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Four conditions are necessary for fire to assume ecological importance: 1) an accumulation of organic matter, i.e. fuel either herbaceous or woody, sufficient enough to burn; 2) dry weather conditions to render the material combustible; 3) a landscape conducive to the spread of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, relative humidity, winds, fuel moisture, smoke management, fire frequency, fire season
The promoting effect of smoke-derived chemicals (e.g. karrikinolide and cyanohydrin) on germination in many plants from Mediterranean-type ecosystems such as South Africa and south-western Australia is well documented. However, very little is known about 1) the relative…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: South Africa, Africa, Australia, germination, karrikinolide, cyanohydrins, annuals, chemicals, seedling growth, Mediterranean basin
During the summer of 2017, several megafires in South-Central Chile burned down forest plantations, native forests, shrublands and human settlements. National authorities identified the relevant effects of the wildfires on infrastructure and ecosystems. However, other indirect…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire impacts, air pollution, natural hazards, risk assessment, ecosystem services, ecosystems, Chile, fire severity, megafires, air quality, PM - particulate matter, Landsat, ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to protect the planet and ensure prosperity. In reaching SDGs, Indonesia's palm oil industry represents a solution for the economy but a problem for environment-related goals. Palm oil is a tremendous land-based commodity…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: landscape, sustainability, green product, sustainable development, palm oil, fire use, Indonesia
Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics
The field of aerobiology is expanding due to a recognition of the diversity of roles microbes play in both terrestrial and atmospheric ecology. Smoke from global biomass burning has had significant and widespread ecological and human health consequences, but the living component…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: aerobiology, atmospheric biology, bioaerosols, forest pathology, fungal dispersal, microbial ecology, microbiology, wildfires, Florida, Idaho
Questions: Fire is a crucial component of many ecosystems. Plants whose seeds germinate in response to smoke may benefit from resource availability in the post‐fire environment. Smoke can influence germination timing and success, as well as seedling vigour, resulting in…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: karrikinolide, germination, seed, Australia
The exposure of Vitis vinifera L. berries to forest fire smoke changes the concentration of phenylpropanoid metabolites in berries and the resulting wine. The exposure of Vitis vinifera L. berries (i.e., wine grapes) to forest fire smoke can lead to a wine defect known as smoke…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, volatile phenols, wine, phenylpropanoid, polyphenol, smoke exposure, smoke taint
This presentation will share lessons learned by the Yurok Tribe's Air Quality Coordinator during the Summer of 2017 wildfire disaster response in Northwest California.
Person: Hostler
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: Yurok Tribe, 2017 fire season, wildfires, air quality, disaster response
Many plants in fire-prone ecosystems produce seeds that are cued to germinate after fire. However, fire is not uniform in the landscape, and there are often refugia where fire does not reach, like rocky outcrops or moist valleys. Erica coccinea, a heath shrub from the South…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, fire refugia, fire-prone ecosystem, intraspecies trait variation, seeder, resprouter, Erica coccinea, germination, seeds
The increasing frequency of fires inhibits the estimation of carbon reserves in boreal forest ecosystems because fires release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through combustion. However, less is known regarding the effects of vegetation succession processes on…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, wildfires, boreal forest, vegetation response, carbon flux, burn severity, forest succession, remote sensing, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Landsat, succession
Fire is a key ecological factor affecting plant dynamics. In the last few decades, fire occurrence in the Chaco region has increased noticeably, challenging the adaptive capacity of plants to regenerate after a fire. Broad‐leaved forb species have been much less studied than…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Argentina, broad-leaved herbs, germination cues, life history strategies, post-fire regeneration, seed mass, post-fire recovery
Smoke cued germination occurs in an incredible diversity of plants in widely separated, fire-prone Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems around the world. This research suggests that convergent evolution might be the explaination.
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: CFSC - California Fire Science Consortium, pyroendemic plants, germination, Mediterranean climate, fire-prone ecosystem
These data include time lapse JPEG and CR2 format photographs, taken every 5 seconds, as well as MTS videos from burns of the 2012 Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Images are provided from five…
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Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biota, environment, plume, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, RxCADRE, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
Millions of acres of fuels reduction treatments are being implemented each year in the fire adapted forests of the US. Typical these fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of unmerchantable woody material and elevating surface…
Person: Evans
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: burn piles, fuel treatment, slash, fuel moisture, burning, decomposition, compaction, decay rate, flame height, soil heating, fuel consumption
From the Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series.
Wildfires are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem. Wildfires help maintain vegetation diversity, providing suitable habitats for wildlife, but wildfires can also present a threat to human values. Alaska has seen the frequency of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Alaska wildfires, climate, boreal forest, carbon emissions, tundra ecosystem
The 2016 lightning-caused Berry Fire was the largest fire on record for Grand Teton National Park. This video, by videographer Peri Sasnett, highlights the challenges managers face in balancing ecological benefits of fire with the human inconvenience fire can cause on public…
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Grand Teton National Park, Berry Fire, fire management
Fire impacts many vegetated ecosystems across the world. The severity of a fire is major component in determining post-fire effects, including soil erosion, trace gas emissions, and the trajectory of recovery. In this study, we used imaging spectroscopy data combined with…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2013 Rim Fire, SMA - spectral mixture analysis, fire severity, AVIRIS - Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer, post-fire recovery
Influence of fire on critically endangered Swartland Shale Renosterveld in the Cape Floristic Region
Questions: The degree to which renosterveld shrublands are fire-dependent is currently unclear. To address this issue, the following questions were asked: (1) does smoke stimulate germination of soil-stored seeds in renosterveld; (2) does recently-burned renosterveld display…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: South Africa, germination, species composition, seed bank
Presentation by Kevin Hiers of the Tall Timbers Research Station. Presents a review from an experienced manager turned wildland fire scientist, of concerns, strategies and opportunities for burning in sites with duff accumulations. From the October 2017 Southern Fire Exchange…
Person: Hiers
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, duff fires, tree mortality, duff consumption, time since fire
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Person: Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management, wildfires, air quality, smoke dispersion, public relations, agencies, public involvement
In this report, the Commission calls for transformational culture change in its forest management practices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in December 2017 that approximately 27 million trees had died statewide on federal, state and private lands since…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, forest management, fire management, tree mortality, bark beetle, drought, natural fire regime, carbon sequestration, air quality, public awareness
Many plant species are dependent on soil-stored seeds for their persistence in fire-prone systems. Seed germination is often stimulated by fire-related cues including heat and smoke, but the way these cues promote germination may differ between structurally distinct plant…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: seed germination, seed bank, Australia, fire-prone ecosystem
Past and current forest management affects wildland fire smoke impacts on downwind human populations. However, mismatches between the scale of benefits and risks make it difficult to proactively manage wildland fires to promote both ecological and public health. Building on…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2013 Rim Fire, air quality, PM - particulate matter, socioecological systems, wildfires, wildland fire, Sierra Nevada, fire management, NOAA Hazard Mapping System, public health, PM2.5
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: Clark
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: ember transport, fuel consumption, fuel loading, turbulence, heat flux, physics-based fire model , New Jersey