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Saab, Beinz, Block, Kotliar, Lehmkuhl, Markus, Vierling, Woodruff
Prescribed burning often focuses on reducing fire hazard with little consideration given to the effects of fire management on wildlife and their habitats. Yet, many avian species, including several species designated as Sensitive Species by Federal…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
McIver, Agee, Baldwin, Barbour, Beall, Boerner, Brown, Busse, Edminster, Fiedler, Haase, Harrington, Hodgson, Keeley, Landram, Laudenslayer, Lehmkuhl, Otrosina, Ottmar, Ritchie, Ryan, Shea, Skinner, Stephens, Stephenson, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Zack
Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Lawler, White, Neilson, Blaustein
Predicted changes in the global climate are likely to cause large shifts in the geographic ranges of many plant and animal species. To date, predictions of future range shifts have relied on a variety of modeling approaches with different levels of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Saab, Block
The goal of this project was to help evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed fire in reducing fuels, and to assess the effects of fuel reduction on habitats and populations of birds in ponderosa pine forests throughout the Interior West. Known as…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Beyers, Narog
The four southern California national forests (Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino) and adjoining areas are home to over 70 federal and state listed threatened and endangered plant and animal species. The Forest Service lists another…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Finch, Chung-MacCoubrey, Jemison, Merritt, Johnson, Campana, Hawksworth, Bateman, LeJuene, Gunning, Price
In southwestern riparian ecosystems, replacement of native vegetation by exotic plant species, particularly those that are highly flammable such as Tamarisk, has increased fire frequency. Native tree species inhabiting these riparian areas of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Wosten, Van der Berg, van Eijk, Gevers, Giesen, Hooijer, Idris, Leenman, Rais, Siderius, Silvius, Suryadiputra, Wibisono
Interrelationships between hydrology and ecology are established for the Air Hitam Laut watershed in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The developed relational diagram shows how modelled regional groundwater levels and flooding patterns are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Converse, White, Farris, Zack
Forest fuel reduction treatments are increasingly used by managers to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire and to manage changes in the ecological function of forests. However, comparative ecological effects of the various types of treatments…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Converse, Block, White
We examined changes in small mammal habitat and densities of four small mammal species, including deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), gray-collared chipmunks (Tamias cinereicollis), golden-mantled ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis), and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document