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Human-induced climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of vegetation fires. The Mediterranean region is considered particularly prone to fire episodes in summer. It is well known that pyrogenic particles are an important source of external nutrients for…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, neuston, picoplankton, phytoplankton, sea surface microlayer, Adriatic Sea
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
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Year: 2022
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, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, fire-adapted communities, fireshed, forest health, fuel treatment, ignition, land management, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), resilience, wildfires, Wildfire Crisis Strategy, trusted communicators, shared stewardship, equity, ITEK - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Wildfires have been pointed out as an important source of diffuse contamination to aquatic ecosystems, namely through the input of toxic compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and metals. However, amphibians' responses to this disturbance have been largely ignored.…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: amphibians, Iberian green frog, post-fire contamination, metals, ecotoxicity, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, tadpoles, Pelophylax perezi, Portugal
Effects of wildfire ash on the growth and biochemical profiles of the aquatic macrophyte Lemna minor
Wildfires are a social and environmental concern to the world due to their many adverse effects, including risk to the public health and security, economic damages in prevention and fight, ecosystems pollution, land usage sustainability, and biodiversity. In the Mediterranean…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: anthropogenic pressure, forest fires, eucalypt, pine, duckweed, ash, Lemna minor, Portugal
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire, wildfire, fire science
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
Wildfires are natural or anthropogenic phenomena increasing at alarming rates globally due to land-use alterations, droughts, climatic warming, hunting and biological invasions. Whereas wildfire effects on terrestrial ecosystems are marked and relatively well-studied, ash…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: primary productivity, chlorophyll, silicate, diatoms, water chemistry, phytoplankton, Africa
The impacts of wildfire smoke on lake habitats remains unclear. We determined the metabolic response to smoke in the epi-pelagic and two littoral habitats in Castle Lake, California. We compared light regime, gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: lakes, habitat analysis
Climate change is causing an intensification in tundra fires across the Arctic, including the unprecedented 2015 fires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta. The YK Delta contains extensive surface waters (∼33% cover) and significant quantities of organic carbon, much of which is…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, carbon balance, C - carbon, machine learning
Indonesia has experienced frequent fires due to the lowering of groundwater levels caused by drainage via extensive canal networks for agricultural development since the 1970s. However, the impact of canals on fire emissions is still poorly understood. Here we investigate canal…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: peatland, drainage, peatland restoration, water level, wildfire, water level, aerosol emissions
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: peat swamp forest, forest burning source, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Melaleuca cajuputi, PM2.5, PM1, PM0.1, leaf litter, PAH diagnostic ratios, particle emission factors
Vegetation fire frequently occurs globally and produces two types of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) including black carbon WSOC (BC-WSOC) and smoke-WSOC, they will eventually enter the surface environment (soil and water) and participate in the eco-environmental processes…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: WSOC - water soluble organic carbon, vegetation, vegetation fire, burning temperature, BC-WSOC - black carbon water-soluble organic carbon, smoke-WSOC – smoke water-soluble organic carbon
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
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Year: 2021
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: National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), wildfire, wildland fire
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
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Year: 2023
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, Unknown, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
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Year: 2011
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: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
This study examined how wildfire risk is framed by different entities and actors within a common region, during and after experiencing several large wildfire events. Using a social constructionist lens, we viewed wildfire risk as a fluid and variable concept that is socially…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: risk communication, Colorado Front Range, wildfire, drinking water, watershed protection, risk governance, risk management, media coverage, CWPP - Community Wildfire Protection Plan, wildfire policy
Large wildland fires generate smoke that can compromise air quality over a wide area. Limited studies have suggested that smoke constituents may enter natural water bodies. In an 18-year water monitoring study, we examined whether smoke from distant wildland fires had a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, water quality, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, Canada, Alberta
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
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Year: 2022
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
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The Thomas Fire began on December 4th, 2017 and burned 281,893 acres over a 40‐day period in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, making it one of California’s most destructive wildfires to date. A major rainstorm then caused a flash flood event, which led to the containment of…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Thomas Fire, wildfires, flash flood, Santa Barbara Basin, Ventura River, black carbon, trace metals, ash
The Thomas Fire ignited on December 5, 2017 and burned nearly 300,000 acres of land in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties until January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in California history at the time. During the fire, a persistent plume of ash, smoke, and soot…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Thomas Fire, Santa Barbara Channel, ash, phytoplankton, marine ecology
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal forests, coastal plain, evapotranspiration, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, habitat conversion, hydrology, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, plantations, pollution, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, streamflow, swamps, water, water quality, watershed management
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, charcoal, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel accumulation, habitat types, histories, lakes, New Guinea, paleoclimatology, pollen, post fire recovery, precipitation, prehistoric fires, sampling, sedimentation, statistical analysis, swamps
Wood versus fossil fuel as a source of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: a preliminary report
If the amounts of wood consumed in deforestation to increase agricultural land and as firewood in underindustrialized countries are added to the amount consumed by the money economics as forest products, the estimates of the net amount of wood removed from the biosphere in this…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Brazil, carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, clearcutting, deforestation, energy, forest management, forest products, fuel types, glaciers, habitat conversion, human caused fires, rainforests, regeneration, sedimentation, South America, tropical forests, wood, woody fuels
Microscopic charcoal fragments preserved in lake and swamp sediments with pollen and other microfossils provide evidence for past burning regimes. Some problems with the interpretation of charcoal records are similar to those of pollen analysis, but other factors must be taken…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Fire History, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, charcoal, fire regimes, histories, lakes, paleoclimatology, pollen, sampling, swamps, water
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning intervals, competition, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, everglades, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, Florida, grasses, grasslands, grasslike plants, human caused fires, humus, ignition, invasive species, lightning caused fires, mortality, mosaic, multiple resource management, national parks, organic soils, peat fires, pine forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), presettlement fires, runoff, season of fire, smoke effects, soil moisture, soil organic matter, south Florida, water, wildfires