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We used satellite-derived estimates of global fire emissions and a chemical transport model to estimate atmospheric nitrogen (N) fluxes from savanna and deforestation fires in tropical ecosystems. N emissions and reactive N deposition led to a net transport of N equatorward,…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Amazon, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, combustion, Congo, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, fuel management, human caused fires, N - nitrogen, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, soils, South America, Southeast Asia, tropical forests, volatilization, wildfires, atmospheric transport, biomass burning, global carbon cycle, Hadley circulation, nitrogen limitation, pyrodenitrification

Woody plant increase in grassy biomes has been widely reported over the last century. Increases have been attributed to local drivers associated with land use change, such as heavy grazing or fire suppression, or, controversially, to global drivers such as increased atmospheric…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, browse, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, conservation, cover, croplands, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, grasslands, grazing, land use, N - nitrogen, photography, plant growth, population density, range management, regeneration, savannas, South Africa, suppression, wildfires, woody plants, biome switch, global drivers, land use practices, local drivers, thicket expansion

High levels of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition to southern California chaparral shrublands may interact with fire to affect biomass production and plant species composition during secondary succession. To determine the potential interactions between postfire recovery and N…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, Adenostoma fasciculatum, air quality, biomass, Ceanothus, Ceanothus crassifolius, Ceanothus greggii, chaparral, disturbance, elevation, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, national forests, N - nitrogen, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, post fire recovery, shrublands, shrubs, soil moisture, southern California, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, succession, wildfires, Adenostoma fasciculatum, air pollution, Ceanothus crassifolius, Ceanothus greggii, disturbance, Mediterranean-type ecosystems, secondary succession, semi-arid shrublands

On January 6, 2010, the EPA proposed to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. EPA also proposed an accelerated implementation schedule as part of this Rule. The primary standard is designed to protect public health and the proposal…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, O3 - ozone, ozone, EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, VOC - volatile organic compounds, N - nitrogen, non-attainment area

An original method is proposed for estimating past carbon emissions from fires in order to understand long-term changes in the biomass burning that, together with vegetation cover, act on the global carbon cycle and climate. The past carbon release resulting from paleo-fires…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, air mass, carbon emissions, ecozones, Ontario, paleofire data, Quebec, vegetation zones, biomass burning, charcoal data, fire frequency, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, charcoal, climatology, cover, evergreens, mosses, needles, paleoecology, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, taiga, tundra

The boreal region stores a large proportion of the world's terrestrial carbon (C) and is subject to high-intensity, stand-replacing wildfires that release C and nitrogen (N) stored in biomass and soils through combustion. While severity and extent of fires drives overall…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, organic layer, soil, allometric equations, black spruce, Picea mariana, fuel consumption, adventitious roots

Fuel treatments alter conditions in forested stands at the time of the treatment and subsequently. Fuel treatments reduce on-site carbon and also change the fire potential and expected outcome of future wildfires, including their carbon emissions. We simulated effects of fuel…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: thinning, wildfire, fuel treatment effects, air quality, C - carbon, coniferous forests, crown fires, Douglas-fir, Engelmann spruce, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel management, fuel types, ladder fuels, Larix occidentalis, lodgepole pine, Montana, mortality, mountains, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, snags, stand characteristics, subalpine forests, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, western hemlock, western larch, western white pine, woody fuels

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

Models of first-order fire effects are designed to predict tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, and smoke production. Some of these models can be used to predict first-order fire effects on animals (e.g., soil-dwelling organisms as a result of soil heating), but they…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire, mortality, animals, invertebrates, vertebrates, first-order fire effects, direct effects, envirogram, indirect effects, Accipiter gentilis, Ammodramus henslowii, arthropods, bird banding, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, charcoal, Cistothorus platensis, competition, Crotalus spp., diseases, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire models, fire regimes, fire size, Terrapene carolina, forage, forest management, fuel loading, Geomys bursarius, habits and behavior, ignition, insects, telemetry, Lasiurus, Melanophila spp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, mowing, nesting, nongame birds, O - oxygen, pH, Picoides albolarvatus, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, predation, reproduction, reptiles, Sceloporus, Sitta pygmaea, soil moisture, soil organisms, soil temperature, Strix occidentalis, threatened and endangered species, Timema, Tympanuchus cupido, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management, SFP - Southern Fire Portal