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In this webinar, RMRS research ecologist Sam Cushman, wildlife biologist Joe Ganey, and research ecologist Gavin Jones discussed their latest research on spotted owls and wildfire, including modeling the impacts of habitat loss under climate change on the Mexican spotted owl,…
Person: Cushman, Ganey, Jones
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, spotted owl, annual area burned, habitat, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, forest composition, historical fire regime
Grassland fire dynamics are subject to myriad climatic, biological, and anthropogenic drivers, thresholds, and feedbacks and therefore do not conform to assumptions of statistical stationarity. The presence of non-stationarity in time series data leads to ambiguous results that…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, grassland ecology, China, grasslands, fire management, fire-climate relationships, carbon emissions
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, fire suppression, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire severity, fuel availability, C - carbon, carbon emissions, biogeochemistry, forest ecology, ecosystem ecology, carbon pools, SEM - structural equation modeling
Fire has been a natural feature of the ecosystem for million years. Still, currently fire regimes have been increasingly altered by human activities and climate change, causing economic losses, air pollution, and environmental damage. In Brazil, savannas (locally known as the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, cerrado, savanna, frequent fires, plant biomass, climate change, aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, co-existence, fire frequency, management, BEFIRE
Wildfires in the western United States are expected to increase both in size and severity in coming decades. These trends are likely to accelerate large-scale habitat loss and fragmentation for the spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest, California, and the Southwest. All three…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: spotted owl, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, large fires, annual area burned, habitat, fire severity, forest structure, forest composition
The Thomas Fire ignited on December 5, 2017 and burned nearly 300,000 acres of land in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties until January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in California history at the time. During the fire, a persistent plume of ash, smoke, and soot…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Thomas Fire, Santa Barbara Channel, ash, phytoplankton, marine ecology
Savannas are a major terrestrial biome, comprising of grasses with the C4 photosynthetic pathway and trees with the C3 type. This mixed grass-tree biome rapidly appeared on the ecological stage 8 million years ago with the near-synchronous expansion of C4 grasses around the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cover, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, grasses, grasslands, land use, mortality, photosynthesis, plant growth, regeneration, savannas, trees, wildfires, C4 photosynthesis, cloud physics, feedbacks, systems analysis
Background and Aims Germination studies of species from fire-prone habitats are often focused on the role that fire plays in breaking dormancy. However, for some plant groups in these habitats, such as the genus Leucopogon (Ericaceae), dormancy of fresh seeds is not broken by…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, biogeography, disturbance, Ericaceae, fire management, germination, heat, heat effects, Leucopogon, New South Wales, phenology, plant physiology, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, Tasmania, temperature, Victoria, morphophysiological dormancy, embryo morphology, dormancy classification, germination, seasonal temperature, southeastern Australia, Leucopogon exolasius, Leucopogon setiger, Leucopogon esquamatus, Ericaceae, Epacridaceae
In this study, smoke data were collected from two plots located on the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina during prescribed burns on 12 February 2003. One of the plots had been subjected to mechanical chipping, the other was not. This study is part of a larger…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, health factors, national forests, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, wildfires, forest fire, firefighter, PM2.5, CO - carbon monoxide, air quality, mechanical chipping
Fire has been shown to stimulate seed germination in a number of fire-prone ecosystems, mainly in Mediterranean type shrublands and, though not exclusively, in hardseeded species. Stimulation by heat, or by chemical constituents of charred wood and smoke, have been identified as…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, Andropogon lateralis, Asteraceae, Brazil, Cyperaceae, ecosystem dynamics, Elionurus, Eryngium, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forbs, germination, grasses, grasslands, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Mediterranean habitats, Poaceae, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, South America, temperature, wood, germination, grasslands, heat shock, southern Brazil
From the text ... 'The use of prescribed fire as a land management tool has deep and ancient roots in south Carolina's heritage, but conducting prescribed burns is becoming increasingly challenging because of a variety of factors, according to the chairman of the South Carolina…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, birds, carnivorous plants, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, Dionaea, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, game birds, Gopherus polyphemus, grasslands, hardwood forests, hunting, land management, longleaf pine, Picoides borealis, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, range management, roots, Sarracenia, season of fire, Smokey Bear program, South Carolina, Turkey, wild turkey, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the Executive Summary ... 'Over 2,000 wildfires burned 500,000 acres of Florida real estate, most of it between May and mid July, 1998. Although virtually every county was impacted, the fires were concentrated in the northeast quadrant defined by boundaries extending north…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Aphelocoma coerulescens, catastrophic fires, Deeringothamnus rugelii, droughts, education, fire damage (property), Florida, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, GIS, habitat suitability, health factors, herbicides, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Leptographium, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national forests, overstory, partial cutting, pine forests, plant diseases, plantations, public information, storms, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildfires, wildlife refuges, BEHAVE, PREDICTORS OF EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR, HOME PROTECTION STRATEGIES, anthropogenic factors
In the management of forest fires, early detection and fast response are known to be the two major actions that limit both fire loss and fire-associated costs. There are several inter-related factors that are crucial in producing an efficient fire detection system: the strategic…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Europe, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, Portugal, season of fire, statistical analysis, wildfires, forest fires, lookout towers, Portugal, visibility, fire detection, fire towers, FIRE DETECTION FUNCTION MODEL
From the text (p.5) ... 'On the many sites on the DeSoto National Forest with significant timber damage, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will not resume controlled burning programs, already inadequate, particularly with respect to the paucity of growing season burning, until the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), forest management, fungi, Gopherus polyphemus, growing season burn, insects, military lands, Mississippi, national forests, Pinus palustris, reptiles, salvage, smoke management, storms, trees, US Forest Service, wildlife habitat management, wood, RELOCATION
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, biomass, forest management, GIS, health factors, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, southern California, statistical analysis, wildfires, particulate matter, satellite image, visibility, spatial interpolation
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, Alnus glutinosa, Asphodelus, Australia, chaparral, Chile, Cistus incanus, Clematis, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Erica arborea, Erica australis, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, Fraxinus, fynbos, germination, Juniperus oxycedrus, Lavandula, Mediterranean habitats, plant communities, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, resprouting, Rhamnus, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, South Africa, South America, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, Mediterranean basin, chapparal, fynbos, kwongan, matorral, Erica, Juniperus
From the text (p.332) ... 'Within the landscape, detailed mapping of sensitive species and remnant fragments is being used to define appropriate silvicultural and burning techniques. For remnant forest fragments with residual savanna species, silvicultural efforts include (1)…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida beyrichiana, burning intervals, coastal plain, community ecology, forbs, fuel moisture, GIS, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, habitat types, hardwoods, herbicides, land use, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, native species (plants), old fields, overstory, Pinus palustris, plant communities, population ecology, savannas, shrubs, smoke management, South Carolina, thinning, REINTRODUCTIONS OF NATIVE SPECIES
The effect of high temperatures and smoke on germination was tested on the shrubland Leguminosae species, Adenocarpus lainzii, Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus striatus, Genista berberidea, Genista triacanthos, and Pterospartum tridentatum, which are abundant and widely distributed…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Adenocarpus, Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus striatus, distribution, Europe, fire management, Genista, germination, heat, heat effects, legumes, plant communities, Portugal, Pterospartum tridentatum, regeneration, reproduction, seed germination, shrublands, shrubs, smoke effects, Spain, statistical analysis, wildfires, Atlantic shrubland, endemisms, reproductive behaviour, thermal shock, wildfire, darkness, woodland
From the text ... 'Longleaf pine trees and wiregrass, which thrive with burning, have been planted in the 150-foot wide medians since 2003. Prescribed fires, forest experts say, help maintain scenic vistas and healthy pine forests. The prescribed burn is the first on a highway…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Aristida beyrichiana, artificial regeneration, education, fire management, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, herbicides, hunting, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, mowing, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plantations, pollution, public information, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, trees, wildfires, wildlife, FL DOT - Florida Department of Transportation, HIGHWAY MEDIANS
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Warm Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Warm Fire