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The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Miller, Safford
Background
Ecological disturbance is a major driver of ecosystem structure and evolutionary selection, and theory predicts that the frequency and/or intensity of disturbance should determine its effects on communities. However, adaptations of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Inglis, Vukomanovic
Fire management in protected areas faces mounting obstacles as climate change alters disturbance regimes, resources are diverted to fighting wildfires, and more people live along the boundaries of parks. Evidence-based prescribed fire management and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Carswell, Haffey, Allen
Part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium.
There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Crist
Invasive annual grasses are quickly expanding across the West, dramatically changing sagebrush country. Today we are experiencing more frequent and hotter wildfires that are harmful to communities, western lands, and wildlife. Join in for this 1-…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Miller
Rick Miller, Professor Emeritus, OSU, will discuss the intent and goals of his latest publication, The Ecology, History, Ecohydrology, and Management of Pinyon and Juniper Woodlands in the Great Basin and Northern Colorado Plateau in the Western…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
van Mantgem, Kerhoulas, Sherriff, Wenderott
Drought, coupled with rising temperatures, is an emerging threat to many forest types across the globe. At least to a degree, we expect management actions that reduce competition (e.g., thinning, prescribed fire, or both) to improve growth of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Ernstrom, Hyde
Current and future development of IFTDSS and a demonstration of the Map Values feature that was added in Version 3.2.0.2.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Singleton, Thode, Sánchez Meador, Iniguez
In the last three decades, over 4.1 million hectares have burned in Arizona and New Mexico and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. Changes in burn severity over time, however, have not been well documented…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Keeley, Pausas
Fire is a necessary ecosystem process in many biomes and is best viewed as a natural disturbance that is beneficial to ecosystem functioning. However, increasingly, we are seeing human interference in fire regimes that alters the historical range of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document