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Pyne
From the text ... 'Over time, the belief in the intrinsic evil of free-burning flame also yielded to the realisation that the removal of fire, like that of the wolf, could unravel whole ecosystems. It seemed that the best strategy for restoring both…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Yao, Hockaday, Murray, White
Fire-derived black carbon (BC) in soil, including charcoal, represents an important part in terrestrial carbon cycling due to its assumed long persistence in soil. Soil BC concentrations for a woodland in central Texas, USA, was found from study…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Swetnam, Falk, Lynch, Yool
Limitations inherent to airborne laser scanning (ALS) technology and the complex sorting and packing relationships of forests complicate accurate remote sensing of mid- and understory trees, especially in denser forest stands. Self-similarities in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Stan, Fulé, Ireland, Sanderlin
Forests on tribal lands in the western United States have seen the return of low-intensity surface fires for several decades longer than forests on non-tribal lands. We examined the surface fire regime in a ponderosa pine-dominated (Pinus ponderosa…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Rocca, Miniat, Mitchell
From the text ... 'Because temperature is forecast to increase almost everywhere, all the regions except the mid-Atlantic region project increases in wildfire activity, despite the variability in precipitation forecasts. The magnitude and impact of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Parks, Miller, Nelson, Holden
Wildland fire is an important natural process in many ecosystems. However, fire exclusion has reduced frequency of fire and area burned in many dry forest types, which may affect vegetation structure and composition, and potential fire behavior. In…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Fulé
From the Introduction ... 'A recent study in Global Ecology and Biogeography (Williams and Baker 2012, hereafter W&B) described the historical conditions of forest structure and fire regimes on four large landscapes in Arizona, Colorado and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Dugan, Baker
Accuracy of small-area, fire-interval estimation methods has been inadequately assessed, thus we conducted modern calibration and historical testing of the traditional composite-fire-interval and a newer all-tree-fire-interval method for estimating…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Ager, Day, McHugh, Short, Gilbertson-Day, Finney, Calkin
Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Alexander, Cruz
From the text ... 'Wind-driven surface and crown fires in conifer forests typically adopt a roughly elliptical shape.Area burned is proportional to the rate of spread increase (following the transition to crowning) to the power of 2.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document