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From the text ... 'Smoke turned daylight into darkness Monday near a fire in the Everglades that has charred about 120,000 acres, prompting authorities to warn some people with respiratory problems to stay indoors....Firefighters set controlled blazes to help contain the…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: everglades, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, general interest, grasses, marshes, national parks, roads, south Florida, wildfires, wind
A strategy for the protection, preservation, and restoration of national forest giant sequoia groves is being formulated using a conceptual framework for ecosystem management recently developed by Region Five of the USDA Forest Service. The framework includes physical,…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, air quality, arthropods, community ecology, diameter classes, diseases, dominance (ecology), drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel loading, hardwood forests, hydrology, insects, mosaic, national forests, old growth forests, organic soils, plant communities, population density, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, sedimentation, seedlings, Sequoia, size classes, snags, surface fires, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, water, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Yosemite National Park
Smoldering fires in organic soils have negative effects on air quality and motorist safety as well as global implications from their release of large quantities of refractory C. However, the ecological implications of their occurrence are relatively unexplored despite their…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, smoldering combustion, wetlands, pyrogeomorphology, peat fires, hydrologic processes, fire feedbacks
Wildfires can cause immediate and drastic impacts on the structure and functioning of ecosystems, and there has been an increasing interest in wildfire effects on water chemistry and aquatic biota. Wildfires are increasingly recognized as a diffuse source of contamination of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, ash, chemical elements, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, ecotoxicological effects, freshwater organisms, water chemistry, Portugal, fire frequency, bacteria, hydrocarbons, toxicity, water quality, fire management, forest management
Size-resolved aerosol composition measurements were conducted at a coastal site in central California during the Nucleation in California Experiment (NiCE) between July and August of 2013. The site is just east of ship and marine emission sources and is also influenced by…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, aerosol, composition, soil
In Southeast Asia, peatland is widely distributed and has accumulated a massive amount of soil carbon, coexisting with peat swamp forest (PSF). The peatland, however, has been rapidly degraded by deforestation, fires, and drainage for the last two decades. Such disturbances…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, disturbance, drainage, energy, ENSO, evapotranspiration, hydrology, soil nutrients, water, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Asia, fire management, forest management, watershed management, peatlands, swamps, tropical regions, disturbances, drainage, eddy covariance, energy balance, ENSO, groundwater level, Southeast Asia