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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Arizona, biomass, catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, disturbance, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel types, general interest, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, old growth forests, Oregon, overstory, partial cutting, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, second growth forests, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, size classes, slash, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, annual plants, catastrophic fires, Ceanothus, Centaurea, Colorado, coniferous forests, Cytisus, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, invasive species, light burning, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), natural resource legislation, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, riparian habitats, runoff, seedlings, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrubs, smoke effects, soil nutrients, soils, streams, surface fires, thinning, water, water quality, water repellent soils, weed control, wildfires, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody fuels
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, community ecology, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fine fuels, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, general interest, grazing, Great Plains, histories, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Mexico, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), Nebraska, old growth forests, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, South Dakota, thinning, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
See how prescribed fire is used in designed landscapes. Even when used in designed applications, many of our southern, fire-adapted native plants require fire to achieve their full health and vigor. Post-fire plant responses also create an interesting and valuable ecological…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, Aristida stricta, burning permits, carnivorous plants, Chrysopsis, community ecology, Eleocharis, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire management, grasses, grasslands, health factors, landscape ecology, native species (plants), North Carolina, Panicum virgatum, Pityopsis, plant ecology, public information, recreation, Sarracenia, smoke management, Sorghastrum nutans, wildlife
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998) no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974)), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, Aimophila aestivalis, backing fires, broadcast burning, Carya, Chamaecyparis thyoides, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flank fires, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ground fires, hardwood forests, headfires, histories, insects, litter, logging, Meleagris gallopavo, Native Americans, Picoides borealis, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, plant communities, plant diseases, presettlement fires, Quercus, rate of spread, serotiny, site treatments, smoke management, soil moisture, succession, surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife habitat management
Land managers in Florida rely on prescribed fire to prepare sites for regeneration, improve wildlife habitats, reduce vegetative competition, facilitate timber management activities, and mitigate wildfire risk. More than one million acres of land is scheduled for prescribed fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: competition, disturbance, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, forest fragmentation, forest management, forest types, fragmentation, GIS, grasslands, hardwood forests, ignition, incendiary fires, land management, light, lightning caused fires, logging, Nyssa aquatica, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, population density, population ecology, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, regeneration, roads, rural communities, site treatments, stand characteristics, Taxodium distichum, trees, wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
The Hayman Fire is discussed. USDA Forest Service employee Merrill Kauffman is interviewed. 'NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript: Online Focus' Transcript is coverage of Colorado wildfires, July 1 & 2, 2002. See PBS website, for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer TV program,…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, conservation, crown fires, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, liability, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, rate of spread, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, thinning, US Forest Service, web page, wildfires
Smoke, canopy-derived mulch, and broadcast seeds were used to maximize the establishment of Banksia woodland species in sand quarries in Western Australia. Smoke, particularly aerosol smoke, had a positive effect on total seedling recruitment. Pre-mined (woodland) sites showed a…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia pulchella, aerosols, Allocasuarina fraseriana, Allocasuarina humilis, Australia, Banksia, Banksia attenuata, Banksia menziesii, Beaufortia elegans, Bossiaea, Eucalyptus marginata, forest management, jarrah, litter, overstory, plant growth, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed germination, seeds, smoke management, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, western Australia, Xanthorrhoea preissii
Abstract only. 'Fire has a long history of regional use in the United States for forest, range and game management. Except for a few high-profile threatened, endangered, and sensitive species such as the pine barrens treefrog (Hyla andersonii), the red cockaded woodpecker (…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: Appalachian Mountains, barrens, coastal plain, Dendroica, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire exclusion, fire management, forest management, fragmentation, hardwood forests, histories, Hyla, Hyla andersonii, land management, liability, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine barrens, pine forests, private lands, range management, smoke management, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife, wildlife management
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (Snook 1985). The invasion of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, bottomland hardwoods, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, decomposition, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forage, fuel accumulation, grasslands, grazing, Great Plains, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, herbicides, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus, Juniperus ashei, Juniperus monosperma, Juniperus pinchotii, Juniperus scopulorum, Juniperus virginiana, land use, livestock, native species (plants), Oklahoma, orchids, plant communities, population ecology, Populus deltoides, Quercus marilandica, Quercus stellata, range management, rangelands, riparian habitats, rivers, site treatments, soil conservation, species diversity (plants), tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, urban habitats, Vireo atricapillus, Virginiana, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the Conclusion...'Fire is only one issue in the wildland-urban interface, but it attracts attention. The challenges associated with managing wildland fire in the interface - interagency communication, growth management, fire-dependent ecological systems, Federal-State-local…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer, air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, Georgia, grazing, hardwood forests, herbicides, histories, incendiary fires, land use, landscape ecology, liability, lightning caused fires, Mississippi, mowing, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, Quercus, roads, rural communities, smoke behavior, Texas, thinning, urban habitats, wilderness fire management
