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Fire Severity and Regeneration Strategy Influence Shrub Patch Size and Structure
Minor
Shrub species demonstrate flexible responses to wildfire disturbance severity that are reflected in shrub patch dynamics at small and intermediate scales. Prior research has examined the dynamics and persistence of large shrub patches on the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Geomorphic influences on the distribution and accumulation of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) following a low severity wildfire in northern New Mexico
Galanter, Cadol, Lohse
The distribution, transport, and accumulation of wildfire‐generated pyrogenic carbon (PyC) has important consequences for contaminant transport and carbon cycling, but a conceptual model for PyC accumulation and loss that includes geomorphic…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Spatial patterns of ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches
Owen, Sieg, Sánchez Meador, Fulé, Iniguez, Baggett, Fornwalt, Battaglia
Contemporary wildfires in southwestern US ponderosa pine forests can leave uncharacteristically large patches of tree mortality, raising concerns about the lack of seed-producing trees, which can prevent or significantly delay ponderosa pine…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns
Collins, Stevens, Miller, Stephens, Brown, North
Context: The proportion of fire area that experienced stand-replacing fire effects is an important attribute of individual fires and fire regimes in forests, and this metric has been used to group forest types into characteristic fire regimes.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Fire severity and regeneration strategy influence shrub patch size and structure following disturbance
Minor, Falk, Barron-Gafford
Climate change is increasing the frequency and extent of high-severity disturbance, with potential to alter vegetation community composition and structure in environments sensitive to tipping points between alternative states. Shrub species display…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Testing a Landsat-based approach for mapping disturbance causality in U.S. forests
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Efficacy of Resource Objective Wildfires for Restoring Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in Northern Arizona
Huffman
Historical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion have resulted in degraded ecological conditions in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the American Southwest. Presently, there is much interest in…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoration of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests in northern Arizona
Huffman, Sánchez Meador, Stoddard, Crouse, Roccaforte
Current conditions in dry forests of the western United State have given rise to policy mandates for accelerated ecological restoration on U.S. National Forest System and other public lands. In southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.)…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty
Iniguez, Hedwall, Sieg, Hunter
Do high severity burns lead to conversion to new forest types or a shift from forests to shrublands or grasslands? How do wildlife respond to changing habitats? And, finally, what do these changes tell us about how these ecosystems will respond to…
Year: 2016
Type: Media

Is there such a thing as too much fire?
Iniguez
Presentation at 3rd SW Fire Ecology Conference & 1st Applied Fire Science Workshop in Tucson, Arizona.
Year: 2016
Type: Media