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Pines (genus Pinus) form the dominant tree cover over large parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Human activities have affected the distribution, composition, and structure of pine forests for millennia. Different human-mediated factors have affected different pine species in…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, browse, conservation, cover, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, grazing, logging, paleoecology, pine forests, pine, Pinus, pollution, wildfires, air pollution, biological invasions, conservation, land use
The Southwest of Western Australia is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. In the jarrah forest there are at least 300-400 plant species in vegetation that is typically mined and as many as 1163 species per 0.1 ha. Hence, restoring the plant species to post-mining areas is…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Allocasuarina fraseriana, Australia, Banksia littoralis, Corymbia, Eucalyptus marginata, forest management, Hakea, heat, jarrah, Melaleuca, mining, orchids, population density, resprouting, sclerophyll forests, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, species diversity (plants), succession, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, western Australia, wildfires, bauxite mining, species composition, species richness, vegetation, western Australia
This paper details some of the recent research findings concerning restoration needs of the Banksia woodland in Western Australia, including the importance of, and recent advances in, smoke-technology research. Research has enabled testing of a wide spectrum of restoration…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, artificial regeneration, Australia, Banksia, coastal plain, erosion, fertilizers, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fragmentation, germination, herbicides, litter, plant communities, plant growth, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, soils, species diversity (plants), weeds, western Australia, wildfires, wind
We measured soil seed banks in 102 plots within a 110 000 ha Arizona Pinus ponderosa landscape, determined seed-bank responses to fire cues and tree canopy types (open or densely treed patches), compared seed-bank composition among ecosystem types, and assessed the utility of…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, ash, Canada, Carex, Cervus elaphus, char, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Elymus elymoides, Erigeron, Erigeron divergens, Festuca arizonica, fire management, forbs, forest management, Gnaphalium, grasses, grazing, heat, livestock, mineral soils, Montana, Muhlenbergia, Muhlenbergia montana, national forests, overstory, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, Populus tremuloides, Quercus gambelii, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, soils, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wood
From the text (p.32) ... 'When prescribed fire is part of the ecological management plan, most native plants bloom earlier and longer, produce more seed, and generally thrive. The reasons are easy to see. the dead plant material is reduced to mineral-rich ask, which provides…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: ash, backfires, ecosystem dynamics, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flank fires, forest management, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, leaves, lightning caused fires, litter, native species (plants), nutrients, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, seed production, smoke management, wildfires, Wisconsin
From the text ... 'For most of the 20th century, land managers across the U.S. maintained a policy of total fire suppression on the nation's forest lands. No fire was a good fire, they reasoned, and managers set about extinguishing fires wherever they occurred.Land managers now…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: Arkansas, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasses, ground cover, native species (plants), suppression, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
In a burn of 5-year-old secondary forest cleared for agriculture in Roraima, Brazil, carbon partitioning was measured for above-ground portions of both secondary forest (regrowth) and the remains of original forest, felled and burned six years previously. Above-ground dry weight…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: charcoal, agriculture, deforestation, global warming, Brazil, biomass burning, greenhouse gas, secondary forests, carbon dioxide, axis, biomass, broadcast burning, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cutting, diameter classes, fire management, forest management, climate change, litter, palms, post-fire recovery, sampling, second growth forests, tropical forest, vines
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
This conference was attended by nearly 450 Forest Service earth scientists representing hydrology, soil science, geology, and air. In addition to active members of the earth science professions, many retired scientists also attended and participated. These 60 peer-reviewed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Aquatic
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conferences, earth sciences
The Rocky Mountain Research Station has a long and celebrated legacy of conducting relevant natural resources research throughout the Interior West and beyond. Land managers and planners regularly rely upon our science to help make wise resource decisions. Our niche among…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Deserts are known to mankind, but the term desertification has always been an elusive concept. It is now defined in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as land degradation in the drylands (land failing within arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas)…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, broadcast burning, C - carbon, cover, deforestation, deserts, disturbance, erosion, gases, grazing, land use, pollution, soils, vegetation surveys, wind, land degradation, land use and land cover changes, overgrazing, biomass burning and atmospheric emissions, air pollution, forest and woodland clearing, wind erosion, climate change
The once widespread Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)-dominated ecosystems of the southeastern coastal plain of the United States have been greatly reduced in extent, and many of the remaining stands are being degraded by hardwood invasion due to fire suppression. The first step…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, C - carbon, coastal plain, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, forest products, hardwood forests, hardwoods, invasive species, Liquidambar styraciflua, longleaf pine, north Florida, Pinus palustris, Quercus hemisphaerica, Quercus nigra, savannas, smoke management, suppression, carbon offset, forest product markets, invasive hardwoods, longleaf pine restoration, Pinus palustris, restoration costs
At least three global-change phenomena are having major impacts on Amazonian forests: (1) accelerating deforestation and logging; (2) rapidly changing patterns of forest loss; and (3) interactions between human land-use and climatic variability. Additional alterations caused by…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, deforestation, fire danger rating, fragmentation, hunting, hydrology, land use, logging, mining, multiple resource management, rainforests, rivers, roads, runoff, slash and burn, South America, Swietenia, tropical forests, wildfires
Intensive collection of underground tubers of the medicinal plant Dioscorea drcgeana from indigenous forests is a threat to the wild population. Domestication of this plant is the only possible alternative to fulfill the demand of formal and informal medicinal markets in South…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, artificial regeneration, Dioscorea, fertilizers, germination, light, moisture, N - nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, plant growth, K - potassium, roots, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, temperature, Dioscorea dregeana, medicinal plant, propagation, seed germination, seedling growth, tubers
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive forestry and away from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, competition, cover, crown scorch, duff, education, FEIS, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, ignition, land use, liability, light, litter, livestock, logging, mineral soils, mortality, N - nitrogen, north Florida, nutrient cycling, pine forests, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, slash, soil leaching, stand characteristics, suppression, Tall Timbers Research Station, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels