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Developing a global early warning system for wildland fire
de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Simulating effects of fire disturbance and climate change on boreal forest productivity and evapotranspiration
Kang, Kimball, Running
We used a terrestrial ecosystem process model, BIOME-BGC, to investigate historical climate change and fire disturbance effects on regional carbon and water budgets within a 357,500 km2 portion of the Canadian boreal forest. Historical patterns of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Effects of environmental variations on CO2 efflux from a tropical peatland in eastern Sumatra
Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late Holocene
Gavin, Hu, Lertzman, Corbett
Forest fire occurrence is affected by multiple controls that operate at local to regional scales. At the spatial scale of forest stands, regional climatic controls may be obscured by local controls (e.g., stochastic ignitions, topography, and fuel…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Origin and long-term dynamics of a subarctic tree line
Asselin, Payette
The basic unit of the forest-tundra landscape is a toposequence extending from a wet, forested valley to a xeric, deforested hilltop; the contact zone between these two environments being called a subarctic tree line. Dendrochronological analysis of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Postfire logging in riparian areas
Reeves, Bisson, Rieman, Benda
We reviewed the behavior of wildfire in riparian zones, primarily in the western United States, and the potential ecological consequences of postfire logging. Fire behavior in riparian zones is complex, but many aquatic and riparian organisms…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Lightning and fires in the Northwest Territories and responses to future climate change
Kochtubajda, Flannigan, Gyakum, Stewart, Logan, Nguyen
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Year: 2006
Type: Document

Using population viability analysis to predict the effects of climate change on the extinction risk of an endangered limestone endemic shrub, Arizona cliffrose
Maschinski, Baggs, Quintana-Ascencio, Menges
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Year: 2006
Type: Document

Wildfire as a hydrological and geomorphological agent
Shakesby, Doerr
Wildfire can lead to considerable hydrological and geomorphological change, both directly by weathering bedrock surfaces and changing soil structure and properties, and indirectly through the effects of changes to the soil and vegetation on…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation
Willis, Birks
Ecosystems change in response to factors such as climate variability, invasions, and wildfires. Most records used to assess such change are based on short-term ecological data or satellite imagery spanning only a few decades. In many instances it is…
Year: 2006
Type: Document