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Falk, Heyerdahl, Brown, Farris, Fulé, McKenzie, Swetnam, Taylor, Van Horne
Anticipating future forest-fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time. Fire scars -- proxy records of fires, formed in the growth rings of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Seidl, Fernandes, Fonseca, Gillet, Jönsson, Merganicova, Netherer, Arpaci, Bontemps, Bugmann, González-Olabarria, Lasch, Meredieu, Moreira, Schelhaas, Mohren
Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to tackle the complexities associated with disturbance processes. Here we…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Glick
From the text ... 'Welcome to the new era of 'megafires,' which rage with such intensity that no human force can put them out. Their main causes, climate change and fire suppression, are fueling a heated debate about how to stop them.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Miller, Abatzoglou, Brown, Syphard
Federally designated wilderness areas of the United States are to be managed so that natural ecological processes such as fire and other disturbances can function without human interference. Consistent with this intent, policy and law support the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
McKenzie, Miller, Falk
Here we synthesize the previous 11 chapters and provide a brief look into the future of landscape ecology of fire research. We speculate briefly on the implications for policy and management of fire in a rapidly changing climate. Section I gives us…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Cushman, Wasserman, McGarigal
Global climate is expected to change rapidly over the next century (Thompson et al. 1998; Houghton et al. 2001; IPCC 2008). This will affect forest ecosystems both directly by altering biophysical conditions (Neilson 1995; Neilson and Drapek 1998;…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely increasing the severity and extent of wildfires in many ecosystems around the world. What will be the landscape-scale effects of these altered fire regimes? Within what theoretical contexts…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pan, Birdsey, Fang, Houghton, Kauppi, Kurz, Phillips, Shvidenko, Lewis, Canadell, Ciais, Jackson, Pacala, McGuire, Piao, Rautiainen, Sitch, Hayes
The terrestrial carbon sink has been large in recent decades, but its size and location remain uncertain. Using forest inventory data and long-term ecosystem carbon studies, we estimate a total forest sink of 2.4 T 0.4 petagrams of carbon per year (…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Johnston, Keeley, Krawchuk, Kull, Mack, Moritz, Pyne, Roos, Scott, Sodhi, Swetnam
Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire-making species, but 'natural' (i.e. independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires have influenced biological evolution and global biogeochemical cycles…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Coop, Schoettle
Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata Engelm) and limber pine (P. fexilis James) are high-elevation, five-needle pines of the southern Rocky Mountains. The pre-settlement role of fire in bristlecone and limber pine forests remains the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document