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Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: status and needs
Hyde, Dickinson, Bohrer, Calkin, Evers, Gilbertson-Day, Nicolet, Ryan, Tague
Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Strengthening the case for saproxylic arthropod conservation: a call for ecosystem services research
Ulyshen
1. While research on the ecosystem services provided by biodiversity is becoming widely embraced as an important tool in conservation, the services provided by saproxylic arthropods an especially diverse and threatened assemblage dependent on dead…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

FOFEM 6.0 First Order Fire Effects Model user guide
Lutes
First order fire effects are those that concern the direct or indirect or immediate consequences of fire. First order fire effects form an important basis for prediction secondary effects such as tree regeneration plant succession, and changes in…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Adaptation and mitigation
Millar, Skog, McKinley, Birdsey, Swanston, Hines, Woodall, Reinhardt, Peterson, Vose
Forest ecosystems respond to natural climatic variability and human-caused climate change in ways that are adverse as well as beneficial to the biophysical environment and to society. Adaptation refers to responses or adjustments made-whether…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

The IMAGINE Prescribed Fire Prioritization Model: A Logistical and Ecological Approach to Management
Goolsby
IMAGINE aims to solve the issue of technology overload confronting prescribed fire managers today. As the demand to prescribe burn more acres increase, so do the demands on fire management officers (FMOs) to prioritize treatment areas. Prescribed…
Year: 2013
Type: Media

Ecological effects of alternative fuel-reduction treatments: highlights of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS)
McIver, Stephens, Agee, Barbour, Boerner, Edminster, Erickson, Farris, Fettig, Fiedler, Haase, Hart, Keeley, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, Moghaddas, Otrosina, Outcalt, Schwilk, Skinner, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Youngblood, Zack
The 12-site National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS) was a multivariate experiment that evaluated ecological consequences of alternative fuel-reduction treatments in seasonally dry forests of the US. Each site was a replicated experiment with a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document