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Massman
Heating any soil during a sufficiently intense wildfire or prescribed burn can alter it irreversibly, causing many significant, long-term biological, chemical, and hydrological effects. Given the climate-change-driven increasing probability of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Vargas, Collins, Thomey, Johnson, Brown, Natvig, Friggens
Climate models suggest that extreme rainfall events will become more common with increased atmospheric warming. Consequently, changes in the size and frequency of rainfall will influence biophysical drivers that regulate the strength and timing of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Litschert, Brown, Theobald
Wildfires play a formative role in the processes that have created the ecosystems of the Southern Rockies Ecoregion (SRE). The extent of wildfires is influenced mainly by precipitation and temperature, which control biomass growth and fuel moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
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 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
Bagne, Finch
Future climate change is anticipated to result in ecosystem changes, and consequently, many species are expected to become increasingly vulnerable to extinction. This scenario is of particular concern for threatened, endangered, and at-risk species…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
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
Ten years after wildfires: how does varying tree mortality impact fire hazard and forest resiliency?
Stevens-Rumann, Sieg, HunterSevere wildfires across the western US have lead to concerns about heavy surface fuel loading and the potential for high-intensity reburning. Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests, often overly dense from a century of fire suppression, are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document