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Holden, Evans
Burn severity classifications derived from multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper images and the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) are commonly used to assess the post-fire ecological effects of wildfires. Ongoing efforts to retrospectively map historical…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Girardin
Recent fire years 2002 and 2005 have been, in the context of the past 40 years, exceptional in Quebec, with area burned totalling over 1.8 million hectares. Without prolonged fire statistics and meteorological records, it remains difficult to place…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Farris, Baisan, Falk, Yool, Swetnam
Fire scars are used widely to reconstruct historical fire regime parameters in forests around the world. Because fire scars provide incomplete records of past fire occurrence at discrete points in space, inferences must be made to reconstruct fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Egan
From the flap: 'Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Cote, Bouchard, Pothier, Gauthier
In the North American boreal forest, the adoption of forest ecosystem management strategies usually increases the number of forest stands to be treated with irregular or uneven-aged silvicultural systems. However, it is difficult to properly target…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Colpron-Tremblay, Lavoie
We conducted a high-stratigraphic resolution palaeoecological study (fossil pollen, plant-macrofossils, charcoal, stomata, sediment stratigraphy) of two organic sedimentary deposits in a mixed balsam fir/white birch forest in the Laurentian…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Belcher
From the text ... 'Fire is not often considered as an important force in nature despite it being the most ubiquitous natural disturbance on the planet. Several of the modern world's major biomes are controlled by fire regime (grasslands,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Auger, Payette
Paleoecological analysis using complementary indicators of vegetation and soil can provide spatially explicit information on ecological processes influencing trajectories of long-term ecosystem change. Here we document the structure and dynamics of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Smith, Kaduk, Baltzer, Wooster, Mottram, Hartley, Lynham, Studens, Curry, Stocks
To fully understand the carbon (C) cycle impacts of forest fires, both C emissions during the fire and post-disturbance fluxes need to be considered. The latter are dominated by soil surface CO2 flux (Fs), which is still subject to large…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Mallik, Bloom, Whisenant
Using black spruce (Picea mariana)-Kalmia angustifolia dominated communities of eastern Canada we tested the hypothesis that habitat filter pre-empts biotic filter as a community structuring force in early post-fire succession leading to Kalmia…
Year: 2010
Type: Document