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Biomass combustion plays an important role in the earth's biogeochemical cycling. The monitoring of wildfires and their associated variables at global scales is feasible and can lead to predictions of the influence of combustion on biogeochemical cycling and tropospheric…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: thermal analysis, wildfires, biogeochemical cycles, biomass burning, remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, chemistry, cropland fires, heat effects, humidity, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, pH, pollution, post fire recovery, smoke effects, soil organisms, soils, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind

Microscopic charcoal fragments preserved in lake and swamp sediments with pollen and other microfossils provide evidence for past burning regimes. Some problems with the interpretation of charcoal records are similar to those of pollen analysis, but other factors must be taken…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Fire History, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, charcoal, fire regimes, histories, lakes, paleoclimatology, pollen, sampling, swamps, water

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, Georgia, New England, pine forests, smoke management, Vaccinium, Vermont, wildfires

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, ash, distribution, experimental areas, field experimental fires, ground cover, Kansas, litter, Peromyscus maniculatus, population density, post fire recovery, prairies, sampling, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, statistical analysis, tallgrass prairies, trapping, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, clearcutting, fire management, forest management, herbicides, histories, logging, multiple resource management, Oregon, site treatments, slash, smoke management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, balds, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, hardwood forests, herbicides, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, site treatments, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

The purpose of this report is to make an environmental evaluation of prescribed burning and its alternatives, and relate to the economic considerations in the southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service.
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, Andropogon, Appalachian Mountains, Aristida stricta, arthropods, Cercyonis pegala, Danuas plexippus, earthworms, education, erosion, experimental areas, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fishes, forest management, game birds, Graphium marcellus, grasslands, habitat types, hardwood forests, herbicides, histories, Hyla andersonii, insects, invertebrates, land use, Lepidoptera, mammals, multiple resource management, Mus musculus, national forests, nongame birds, Peromyscus polionotus, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, public information, Quercus, reptiles, savannas, Sigmodon hispidus, site treatments, small mammals, smoke management, soil organic matter, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (animals), Urocyon cinereoargenteus, water quality, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Calamintha dentata, Carex baltzellii, Croomia pauciflora, Florida, fungi, habitat conversion, Magnolia ashei, mast, Matelea, north Florida, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, reproduction, sandhills, seedlings, species diversity (plants), Taxus floridana, threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya taxifolia, vegetation surveys

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, Alabama, burning intervals, coastal plain, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, national forests, North Carolina, Piedmont, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, wildfires

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat effects, humidity, litter, moisture, mopping up, multiple resource management, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, woody plants

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Chersina angulata, distribution, fire adaptations (animals), fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), flammability, fynbos, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, ground cover, heat effects, light, mortality, pioneer species, population density, post fire recovery, predators, rangeland fires, raptors, reptiles, South Africa, statistical analysis, succession, temperature, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, droughts, Florida, forest management, Georgia, land use, North Carolina, ozone, pine, plant growth, South Carolina, vegetation surveys, Virginia

(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Alberta, Canada, conifers, crown fires, duff, elevation, fine fuels, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, fuel types, habitat types, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, moisture, montane forests, mortality, mountainous terrain, mountains, national parks, organic matter, overstory, Picea, Picea engelmannii, pine, Pinus contorta, plant growth, post fire recovery, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, reproduction, sampling, seed dispersal, seed germination, site treatments, smoke behavior, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, subalpine forests, topography, trees, water, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Erica hebecalyx, Erica sessiliflora, Ericaceae, fynbos, gases, heat effects, seed germination, seeds, South Africa

The information presented is directed to environmental scientists and land managers concerned with the quantity of, and methods for reducing, criteria pollutants produced from open burning of forest residues. This report documents the first in a series of paired-unit…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, pollution, smoke management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, flammability, hardwoods, heat, heat effects, laboratory fires, Ohio, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, wood, wood properties

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, central Florida, Florida, pine forests

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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, bibliographies, British Columbia, browse, Canada, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, forest management, grazing, land management, litter, logging, plant growth, Populus tremuloides, regeneration, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, slash, soils, streamflow, water quality, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, liability, litter, live fuels, logging, pine forests, plant growth, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife management, wind

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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Canada, chaparral, fire management, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firing techniques, fuel moisture, fuel types, grass fuels, marshes, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, shrub fuels, slash, smoke management, topography

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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, fire management, pine forests, smoke management

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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Georgia, national parks, Okefenokee Swamp, particulates, pine forests, Pinus palustris, smoke management, swamps, wildlife, wildlife refuges

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, European settlement, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, habitat conversion, hunting, presettlement fires, smoke effects, wildfires