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Making the case for cumulative impacts assessment: modeling the potential impacts of climate change, harvesting, oil and gas, and fire
Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Integrating climate change into forest management in South-Central British Columbia: an assessment of landscape vulnerability and development of a climate-smart framework
Nitschke, Innes
The achievement of sustainable forest management requires the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into long-term planning. Climatic change will have significant impacts on natural disturbances, species and ecosystems, particularly on landscapes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Could increased boreal forest ecosystem productivity offset carbon losses from increased disturbances?
Kurz, Stinson, Rampley
To understand how boreal forest carbon (C) dynamics might respond to anticipated climatic changes, we must consider two important processes. First, projected climatic changes are expected to increase the frequency of fire and other natural…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

The lightning-biota climatic feedback
Shepon, Gildor
We investigate a negative climatic feedback which involves an increase in deposition of lightning-produced nitrogen compounds into ecosystems as a response to a global temperature rise. This increases primary production on both land and ocean, which…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Phenology of mixed woody-herbaceous ecosystems following extreme events: net and differential responses
Rich, Breshears, White
Ecosystem responses to key climate drivers are reflected in phenological dynamics such as the timing and degree of ''green-up'' that integrate responses over spatial scales from individual plants to ecosystems. This integration is clearest in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Long-term fire history from alluvial fan sediments: the role of drought and climate variability, and implications for management of Rocky Mountain forests
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Atmosphere, ecology and evolution: what drove the Miocene expansion of C-4 grasslands?
Osborne
1) Grasses using the C4 photosynthetic pathway dominate today's savanna ecosystems and account for ~20% of terrestrial carbon fixation. However, this dominant status was reached only recently, during a period of C4 grassland expansion in the Late…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Mediterranean forests under focus
Palahi, Mavsar, Gracia, Birot
Mediterranean forest ecosystems provide multiple goods and services, including an exceptional richness in terms of biodiversity, which are crucial for the socio-economic development of rural areas as well as for the welfare of the urban populations…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Protect thy neighbor: investigating the spatial externalities of community wildfire hazard mitigation
Butry, Donovan
Climate change, increased wildland fuels, and residential development patterns in fire-prone areas all combine to make wildfire risk mitigation an important public policy issue. One approach to wildfire risk mitigation is to encourage homeowners to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Large fires and their ecological consequences: introduction to the special issue
Williams, Bradstock
In the last decade, extensive fires have occurred on most continents, affecting a wide range of ecosystems. We convened a Symposium at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in 2006 to address the issue of large fires and their…
Year: 2008
Type: Document