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Regional climate change in the southern United States: the implications for wildfire occurrence
Heilman, Potter, Zerbe
From the Summary (p.697-698) ... 'Given the importance of wildfires in the south-central and southeastern United States, as reflected in the yearly totals of wildfire numbers and hectares burned, there is a need to better understand the potential…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

The effects of climate change on landscape diversity: an example in Ontario forests
Thompson, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Climatic changes in northwestern Ontario have had a greater effect on erosion and sediment accumulation than logging and fire: evidence from 210Pb chronology in lake sediments
Blais, France, Kimpe, Cornett
Sedimentation patterns in nine lake basins were examined where catchments were either clearcut, burned in recent history, or where there has been no recorded disturbance and the catchments consist of mature forests. Pronounced declines in…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Fire weather: past, present and future [preprint]
Flannigan, Wotton, Richard, Carcaillet, Bergeron
Introduction...'Fire and climate are closely linked (Swetnam 1993). According to simulations of various general circulation models (GCMs), the earth's climate will be 1-3.5º C warmer by the end of the next century due to increasing atmospheric…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Long-term fire incidence in coastal forests of British Columbia
Brown, Hebda
From the text...'Fossil charcoal and pollen records from five sediment cores were used to reconstruct the post-glacial fire and vegetation history on southern Vancouver Island. Specifically, macroscopic charcoal fragments representative of local…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Forest fire and lake-water acidity in a northern Swedish boreal area: holocene changes in lake-water quality at Makkassjön
Korsman, Segerstrom
1 A Holocene sediment profile from a northern Swedish boreal forest lake was analysed for diatoms, pollen and charcoal. The diatom data were used for inferences of lake-water pH, alkalinity and colour, while the pollen and charcoal records enabled…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Effects of late holocene climate change and human disturbance on the fire ecology and vegetation history of Andros Island, Bahamas [abstract]
Kjellmark
Paleoecological methods were used to investigate the role of anthropogenic fire in the development and maintenance of the pinewoods of Andros Island, Bahamas. Fossil pollen and charcoal from a transect of three sediment cores was used to reconstruct…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Assessment of biomass burning in the conterminous United States
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Predicting CO2 emissions from forests during climatic change: a comparison of natural and human response models
Sohngen, Mendelsohn, Neilson
This paper compares transient carbon fluxes to and from forests during climatic change in a pure natural model of ecosystem adjustment and also in a model that captures the human response to these changes. Both models incorporate forest dieback and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document

Simulated changes in vegetation distribution under global warming
Neilson, Prentice, Smith, Kittel, Viner
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Year: 1998
Type: Document