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Lui, Cuddy, Hailes, Ruby
The purpose of this study was to determine changes in physiological markers of heat acclimatization across a 4-month wildland fire season. Wildland firefighters (WLFF) (n = 12) and non-WLFF (n = 14) were assessed pre- and post-season for body mass,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Ladwig, Collins, Ford, White
Land managers frequently use prescribed burning to help maintain grassland communities. Semiarid grassland dynamics following fire are linked to precipitation, with increasing soil moisture accelerating the rate of recovery. Prescribed fires are…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Zhang, Kondragunta, Roy
The ratio of key elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica determines nutrient limitations that are important to regulating primary productivity and species composition in aquatic ecosystems. The flux of these nutrients in streams, as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Stan, Fulé, Ireland, Sanderlin
Forests on tribal lands in the western United States have seen the return of low-intensity surface fires for several decades longer than forests on non-tribal lands. We examined the surface fire regime in a ponderosa pine-dominated (Pinus ponderosa…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Rocca, Miniat, Mitchell
From the text ... 'Because temperature is forecast to increase almost everywhere, all the regions except the mid-Atlantic region project increases in wildfire activity, despite the variability in precipitation forecasts. The magnitude and impact of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Littell, McKenzie
Climate and fire are strongly linked, although the relationship between them is contingent on fuels and thus fire responses to climate variability and change vary considerably across ecosystems, fuels management, and land use. By comparing…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Liu, Goodrick, Heilman
Increasing wildfire activity in recent decades, partially related to extended droughts, along with concern over potential impacts of future climate change on fire activity has resulted in increased attention on fire-climate interactions. Findings…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand
Emissions from wildland fire are both highly variable and highly uncertain over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Wildland fire emissions change considerably due to fluctuations from year to year with overall fire season severity, from…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Evans
Each year numerous fires burn through the Southwest, and even for fire managers and researchers it can be difficult to keep the details of each fire straight. The public hears a great deal about fires as they burn, but rarely do they see follow up…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
O'Connor, Falk, Lynch, Swetnam
In recent decades fire size and severity have been increasing in high elevation forests of the American Southwest. Ecological outcomes of these increases are difficult to gauge without an historical context for the role of fire in these systems…
Year: 2014
Type: Document