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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, smoke management, water
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Cistus spp., cones, Cupressus sempervirens, dominance (ecology), droughts, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, flowering, forestation, grazing, Greece, hardwoods, legumes, light, litter, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, mortality, needles, N - nitrogen, pine forests, Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus nigra, pioneer species, plant growth, plant physiology, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, Quercion ilicis, rangelands, regeneration, reproduction, resprouting, sampling, Sarcopoterium spinosum, sclerophyll forests, seasonal activities, seed dispersal, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, shrubs, soil moisture, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: biomass, calcium, conifers, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, forest management, Idaho, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus rigida, Pinus sylvestris, plant nutrition, K - potassium, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, smoke effects, sodium, watersheds, wildfires, wind
The character of most southern forest ecosystems has been shaped by fire. Indians and early settlers fired the woods for many purposes. After a period of attempted fire exclusion, foresters recognized the necessity of fire by prescription in southern pine cover types. This paper…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, bark, broadcast burning, browse, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, cover, cover type, crown scorch, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, histories, hydrocarbons, lightning caused fires, loblolly pine, logging, longleaf pine, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, plant physiology, pollution, precipitation, season of fire, shortleaf pine, slash pine, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, sprouting, thinning, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wood, wildlife habitat, water and air pollution, nutrient cycling
We used a replicated watershed experiment to determine the effects of site preparation burning on mixed hardwood ecosystems. Response measurements included nutrient cycling proecesses and site productivity, soil erosion and water quality, chemistry and quantity of smoke…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Appalachian Mountains, biomass, calcium, C - carbon, chemistry, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, plant growth, population ecology, post fire recovery, K - potassium, resprouting, seedlings, soil erosion, species diversity (plants), water, water quality, watershed management, watersheds, woody plants
Various studies report changes in phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in surface waters after wildfires; however, we have found no reports which include nutrient data collected during actual wildfire activity. We had an opportunity to collect water chemistry data from several…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, chemistry, fire intensity, gases, hydrology, leaching, lightning caused fires, Montana, N - nitrogen, nutrients, particulates, phosphorus, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant diseases, post fire recovery, sampling, smoke effects, streams, volatilization, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, wind
A stainless steel laboratory chamber to hold the entire combustion products from a small scale pine needle fire was useful for measuring the photochemical activity of pine needle fire smoke. Particle size distributions indicated that the nucleation of small numbers of submicron…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemistry, combustion, diameter classes, distribution, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, light, needles, N - nitrogen, Ontario, ozone, particulates, pine, pollution, smoke behavior
The effects of a late-summer prescribed burn on the chemistry of a second-order mountain stream in the south-western Cape, South Africa, were investigated. Nitrate concentrations in stream water were significantly higher during the winter of the post-burn year. Increased…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, calcium, chemical elements, chemistry, hydrogen, magnesium, mountains, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, K - potassium, precipitation, runoff, soil nutrients, South Africa, streams, water, water quality
Wildfires generate substantial emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). As such, wildfires contribute to elevated ozone (O3) in the atmosphere. However, there is a large amount of variability in the emissions of O3 precursors and the amount of O3…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: wildfires, ozone, exceptional event, VOC - volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, MDA8 - maximum daily 8-hour average, statistical analysis, PAN - peroxyacetyl nitrate, PM2.5, fire models, air quality, N - nitrogen, particulates, fire management, forest management, smoke management, Idaho, Nevada, Utah
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…
Person:
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
2014 is an EPA National Emission Inventory (NEI) Year. The NEI is a national inventory of air pollutants, emitted from all sources. EPA compiles a NEI every three years from information submitted by State/Local/Tribal (SLT) agencies. Prescribed fire, wildfire and crop residue…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CO - carbon monoxide, VOC - volatile organic compounds, N - nitrogen, nitrogen oxides, PM2.5, PM10, hazardous air pollutants, air quality, air pollution, NEI - National Emissions Inventory
This study tests whether or not foliar flammability is related to resource-use and anti-herbivore defence strategies of plant species. We measured the flammability (at 400 °C) of 1640 dry and fresh leaves across 115 common native New Zealand woody and herbaceous species…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: New Zealand, functional traits, herbivory, leaf nitrogen content, leaf phosphorus, total phenols, tannins, flammability, fire adaptations, ignition, laboratory fires, leaves, N - nitrogen, phosphorus, plant nutrients, plant physiology, fire management, forest management
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)] Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) is an economically important Canadian tree species and its autecology is inextricably linked to fire. It would disappear as a natural component of the boreal…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, fire intensity, jack pine, Pinus banksiana, regeneration, ecosystem dynamics, eastern Canada, Canada, carbon dioxide, decay, diameter classes, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fire dependent species, fire frequency, litter, magnesium, mineral soil, mortality, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, Ontario, organic matter, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, plant growth, post-fire recovery, K - potassium, precipitation, seedlings, site treatments, soils, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, wildfires
