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To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, charcoal, coniferous forests, cutting, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, lightning caused fires, Montana, national parks, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), prescribed fires (escaped), Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, vegetation surveys, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming, Yosemite National Park
The potential need for national-level comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions, and the desirability of understanding terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon, has prompted interest in quantifying national forest carbon budgets. In this study, we link a forest inventory database,…
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carbon flux, carbon pools, forest inventory, woody debris, NEP - Net Ecosystem Productivity, soil carbon, tree harvest, age-class distribution, carbon sinks, carbon sources, forest carbon budget, regional carbon storage