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Effects of fire size and frequency and habitat heterogeneity on forest age distribution
Barclay, Li, Hawkes, Benson
A Monte-Carlo simulation was constructed to determine the effects of fire frequency and size and of habitat heterogeneity on the equilibrium age distribution of a forest. We used yield tables for lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Dougl…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Seasons within the wildfire season: marking weather-related fire occurrence regimes
Johnson, Balice
Weather and climate contribute to the multidecadal, seasonal, and daily cycles of the potential for fire ignitions and for the severity of fires. We used a long-term dataset of weather parameters to characterize comparatively homogeneous periods, or…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Ecology of fire-influenced Cladium jamaicense marshes in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles
Imbert, Delbe
The sawgrass Cladium jamaicense forms extensive, quite monospecific stands within coastal swamps of the Caribbean region. Fire acts as an important ecological factor in the control of vegetation dynamics in these marshes. In the archipelago of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Influences of thinning, prescribed burning, and wildfire on soil processes and properties in southwestern ponderosa pine forests: a retrospective study
Grady, Hart
Following Euro-American settlement in the late 1800s, fire suppression and livestock grazing in ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystems of the southwestern US resulted in the replacement of grass openings with dense stands of ponderosa pine. This, in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

An eddy covariance mesonet to measure the effect of forest age on land-atmosphere exchange
Goulden, Winston, McMillan, Litvak, Read, Rocha, Elliot
We deployed a mesonet of year-round eddy covariance towers in boreal forest stands that last burned in ~1850, ~1930, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1998, and 2003 to understand how CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration change during secondary succession. We used…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Wilderness fire management in a changing world
Miller
From the text ... 'WFU [wildland fire use] is the management of naturally ignited wildland fires to protect, maintain, and enhance resources in predefined areas outlined in fire management plans.' © 2007 by the Association for Fire Ecology.
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Anatomy of a blow-up
Viegas
From the text ... ''Eruptive fire behavior can be modeled and predicted mathematically.
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Influence of fire and Juniper encroachment on birds in high-elevation sagebrush steppe
Noson, Schmitz, Miller
We examined relationships between high-elevation sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) steppe habitats altered by prescribed fire and western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) encroachment on breeding distributions of Brewer's Sparrows (Spizella breweri),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late Holocene
Gavin, Hu, Lertzman, Corbett
Forest fire occurrence is affected by multiple controls that operate at local to regional scales. At the spatial scale of forest stands, regional climatic controls may be obscured by local controls (e.g., stochastic ignitions, topography, and fuel…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Small mammal population and habitat responses to forest thinning and prescribed fire
Converse, Block, White
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Year: 2006
Type: Document