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New Book about Stoddard's Methods in Management of Longleaf Pine
The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, 2012, Leon Neel, The
University of Georgia Press, 212 pages. $24.95
Once considered controversial, the Stoddard Method is now accepted among foresters and environmentalists as
the best art in managing this highly fire dependent species. Herbert Stoddard was not an educated man
compared to his peers, but his feet-on-the-ground capacity for understanding complex ecological landscapes is
genius. A close friend of Aldo Leopold and other environmental thinkers of his time, he worked with Leon Neel
to develop and test his set of management principles. This book is an interview with Neel that describes the
evolution of the Stoddard-Neel approach, its details, and the results of their studies. This is well-written books
that will fully explain the Stoddard principles and their genesis and bring to the reader an intimate feel for the
place, the times and the issues.
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New Book on the Role of Fire in the Earth System
Vegetation Fires and Global Change, 2013, Edited by Johann Georg Goldammer, Kessell Publishing House, 400
pages, 35 Euro ($36.61) plus shipping.
This very reasonably priced book written in 17 Chapters by 59 of the world's most well-known fire
scientists is a global state-of-the-art analysis of the role of vegetation fires in the earth system - fire
science, ecology, atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing and climate change modeling. Chapters
include discussions of paleofire, current fire regimes in Russia, boreal permafrost biomes, tropical
southeast Asia, tropical South America, Mediterranean, Australia, temperate-Mediterranean North
America, Subsahara Africa, emissions, fire modeling, social and economic dimensions of fire, remote
sensing and climate change.
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20 copies or more.
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New Book on Prescribed Burning in Russia
Prescribed Burning in Russia and Neighbouring Temperate-Boreal Eurasia, edited by Johann Georg Goldammer,
2013, Kessel Publishing House, 326 Pages, 35 Euro ($36.61), plus shipping costs.
To me personally, this is a very exciting addition to the literature on fire in Russia. Invited by Dr. Goldammer and
our hosts in Krasnoyarsk in the early 1990's, I was thrilled to be able to attend the conference being put on my
our Russian colleagues and to witness a burn experiment on Bor Island in northern Siberia. That experiment
was the beginning of twenty years of work summarized in this book. Equally exciting and important is the rare
opportunity to read about the history and progress in prescribed burning in Russia and to see references in the
bibliographies in this book to Russian literature that have not been available until now. Written by Goldammer
and a number of preeminent scientists in Russia, this is an excellent reference to fire in this part of the world
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20 copies or more.
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New Book on fire Investigation
Wildfire Investigation Guidelines for practitioners, 2015, Cornelis de Ronde and Johann Georg Goldammer,
Kessel Publishing House, 132 pages, 17 Euro ($18.27), plus shipping.
There are few books available that cover wildland fire investigation in detail. This new book
summarizes two decades of experience in South Africa investigating fires. The chapters cover the
ecology of fire, fuel and fire dynamics, cause and origin determination, reconstruction of wildfire
spread, witness reports, damage assessment, insurance and arbitration. Nicely illustrated in color and
well written, this book is essential to anyone interested in this field.
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California: A Fire Survey, Stephen J. Pyne, 2016, University of Arizona Press, 216 pages,
$19.95
The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer
forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts after watering
by El Niño cloudbursts and the thick forests of the rumpled Coast Range—all burn according to local
rhythms of wetting and drying. Fire season, so the saying goes, lasts 13 months.
In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has
approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what
makes California’s fire scene unique is how its dramatically distinctive biomes have been yoked to a
common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a
scale commensurate with the state’s size and political power. California has not only a ferocity of flame
but a cultural intensity that few places can match. California’s fires are instantly and hugely broadcast.
They shape national institutions, and they have repeatedly defined the discourse of fire’s history. No other
place has so sculpted the American way of fire.
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Florida: A Fire Survey, Stephen J. Pyne, 2016, University of Arizona Press, 184 pages,
$19.95
In Florida, fire season is plural, and it is most often a verb. Something can always burn. Fires burn
longleaf, slash, and sand pine. They burn wiregrass, sawgrass, and palmetto. The lush growth, the dry
winters, the widely cast sparks—Florida is built to burn.