Biomass burning is a significant regional and global source of gaseous and particulate emissions to the atmosphere. These emissions impact the composition and chemistry of the troposphere and stratosphere and affect the transfer of both incoming solar radiation and outgoing…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, N - nitrogen, air quality, China, biomass, broadcast burning, catastrophic fires, charcoal, chemistry, climatology, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, gases, climate change, hydrocarbons, H2 - hydrogen, land use, CH4 - methane, particulates, radiation, Russia, savannas, Siberia, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, tropical forest, woody fuels
In July 2000, six plots of Mediterranean maquis in the Castel Volturno Nature Reserve were burnt at two intensity levels to examine the effects of fire intensities on chemical and biological soil components and their relationships with ecophysiological processes of Phillyrea…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, photosynthesis, resilience, soil fungi, soil nutrients, mycorrhizae, Italy, stomatal conductance, Phillyrea angustifolia, Angustifolium, C - carbon, cover, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, experimental fire, fire intensity, fire management, fungi, gases, H2 - hydrogen, magnesium, Mediterranean habitats, mycorrhiza, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, Phillyrea angustifolia, P - phosphorus, plant growth, Quercus ilex, resprouting, soil management, soil moisture, soil organic matter, water
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition, associated with chronic urban air pollution, has produced stream water nitrate concentrations as high as 7.0 mg of N L^-l in chaparral watersheds in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, CA. Stream water [NO3-] and discharge were…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution, N - nitrogen, atmospheric deposition, Mediterranean ecosystem, chaparral fires
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, water quality, smoke modeling, pollutants, prescribed natural fire, wildfire, atmospheric dispersion, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, health factors, hydrocarbons, land management, logging, Madrean habitats, natural resource legislation, NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act, N - nitrogen, pollution, chance ignition prescribed fires, slash, smoke management, soils, US Forest Service, wind
Today biomass burning is accepted to be an important source of many trace gases affecting atmospheric chemistry (Crutzen et al., 1979; Cofer et al., 1988a; Radke et al., 1988; Crutzen et al., 1990). Despite its global significance and in contrast to fossil fuel use, where…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, laboratory fires, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, N - nitrogen, laboratory experiments
Fires in tropical savannas are a principal source of emissions to the atmosphere, but there are few studies of retention in ash and residual plant mass following natural fires. Estimates of carbon and nitrogen emissions to the atmosphere from biomass burning have relied largely…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon emissions, biomass burning, global climate change, South Africa, global emission budgets, nitrogen emissions, natural combustion, Africa, air quality, air temperature, arid regions, ash, biomass, C - carbon, char, combustion, disturbance, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, grass fire, climate change, grazing, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, sampling, smoke effects, Tanzania, temperature, tropical forest, volatilization, wildfires
Previous studies of the effects of heating on soil hydrophobicity have been conducted under free availability of oxygen. Under fire, however, soils may be deprived of oxygen due to its consumption at the heat source and inadequate replenishment in the soil. In the present study…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, hydrophobicity, soil heating, Australia, water repellency, eucalypt, air quality, C - carbon, combustion, eucalyptus, heat, heat effects, hydrology, national parks, New South Wales, N - nitrogen, O - oxygen, sclerophyll forests, soil management, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, soils, surface fires, Victoria, water, water repellent soils, wildfires
Chapter 16 in the book titled, Natural and Prescribed Fire in Pacific Northwest Forests.
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, human health, prescribed fire emissions, coniferous forests, erosion, fire intensity, hydrology, logging, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, overstory, phosphorus, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, soil erosion, soil nutrients, water, water quality, watersheds, wildfires
Logging slash on 73 clearcuts in the western larch/Douglas-fir forest of western Montana was broadcast burned over a wide range of environmental conditions. A broad array of fire intensities and effects was achieved. A severe wildfire was also evaluated and compared to the…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Douglas-fir, fire management, Pseudotsuga menziesii, clearcutting, larch, Larix spp., Abies lasiocarpa, Abies grandis, aesthetics, air quality, Arnica latifolia, ash, bibliographies, broadcast burning, Calamagrostis rubescens, calcium, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, chemistry, Clintonia, competition, coniferous forests, decay, dominance, drought, duff, Epilobium angustifolium, erosion, Eutamias ruficaudus, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel moisture, ground cover, herbaceous vegetation, Larix occidentalis, light, logging, low intensity burns, magnesium, Microtus longicaudus, mineral soil, Montana, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, old growth forest, organic matter, Peromyscus maniculatus, pH, phosphorus, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, population density, post-fire recovery, K - potassium, precipitation, raptors, rate of spread, regeneration, runoff, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, seed germination, seed production, seedlings, seeds, shrubs, slash, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke management, sodium, soil erosion, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil permeability, soils, statistical analysis, succession, Thuja plicata, Vaccinium globulare, volatilization, water, water repellent soils, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management, Xerophyllum tenax
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Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: air pollution, Mexico, nutrients, N - nitrogen, sulfur deposition
Ecosystem services (ES) were conceived to emphasize the role of ecological processes in supporting societal needs and to allow their inclusion in the decision-making process. Currently climate change mitigation is one of the most important services ecosystems can provide to…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: C - carbon, wildfire, ecosystem function, DGVM - Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, climate change, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, C - carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services