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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, burning intervals, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, croplands, deciduous forests, deforestation, distribution, evergreens, fire management, grasslands, land use, Madagascar, mosaic, rainforests, savannas, soil conservation, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, South Africa, Sudan, tropical forests, SOM - soil organic matter, soil degradation, global warming, soil restoration, agroforestry, farming systems, ecoregions, sub-Saharan Africa, carbon sequestration in soil, carbon sequestration, FALLOW SYSTEM, SOC - soil organic carbon
The goal of the regional haze mitigation program in the United States is to attain 'natural conditions' in national parks and wilderness areas by 2064. Results of research investigations on background concentrations of sea salt and biogenic organic matter, of episodic Saharan…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alabama, biomass, Canada, C - carbon, Central America, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, dust, Florida, Georgia, Great Smoky Mountains, humidity, Kentucky, lightning, Mississippi, national parks, North Carolina, organic matter, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, South Carolina, statistical analysis, Tennessee, tropical forests, Virginia, West Virginia, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind
The effects of management on soil carbon efflux in different ecosystems are still largely unknown yet crucial to both our understanding and management of global carbon flux. To compare the effects of common forest management practices on soil carbon cycling, we measured soil…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, Amphicarpaea bracteata, Arctostaphylos nevadensis, Arctostaphylos patula, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, Carya, Ceanothus cordulatus, Chrysolepis sempiverens, coniferous forests, Cornus florida, Corylus cornuta, Desmodium nudiflorum, diameter classes, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, experimental areas, fire management, forbs, forest management, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, Lupinus, Missouri, Monardella, national forests, nutrient cycling, Nyssa sylvatica, old growth forests, Ozarks, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Pinus echinata, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, post fire recovery, Prunus emarginata, Quercus alba, Quercus coccinea, Ribes spp., Ribes roezlii, Sassafras albidum, Sierra Nevada, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis, Symphoricarpos mollis, thinning, understory vegetation, vines, Vitis aestivalis, soil respiration rates
The accuracy of wildfire air pollutant emission estimates was assessed by comparing observations of carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) concentrations in wildfire plumes to predictions of CO and PM concentrations, based on emission estimates and air quality models.…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, coniferous forests, eastern Texas, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, light, ozone, particulates, population density, smoke effects, smoke management, Texas, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildfires, wildfire inventory, wildfire emissions, emissions inventory, emissions modeling, TexAQS, photochemical modeling, CAMx, plume rise, plumes
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, Artemisia tridentata, Atriplex, bacteria, biomass, Bromus, Bromus tectorum, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, disturbance, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasslands, herbivory, invasive species, leaves, Nevada, N - nitrogen, Pseudoroegneria, range management, rangelands, rate of spread, roots, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, weeds, carbon dioxide, cheatgrass, fire frequency, invasive weeds
From the Summary (p.525) ... '• This paper is the first global study of the extent to which fire determines global vegetation patterns by preventing ecosystems from achieving the potential height, biomass and dominant functional types expected under the ambient climate (climate…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Australia, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, cover, deciduous forests, deserts, distribution, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, evergreens, evolution, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, Ghana, grasses, grasslands, habitat types, land use, mineral soils, N - nitrogen, savannas, shrublands, shrubs, South Africa, South America, species diversity (plants), tundra, vegetation surveys, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe, climate-vegetation relationships, dynamic global vegetation models, global biomes, plant biogeography, SCGVM(Sheffield Dynamic Global Vegetation Model), FIRE-CONTROLLED vs CLIMATE-CONTROLLED GLOBAL BIOME, Kruger National Park, aboveground net woody biomass, REGIONAL BIOME, GLOBAL BIOME SIMULATIONS, LONG-TERM FIRE-EXCLUSION STUDIES IN SAVANNAS, WOODED GRASSLANDS, ORIGIN OF FIRE-DEPENDENT BIOMES
The role of black carbon (BC) soot in the Arctic as an agent of climate warming through forcing/feedback of sea ice/glacier albedo is an uncertainty in need of addressing. In-situ measurements of BC-aerosols and gas byproducts from the FROSTFIRE experiment burn, 8-11 July 1999,…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: black carbon aerosols, climate change, climate warming, deposition, forest, snow, spectral albedo, trajectory model, transport, Frostfire prescribed burn
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: fire disturbance, greenhouse gas emissions, permafrost
In Sept. 2003, a prescribed burn on the Uinta National Forest escaped, costing nearly $3 million to extinguish while choking Utah cities with smoke for a week. When the incident drew harsh criticism from local officials and news media, fire managers worried that prescribed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: social acceptance, Uinta National Forest, disturbance, education, fire case histories, property damage, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, escaped prescribed fires, public information, sampling, statistical analysis, thinning, Utah, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels
Twenty papers are presented from the conference convened jointly by the International Boreal Forest Research Association and the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program. A further 9 papers will be published in a special issue of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, productivity, regeneration, succession, carbon emissions, climate change, disturbance regime, global change, peatland, permafrost
Previous studies of the effects of heating on soil hydrophobicity have been conducted under free availability of oxygen. Under fire, however, soils may be deprived of oxygen due to its consumption at the heat source and inadequate replenishment in the soil. In the present study…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, hydrophobicity, soil heating, Australia, water repellency, eucalypt, air quality, C - carbon, combustion, eucalyptus, heat, heat effects, hydrology, national parks, New South Wales, N - nitrogen, O - oxygen, sclerophyll forests, soil management, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, soils, surface fires, Victoria, water, water repellent soils, wildfires
Above-ground biomass (live + dead), was estimated pre- and post-burn in eight types of savanna ecosystem in Roraima, in the extreme northern part of the Brazilian Amazon. The objective was to investigate the stock of pre-burn above-ground carbon and its fate after experimental…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, biomass, cerrado, savannas, Brazil, Amazonia, Amazon, combustion, cover, crowns, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fine fuels, fire exclusion, fire management, fuel management, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, leaves, litter, particulates, Poaceae, post-fire recovery, range management, season of fire, seedlings, shrubs, size classes, snags, South America, statistical analysis, Venezuela, woody fuels
This technical report examines different future scenarios for sequestering carbon and reducing emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from U.S. forestry and agriculture. Net greenhouse gas mitigation estimates in response to carbon price assumptions are presented for…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, greenhouse gas emissions
The production of residual white ash patches within wildfires represents near-complete combustion of the available fuel and releases a considerable quantity of gases to the atmosphere. These patches are generally produced from combustion of large downed woody debris (LDWD) such…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, remote sensing, burned area, savannas, Africa, DWD - downed woody debris, white ash, Fraxinus americana, Botswana, air quality, ash, biomass, combustion, experimental fire, fire management, fuel loading, gases, ignition, litter, national parks, particulates, range management, snags, South Africa, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires, woody fuels, Zambia
From introduction: Wildfire is a majoar natural disaster in the United States. In 2002, for example, tens of thousands of wildfires occurred that consumed nearly seven million acres of forest and other land cover (NIFC, 2003). Wildfires contribute to increasing atmospheric CO2…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, pine barrens, New Jersey
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, fire management, pine barrens, New Jersey
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Brachypodium ramosum, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, Europe, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, France, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel moisture, gases, ignition, Mediterranean habitats, needles, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus halepensis, population density, Quercus coccifera , radiation, rate of spread, shrubs, size classes, sloping terrain, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, vortices, wildfires, wind, forest fire spread