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Strahan, Stoddard, Springer, Huffman
For more than a century ecosystems around the world have experienced an increase in the dominance of woody species. While the drivers of woody plant proliferation are complex, interactions between climate and land-use change are commonly invoked as…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Millar, Stephenson
Although disturbances such as fire and native insects can contribute to natural dynamics of forest health, exceptional droughts, directly and in combination with other disturbance factors, are pushing some temperate forests beyond thresholds of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Karki, Hallgren
Cross Timbers forests of south-central North America contain large expanses of relatively undisturbed old-growth forest where gap-phase regeneration is the main mode of canopy replacement. These forests are threatened by fire suppression,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Foye, Greenwood, Masloski, Payton
Numbers of northern bobwhite, Colinus virginianus (L.), have decreased during the past 50 years in Oklahoma. It is unknown if the availability of ground-dwelling arthropods on which bobwhite chicks rely for 80% of their protein requirements plays a…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Ansley, Kramp, Jones
Fire-resistant woody species have invaded many grassland and savanna ecosystems worldwide. Adults of many of these species are fire resistant because they resprout following fire; however, seedlings may be vulnerable to fire. Here we quantify…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Alba, Skálová, McGregor, D'Antonio, Pyšek
Questions: Wildfire is a natural disturbance that shapes vegetation characteristics worldwide, while prescribed fire is increasingly used to modify vegetation composition and structure. Due to invasion of many ecosystems by exotic species, a concern…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Abella, Fisichelli, Schmid, Embrey, Hughson, Cipra
Globally, invasion by non-native plants threatens resources that nature reserves are designated to protect. We assessed the status of non-native plant invasion on 1,662, 0.1-ha plots in Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Lake…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Smurthwaite
From the text ... 'What does the future of rangelands and wildfire look like? The easy answer to the question is that rangelands will look different in the future and so will wildfire occurrence and behavior.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Wright, Evans, Haubensak, Emhoff, Denipah
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Sesnie, Dickson, Sisk
Annual grasses and forbs comprise the dominant fuelbed layer in hot desert portions of Sonoran Desert in Arizona. Many parts of the Sonoran Desert are dominated by non-native invasive grasses and forbs that can increase the potential for…
Year: 2015
Type: Document