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The dry deposition of atmospheric particulate matter can be a significant source of phosphorus (P) to oligotrophic aquatic ecosystems, including high-elevation lakes. In this study, measurements of the mass concentration and size distribution of aerosol particles and associated…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, coniferous forests, distribution, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, lakes, national parks, Nevada, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphorus, sampling, Sierra Nevada, soil nutrients, wildfires, phosphorus, atmospheric deposition, forest fire, eutrophication, Sierra Nevada
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Pacific Southwest Research Station from July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010. It includes series publications, science perspectives, and journal articles and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): California, Hawaii
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
The objective of this prescribed burning guide is to help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: explaining the reasons for prescribed burning, emphasizing the environmental effects, explaining the importance of weather in prescribed burning…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fire planning, smoke management, firing techniques, aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fire, competition, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire weather, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, soil nutrients, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
This paper summarizes the importance of climate on tropical wetlands. Regional hydrology and carbon dynamics in many of these wetlands could shift with dramatic changes in these major carbon storages if the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) were to change in its annual…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Botswana, C - carbon, Central America, Costa Rica, fire frequency, fire management, climate change, hydrology, CH4 - methane, Ohio, precipitation, swamps, tropical regions, water, watershed management, wetlands, Botswana, carbon sequestration, climate change, Costa Rica, inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ), methane emissions, monsoonal wetlands, Okavango Delta, pulsing hydrology, tropical swamps
The tropical peat swamp forests of Indonesia and Malaysia are unusual ecosystems that are rich in endemic species of flora, fauna and microbes despite their extreme acidic, anaerobic, nutrient poor conditions. They are an important refuge for many endangered species including…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, algae, Asia, bacteria, C - carbon, cover, decomposition, disturbance, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fishes, flammability, forest management, herbivory, hydrology, Indonesia, invertebrates, leaves, litter, logging, Malaysia, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, overstory, peat, peat bogs, peat fires, peatlands, roots, sclerophyll vegetation, Sumatra, swamps, tropical forests, water, watershed management, wildlife, bacteria, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, hydrology, Indonesia, Malaysia, microbial communities, peat fires, tropical forests
The frequency of fires in the Okavango Delta seasonal floodplains peaked at an intermediate frequency of flooding. Floodplains are commonly burnt every 3-5 years. This study showed fundamental changes in ecosystem properties due to burning. A burnt seasonal floodplain in the…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, Botswana, fire frequency, fire management, fishes, floods, litter, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, nutrients, O - oxygen, remote sensing, water, watershed management, wetlands, wildfires, seasonal floodplain, flood pulse, macrophyte, Okavango Delta, nutrients, zooplankton biomass, fish productivity
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, bibliographies, chemistry, community ecology, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fishes, floods, fuel moisture, grasslands, habitat types, hydrology, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, organic matter, overstory, post fire recovery, recreation, regeneration, riparian habitats, runoff, scrub, sedimentation, smoke effects, statistical analysis, streamflow, streams, succession, topography, water quality, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, woody plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The effects of fire on nutrient release in wetlands prior to, during and afterwards are notably rare. We initiated a long-term and large-scale ecosystem study, driven by a large restoration program, to assess ecological effects of repeated fires on a nutrient-enriched, cattail-…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ash, Cladium jamaicense, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, everglades, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, Germany, germination, leaves, litter, nutrients, O - oxygen, particulates, pH, phosphorus, plant growth, post fire recovery, range management, rangelands, Salix caroliniana, sampling, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, soil nutrients, temperature, Typha, water, watershed management, wetlands, surface water, pore water, total phosphorus, TDP, TDKN, DIC, periphyton, seed germination