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Johnston, van Kooten
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Jacobs
An overstory thinning and slash mulch treatment designed to improve ecohydrologic condition of degraded transitional (piñon-juniper) woodland sites was evaluated at four sites over a cumulative 16-year period beginning in 1994. Study sites were…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Murphy, Writer, Mccleskey, Martin
Storms following wildfires are known to impair drinking water supplies in the southwestern United States, yet our understanding of the role of precipitation in post-wildfire water quality is far from complete. We quantitatively assessed water-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Tomecek, Pierce, Peterson
Managing exploited species characterized by declining abundance, such as northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus and scaled quail Callipepla squamata, presents challenges for regulatory agencies and wildlife managers. Our objective was to determine…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Tang, Shao
Drones of various shapes, sizes, and functionalities have emerged over the past few decades, and their civilian applications are becoming increasingly appealing. Flexible, low-cost, and high-resolution remote sensing systems that use drones as…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
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
Shryock, Esque, Chen
Questions: Do abiotic environmental filters or time-since-fire (TSF) explain more variability in post-fire vegetation assembly? Do these influences vary between vegetation structure and composition, and across spatial scales? Location: Sonoran…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Rabin, Magi, Shevliakova, Pacala
The global extent of agriculture demands a thorough understanding of the ways it impacts the Earth system through the modification of both the physical and biological characteristics of the landscape as well as through emissions of greenhouse gases…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Parks, Holsinger, Miller, Nelson
Theory suggests that natural fire regimes can result in landscapes that are both self-regulating and resilient to fire. For example, because fires consume fuel, they may create barriers to the spread of future fires, thereby regulating fire size.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Liu, Hussaini, Okten
Rothermel's wildland surface fire spread model is widely used in North America. The model outputs depend on a number of input parameters, which can be broadly categorized as fuel model, fuel moisture, terrain, and wind parameters. Due to the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document