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During the spring and summer of 1994 we monitored soil-atmosphere exchanges of methane and carbon dioxide at upland sites in the Canadian boreal forest near the northern study area (NSA) of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). The effects of fire on methane and carbon…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, C - carbon, black spruce, boreal, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, gas exchange, Picea mariana

Thinning of forest stands is frequently used to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire. But thinning requires that the refuse (or slash) be removed from the site, which can be done either by burning it or by mastication and dispersal. Either method has long term consequences to…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: C - carbon, mastication, soil moisture, thinning, Colorado, slash, soil properties

From introduction: Wildfire is a majoar natural disaster in the United States. In 2002, for example, tens of thousands of wildfires occurred that consumed nearly seven million acres of forest and other land cover (NIFC, 2003). Wildfires contribute to increasing atmospheric CO2…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon

Forest structure and species composition can differ dramatically among stands in the same climatic zone, implying differences in ecosystem function. We used eddy covariance, physiological measurements, forest census plots and simulation models to contrast carbon dynamics and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, pine barrens, New Jersey

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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, pine barrens, New Jersey

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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: C - carbon, fire management, pine barrens, New Jersey

We used NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery, biomass density maps, fuel consumption estimates, and a carbon emission factor to estimate the total carbon (C) emissions from the spring 1998 fires in tropical Mexico. All eight states in southeast Mexico were affected by the wildfires,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, biomass, carbon emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, tropospheric ozone, Mexico, agriculture, air quality, charcoal, C - carbon, Chiapas, climatology, cover, deforestation, digital data collection, distribution, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire injury, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, fire suppression, fragmentation, grasslands, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, mortality, photography, overstory, Pinus, plantations, population density, precipitation, Quercus, remote sensing, savannas, storms, tropical forest, understory vegetation, winds

In Florida, natural communities require periodic fires for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Because of public concerns, wildfires can no longer be allowed to perform this mandatory function so prescribed burning is essential to manage these plant and animal communities…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, aesthetics, allelopathy, biogeography, burning permits, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, European settlement, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, flame length, flatwoods, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, liability, Native Americans, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plant diseases, population density, post-fire recovery, escaped prescribed fires, private lands, public information, rate of spread, reforestation, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, temperature, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

As part of the Russian FIRE BEAR (Fire Effects in the Boreal Eurasia Region) Project, replicated 4-ha experimental fires were conducted on a dry Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris)/lichen (Cladonia sp.)/feathermoss (Pleurozeum schreberi) forest site in central Siberia. Observations…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, C - carbon, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire return interval, aerosols, emissions, experimental burn, fire monitoring, Pinus sylvestris, Siberia, Scots pine, FIRE BEAR Project

In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, C - carbon, fire, smoke emissions, aerosols, atmospheric science, biomass burning

Scaling biogeochemical processes to regions, continents, and the globe is critical for understanding feedbacks between the biosphere and atmosphere in the analysis of global change. This includes the effects of changing atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate, disturbances, and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: C - carbon, forest management, carbon sequestration

Wildland fire is a major disturbance in most ecosystems worldwide (Crutzen and Goldammer 1993). The interaction of fire with climate and vegetation over long time spans, often referred to as the fire regime (Agee 1993; Clark 1993; Swetnam and Baisan 1996; Swetnam 1997), has…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, fire regimes, climate change, spatial models, ecosystems, fire models, vegetation models

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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, remote sensing, carbon dioxide production, global change, biomass burning

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

In early 2003 a series of large, wildfire-related sediment slugs occurred in streams in the south-eastern Australian alpine region. Back-pack and boat-mounted electrofishing were used to measure changes in riverine fish fauna after one particularly large sediment slug which…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, disturbance, fire management, fishes, mortality, O - oxygen, population density, post fire recovery, rivers, sedimentation, streams, translocation, Victoria, water, water quality, watershed management, wildfires, Australia, blackfish, dissolved oxygen, Ovens River, sediment

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, bogs, carbon dioxide, Carex, carnivorous plants, community ecology, Czech Republic, Dionaea muscipula, Drosera capillaris, Drosera rotundifolia, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire dependent species, marshlands, O - oxygen, Phragmites, Pinguicula, plant ecology, plant growth, plant physiology, regeneration, roots, Sarracenia purpurea, Sarracenia rubra, soil moisture, soil nutrients, sphagnum, water, water uptake, watershed management, aerobic respiration, anaerobic CO2 release, CN--resistant respiration, Dionea, Drosera, Genlisea, Sarracenia, soil anoxia

From the text... 'To understand and predict wildland fire behavior, it is necessary to enlarge analogies drawn from confined fires and to create models for the components of the fire environment, such as fuels and weather, and for the mechanics of fire propagation. Wildland fire…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: backfires, blowups, catastrophic fires, char, chemistry, combustion, convection, crown fires, decomposition, droughts, duff, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire whirls, flame length, flammability, floods, forest types, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, ground fires, heat, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hydrology, ignition, India, Komarek, E.V., Sr., landscape ecology, live fuels, military lands, national forests, New England, nutrients, O - oxygen, physics, private lands, rivers, sloping terrain, spot fires, statistical analysis, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, woody fuels, conduction, firestorm, LAWSUITS, MYTHOLOGY, pitch, pyrolysis, thermodynamics

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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Brachypodium ramosum, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, Europe, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, France, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel moisture, gases, ignition, Mediterranean habitats, needles, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus halepensis, population density, Quercus coccifera , radiation, rate of spread, shrubs, size classes, sloping terrain, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, vortices, wildfires, wind, forest fire spread

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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, fire injuries (humans), fire management, firefighting personnel, flammability, gases, health factors, heat effects, O - oxygen, toxicity

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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, combustion, competition, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, decay, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire whirls, foliage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, general interest, Great Plains, ground fires, heat, heat effects, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, lightning caused fires, litter, Montana, mortality, mosaic, overstory, O - oxygen, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, plant growth, prairies, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, resprouting, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, slash, stand characteristics, surface fires, topography, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, woody fuels

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, carbon dioxide, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, gases, climate change, humidity, India, O - oxygen, precipitation, radiation, season of fire, temperature, wildfires

Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, charcoal, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, fire control, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel types, heat, heat effects, heavy fuels, low intensity burns, O - oxygen, physics, Picea, Pinus, Populus, Quercus, radiation, slash, smoke behavior, spot fires, Tsuga, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires, windthrows

From the text...”Extinguishing forest fires must be done urgently, in most cases, using whatever tools at hand, with little time to employ mechanical methods. Making matters worse, location of the fire cannot be foreseen, nor such factors as wind direction and velocity. Passive…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: backfires, combustion, convection, fire management, fire suppression, fire whirls, flame length, flammability, forest management, gases, overstory, O - oxygen, rate of spread, temperature, volatilization, wind

The mass burning rates of several polymer systems, including polycarbonates, polysystrenes, polyethylenes, and wood were determined for steady-state combustion in an apparatus similar to that constructed at Factory Mutual Research. The work was undetaken to determine the…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: burning intervals, char, chemical elements, combustion, fire control, flammability, gases, heat, Michigan, O - oxygen, wood

Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: chaparral, combustion, convection, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel arrangement, gases, hydrocarbons, ignition, Juniperus, O - oxygen, pine forests, Pinus, radiation, smoke behavior, southern California, temperature, wind, wood