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Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Weaver
From the text ... 'Fire education specialists are joining with college graduate students and education majors to present a 3-day fire ecology and management program that involves both field and classroom exercises to fourth-through eighth-grade…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether future climate change would trigger an increase in the fire activity of the Waswanipi area, central Quebec. First, we used regression analyses to model the historical (1973-2002) link between…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Soja, Al-Saadi, Pouliot, Kittaka, Zhang, Raffuse, Wiedinmyer
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Barker, Amiro, Kwon, Ewers, Angstmann
The Canadian boreal forest consists of a mosaic of landscapes of varying soil drainage and forest age driven by wildfire. The hydrological consequences are complicated by plant responses to soil moisture and forest age, both potentially influencing…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Turner
In this paper I demonstrate some of the techniques for the analysis of spatial point patterns that have become available due to recent developments in point process modelling software. These developments permit convenient exploratory data analysis,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Marchand, Prairie, Del Giorgio
Natural fires annually decimate up to 1% of the forested area in the boreal region of Quebec, and represent a major structuring force in the region, creating a mosaic of watersheds characterized by large variations in vegetation structure and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Keane, Hessburg, Landres, Swanson
This paper examines the past, present, and future use of the concept of historical range and variability (HRV) in land management. The history, central concepts, benefits, and limitations of HRV are presented along with a discussion on the value of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Girard, Payette, Gagnon
Aim We investigate the timing and factors responsible for the transformation of closed-crown forests into lichen-spruce woodlands.Location The study area extends between 70º and 72º W in the closed-crown forest zone from its southern limit near…
Year: 2009
Type: Document