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Miller, Luce, Benda
Storm-driven episodes of gully erosion and landsliding produce large influxes of sediment to stream channels that have both immediate, often detrimental, impacts on aquatic communities and long-term consequences that are essential in the creation…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Henry
Aggressive fire suppression and livestock grazing in Western forests during the 20th century has lead to increased fuel loads, as well as changes in forest age structure and species composition. Many forest ecosystems that historically experienced…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Cocke, Fulé
Fires spread heterogeneously across landscapes resulting in patches of varying burn severity levels. Burn severity, caused by changes in canopy cover, biomass, and moisture, can be detected and mapped using satellite data. The 2001 Leroux fire on…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Covert-Bratland
Fire has been identified as one of the most important terrestrial disturbances that affect avian populations and the ecosystems in which they reside (Raphael et al. 1987, Hejl 1994, Hutto 1995, Brawn et al. 2001). Because fires change resources at…
Year: 2003
Type: Document