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Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Grissino-Mayer, Swetnam
In recent years, an important land-management concept has evolved based on principles formulated in conservation biology and landscape ecology. Ecosystem management seeks to sustain the viability of ecological systems by maintaining or restoring…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Stuever, Crawford, Molles, White, Muldavin
The "bosque” of the Middle Rio Grande is one of the last extensive cottonwood gallery forests in the American Southwest, and yet the future role of cottonwood in these stands is increasingly threatened. Human intervention has progressively changed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Roller, Halvorson
Pirna pineapple cactus (Coryphantha scheeri Kuntze var. robustispina Schott) (PPC) is listed as endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This unique taxon occurs in two valleys south of Tucson, Arizona and the northern edge of Sonora, Mexico…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Sheppard, Farnsworth
The 1994 fire season in the Southwest impacted at least 10 Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) territories. Since 1989, more than 50,000 acres of spotted owl habitat have been stand replaced by catastrophic fires in Arizona and New…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "…
Year: 1997
Type: Document