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Fire helps restore natural disturbance regime to benefit rare and endangered marsh birds endemic to the Colorado River
Conway, Nadeau, Piest
Large flood events were part of the historical disturbance regime within the lower basin of most large river systems around the world. Large flood events are now rare in the lower basins of most large river systems due to flood control structures.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Comprehensive conservation planning to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services in Canadian boreal regions under a warming climate and increasing exploitation
Schindler, Lee
Boreal regions contain more than half of the carbon in forested regions of the world and over 60% of the world's surface freshwater. Carbon storage and the flood control and water filtration provided by freshwaters and wetlands have recently been…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Public response to wildfire: is the Australian ''stay and defend or leave early'' approach an option for wildfire management in the United States?
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Public response to wildfire: Is the Australian 'stay and defend or leave early' approach an option for wildfire management in the United States?
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Urban-wildland fires: how California and other regions of the US can learn from Australia
Stephens, Adams, Handmer, Kearns, Leicester, Leonard, Moritz
Most urban-wildland interface (UWI) fires in California and the other regions of the US are managed in a similar fashion: fire agencies anticipate the spread of fire, mandatory evacuations are ordered, and professional fire services move in and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document

Impact of disturbance on the Holocene development of a temperate peatland (Southern Quebec)
Muller, Richard, Talon
A temperate peatland located in the St. Lawrence lowlands (Southern Quebec) was studied in order to specify the past influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on its postglacial development. Seven profiles were analysed for pollen,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

A Real Options Approach to Forest-Management Decision Making to Protect Caribou under the Threat of Extinction
Morgan, Ben, Lasserre
Uncertainty is a dominant feature of decision making in forestry and wildlife management. Aggravating this challenge is the irreversibility of some decisions, resulting in the loss of economic opportunities or the extirpation of wildlife populations…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Determining sustainable levels of cumulative effects for boreal caribou
Sorensen, McLoughlin, Hervieux, Dzus, Nolan, Wynes, Boutin
Direct and indirect effects of industrial development have contributed, in part, to the threatened status of boreal ecotype caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Alberta and Canada. Our goal was to develop a model that would allow managers to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Alternatives to evacuation-protecting public safety during wildland fire
Paveglio, Carroll, Jakes
Remaining inside fire-safe structures or at designated safety zones to actively defend against wildland fire events is an underrepresented area of scholarship. Although research on chemical spills and tornadoes has long advocated a similar practice…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

A contrast in similarities: fire and plant diversity in grasslands of North America and Western Australia [abstract]
Bragg
The tallgrass prairie (Andropogon-Panicum) of central North America and the spinifex (Triodia) grasslands of the Gibson Desert of central Western Australia differ substantially in many ways, including in their responses to fire, but are similar in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document