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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
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
From the text...'Big gaps still exist in the understanding of fire ecology, especially the seasonal aspects. Fire can have profoundly different effects on soil, plants and animals depending on when it occurs. Oftentimes the most ecological gain comes from burning during the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, land management, liability, mopping up, Native Americans, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, public information, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, tallgrass prairies, topography, vegetation surveys
Aim Globally, most landscape burning occurs in the tropical savanna biome, where fire is a characteristic of the annual dry season. In northern Australia there is uncertainty about how the frequency and timing of dry season fires have changed in the transition from Aboriginal to…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, broadcast burning, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, land management, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, presettlement fires, savannas, season of fire, tropical regions, Aboriginal fire management, air pollution, airport visibility, Australian summer monsoon, biomass burning, deep moist convection, historical ecology, Tropical Savanna
Much of the recent work in reducing wildland fire danger has occurred in the western and southeastern United States. However, high-risk areas do exist at the wildland-urban interface areas in the Northeast and very little work has been done to understand the fire management…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, firebreaks, National Fire Plan, wildfires, air quality, cutting, public information, thinning, Massachusetts, New England, fire management, forest management, pine barrens, homeowner perceptions-wildland fire risk, fire hazard reduction strategies
Periodic fires are a natural phenomenon in fynbos, which is the dominant vegetation type in the Cape floristic region. Fire-stimulated germination has been reported for a number of fynbos species. The promotion of seed germination in the fynbos fire ephemeral, Syncarpha vestita…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, Africa, Asteraceae, chaparral, charring, experimental fires, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fynbos, germination, grasses, leaves, lightning caused fires, Passerina vulgaris, sclerophyll vegetation, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, serotiny, smoke effects, soils, South Africa, statistical analysis, succession, Syncarpha vestita, Themeda triandra, wood, woody plants
Lantana montevidensis Briq. is an endemic species of the brazilian <> (savannah) that usually flowers abundantly after burning of the vegetation. Several possible effects of fire on the induction of flowering in this species were tested with no significant result. It seems…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, ash, Brazil, burning intervals, chemistry, cutting, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, flowering, gases, herbicides, Imperata brasiliensis, laboratory fires, Lantana, light, nutrients, pH, reproduction, savannas, soil moisture, soil nutrients, South America, temperature
In A. capitata the protracted juvenile phase, the longevity of plants and their effective vegetative fire regeneration, are all possibly adaptively linked to poor sexual reproduction. After a fire-free period of more than ten years, averages of only 4.7 and 0.4 seedlings per…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, arthropods, Audouinia capitata, distribution, field experimental fires, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flowering, fuel loading, fynbos, germination, insects, mortality, plant growth, post fire recovery, regeneration, reproduction, resprouting, roots, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, senescence, smoke effects, soil moisture, soil temperature, South Africa, sprouting, wildfires
Germination responses of species from native plant communities of southwestern Western Australia can be related to syndromes of life history, fire response, and seed storage, and also to factors related to environmental stress. The Mediterranean-type climate of the region with…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Africa, annual plants, Australia, Banksia, bibliographies, Bossiaea, chaparral, charring, Chorizema, Daviesia, droughts, eucalyptus, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, flowering, fruits, fungi, fynbos, Gastrolobium, germination, heat, heat effects, histories, legumes, Mediterranean habitats, mortality, mycorrhiza, perennial plants, plant communities, plant ecology, plant growth, pollination, post fire recovery, reproduction, resprouting, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, shrubs, smoke effects, soil nutrients, South Africa, southern Australia, sprouting, statistical analysis, temperature, western Australia, wood
Fynbos is the dominant vegetation type in the Cape floristic region. Periodic fires are a natural phenomenon in fynbos and fire-stimulated seed germination has been reported for a number of fynbos species. Amongst the factors proposed as being directly responsible for the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Asteraceae, charring, chemical compounds, chemistry, Cupressaceae, Ericaceae, field experimental fires, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fynbos, germination, heat, Helichrysum, laboratory fires, post fire recovery, regeneration, Restionaceae, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, soil temperature, South Africa, Syncarpha vestita, wildfires
Fire is the dominant disturbance in forest ecosystems across Canada and Alaska, and has important implications for forest ecosystems, terrestrial carbon dioxide emissions and the forestry industry. Large fire activity had increased in Canadian and Alaskan forests during the last…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, drought, carbon dioxide, computer program, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, forest management, moisture, season of fire, wildfires
Australia is among the most fire-prone of continents. While national fire management policy is focused on irregular and comparatively smaller fires in densely settled southern Australia, this comprehensive assessment of continental-scale fire patterning (1997-2005) derived from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, fire mapping, greenhouse gas emissions, satellite imagery, Australia, biomass burning, savanna burning, aborigines, air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, distribution, elevation, fire size, fire management, fire frequency, forest management, fuel types, climate change, grasslands, human caused fires, ignition, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, savannas, shrublands, vegetation surveys
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented. Nine distinct temporal and…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, 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: fire frequency, burned area, NOAA-AVHRR, principal components analysis, fire patterns, temporal trends, air quality, Asia, biomass, Central America, cover, croplands, deciduous forests, fire management, fire size, grasslands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis
