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Global climate connections to fire occurrence
By using tree ring data to develop climate and fire chronologies, several climate induced fire patterns were deduced. Specifically, the researchers showed that reconstructed sea surface temperature (SST) changes in the form of three different…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Bark beetles and fire: two forces of nature transforming western forests
Bark beetles are chewing a wide swath through forests across North America. Over the past few years, infestations have become epidemic in lodgepole and spruce-fir forests of the Intermountain West. The resulting extensive acreages of dead trees are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Uncertainty: climate models at their limit?
Maslin, Austin
For the fifth major assessment of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be released next year, climate scientists face a serious public-image problem. The climate models they are now working with, which make…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Fourth International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: Climate Change and Wildfires, Mexico City, Mexico, November 5-11, 2012
González-Cabán, Rodríguez-Trejo, Nolasco Morales, Rodríguez y Silva, Frausto Leyva, Gallegos Mora
This symposium brings together a broad community of wildland fire managers, practitioners, researchers, academics, policy makers, and students from around the world to provide the opportunity to share research and ideas on the economics, planning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity
Moritz, Parisien, Batllori, Krawchuk, Van Dorn, Ganz, Hayhoe
Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well-being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs). Here we integrate global…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Evaluating greenhouse gas emissions inventories for agricultural burning using satellite observations of active fires
Lin, Jin, Giglio, Foley, Randerson
Fires in agricultural ecosystems emit greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence climate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Annex 1 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many of which ratified the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

A range-wide restoration strategy for whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis)
Keane, Tomback, Aubry, Bower, Campbell, Cripps, Jenkins, Mahalovich, Manning, McKinney, Murray, Perkins, Reinhart, Ryan, Schoettle, Smith
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), an important component of western high-elevation forests, has been declining in both the United States and Canada since the early Twentieth Century from the combined effects of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus…
Year: 2012
Type: Document