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The production of pyrogenic carbon (PyC; a continuum of organic carbon (C) ranging from partially charred biomass and charcoal to soot) is a widely acknowledged C sink, with the latest estimates indicating that ~ 50% of the PyC produced by vegetation fires potentially sequesters…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, charcoal, organic matter, fire management, biochar, black carbon, carbon accounting, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, charcoal, DOC - dissolved organic carbon, erosion, PyOM - pyrogenic organic matter, wildfire, dissolved black carbon, SOM - soil organic matter, forest soils, boreal forest, climate change, macroscopic charcoal, temperate forest, Marine-Sediments, emission factors, Fresh Charcoal
Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations, smoke effects, wildfires, climate change, health factors, fire management, wildfire, Fire-Adaptive Communities, fire management, climate change, Smoke and Health
Fire plays an increasingly significant role in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and impacting on biodiversity. Emerging research shows the potential role of Indigenous land-use practices for controlling deforestation and reducing…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, South America, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, savannas, tropical forests, Indigenous fire management, Community Owned Solutions, Policy-Making, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana
1. Fire can affect bees directly through exposure to heat and smoke. Direct effects include mortality, injury, and displacement affecting at most two generations adults and any immature progeny present during the fire. To study the direct effects of fire on bees, two criteria…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire size, heat effects, lightning caused fires, smoke effects, wildfires, Utah, habits and behavior, insects, fire management, range management, wildlife management, Apoidea, bees, Artemisia, sagebrush, Bromus tectorum, cheatgrass, grasslands, Apoidea, disturbance, insects, sagebrush steppe
Detailed chemical characterisation was performed for wintertime and summertime PM10 samples collected in Melbourne, Australia. The samples were analysed for marker compounds of biomass burning and biogenic secondary organic aerosol (SOA). The chemical analysis showed that the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, aerosols, air quality, fire management, smoke management, Eucalyptus spp., biogenic SOA, wood smoke SOA, eucalyptus combustion, Fine-Particle Emissions, chemical characterization, fireplace combustion, carbonaceous aerosols, biomass combustion, atmospheric tracer, stove combustion, levoglucosan, smoke impact
Relations between soil biota diversity and its contribution to the performance of some ecosystem functions were assessed based on the results obtained in undisturbed and burned spruce forests near the Central Forest Nature Biosphere Reserve (Tver oblast). In August 2014, in two…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Europe, Russia, soil organisms, species diversity (animals), ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, taiga, soil fauna, biodiversity, Functioning, taiga, boreal ecosystems, nitrogen mineralization, ecosystem services, community, landscape, abundance, Nematodes, podzols, fauna
The Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) is a biodiversity hotspot with a history of fire that goes back as far as 10 million years. Fire has influenced the evolution of several aspects of the vegetation, including reproduction and life cycles. This study tested how fire by-products such…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat, Brazil, South America, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, cerrado, grasslands, savannas, tropical regions, Campo Sujo, fire-prone ecosystem, heat shock, tropical savannas, wet grasslands, heat shock, Brazilian Cerrado, high temperatures, dormancy, Fluctuations, conservation, grasslands, management, plants
Seeds of some eastern Australian Grevillea species show the characteristics of non-deep physiological dormancy, which is broken by exposure to heat shock and/or smoke. The current study tested whether the restrictive effect of the seed coat on germination was localized to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, Australia, seed dormancy, seed germination, fire management, smoke management, Embryonic Growth Potential, Mechanical Constraint, Non-Deep Physiological Dormancy, Selective Seed Coat Removal, water potential
Africa has the most extensive C4 grassy biomes of any continent. They are highly flammable accounting for greater than 70% of the world's burnt area. Much of Africa's savannas and grasslands occur in climates warm enough and wet enough to support closed forests. The combination…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, flammability, human-caused fires, Africa, deforestation, fire management, range management, grasslands, old fields, savannas, old-growth grasslands, forest restoration, grassland biodiversity, sub-Saharan Africa, fire regimes, global vegetation, carbon emissions, plant diversity, atmospheric CO2, tropical forest, climate change, savanna fire
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, carbon dioxide, climate change, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, anthropogenic burning, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, Global Fire, pyrogeography, fire regimes, wildfire, Impact, Anthropocene, transition, landscape, patterns, drivers
Fire and herbivory are the two consumers of above-ground biomass globally. They have contrasting impacts as they differ in terms of selectivity and temporal occurrence. Here, we integrate continental-scale data on fire and herbivory in Africa to explore (i) how environmental…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, wildfires, Africa, grazing, greenhouse gases, herbivory, mammals, CH4 - methane, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, wildlife management, savannas, Fire - Grazer Interactions, Savannah Determinants, greenhouse gas emissions