In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the
region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in
favor of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of
this heritage the fire community has created institutions to match. The Tallahassee region became the
ignition point for the national fire revolution of the 1960s. Today, it remains the Silicon Valley of
prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the
panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades.
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Fuego en el Pantanal - Incendios forestales y perdida de recursos de biodiversidad en
San Matias - Santa Cruz, Martinez, Jose A., 2003, Investigaciones Regionales, Santa Cruz,
Bolivia, 187 pages, $45.01
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Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, edited by Catheryn H. Greenberg and Beverly S. Collins, 2015, Springer,
400 pages, $92.58
This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create
heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule
which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological integrity’ and within the ‘natural range of variation’ of natural disturbances and vegetation
structure. Synthesizing information on HRV of natural disturbance types, and their impacts on forest structure, has been identified as a top need.
Historically, both non-anthropogenic and anthropogenic disturbances were integral
to shaping central hardwood forests, and essential in maintaining diverse biotic
communities. Spatial extent, frequency and severity differ among natural disturbance types, creating mosaics and gradients of structural conditions and
canopy openness across the landscape.
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Nuevo enfoque en la defensa contra los incendios forestales en Espana /
New approach to protection against forest fires in Spain, Jorge Agudo
Gonzalez, 2010, Dykinson, 170 pages, $31.95
El trabajo que se publica es fruto de una larga e intensa investigación, que forma parte del proceso de desarrollo
de un proyecto europeo único en la materia y que aborda uno de los casos de gestión de incendios forestales más
destacados y complejos en Europa. El profesor Agudo elige para ello un enfoque integrador y territorial que se
aleja del clásico planteamiento sectorial desde el que se ha venido legislando y planificando la defensa contra
incendios forestales en los países europeos.
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Prevencion de Riesgos Laborales y Ambientales en Trabajos de Extincion de Incendios Forestales, Gregorio Perez Borrego, Jose Ignacio Morales Mesa, M. Jose Rodriguez
Ramos and Francisco Salas Trujillo, 2007, Tecnos Editorial, 416 pages, $37.95 and $28.50 used.
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Sistemas de Información Geográfica en incendios forestales: Caso de estudio para la prevención de incendios en Parque Nacional Tunari - Bolivia, Daniel C. Cruz Fuentes ,
Editorial Academica Espanola, 188 pages, $72.00 and $67.34 used.
El Parque Nacional Tunari ubicado a 2 800 m.s.n.m en Bolivia tiene una alta frecuencia de incendios forestales. Actualmente los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) son una herramienta de alta utilidad para la prevención de incendios. La presente investigación se basa en la aplicación de estas herramientas. En base a la teoría de desenvolvimiento del fuego y a estudios modelo, se definieron las variables concernientes a la ignición y propagación. Además fueron seleccionados los atributos más relevantes, se recopiló y analizó la información para luego procesarla en un modelo de análisis espacial. El ámbito antropogénico, la meteorología, topografía y la vegetación son las esferas que combinadas de acuerdo con su importancia, hacen del modelo propuesto y sus mapas resultantes una herramienta integral. Su discusión, corrección y validación con la participación de las instituciones concernientes al tema, pueden poner el estudio en aplicación y a consideración como aporte a la literatura especializada en la aplicación de SIG.
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Gender and Wildfire, 2014, Christine Eriksen, Francis and Taylor Publishers, 185 pages,
$47.65
In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life
are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger
weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led migrants in
wildfire-prone landscapes.
This book examines wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst women, men, households, communities
and agencies at the interface between city and beyond. It does so through an examination of two regions
where wildfires are common and disastrous, and where how to deal with them is a major political issue:
southeast Australia and the west coast United States. It follows women’s and men’s stories of surviving,
fighting, evacuating, living and working with wildfire to reveal the intimate inner workings of wildfire
response – and especially the culturally and historically distinct gender relations that underpin wildfire
resilience.
Wildfire is revealed as much more than a "natural" hazard – it is far from gender-neutral. Rather, wildfire
is an important means through which traditional gender roles and power relations are maintained despite
changing social circumstances. Women’s and men’s subjectivities are shaped by varying senses of
inclusion, exclusion, engagement and disengagement with wildfire management. This leads to the
reproduction of gender identities with clear ramifications for if, how and to what extent women and men
prepare for wildfire.
