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Smith, Finch, Hawksworth
Riparian forests of the American Southwest are especially prone to changes in composition and structure due to natural and anthropogenic factors. To determine how breeding mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) respond to these changes, we examined nest…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Kelly, McCarthy
From Field Examples ... 'Over the past two decades, at least 20 examples of 'rock art' resources impacted by wildland fires or vandalism have been reported within several States. While these examples are only a few from an unknown number of 'rock…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Haecker
From the Summary ... 'Exposure of a historic structure or object to fire, regardless of the temperature that is generated, does not necessarily equate with destroying its value as a cultural resource. For instance, a low-temperature prescribed fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Deal
From Lithic Artifacts and Fire ... 'Artifacts made of stone are generally the best preserved of all material types in the archaeological record, often providing the only evidence of where people lived and worked in the past. Despite its durability,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Neary, Koestner, Youberg, Koestner
The Schultz Fire burned 6100 ha on the eastern slopes of the San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona. The fire burned between June 20th and 30th, 2010, across moderate to very steep ponderosa pine and mixed conifer watersheds. About 40% of the fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Williams, Baker
Aim Wildfire is often considered more severe now than historically in dry forests of the western United States. Tree-ring reconstructions, which suggest that historical dry forests were park-like with large, old trees maintained by low-severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Nijhuis
From the text ... 'Forests in the American west are under attack from giant fires, climate change and insect outbreaks. Some ecosystems will never be the same.'
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Fulé, Yocom, Cortés-Montaño, Falk, Cerano, Villanueva-Díaz
The 'pyroclimatic hypothesis' proposed by F. Biondi and colleagues provides a basis for testable expectations about climatic and other controls of fire regimes. This hypothesis asserts an a priori relationship between the occurrence of widespread…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Roccaforte, Fulé, Chancellor, Laughlin
Severe forest fires worldwide leave behind large quantities of dead woody debris and regenerating trees that can affect future ecosystem trajectories. We studied a chronosequence of severe fires in Arizona, USA, spanning 1 to 18 years after burning…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Parisien, Snetsinger, Greenberg, Nelson, Schoennagel, Dobrowski, Moritz
Despite growing knowledge of fire-environment linkages in the western USA, obtaining reliable estimates of relative wildfire likelihood remains a work in progress. The purpose of this study is to use updated fire observations during a 25-year period…
Year: 2012
Type: Document