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Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire, wildfire, fire science
Soil seed banks play an important role in plant species persistence in fire-prone systems. Response to fire related germination cues often reflect historical fire regimes and can be important in maintaining ecotones between different forest types. We assessed the effects of heat…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: disturbance, Eucalyptus regnans, karrikinolide, Nothofagus, plant functional traits, Australia, germination
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: controlled burn, wildfire resilience, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), partnerships, air quality, equity, cross-boundary
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
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Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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Wildfires are common occurrences worldwide that can destroy vast forest areas and kill numerous animals in a few hours. Climate change, rising global temperatures, precipitation, the introduction of exotic species of plants (e.g., eucalyptus), intensive agriculture, and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: mortality, conservation, wildfire, wildlife, veterinarians, Portugal
The 2nd Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) Research-to-Operations (R2O) workshop convened May 12-13 at the University of Alaska Murie Building.The 1.5-day workshop was held following NASA ABoVE’s 8th Annual Science Team Meeting as an opportunity for researchers and managers…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: ABoVE - NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, soil moisture, vegetation, remote sensing, vegetation management, WFEIS - Wildland Fire Emissions Information System, combustion
[from the text] For millennia, Indigenous communities managed forests in the American West with fire to produce a range of environmental and cultural benefits. This long history of cultural burning combined with frequent lightning produced fire-adapted forests, woodlands, and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: forest resilience, community protection, environmental conservation, risk reduction, private lands, public benefits, liability, forest health, permitting, air quality
Wildfires play a critical role in regulating soil carbon (C) budgets in peatland ecosystems, and their frequency and intensity are increasing owing to climate change and human activities. Wildfires not only emit CO2 during the combustion process but also produce pyrogenic carbon…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: peatland, PyC - pyrogenic carbon, carbon mineralization, wildfire, phenol oxidase, China, Great Khingan Mountains
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have become cause for growing concern in the Arctic ecosystems, partly due to their stable levels despite global emission reduction. Wildfire is considered one of the primary sources that influence PAH levels and trends in the Arctic, but…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: BaP - benzo(a)pyrene, Arctic, wildfires, source apportionment, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Boreal forest ecosystems are regions vulnerable to climate change. Such areas act as the main atmospheric carbon sinks in the world. Wildfires are among the drivers of ecosystem modification and functioning. Boreal wildfires emit an annual average of about 10% of global fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, forest fires, soil emission, boreal forest, disturbances, climate change, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Smoke is one of the fire-related cues that can alter vegetation communities’ compositions, by promoting or excluding different plant species. For over 30 years, smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. Research in this field was initiated in…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: butenolide, karrikins, seed germination, plant ecology, crop physiology, plant development and life-history traits, swailing, vegetation restoration
Climate change-related extreme weather events have manifested in the western United States as warmer and drier conditions with an increased risk of wildfires. Honeybees, essential for crop pollination in California, are at the center of these extreme weather events. We…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: AQI - Air Quality Index, Apis mellifera, Nosema ceranae, heat shock proteins, temperature stress, vitellogenin, honey bees
Background: With the increase in forest fire emissions, an increasing amount of nitrogen is released from combustibles and taken up by plant leaves in the form of PM2.5 smoke deposition. Concurrently, the stress from PM2.5 also disrupts the physiological processes of plants.…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fires, N - nitrogen, malondialdehyde (MDA), zeatin, abscisic acid, PM2.5, China
Vegetation fire frequently occurs globally and produces two types of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) including black carbon WSOC (BC-WSOC) and smoke-WSOC, they will eventually enter the surface environment (soil and water) and participate in the eco-environmental processes…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: WSOC - water soluble organic carbon, vegetation, vegetation fire, burning temperature, BC-WSOC - black carbon water-soluble organic carbon, smoke-WSOC – smoke water-soluble organic carbon
Background: Shortleaf pine is a fire-adapted tree species, and prescribed fire is commonly used to increase its regeneration success, improve wildlife habitat, and reach conservation objectives associated with open forest ecosystems. We studied direct effects of heat and smoke…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: heat, germination, natural regeneration, shortleaf pine, season of burn, Missouri
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Unknown, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
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In the Southwest United States, many ponderosa pine forests no longer resemble the pre-European settlement forests that were adapted to frequent, low-severity wildfires. The cumulative effects of fire suppression, livestock grazing, high-grading, and insect…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: biomass, ponderosa pine, thinning, pile burning, fire risk reduction
Austrostipa compressa, a native ephemeral of southwest Western Australia was stimulated to germinate under a range of temperatures, in the presence of light, and exposure to smoke-water. This combination of environmental cues results in winter-maximum germination in immediate…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, introduced species, light, population density, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, soil temperature, temperature, Ehrharta, Poaceae, western Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, disturbance, heat shock, light, reserve management, soil seed bank, temperature
1. The South and Middle American tropics contain the world's largest area of moist savanna. Despite an apparent uniformity in appearance, floristic groupings can be detected and four zones are provisionally outlined with a number of characteristic plants.2. Although currect…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Central America, cerrado, deciduous forests, drainage, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, grasslands, land use, Mexico, mosaic, paleoecology, range management, reproduction, savannas, scrub, soil nutrients, South America, species diversity (plants), temperature, topography, neotropical savannas, biogeographical zones, cerrados, plant diversity, palaeoecology, topography, drainage, soil nutrients
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Year: 1999
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: Borneo, Indonesia, light, logging, photography, rainforests, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
From the text (p.122) ... 'In recent years, the debate over Indian fire has continued in the context of discussions of the Wilderness Act of 1964. It is basically a dispute over whether or not Indian fires were a 'natural' form of fire management and, if they were not, whether…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Canada, Ceanothus, chaparral, coniferous forests, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, land management, lightning, lightning caused fires, mammals, mosaic, Native Americans, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, prairies, presettlement fires, Quercus, range management, rangelands, scrub, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, succession, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wildlife, SMOKE SIGNALS
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Asia, crown scorch, Europe, fire management, flame length, France, Italy, Japan, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, cover type conversion, deforestation, deserts, distribution, Europe, forest types, habitat conversion, habitat types, land use, landscape ecology, Mediterranean habitats, Portugal, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, Spain, statistical analysis, tropical forests
From the text...'We must change how we perceive safety. We can no longer think of safety only as 'an attitude' or 'common sense.' We must change our values and beliefs to reflect safe firefighting behaviors as intrinsic to a profession--our profession. We must define a new…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, health factors, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Abies concolor, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, Abies magnifica, air quality, arthropods, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, conifers, cover type, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forbs, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasses, grasslands, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, histories, hydrology, Idaho, insects, Juniperus, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, Montana, montane forests, mountains, national forests, Nevada, northern California, Oregon, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus flexilis, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Populus, prairies, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, Quercus garryana, range management, relict vegetation, remote sensing, rivers, Salix, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke management, succession, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming