUCN have pledged to work together and with partners to address the causes and ecological and social consequences of altered fire regimes across the world. The partners sponsored an experts workshop in May 2004 where we…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, biomass, boreal forests, Bromus tectorum, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire size, fire suppression, forbs, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Ghana, climate change, grasses, grasslands, grazing, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, habitat types, health factors, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, incendiary fires, invasive species, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, moisture, post fire recovery, rural communities, savannas, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), temperature, thinning, tropical forests, wildfires, altered fire regimes, fire-dependent ecosystems, LANDFIRE, anthropogenic effects, PRIORITY ECOREGIONS
The 2019/2020 Australian wildfires emitted large quantities of atmospheric pollutant gases and aerosols. Using state-of-the-art near-real-time satellite measurements of tropospheric composition, we present an analysis of several emitted trace gases and their long-range transport…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, wildfires, 2019/2020 Australian wildfires, air pollutants, gases, aerosols, CO - carbon monoxide, Southern Hemisphere, fire plumes, methanol