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Williams, Roundy, Hulet, Miller, Tausch, Chambers, Matthews, Schooley, Eggett
In sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) ecosystems, expansion and infilling of conifers decreases the abundance of understory perennial vegetation and lowers ecosystem resilience and resistance of the once shrub grass-dominated state. We…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Freeman, Moisen, Frescino
Scientists and statisticians working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station have created a software package that simplifies and automates many of the processes needed for converting models into maps. This software package, called ModelMap, has…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
For desert shrubland species that have evolved without fire, the introduction of a grass-fire, positive feedback cycle is particularly problematic. This brief discusses work done by researchers who modeled the grass-fire cycle for non-fire-adapted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Chambers, Beck, Bradford, Bybee, Campbell, Carlson, Christiansen, Clause, Collins, Crist, Dinkins, Doherty, Edwards, Espinosa, Griffin, Griffin, Haas, Hanser, Havlina, Henke, Hennig, Joyce, Kilkenny, Kulpa, Kurth, Maestas, Manning, Mayer, Mealor, McCarthy, Pellant, Perea, Prentice, Pyke, Wiechman, Wuenschel
The Science Framework is intended to link the Department of the Interior’s Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy with long-term strategic conservation actions in the sagebrush biome. The Science Framework provides a multiscale approach for…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Franklin, Serra-Diaz, Syphard, Regan
Anthropogenic drivers of global change include rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses and resulting changes in the climate, as well as nitrogen deposition, biotic invasions, altered disturbance regimes, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Fuentes-Ramirez, Veldman, Holzapfel, Moloney
Novel fire regimes are an important cause and consequence of global environmental change that involve interactions among biotic, climatic, and human components of ecosystems. Plant flammability is key to these interactions, yet few studies directly…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Trees, grass, and fire in humid savannas-the importance of life history traits and spatial processes
Accatino, Wiegand, Ward, De MicheleWe develop a model to investigate how trees can invade the grass stratum in humid savannas despite repeated fires. In the literature, it is clear that fire reduces tree canopy in savannas. However, fire alone may not be sufficient to prevent tree…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Yu, Okin, Ravi, D'Odorico
The invasion of exotic grasses into shrublands is a major disturbance to dryland ecosystems. The presence of exotic grasses enhances the occurrence of wildfire in landscapes that had not evolved in the presence of fire, leading to high rates of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Reeves
The escalating awareness of non-forested landscapes and realization that more emphasis is needed for an all lands approach to management increasingly requires timely information to improve management effectiveness. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (…
Year: 2016
Type: Document