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Incendios forestales y su impacto, Iris Gomez Ramudo, Editorial Académica Española,
396 pages, $117.00 and $108.88 used
Según datos del MAGRAMA (Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente), en el último año se han
quemado más de 53.286 hectáreas de bosque en España en más de 2.495 incendios, 16 de ellos incluidos en los
considerados como Grandes Incendios Forestales. El año 2012, con 189.321 hectáreas arrasadas por el fuego, es
considerado uno de los peores de los últimos 20 años. Los incendios forestales se han convertido en un importante
problema ambiental, tanto en nuestro país como a nivel mundial. En el presente proyecto, a modo de revisión, se
exponen sus principales factores, causas y efectos, así como una serie de acciones que se deben llevar a cabo en
las tareas de prevención y detección, durante la propagación y en la extinción de incendios, sin olvidarnos de la
restauración de las superficies afectadas.
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Incendios Forestales, Una Introducción a la Ecología del Fuego, Juli G. Pausas, 2012,
Catarata Publishers, 119 pages, 12 Euros ($13.67 US)
Por incendios forestales nos referimos a incendios (sean de origen natural o antrópico) que ocurren en los
ecosistemas terrestres, y que se propagan por la vegetación, sea del tipo que sea (bosques, sabanas, matorrales,
pastizales, humedales, turberas, etc.). Gran parte de la gente asocia los incendios forestales a eventos
catastróficos, Sin embargo, y como vemos al lo largo de este libro, los incendios forman parte de la misma
naturaleza y han moldeado la diversidad de nuestros ecosistemas. Existen regímenes de incendios que son
totalmente sostenibles desde el punto de vista ecológico, si bien es cierto que muchos cambios provocados por la
humanidad han generado regímenes de incendios insostenibles. La rama de la ciencia que estudia el papel de los
incendios en los organismos y los ecosistemas, se llama ecología del fuego, y es el tema central de este libro. La
ecología del fuego proporciona la base científica para mejorar el conocimiento y la gestión del territorio en
ambientes donde los incendios tienen un papel preponderante. No es posible realizar una gestión sostenible de los
recursos, sin tener una base sólida de los procesos implicados. Este libro pretende aportar alguno de estos
conocimientos al público general.
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Incendios Forestals: Definiendo El Problema, Ecologia Y Manejo, Particiacion Social, Fortalecimiento De Capacidades,
Educacion Y Divulgacion, Flores-Garnica, J. G., Rodríguez-Trejo, D. A., Estrada-Murrieta, O., Sánchez-Zárraga, F., 2006,
Comisión Nacional Forestal and Mundi Prensa. México, 254 pages, $61.99
Chapters include: Sistema satelital de incendios forestales en México (Satelital system for forest fires in Mexico) J. A. Raigoza;
Avances en la investigación en incendios forestales en México (2004) (Advances in forest fires research in Mexico, 2004) J. G.
Flores; J. D. Benavides; Parámetros ambientales físico-bióticos y modelos para estudiar el comportamiento del fuego
(Phyisical-biotic environmental parameters and models to study fire behavior) L. Villers; Ecología del fuego y manejo integral
del fuego en las montañas del Valle de México, bosque de coníferas (Fire ecology and integrated fire management in the
mountains of Valle de México, conifer corest) D. A. Rodríguez; Efecto de los incendios forestales en el escurrimiento y la
erosión (Effects of forest fires in runoff and erosion) J. D. Benavides S.; J. G. Flores; Efecto del fuego en un matorral xerófilo en
el Valle de México (Effect of fire in a xerophytic shrubland in the Valle de México) S. Castillo A.; P. Guadarrama C.; Y. Martínez;
El programa de prevención de incendios FMCN-USAID (Thre fire prevention program FMCN-USAID) J. M. Frausto; Programa de
difusión de incendios forestales en la Zona sujeta a conservación ecológica Sierra de Zapalinamé (Forest fires extensionism
program in the zone under ecological conservation Sierra de Zapalinamé) C. Ochoa; Campaña de educación ambiental y
capacitación para el uso responsable del fuego en la reserva de la biosfera Ría Lagartos (Campaign of environmental education
and training for the responsible fire use in the preserve Ría Lagartos) M. Quijano F.; L. Hernández P., L. Poot; Capacitación en
manejo del fuego (Training in fire management) A. Nájera; Imporancia de la capacitación en la actividad de protección contra
los incendios forestales para México (Importance of training in the activity of protection against forest fires in Mexico) O.
Cedeño S.; R, Martínez; Experiencia de participación social en la prevención y combate de incendios forestales (Participation
experience in the prevention of forest fires and fire fighting) F. J. Hinojosa; Asociación de productores y responsables técnicos
del estado de Chihuahua, A. C. (Association of producers and technical responsibles of Chihuahua state, Civil Association) O.
Portillo G.; M. Saldaña L.; B. Arzabala M.; J. Torres; Consideraciones sobre incendios en bosques tropicales y templados de
áreas protegidas de México (Considerarions about forest fires in tropical rain forests and temperate forests of Mexican
protected areas) E. Alvarado; Sistema nacional de protección contra los incendios forestales (National system of protection
against forest fires) O. Estrada; Manejo del fuego y restauración de bosques en la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán
(Fire management and restoration of forests ath the Biosphere Reserve Sierra de Manantlán) E. Jardel P.; R. Ramírez V.; F.
Castillo N.; S. García R.; Ó. E. Balcazar M.; J. C. Chacón M.; J. E. Morfín R.
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La defensa contra incendios forestales, Ricardo Vélez Muñoz, 2000, McGraw-Hill,
Interamericana de Espana, 1340 pages, $99.95
El fenómeno de los incendios forestales. El comportamiento del fuego en los ecosistemas forestales. Planificación
de la defensa contra incendios forestales. La prevención. La extinción. La defensa contra incendios forestales en
Iberoamérica.
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Los Seguros contra incendios forestales y su aplicación en Galicia, Juan Picos Martín,
Fundacion Mapfre, 368 pages, $22.36
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Manual del contrafuego. El manejo del fuego en la extincion de incendios forestales, Enrique Martinez Ruiz, 2011, Mundi Presna, $20.42
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Educacion E Incendios Forestales, Arturo Rodriguez, 2001, Mundi Prensa, 201 pages, $34.93
¿Por qué están aumentando los incendios forestales en todo el mundo y cuáles son sus causas? ¿quiénes combaten los incendios de vegetación y cómo? ¿Puede el fuego tener efectos benéficos en los bosques? Estas y muchas otras preguntas son contestadas en este libro, de manera amena, sencilla y con plenitud de ilustraciones. Educación e Incendios Forestales va dirigido al público en general, pero también está diseñado para servir como libro de texto en escuela técnicas profesionales. Asimismo, el material puede resultar de utilidad como referencia para estudiantes de licenciatura, forestales, agrónomos, biólogos y de otras áreas afines, y como fuente de información para maestros de escuelas a nivel básico y medio que vayan a enseñar temas ambientales y forestales a sus niños y jóvenes estudiantes. El libro también fue pensado para que resulte de utilidad en la capacitación de voluntarios o de combatientes que se inician en la lucha contra las llamas. Además de los temas clásicos de prevención y combate, incluye, entre otros, una crónica de los incendios de México y Florida en 1998, otro sobre la importancia de la educación en sus distintos niveles acerca del tema incendios, y una propuesta de manejo del fuego. También se espera contribuir aunque sea mínimamente en informar a la opinión pública sobre el candente tema de los incendios forestales.
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Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems, 2011, Jon E. Keeley, William J. bond, Ross A.
Bradstock, Juli G. Pausas and Philip W. Rundel, Cambridge University Press, 522 pages.,
$103.00 and $43.20 used
Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this book offers a unique view
of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in shaping Earth's ecosystems. Analyzing these
geographically separate but ecologically convergent ecosystems provides key tools for understanding fire regime
diversity and its role in the assembly and evolutionary convergence of ecosystems. Topics covered include regional
patterns, the ecological role of wildfires, the evolution of species within those systems, and the ways in which
societies have adapted to living in fire-prone environments. Outlining complex processes clearly and methodically,
the discussion challenges the belief that climate and soils alone can explain the global distribution and assembly of
plant communities. An ideal research tool for graduates and researchers, this study provides valuable insights into
fire management and the requirements for regionally tailored approaches to fire management across the globe.
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Special offer to Current Titles subscribers from the publisher
Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space, paper, color plates, 303 pages, $59.00
Satellite remote sensing technology is playing an important role for monitoring fires and their consequences, as well as in operational fire management. In response to this need as well as to respond to other needs for more rapid progress in forest observation the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites initiated Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) as an international pilot project to test the concepts of an integrated global observing system. GOFC was designed to bring together data providers and information users to make information products from satellite and in-situ observations of forests more readily available worldwide. Fire Monitoring and Mapping was formed as one of three basic components of GOFC. This book contains eighteen contributions (see below)authored by scientists who represent the most active international research and development institutions, aiming at coordinating and improving international efforts for user-oriented systems and products. These papers were initially presented at a GOFC Fire Workshop held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra. The volume is a contribution of the GOFC Forest Fire Monitoring and Mapping Implementation Team to the Interagency Task Force Working Group Wildland Fire of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).
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A Guide to Rate of Fire Spread Models for Australian Vegetation, M. G. Cruz, J. S. Gould, M. E. Alexander, A. L. Sullivan, W. L. McCaw and S. Matthews, 2015, CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, $30
AuD ($21.94 US) plus shipping
Researchers from CSIRO and the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the different fire spread models. Their aim was to determine which models could be applied under different conditions for operational use in prescribed burning and wildfire suppression in different Australian vegetation types - specifically grasslands, shrublands, both dry and wet eucalypt forests, and in conifer plantation fuel types.
This publication consolidates, for the first time, all published Australian models into one resource guide, together with a comprehensive analysis of their potential applications, benefits and limitations. It evaluates application of the models in different vegetation types and burning conditions, and provides detailed performance appraisals.
In the book, the authors examine the three different eras of bushfire rate of spread modelling breakthroughs, including the initial breakthrough by Australia’s first fire researcher, Alan G McArthur, over a twenty year period from the 1950s, through to the preliminary industry-research partnerships era spanning from 1970 to 2002 to the present comprehensive research and industry collaboration era.
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New Book on the Fynbos Vegetation of South Africa
Fynbos, edited by Nicky Allsopp, Jonathan Colville, G. Anthony Verboom, and Richard Cowling, Oxford
University Press, 2014, 416 pages, $64.95
This new book features 16 chapters written by 70 contributors, including fire ecologists David Ackerly,
Richard Cowling, Tineke Kraaij, David le Maitre, Guy and Jeremy Midgley, David Richardson, Brian van
Wilgen and G. Anthony Verboom. Discussions include the paleohistory of the fynbos, its fire ecology,
biological invasions, and the impact of climate change.
Chapters Include: Verboom, G. A., H. P. Linder, F. Forest, V. Hoffmann, N. G. Bergh And R. M. Cowling. Cenozoic Assembly Of The Greater Cape Flora; Marean, C. W., H. C. Cawthra, R. M. Cowling, K. J. Esler, E. Fisher, A.
Milewski, A. J. Potts, E. Singels, And J. De Vynck Stone Age People In A Changing South African Greater Cape Floristic Region; Altwegg, R., A. West, L. Gillson And G. F. Midgley Impacts Of Climate Change In The Greater Cape
Floristic Region; Ellis, A. G., G. A. Verboom, T. Van Der Niet, S. D. Johnson And H. P. Linder Speciation And Extinction In The Greater Cape Floristic Region; Kraaij, T., B. W. Van Wilgen Drivers, Ecology, And Management Of Fire In Fynbos; Slingsby, J. A., D. D. Ackerly, A. M. Latimer, H. P. Linder And A. Pauw The Assembly And Function Of
Cape Plant Communities In A Changing World
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Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, edited by Catheryn H. Greenberg and Beverly S. Collins, 2015, Springer,
400 pages, $179.00 new and $92.58 used
This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create
heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule
which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological integrity’ and within the ‘natural range of variation’ of natural disturbances and vegetation
structure. Synthesizing information on HRV of natural disturbance types, and their impacts on forest structure, has been identified as a top need.
Historically, both non-anthropogenic and anthropogenic disturbances were integral
to shaping central hardwood forests, and essential in maintaining diverse biotic
communities. Spatial extent, frequency and severity differ among natural disturbance types, creating mosaics and gradients of structural conditions and
canopy openness across the landscape.
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Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests, Ajith H. Perera and Lisa J. Buse, 2015,
Wiley-Blackwell, 272 pages, $77.88 new and $92.46 used
Until I began reading this beautifully crafted book by Perera and Buse, I had not the slightest idea what "wildfire
residuals" are. With all the emphasis on spotting on large fires, the topic of residuals (unburned islands within the
footprint of the fire) has barely been elucidated until this excellent book. My own first awareness of the existence
and importance of residuals ("streets" I think we called them) was for me, and probably for you, in the aftermath
of the Yellowstone fires of '88, where some interesting fire patterns resulted from horizontal vortices. Perera and
Buse make a powerful team, as Perera has been studying residuals for many years, and Buse is a gifted science
writer. The result is a well organized and clearly written review of the literature on residuals, their formation, their
types, and their ecological and silvicultural roles. The studies cited and the principles discussed can be, for the
most part, transferred to ecosystems other than boreal forests. However, this is a valuable addition to works on
boreal forests, which (I learned) account for one-third the world's forests, and three-quarters of the world's
coniferous forests.
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Newly Released Book on the Yarnell Incident
On the Burning Edge, Kyle Dickman, 2015, Ballentine Books, 277 pages, $5.99 new and $5.78 used
Kyle Dickman, author of this new book on the Yarnell fatalities of 2013, is a former editor of Outside
magazine and a former member of the Tahoe Hotshots. His reporting has been nominated for a
National Magazine Award. In his well-researched book, he describes the inner dynamics of the Granite
Mountain hotshot crew. The reader gains valuable insights into the personal lives of the supervisors
and several of the crew members, and gets a perspective on what may have been in the minds of the
crew as they followed their supervisor out of their secure location in the black, across a half mile of
bone-dry brush toward the Boulder Springs Ranch. Dickman's description of the chaos that was
unfolding around the crew before, during and after the crew's shelter deployment is an worthy
contribution to the many studies done on this incident.
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New book on a forgotten fatal fire at a 25% discount
Montana's Waldron Creek Fire, 2015, Charles Palmer, History Press, 172 pages. $21.99.
I jumped with Charlie in 2000 and 2001, and it never occurred to me that he was thinking such serious
thoughts! Charlie, now incarnated as a professor at the University of Montana, accidentally uncovered
a long-forgotten fire, the 1931 Waldron Creek Fire, in which five men died when they got separated
from the rest of the crew. Charlie could find no records on the deaths, but was able to piece together
from family and other diverse sources what happed to the men, and what occurred after the discovery
of the bodies. This is a sad commentary on the commitment of a major federal agency to their
firefighters, which, unfortunately is not an isolated incident. Briefly covering the fatal Thirty Mile and
Esperanga Fires, Charlie underscores situations where resources at risk appear to be valued more than
lives of firefighters.
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Fire in the Sierra Nevada (see next ad). To order, click on the cover or go to
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New book on the history of fire and prescribed burning on the Sierra National Forest in
California, USA at a 25% discount
Fighting Fire in the Sierra National Forest, Marcia Penner Freedman, 2015, History Press, 127 pages. $19.99
Ms. Freedman does an excellent job of covering the history of the early Sierra National Forest, with emphasis on
the controversy over prescribed burning. Starting with pre-settlement fire and moving into the early 20th
century, with the founding of the US Forest Service, she discusses the fight over "light burning." Although
westerners understood the use of fire, politics and the 1910 catastrophic Big Burn allowed anti-fire supporters
to gain the momentum on this argument. It wasn't until the arrival of Dr. Harold Biswell from the southeastern
tradition of prescribed burning that this tool was again seriously considered.
