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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
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, clearcutting, Digitaria, eucalyptus, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, grasslands, grazing, hydrology, logging, nutrients, peat fires, Pinus, precipitation, rainforests, runoff, soil leaching, soil permeability, soils, Southeast Asia, streams, succession, tropical forests, water quality, wildfires
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, boreal forests, Canada, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire regimes, forest management, genetics, Glaucomys volans, climate change, Great Lakes, greenhouse gases, Ontario, Picea engelmannii, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), subalpine forests, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Tsuga mertensiana, tundra, wetlands, climate change, ecodiversity, forest, ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity, ECOSYSTEM HIERARCHY, ECOLOGICAL LAND CLASSIFICATION TERMINOLOGY, ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS, aspen parkland
Tropical peat swamp forests grow over tropical peatlands, which are widely distributed in flat lowlands in Southeast Asia. Recently, however, deforestation and drainage are in progress on a large scale because of growing demands for timber and farmland. In addition, the El Nino…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat, wildfires, air quality, deforestation, drainage, droughts, ENSO, evapotranspiration, radiation, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, peatlands, tropical regions, deforestation, drainage, drought, evapotranspiration, peatland-fires
From the text ... 'Restoration treatments can be ecologically as well as socially and economically beneficial. ... The fire regime at Girard was largely due to frequent burning by American Indians. ...Seeley Lake shows the importance of questioning the 'naturalness' of a given…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: age classes, catastrophic fires, Cervus elaphus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forage, forest fragmentation, forest management, insects, lakes, land management, Larix occidentalis, logging, mammals, Montana, national forests, Native Americans, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Pseudotsuga menziesii, raptors, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, smoke effects, stand characteristics, succession, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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 geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dry forests, fuels management, fuels reduction
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
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
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, bogs, carbon dioxide, Carex, carnivorous plants, community ecology, Czech Republic, Dionaea muscipula, Drosera capillaris, Drosera rotundifolia, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire dependent species, marshlands, O - oxygen, Phragmites, Pinguicula, plant ecology, plant growth, plant physiology, regeneration, roots, Sarracenia purpurea, Sarracenia rubra, soil moisture, soil nutrients, sphagnum, water, water uptake, watershed management, aerobic respiration, anaerobic CO2 release, CN--resistant respiration, Dionea, Drosera, Genlisea, Sarracenia, soil anoxia