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Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
McCoy, Jaffre, Rigault, Ash
Aim This study investigates the role of fire and post fire succession in determining the structure and composition of vegetation on ultramafic iron crust soils.Location The study was conducted in the Plaines des Lacs region of southern New Caledonia…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Harvey
The Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest is situated in northwestern Quebec in the Boreal Shield Ecozone. Managed by two constituents of the Universite du Quebec, in collaboration with two forest companies, Norbord and Tembec, the Lake…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Ohtsuka
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Weng, Jackson
Sediment cores spanning the last 13,500 calendar years (cal yr) were obtained from two lakes (Fracas Lake, 2518 m; Bear Lake, 2778 m) on the Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona. Pollen and plant macrofossil records indicate that before ∼12,900 cal yr…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
As
In total, 3997 beetles of 155 species were collected. Of these, 1630 individuals belonging to 104 species were found in large areas of deciduous forest, and 773 individuals from 83 species were found in smaller deciduous forest patches. The matrix…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Heikens
From the text ...'Summary: It appears that Ozark savannas, barrens, and glades have undergone substantial degradation since settlement due to fire suppression, overgrazing, agricultural practices, and logging. The once widespread and picturesque oak…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Grissino-Mayer
In this study the Weibull distribution is tested as a possible model for fire interval data derived from dendrochronologically-dated fire scars from four sites in the American Southwest. Two- and three-parameter Weibull distributions were fit to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document