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Perrings, Walker
The loss of resilience in systems characterised by multiple equilibria is indicated by a discontinuous change in the state of the system, or the transition from one locally stable state corresponding to a particular mix of species to another state…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Rieman, Clayton
Issues related to forest health and the threat of larger, more destructive wildfires have led to major new initiatives to restructure and recompose forest communities in the western United States. Proposed solutions will depend, in part, on…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Frandsen
Evaluating the effects of prescribed fire and wildland fire requires a greater understanding of the fire behavior of organic soils. Determining the ignition limit of organic soils over a wide geographical area is the subject of this study. Side…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Wright, Hart
We examined the cumulative effects of 20 years of two-year interval prescription burning on available nitrogen (N) and total N and phosphorus (P) pools in the upper 15 cm of mineral soil of a southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Skiba, Fowler, Smith
Global annual NO emissions from soil are of the order of 10 Tg NO-N. This is about half the amount fossil fuel combustion processes contribute to the annual global NOx budget. Reducing the emissions of soil derived NOx requires an understanding of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Duchesne, Tellier
The nutrient (N, P, K, Mg, and Ca) content of the aboveground living non-crop vegetation of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) clear-cut in eastern Ontario was investigated for two years after site preparation, which consisted of prescribed burning…
Year: 1997
Type: Document