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Leading threats to biodiversity: what's imperiling U.S. species [Chapter 8]
Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The geography of imperilment: targeting conservation toward critical biodiversity areas [Chapter 6]
Chaplin, Gerrard, Watson, Master, Flack
From the text (p. 161)...'Assessing the distribution of species at risk by looking only at their presence within individual states, as we have done in chapter 5, is useful for broadly identifying the magnitude of the conservation challenge in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Fire, competition and forest pests: landscape treatment to sustain ecosystem function
McDonald, Harvey, Tonn
Fire, competition for light and water, and native forest pests have interacted for millennia in western forests to produce a countryside dominated by seral species of conifers. These conifer-dominated ecosystems exist in six kinds of biotic…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Using computer simulations to study complex fire behavior [abstract]
Linn
Researchers have been using models to predict and study wildfire behavior for approximately fifty years. These models range in complexity from simple algebraic models that may be implemented in graphical form or on hand-held calculators to complex…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The Idaho Panhandle National Forests wildfire hazard-risk assessment
Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Pictures at a conflagration: mapping the maverick prescribed fire
Clark, Yool
The Madrean Archipelago of sky islands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico relies on fire to help regulate and maintain biodiversity, yet only limited fire research has been conducted in the region. Developing new tools and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Ponderosa pine ecosystems restoration and conservation: steps toward stewardship
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake
This volume is divided into three sections: (1) Ecological, Biological, and Physical Science; (2) Social and Cultural; and (3) Economics and Utilization. Effective ecological restoration requires a combination of science and management. The authors…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Fire effects on animal communities [Chapter 5]
Huff, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document

Direct effects of fire and animal responses [Chapter 3]
Lyon, Telfer, Schreiner
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Year: 2000
Type: Document

Regional variation in fire regimes [Chapter 2]
Telfer
From the text (p.9) ... 'To provide a context for discussion of fire effects on animals and their habitat, this chapter described the vegetation, fire regimes, and postfire succession of several plant communities referred to in subsequent sections…
Year: 2000
Type: Document