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Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Richter, O'Neill, Kasischke
From the Conclusions (p.212) ... 'The evaluation of the fire stimulation hypothesis leads to several conclusions. First, the dynamics of C in soils and ecosystems of the boreal zone are clearly important to the global C cycle. Second, although…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Kasischke
From the Introduction (p.104) ... 'The focus of this introduction to Section II is on describing the boreal forest ecosystem in terms of those factors and processes controlling carbon cycling. Such a systems approach is not new, and similar…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Hesseln
Prescribed burning has, in the past decade, become the focus of debate among policy makers, federal and private land managers, and the public. To manage fire effectively, the USDA Forest Service has formally recognized the need for economic analysis…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Harden, Trumbore, Stocks, Hirsch, Gower, O'Neill, Kasischke
To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long‐term averages for C exchange in boreal forests near Thompson, Manitoba. Soil drainage as defined by water table, moss cover,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory was to provide watershed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
McDonald, Harvey, Tonn
Fire, competition for light and water, and native forest pests have interacted for millennia in western forests to produce a countryside dominated by seral species of conifers. These conifer-dominated ecosystems exist in six kinds of biotic…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Pollet, Omi
From the Management Implications (p.139-140)... 'Our findings indicate that fuel treatments do mitigate fire severity. Treatments provide a window of opportunity for effective fire suppression and protecting high-value areas. Although topography and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Weise, Kimberlin, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Merzenich, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Understanding the trade-off between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are comparing three vegetation models that may be…
Year: 2000
Type: Document