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van Mantgem, Nesmith, Keifer, Knapp, Flint, Flint
Pervasive warming can lead to chronic stress on forest trees, which may contribute to mortality resulting from fire-caused injuries. Longitudinal analyses of forest plots from across the western US show that high pre-fire climatic water deficit was…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Lutes
First order fire effects are those that concern the direct or indirect or immediate consequences of fire. First order fire effects form an important basis for prediction secondary effects such as tree regeneration plant succession, and changes in…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Twidwell, Rogers, Fuhlendorf, Wonkka, Engle, Weir, Kreuter, Taylor
Despite years of accumulating scientific evidence that fire is critical for maintaining the structure and function of grassland ecosystems in the US Great Plains, fire has not been restored as a fundamental grassland process across broad landscapes…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Ryan, Knapp, Varner
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American ecosystems. Euro-American settlement and 20th-century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
DeGomez, Kolb, Kleinman, Williams
Fire-damaged trees that otherwise would have survived can be killed by bark beetles (McCullough and others 1998, McHugh and others 2003). Wallin and others (2008) found that fire weakens a tree's defense against bark beetles. An unacceptable level…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
McDonald, McPherson
Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare [L.] Link) can create a grass-fire cycle in many parts of the world because it is a highly competitive, fire-tolerant grass and can replace less fire-tolerant native plants. Fuel loads, loss of buffelgrass biomass…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Summer 2012 saw records fall for intensity of drought and number, size, and cost of wildfires in the Central and Western United States, and the climate forecast calls for more of the same in the near and distant future. When wildfire breaks out,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
The intent of this document is to provide prescribed fie practitioners, planners and agency administrators with a brief summary of the major themes that emerged from escaped prescribed fires in 2012. This summary is not an all-inclusive recounting…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Homeowners living within a mile of forests or any fire-prone landscape - public or private, rural or urban - can take simple preventive steps to limit damage from wildfires. Here are seven ways to help your community become 'fire adapted' and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Coen, Cameron, Michalakes, Riggan, Yedinak
A wildland fire behavior module (WRF-Fire) was integrated into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) public domain numerical weather prediction model. The fire module is a surface fire behavior model that is two-way coupled with the atmospheric…
Year: 2013
Type: Document