From the text...''Values at stake' is the principle upon which fire safety is based. In the U.S., the highest values at stake are human life and private property, in that order. In wildfire suppression once the values of human life and private property are secure, generally the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, general interest, Georgia, hardwood forests, Louisiana, marshlands, pine forests, plantations, pollution, public information, smoke management, streams, suppression, threatened and endangered species, water, water quality, wildfires
Landuse change from forest to urban/suburban at the wildland-urban interface between 1992 and 1997 was assessed relative to increasing fire risk for the eastern U.S. We modeled forest-to-urban expansion using two regional-scale databases. A scaled metric of forest fragmentation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: cover, cover type conversion, evolution, fire danger rating, fire management, forest fragmentation, fragmentation, fuel loading, GIS, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, land use, pine forests, roads, rural communities, smoke management, statistical analysis, urban habitats, wilderness fire management
The fire-maintained longleaf pine ecosystem of the southeastern coastal plain harbors nearly 200 rare and endangered plant species, many of which are dependent on frequent fire for persistence. One such fire-dependent species is the federally endangered hemiparasite, Schwalbea…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, competition, field experimental fires, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, flowering, light, longleaf pine, native species (plants), openings, phosphorus, pine hardwood forests, Pinus palustris, Schwalbea americana, season of fire, seed production, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities
In longleaf pine forests, frequent prescribed fires are essential for preventing hardwood encroachment and maintaining low fuel loads. This facilitates pine regeneration, growth of native grasses and legumes, and provides wildlife habitat. However, safety and health issues…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: competition, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, grasses, ground cover, hardwood forests, hardwoods, health factors, herbicides, histories, Jones Ecological Research Center, legumes, longleaf pine, native species (plants), overstory, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, regeneration, site treatments, understory vegetation, wildlife, woody plants
* Objectives To assess the health effects of exposure to smoke from the fifth largest US wildfire of 1999 and to evaluate whether participation in interventions to reduce smoke exposure prevented adverse lower respiratory tract health effects among residents of the Hoopa Valley…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, education, fire case histories, health factors, Native Americans, particulates, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, community survey
The Rocky Mountain Research Station is one of six regional units that make up the USDA Forest Service Research and Development organization-the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world. We maintain 12 field laboratories throughout a 14-state territory…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: research, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: environmental management, forest management, forest, public relations, fuel management, air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, hardwood forest, land use, pine forests, escaped prescribed fires, public information, smoke effects
Direct measurements of CO2 and water vapour of regenerating forests after fire events (secondary succession stages) are needed to determine the role of such disturbances in the biome carbon and water cycles functioning. An estimation of the extension of burnt areas is also…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Abies spp., regeneration, water, boreal ecosystem, carbon exchange, nutrient uptake, Siberia, Betula, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, forest management, heat, Picea, Pinus, Populus, remote sensing, Sorbus spp., Russia, succession, taiga, wildfires
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998), no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
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In many oak-dominated forests in the northeastern U.S. oak regeneration is poor and prescribed fire is assumed to benefit oak seedlings compared to fire sensitive species. However, the mechanisms and effectiveness remain poorly documented. We examined the effects of single and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, biomass, carbon dioxide, fire frequency, fire sensitive plants, foliage, forest management, hardwood forests, Kentucky, leaves, light, N - nitrogen, openings, overstory, photography, photosynthesis, pioneer species, plant growth, population density, regeneration, roots, seedlings, understory vegetation, water
We argue that sequestering of carbon waste is inherently more efficient and will probably cost less than using the carbon for biomass burning. The ratio of carbon emitted per unit of primary energy released through combustion, C/E, favors sequestration for fundamental reasons of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, community ecology, cropland fires, energy, fire management, forest products, CH4 - methane, Netherlands, O - oxygen, site treatments, statistical analysis, water, wood
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, deciduous forests, disturbance, fire growth, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, health factors, human caused fires, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, CH4 - methane, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, fire suppression and biodiversity
From the Conclusion (p.294-295) ... 'The average rate and intensity of forest burning and deforestation can be expected to increase as previously burned forest area expands. A positive feedback exists between forest fires, future fire susceptibility, fuel loading, and fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, crown scorch, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, land use, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, overstory, rate of spread, remote sensing, scrub, South America, tropical forests