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O'Halloran, Law, Goulden, Wang, Barr, Schaaf, Brown, Fuentes, Göckede, Black, Engel
Forest disturbances are major sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and therefore impact global climate. Biogeophysical attributes, such as surface albedo (reflectivity), further control the climate-regulating properties of forests. Using…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Zornes, Bishop
Executive Summary ... 'The Western Quail Management Plan was created to provide range-wide and Bird Conservation Region (BCR) assessments of western quail population size, habitat abundance, current threats, management recommendations and research…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Nijhuis
From the text ... 'Forests in the American west are under attack from giant fires, climate change and insect outbreaks. Some ecosystems will never be the same.'
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Massman
Heating any soil during a sufficiently intense wildfire or prescribed burn can alter it irreversibly, causing many significant, long-term biological, chemical, and hydrological effects. Given the climate-change-driven increasing probability of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Honig, Fulé
Global climate change has the potential to affect future wildfire activity, particularly in south-western USA ponderosa pine forests that have been substantially altered by land-use practices and aggressive fire suppression. Using two regional…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Yang
Fighting fire with fire has been given the green light by a new study of techniques used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. And with a rise in wildfires predicted in many parts of the country, researchers say controlled burns and other…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Vargas, Collins, Thomey, Johnson, Brown, Natvig, Friggens
Climate models suggest that extreme rainfall events will become more common with increased atmospheric warming. Consequently, changes in the size and frequency of rainfall will influence biophysical drivers that regulate the strength and timing of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Ten years after wildfires: how does varying tree mortality impact fire hazard and forest resiliency?
Stevens-Rumann, Sieg, HunterSevere wildfires across the western US have lead to concerns about heavy surface fuel loading and the potential for high-intensity reburning. Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests, often overly dense from a century of fire suppression, are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Litschert, Brown, Theobald
Wildfires play a formative role in the processes that have created the ecosystems of the Southern Rockies Ecoregion (SRE). The extent of wildfires is influenced mainly by precipitation and temperature, which control biomass growth and fuel moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document