The Unmix receptor model was applied to the 2002-2014 speciated PM2.5 data from the IMPROVE site at Tallgrass National Preserve near Strong City, Kansas, to investigate the contributions of prescribed rangeland burning on local air quality. This investigation found the following…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, range management, smoke management, Kansas, IMPROVE, Rangeland Burning, Secondary Organic Aerosols, source apportionment, Ammonia Emissions, aerosol
Connections between wildfires and modes of variability in climate are sought as a means for predicting fire activity on interannual to multi-decadal timescales. Several fire drivers, such as temperature and local drought index, have been shown to vary on these timescales, and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, air quality, climate variability, earth system models, biomass burning emissions, Global Vegetation Model, Sea-Surface Temperature, Western North-America, boreal forest fire, burned area, El-Nino, Climate System, South America, Wood Harvest
Fire plays an essential role in maintaining the structure and function of longleaf pine ecosystems. While the effects of fire on carbon cycle have been measured in previous studies for short periods during a burn and for multiyear periods following the burn, information on how…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: land management, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, South Carolina, carbon cycle, Ameriflux, boreal forest, tallgrass prairie, carbon dioxide, Water-Vapor, fluxes, dynamics, heat
Vegetation, wildfire and atmospheric oxygen on Earth have changed throughout geological times, and are dependent on each other, determining the evolution of ecosystems, the carbon cycle, and the climate, as found in the fossil record. Previous work in the literature has only…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, smoldering fires, vegetation, Paleo Fire, peat, soil, ignition, organic soils, peat fires, combustion, Kinetics, Limits, Roles, Depth
Plant-derived smoke promotes germination in Mediterranean-like environments, but its effect is unclear in the Mediterranean Cistaceae. This article investigates the role of smoke in the comparative germination ecology of five Helianthemum taxa. Laboratory germination experiments…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, Europe, Spain, seed germination, statistical analysis, temperature, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, Atlantic, Endemic, Mediterranean, physical dormancy, physiological dormancy
A larger amount of carbon is stored in forest ecosystems than in the entire atmosphere. Thus, relatively small changes in forest carbon stocks can significantly impact net carbon exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere. Changes in forest stocks can result from various…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, China, C - carbon, droughts, fire management, forest management, forest fire, carbon emissions, historical trends, global wildland fire, climate change, terrestrial ecosystems, CO2 emissions, Earth System, land use, biomass, 21st Century, impacts
Deforestation as a result of burning and land conversion in the tropics and subtropics has been widely studied and active restoration of forests has been widely promoted. Besides other benefits, reforestation can sequester carbon thereby reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Africa, South Africa, conservation, deforestation, species diversity (plants), succession, fire management, range management, grasslands, Grassland Biodiversity and Function, forest restoration, Underground Storage Organs, Grassland Succession
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, 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, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
Frequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production, it has become a controversial societal issue because of its potential impact on…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Kansas, burn season, tallgrass prairie, season of fire, air quality, biomass, soil moisture, woody plants, fire management, range management, rangelands
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire
Wildfires are an important component of terrestrial ecosystem ecology but also a major natural hazard to societies, and their frequency and spatial distribution must be better understood. At a given location, risk from wildfire is associated with the annual fraction of burned…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: future fire activity, biogeochemistry, climate change impact analysis, ecological modeling, atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide, area burned, fire models, fire size, wildfires, climate change, population density, fire management, fire hazard
Wildfires are one of the main disturbances that impact structure, sustainability, and carbon budget of Siberian forests, as well as infrastructure and human safety. The Zabaikal region in the south of Siberia is characterized by one of the highest levels of fire activity in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, area burned, carbon emissions, fuel loads, post-fire regeneration, repeated burn, steppification, Zabaikal region, Russia
Carbon farming initiatives have rapidly developed in recent years, influencing broad scale changes to land management regimes. In the open carbon market a premium can be secured if additional benefits, such as biodiversity conservation or social advancement, can be quantified.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, additionality, carbon markets, carbon farming, ecosystem services, season of fire, PES - Payments for Ecosystem Services
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire research, science delivery, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program