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Long-range transported particulate matter (PM) air pollution episodes associated with wildfires in the Eastern Europe are relatively common in Southern and Southeastern Finland. In severe cases such as in August-September 2002, the reduced visibility and smell of the smoke, and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Belarus, biomass, combustion, diseases, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire management, health factors, light, mortality, particulates, pollution, Russia, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, Ukraine, wildfires, PM2.5, mortality, uncontrolled biomass combustion, long-range transport, forest fire
The objective of this study was to evaluate how competition would affect the physiology, and thus productivity of American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana L.), wax myrtle [Morella cerifera (L.) Small] and inkberry [Ilex glabra (L.) A. Gray] when intercropped in a longleaf pine…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, Callicarpa, Callicarpa americana, competition, diameter classes, fire dependent species, Florida, forest management, gases, Ilex glabra, light, longleaf pine, moisture, Morella cerifera, mortality, native species (plants), photosynthesis, physiology, pine, Pinus palustris, population density, roots, shrubs, soil management, soil moisture, statistical analysis, intercropping, longleaf pine, ornamentals, woody florals, competition, physiology
Rice is a widely grown crop in the South and South-East Asia that leaves substantial quantity of straw in the field. The aim of this paper is to assess the quantity of rice straw produced, estimate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions based on its current uses, and assess its possible…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, cropland fires, croplands, distribution, energy, fire management, GIS - geographic information system, greenhouse gases, India, leaves, Oryza sativa, Philippines, population density, range management, Southeast Asia, Thailand, rice, Straw-to-Grain Ratio (SGR), energy, field burning, greenhouse gas emissions
Small mammals were trapped annually in two savanna and two forest plots in cerrado habitats of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for 5-10 yr. Eighteen species were captured in forest and seven species in savanna. Species numbers and total number of…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Bolivia, cerrado, conservation, ENSO, fire management, floods, forest management, human caused fires, mammals, national parks, population density, precipitation, rainforests, savannas, small mammals, smoke effects, South America, species diversity (animals), temperature, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, dew, population variation, rodent declines, species diversity
Revegetation of disturbed land, particularly in arid environments, is often hindered by low seedling establishment. Information on seed biology and germination cues of keystone species is lacking, particularly in arid Australia; a major zone for mining developments. This study…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Atriplex, Australia, conservation, Dioscorea, Eremophila, germination, keystone species, land management, Melaleuca, mining, Ptilotus, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, Solanum, water, western Australia, dormancy, karrikinolide, seed ecology
Karrikins are a chemically defined family of plant growth regulators discovered in smoke from burning plant material. Karrikins are potent in breaking dormancy of seeds of many species adapted to environments that regularly experience fire and smoke. The recent discovery that…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, disturbance, fire management, germination, Ireland, plant growth, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, western Australia, wildfires, butenolide, germination, karrikins, strigolactones, abscisic acid, gibberellic acid
There are numerous localized peat deposits on the Swan Coastal Plain, an urban and rural bioregion otherwise dominated by wetland ecosystems in southwestern Australia. Hydrological change is significant in the bioregion: urban development encroaches on wetlands, groundwater…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, chemical compounds, coastal plain, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, incendiary fires, national parks, particulates, peat, peat fires, peatlands, pollution, sedimentation, smoke effects, smoke management, water, watershed management, western Australia, wetlands, peat, VOC - volatile organic compounds, wetland ecosystem change, human exposure, air pollution
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
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes in its aims the minimisation of unintentional releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF) and dioxin like PCB (dl-PCB) to the environment. Development and implementation of policies…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, ash, pollution, toxicity, fire management, forest management, smoke management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, sugarcane burning, forest fires, biomass burning
A means of determining air emission source regions adversely influencing the city of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada from potential burning of isolated piles of mountain pine beetle-killed lodge pole pine is presented. The analysis uses the CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, British Columbia, burning permits, Canada, Dendroctonus ponderosae, fire exclusion, fire management, forest management, human caused fires, insects, mortality, pine, plant diseases, slash, smoke management, wind, wood, airshed, CALPUFF, influence region, dispersion modeling
This study investigates smoke incursion into urban areas by examining a prescribed burn in central Georgia, USA, on 28 February 2007. Simulations were conducted with a regional modeling framework to understand transport, dispersion, and structure of smoke plumes, the air quality…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire size, Georgia, national forests, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wind
We report the rapid response of Formosat-2 to locate the fire points in the 2007 California wildfire. After examining the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) image taken and released on 23 October 2007, we used the agility of Formosat-2 to take high spatial…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire size, photography, rate of spread, remote sensing, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, hot spots, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, natural hazards, remote sensing
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
From the text ... 'Long before humans arrived in America, forests relied on fire. Many forest ecosystems evolved with fire and continue to rely on it to reduce dense underbrush, restore nutrients to the soil, and provide important wildlife habitat. In recent decades, people…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, conservation, cover, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, game birds, Gopherus polyphemus, ground cover, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, insects, Meleagris gallopavo, mosaic, nesting, nutrients, Picoides borealis, pine, plant growth, population density, public information, regeneration, reptiles, savannas, season of fire, smoke management, succession, suppression, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'Ask organizations how important their prevention and education efforts are in terms of risk and exposure. It it's important, maybe it is not one person's job -- maybe it is everyone's job.'
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, education, elevation, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, lightning caused fires, public information, smoke management, wildfires
Renewable energy sources are expected to represent a growing proportion of the primary energy sources for the production of electricity. Environmental and social reasons support this tendency. European and Spanish energy plans assign a role of primary importance to biomass in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, energy, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, forest management, fuel models, fuel types, population density, scrub, shrublands, Spain, wildfires, external effects, CO2 emissions, employment, energy dependence, forest fires, Spain
Biomass burning is an important source of atmospheric Particulate Matter (PM) in Brazil: the burning of forests in the northwest and of sugar cane plantations in the southeast are important examples. The objective of this work is the measurement of the PM emission profile of…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, biomass, biomass burning, Brazil, chlorine, cropland fires, croplands, fire management, laboratory fires, particulates, plantations, pollution, K - potassium, range management, Saccharum officinarum, South America, emission profile, aerosols, biomass burning, air pollution
Discovery of the primary seed germination stimulant in smoke, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one (KAR1), has resulted in identification of a family of structurally related plant growth regulators, karrikins. KAR1 acts as a key germination trigger for many species from fire-prone…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, genetics, germination, light, Mediterranean habitats, plant growth, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, suppression
Vegetative resprouting, soil or canopy-stored seed banks, post-fire seed dispersal and germination are the major strategies by which plants regenerate after fires. Post-fire regeneration modes of plants are commonly based on the presence or absence of post-fire recruitment as…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Australia, fire management, germination, heat, heat effects, New South Wales, pH, plant growth, post fire recovery, regeneration, resprouting, seed dispersal, seed germination, seeds, serotiny, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, heat, pH, resprouting, serotiny
Open crop stubble burning events were observed in and around Patiala city, India. A ground level study was deliberated to analyze the contribution of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and rice (Oriza sativa) crop stubble burning practices on concentration levels of aerosol, SO2 and NO2…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, croplands, fire management, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, India, land use, Oryza sativa, sampling, Triticum, Triticum aestivum, wind, ambient air, crop stubble burning, aerosol, SO2, NO2
The smoke-derived butenolide, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one, is a simple organic compound that can increase both the level and rate of seed germination, widen the environmental range over which germination can occur and have a positive effect on seedling vigour.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Australia, chaparral, chemical compounds, fynbos, germination, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, weed control, weeds, butenolide, plant growth, seed germination
We studied the effect of heat shock and wood-fueled smoke on the emergence of native and exotic plant species in soil samples obtained in an evergreen shrubland of central Chile, located on the eastern foothills of the Coastal Range of Lampa. Immediately after collection samples…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: annual plants, Asteraceae, Chile, evergreens, fire management, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, invasive species, native species (plants), plant growth, Poaceae, range management, regeneration, seed germination, shrublands, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, South America, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, woody plants, heat shock, shrubland, exotic herb, native herb, emergence, central chile
Heat increases germination of water-permeable seeds of obligate-seeding Darwinia species (Myrtaceae)
We examined the response of seeds to heat in four geographically restricted and one widespread species of shrubby Darwinia from the fire-prone region of southeastern Australia. These shrubs are killed by fire and rely on seed germination after a fire to maintain populations. We…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia myrtifolia, Acacia suaveolens, Australia, Darwinia, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, forest management, germination, heat, heat effects, moisture, mortality, New South Wales, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, shrubs, soil temperature, temperature, threatened and endangered species (plants), wildfires, Australia, dormancy, threatened species, seed banks
Prescribed burning has been used by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation (DPR) since 1974 to reduce hazardous fuel loads, to restore/maintain specific habitats, and to preserve rare species populations within state parks, recreation areas, and natural areas.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, education, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, Georgia, liability, mountains, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, savannas, South Carolina, state parks, Virginia, wildfires, fire-dependent communities, interagency burn team, state parks and natural areas