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Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Gray, Dickson, Zachmann
In the lower Sonoran Desert of south-western Arizona, climate change and non-native plant invasions have the potential to increase the frequency and size of uncommon wildfires. An understanding of where and why ignitions are more likely to become…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Shive, Fulé, Sieg, Strom, Hunter
Climate change effects on forested ecosystems worldwide include increases in drought-related mortality, changes to disturbance regimes and shifts in species distributions. Such climate-induced changes will alter the outcomes of current management…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Romps, Seeley, Vollaro, Molinari
Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires, but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly constrained. Here we propose that the lightning flash rate is proportional to the convective…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
From the text ... 'The Wildfire Act is supported by the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus and has been deemed especially critical in the face of global climate change. The Forest Service states that as a result of a changing climate…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Zhang, Kondragunta, Roy
The ratio of key elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica determines nutrient limitations that are important to regulating primary productivity and species composition in aquatic ecosystems. The flux of these nutrients in streams, as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Williams, Baker
Accurate assessment of changing fire regimes is important, since climatic change and people may be promoting more wildfires. Government wildland fire policies and restoration programmes in dry western US forests are based on the hypothesis that high…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Williams, Pierson, Robichaud, Boll
The recent increase in wildfire activity across the rangeland-xeric forest continuum in the western United States has landscape-scale consequences in terms of runoff and erosion. Concomitant cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) invasions, plant community…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Tarancón, Fulé, Shive, Sieg, Sánchez Meador, Strom
Post-fire predictions of forest recovery under future climate change and management actions are necessary for forest managers to make decisions about treatments. We applied the Climate-Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS), a new version of a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Stephens, Burrows, Buyantuyev, Gray, Keane, Kubian, Liu, Seijo, Shu, Tolhurst, van Wagtendonk
Mega-fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors -- climate change, fire exclusion, and antecedent disturbance, collectively referred to as the 'mega-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document