The looming possibility of global warming raises legitimate concerns for the future of the forest resource in Canada. While evidence of a global warming trend is not conclusive at this time, governments would be wise to anticipate, and begin planning for, such an eventuality.…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, climate change, global warming, air temperature, Alberta, arthropods, biogeography, biomass, boreal forests, British Columbia, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, climatology, disturbance, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, gases, grasslands, hydrocarbons, insects, landscape ecology, lightning, logging, Manitoba, CH4 - methane, microclimate, Ontario, O3 - ozone, physics, plant diseases, precipitation, Quebec, recreation, Saskatchewan, season of fire, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, temperate forests, tundra, wildfires, wind
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, symposium
[1] We used a ground-based approach to compute the pyrogenic carbon emissions from the Biscuit Fire, an exceptionally large wildfire, which in 2002 burned over 200,000 ha of mixed conifer forest in southwestern Oregon. A combination of federal inventory data and supplementary…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire case histories, fire intensity, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover type, duff, foliage, litter, mineral soils, plant physiology, Oregon, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests
[1] Wildfire is a common occurrence in ecosystems of northern high latitudes, and changes in the fire regime of this region have consequences for carbon feedbacks to the climate system. To improve our understanding of how wildfire influences carbon dynamics of this region, we…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, disturbance, Asia, Europe, Canada, fire management, boreal forests
Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands
In the majority of US political settings wildland fire is still discussed as a negative force. Lacking from current wildfire discussions are estimates of the spatial extent of fire and their resultant emissions before the influences of Euro-American settlement and this is the…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies magnifica, air quality, C - carbon, chaparral, coniferous forests, crowns, evergreens, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, histories, lightning caused fires, litter, mountains, Native Americans, particulates, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prehistoric fires, Sequoia sempervirens, shrublands, suppression, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildfire, fire regime, fire policy, fire suppression, fire rotation, air resources, air quality, particulates, fire exclusion, C - carbon
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), diatoms, pollen, charcoal, loss-on-ignition (LOI), and nutrient elements in lake sediments were used to assess important factors controlling Holocene changes in the total organic carbon (TOC) concentration, pCO2, color and pH of lake water in…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, charcoal, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, humidity, ignition, lakes, nutrients, pH, pollen, sedimentation, statistical analysis, Sweden, temperature, vegetation surveys, water, watershed management, wildfires
[1] We measured CO2 and CH4 exchange from the center of a Sphagnum-dominated permafrost collapse, through an aquatic moat, and into a recently burned black spruce forest on the Tanana River floodplain in interior Alaska. In the anomalously dry growing season of 2004, both the…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: biomass, black spruce, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, grasses, Interior Alaska, CH4 - methane, moisture, mosses, Picea mariana, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, sphagnum, statistical analysis, temperature, tundra, wildfires
Savannas comprise a large area of the global land surface and are subject to frequent disturbance through fire. The role of fire as one of the primary natural carbon cycling mechanisms is a key issue in considering global change feedbacks. The savannas of Northern Australia burn…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Australia, biomass, C - carbon, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, eucalyptus, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel loading, grasses, heavy fuels, insects, leaves, mortality, Northern Territory of Australia, overstory, post fire recovery, savannas, scorch, shrubs, statistical analysis, wildfires, CO2 fluxes, eddy covariance, eucalyptus, Howard Springs, net biome productivity, savanna
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive forestry and away from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, competition, cover, crown scorch, duff, education, FEIS, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, ignition, land use, liability, light, litter, livestock, logging, mineral soils, mortality, N - nitrogen, north Florida, nutrient cycling, pine forests, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, slash, soil leaching, stand characteristics, suppression, Tall Timbers Research Station, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels
The boreal forests of Russia play a prominent role in the global carbon cycle and the flux of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Large areas of Russian forest burn annually, and contributions to the net flux of carbon to the atmosphere may be significant. Forest fire emissions…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon budget, carbon emissions, climate change, Russia, biomass burning, air quality, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climax vegetation, crown fires, decay, distribution, disturbance, drought, fire control, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest types, fuel loading, gases, human caused fires, insects, Larix spp., nutrient cycling, overstory, Pinus spp., post-fire recovery, Siberia, soils, succession, temperate forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
(1) We used dendrochronology to reconstruct the transfer of coarse woody debris across a forest-stream interface in a fire-prone boreal landscape. A sequence of regulating factors was considered from source to sink of in-stream woody debris (SWD), including fire history at the…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, woody debris, boreal landscape, disturbance severity, ecosystem resilience, Quebec, riparian forest, SWD - in-stream woody debris, ecosystem coupling, forest-stream interface, lateral flow, nonlinear ecosystem dynamics, source-sink dynamics, BEHAVE, boreal forests, conifers, decay, dendrochronology, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, forest management, litter, population density, post-fire recovery, residence time, riparian habitats, seed dispersal, seeds, serotiny, statistical analysis, wood, woody plants