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The use of prescribed fire in the wildland/urban interface is one of the greater challenges facing land managers today. Ecological goals must be balanced with political and societal constraints, such as laws and regulations and public perceptions regarding fire…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: education, fire management, New York, public information, smoke management, south Florida

Investigations of the ecological, atmospheric chemical, and climatic impacts of contemporary fires in tropical vegetation have received increasing attention during the last 10 years. Little is known, however, about the impacts of climate changes on tropical vegetation and…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Andropogon virginicus, bibliographies, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, Central America, cover type conversion, deforestation, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fragmentation, fuel loading, climate change, grasses, Hakea sericea, human caused fires, Imperata, India, Indonesia, introduced species, invasive species, land management, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, Melaleuca quinquenervia, Mexico, montane forests, Pennisetum, Pinus, plant communities, Poa, post-fire recovery, precipitation, savannas, South America, Southeast Asia, species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires

We investigated long-term consequences of modified fire and climate regimes on ecosystems for a landscape in Glacier National Park, Montana, using the mechanistic forest successional model, Fire-BGC (a Fire BioGeoChemical succession model). Changes in various ecosystem…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, carbon, coniferous forests, decomposition, duff, fire exclusion, fire regimes, fuel loading, histories, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, litter, Montana, mortality, national parks, organic matter, photosynthesis, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, runoff, seed dispersal, succession, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires

The California chaparral community has a rich flora of species with different mechanisms for cuing germination to postfire conditions. Heat shock triggers germination of certain species but has no stimulatory effect on a great many other postfire species that are chemically…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, fire, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, scarification, smoke-induced germination, seed coat