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Management of fire is an important and controversial policy issue. Active fire suppression has led to a backlog of fuels, limited the ecological benefits of fire, and reduced short-term smoke impacts likely delaying these emissions to future generations over a larger spatial…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, mortality, particulates, Sierra Nevada, fire management, forest management, smoke management, smoke impacts, wildland fire, policy, public health, AQI - Air Quality Index

The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of the current state of the art on research into the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from vegetation fires. Significant amounts of VOCs are emitted from vegetation fires, including several reactive…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, heat effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, organic soils, ozone, plant communities, remote sensing, Africa, Amazon, South America, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, savannas, biomass burning, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds, combustion phases, forest fires, isoprenoids, plant communities and functional types

Fire regimes play an important role in ecosystems and climate change, affecting the structure and composition of vegetation and influencing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Analyses of historical fire regimes have indicated that in many ecosystems, fire regime changes are linked…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, climate change, land use change, Spain, Pettitt test, fire regimes, Europe, land use

Particulate matter (PM) emission factors (EFPM), which predict particulate emissions per biomass consumed, have a strong influence on event-based and regional PM emission estimates and inventories. PM < 2.5 μm aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5), regulated for its impacts to human…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM2.5, combustion efficiency, biomass burning, structural equation modelling, combustion, fire frequency, air quality, needles, overstory, particulates, Pebble Hill, thinning, TTRS - Tall Timbers Research Station, Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, grasslands, pine forests, SFP - Southern Fire Portal

[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, 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
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This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
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Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, 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
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Climate projections show Australia becoming significantly warmer during the 21st century, and precipitation decreasing over much of the continent. Such changes are conventionally considered to increase wildfire risk. Nevertheless, we show that burnt area increases in southern…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire size, wildfires, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, litter, vegetation surveys, Australia, fire management, forest management, carbon cycle, fire regimes, Co2 Fertilization, water use efficiency, dynamic vegetation modeling, future environmental changes

The diverse forest types of the southwestern US are inseparable from fire. Across climate zones in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, fire suppression has left many forest types out of sync with their historic fire regimes. As a result, high fuel loads place them at…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: biodiversity, C - carbon, adaptation, mitigation, crown scorch, fire exclusion, fire regimes, fire suppression, flammability, fuel loading, surface fires, wildfires, climate change, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, thinning, Abies concolor, white fir, Engelmann spruce, Picea engelmannii, Pinus edulis, pinyon pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pinus strobiformis, southwestern white pine, Populus tremuloides, quaking aspen, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Quercus gambelii, Gambel oak, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests