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Burn out
Nijhuis
From the text ... 'Forests in the American west are under attack from giant fires, climate change and insect outbreaks. Some ecosystems will never be the same.'
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Historic and future extent of wildfires in the Southern Rockies Ecoregion, USA
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

Chapter 2: Fire behavior and effects: principles for archaeologists
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

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

Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA
Marlon, Bartlein, Gavin, Long, Anderson, Briles, Brown, Colombaroli, Hallett, Power, Scharf, Walsh
Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on multiple temporal scales. We use sedimentary charcoal accumulation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Predicting fire frequency with chemistry and climate
Guyette, Stambaugh, Dey, Muzika
A predictive equation for estimating fire frequency was developed from theories and data in physical chemistry, ecosystem ecology, and climatology. We refer to this equation as the Physical Chemistry Fire Frequency Model (PC2FM). The equation was…
Year: 2012
Type: Document

Fire and Climate Change in the Western US: A New Synthesis for Land Management
Swetnam, Brown, Brown, Falk, Sutherland
A recent surge of scientific publications and interest in fire climatology derives in part from two new paradigms in climatology: (1) the discovery and understanding of broad-scale ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Niño Southern-Oscillation)…
Year: 2012
Type: Project