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Doumas, Koprowski
After decades of suppression, fire has returned to many forested areas of the western United States. Understanding responses of wildlife species to fire is essential to native species conservation because contemporary fires may not have the same…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Climate change projections for the coming decades suggest that forested landscapes will experience greater number of fires and a larger total area burned each year. The undesirable impacts of fire may be avoided or reduced through global strategies…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Huffman
Pinyon-juniper ecosystems presently occur on approximately 50 million acres across the semi-arid landscapes of the western United States. Infrequent, stand-replacing fires characterize both historical and modern fire regimes in southwestern pinyon-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Yancey
Wildlife in the Great Plains evolved with fire and grazing interacting spatially and temporally to create a shifting mosaic landscape comprised of severely disturbed habitats, undisturbed habitats, and patches that vary in time since the most recent…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Roccaforte
Portions of mixed conifer forests have undergone changes in disturbance regimes, species composition, and forest structure since European settlement and have been impacted by recent landscape-scale fires which have burned large patches with high…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Abella, Denton, Steinke, Brewer
Frequent-fire conifer forests in western North America are undergoing restoration and fuel-reduction treatments to reduce chance of severe crown fire and re-balance tree and understory plant biomass. A central decision in these treatments remains…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Fuhlendorf, Engle, Elmore, Limb, Bidwell
This article examines the question of how well the rangeland management profession has served conservation of patterns and processes that support multiple ecosystem services. We examine the paradigms under which rangeland management operates and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Larson, Churchill
Restoring characteristic fire regimes and forest structures are central objectives of many restoration and fuel reduction projects. Within-stand spatial pattern is a fundamental attribute of forest structure and influences many ecological processes…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Ireland, Stan, Fulé
Fire regimes often vary at fine spatial scales in response to factors such as topography or fuels while climate usually synchronizes fires across broader scales. We investigated the relative influence of top-down and bottom-up controls on fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Price
Prescribed burning for fuel reduction is a major strategy for reducing the risk from unplanned fire. Although there are theoretical studies suggesting that prescribed fire has a strong negative influence on the subsequent area of unplanned fire (so-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document