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Is regulated even-aged management the right strategy for the Canadian boreal forest?
Bergeron
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the development of forest management approaches that are based on an understanding of historical natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale for such an approach is that management to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective
Brown, Hall, Westerling
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

A global inventory of burned areas at 1km resolution for the year 2000 derived from spot vegetation data
Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management
Folke, Carpenter, Walker, Scheffer, Elmqvist, Gunderson, Holling
We review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic environments in relation to resilience of complex adaptive ecosystems and the functional roles of biological diversity in this context. The evidence reveals that the likelihood of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Managing the unexpected in prescribed fire use operations: a workshop on the high reliability organization
Fire management, and forest and rangeland fuels management, over the past century have altered the wildland fire situation dramatically, thus also altering the institutional approach to how to deal with the changing landscape. Also, climate change,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Long-term aridity changes in the western United States
Cook, Woodhouse, Eakin, Meko, Stahle
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Applying geographic information systems and remote sensing to forest fire monitoring, mapping, and modeling in Canada
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Assessing the impact of climate change on landscape-level fire behavior potential in central Saskatchewan [abstract]
Kafka, Parisien, Hirsch, Flannigan, Todd
Climate change could increase fire weather severity in the western portion of Canada's boreal forest. In this study, we evaluate how climate change could affect future landscape-level fire behavior potential. The study area extends over 135,000 km2…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Development of daily weather and fire danger scenarios using two general circulation models
Logan, Flannigan, Wotton, Stocks
Fires play an important role in Canadian forests and are largely influenced by the weather. Any changes in future climate may lead to dramatic changes in future fire activity. We examined what changes in climate might occur due to increased levels…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis
Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document