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When it's hot, it's hot ... or maybe it's not! (surface flaming may not portend extensive soil heating)
Hartford, Frandsen
Fire effects on aplant community, soil, and air are not apparent when judged only by surface fire intensity. The fire severity or fire impact can be described by the temperatures reached within the forest floor and the duration of heating…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

The use of prescribed fire in the management of Canada's forested lands
Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Simulation of the effect of season of fire on post-fire seedling emergence of two Banksia species based on long-term rainfall records
Bradstock, Bedward
Simulations were used to investigate the effect of season of fire on seedling emergence in Banksia ericifolia and B. serrata. The simulations were based on models of soil-surface moisture in response to rainfall, seedling emergence response to soil…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Recent dynamics of jack pine at its northern distribution limit in northern Quebec
Desponts, Payette
The northernmost jack pine populations in northern Quebec are located at the boreal forest - forest tundra boundary, along the Grande riviere de la Baleine, where they colonize the sandy terraces affected by recurrent fires. The reent fire history…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Phylogeny and biodiversity: conserving our evolutionary legacy
Brooks, Mayden, McLennan
Historical ecological studies provide information about the origins of species in an area and the origins of traits characterizing the interactions between those species and their environment. Incorporating this evolutionary information into…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

FIREMAP - simulation of fire growth with a geographic information system
Vasconcelos, Guertin
FIREMAP is a simulation system designed to estimate wildfire characteristics in spatially non-uniform environments and simulate the growth of fire in discrete time steps. This simulation system integrates Rothermel's behavior prediction model (…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Using a power increment borer to determine the age structure of old-growth conifer stands
Scott, Arno
Forest managers need basic information about the age structure of old- growth forests in which fire or other disturbances were important. Age structure information is necessary for determining appropriate strategies for perpetuating desired…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Tree-ring density reconstructions of summer temperature patterns across western North America since 1600
Briffa, Jones, Schweingruber
Summer half-year (April-September) mean temperatures are reconstructed across western North America between 1600 and 1982. The reconstructions, ultimately in the form of gridpoint anomaly time series, are produced using a principal-components…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Fire as a controlling process in the North American boreal forest
Payette
Major patterns of plant communities and species distribution are induced by various disturbance regimes operating at a different spatial and temporal scales (Loucks 1970; White 1979; Bormann & Likens 1979b; Delcourt, Delcourt & Webb 1983).…
Year: 1992
Type: Document

Biodiversity conservation in Europe and North America: I. Grasslands - a common challenge
Wedin
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Year: 1992
Type: Document