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Burning Table Mountain, Simon Pooley, 2014, Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History, Palgrave
MacMillan Publishers, UK, 315 pages, $90.00
Reading this book is such a pleasure. Pooley has done an incredible amount of research and has a very firm
grasp of the history of South Africa, general ecological theory, and most especially fire ecology. The book details
the evolution of human understanding and use of fire from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the recent
firestorm of January 2000.
"In this meticulously researched and lucidly written book, Simon Pooley exposes the reader to the myriad of
contradictions and conflicts that arise when northern Europeans colonise a fire-prone ecosystem...a must-read
for social and natural scientists that grapple with the human-wildland interface in the vast areas of the world's
fire-prone ecosystems." Professor Richard Cowling, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
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New Book on the Legal Aspects of Wildfire Mitigation
Disaster and Sociolegal Studies, edited by Susan Sterett, QuidPro LLC, New Orleans, 251
pages, $54.99
This book is very current on the legal aspects of disaster mitigation, and includes some interesting chapters wth
titles like: Uncertain Governance and Resilient Subjects in the Risk Society; Transboundary Impacts of the 2010
Haiti Earthquake Disaster; Disaster Mythology and Availability Cascades, and Long Term Recovery in Disaster
Response and the Role of Non-Profits. The most interesting to us will be Lloyd Burton's chapter The Comparative
Jurisprudence of Wildfire Mitigation. In this chapter, Burton, a professor of law and public policy in the School of
Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver, compares the history and current status of law regarding
wildfire mitigation in two very different states - California and Colorado. Burton's observations, thoughts and
conclusions apply not only to US law but can be applied to research in other cultures as well, such as Australia
and Spain, to name two.
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The Chinchaga Firestorm, Cordy Tymstra, 2015, University of Alberta Press, 227 pages. Paperback US $34.95. PDF
US $27.99.
In 1950, the biggest firestorm documented in North America - 3,500,000 acres of forest burned in northern
Alberta and British Columbia - created the world's largest smoke layer in the atmosphere. The smoke travelled
half way around the northern hemisphere and made the moon and sun appear blue. The Chinchaga Firestorm is
an historical study of the effects of fire on the ecological process. Using technical explanations and archival
discoveries, Cordy Tymstra, a wildlife science coordinator with Environment and Sustainable Resource
Development at the government of Alberta, shows the beneficial yet destructive effects of many forest fires,
including the 2011 fire in Slave Lake, Alberta. This book will appeal to wildland fire scientists, foresters, forest
ecologists and policy makers, as well as those who are interested in western Canadian history and ecology.
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Biochar for Environmental Management: Science, Technology and Implementation, 2nd
Edition, Johannes Lehmann and Stephen Joseph, Routledge, 976 pages, $140.00
The first edition of this book, published in 2009, was the definitive work reviewing the expanding research
literature on this topic. Since then, the rate of research activity has increased at least ten-fold, and biochar
products are now commercially available as soil amendments. This second edition includes not only substantially
updated chapters, but also additional chapters: on environmental risk assessment; on new uses of biochar in
composting and potting mixes; a new and controversial field of studying the effects of biochar on soil carbon
cycles; on traditional use with very recent discoveries that biochar was used not only in the Amazon but also in
Africa and Asia; on changes in water availability and soil water dynamics; and on sustainability and certification.
The book therefore continues to represent the most comprehensive compilation of current knowledge on all
aspects of biochar.
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Thought-provoking book on fire in the Rocky Mountains (and everywhere else)
Fire Ecology in rocky Mountain Landscapes, William Baker, 2009, Island Press, 605 pages, $51.06
"Baker presents a refreshing perspective on fire ecology, revealing multidimensional factors at work in Rocky
Mountain ecosystems. His willingness to question established paradigms breaks new ground and will add
immensely to our understanding of fire in these systems, ensuring that this will be a standard reference for
years to come." Jon Keeley, research ecologist, US Geological Survey, and adjunct professor, University of
California, Los Angeles
"Baker makes a compelling argument that extensive, high-severity fires are a natural component of Rocky
Mountain ecosysstems; and he questions the widespread view that our 'fire problem' and 'forest health
problems' are a consequence of twentieth-century fire suppression. This book dismisses old strategies stressing
costly fuels reduction and fire suppression, and instead suggests sustainable strategies that treat wildfire as a
problem in land-use decision making." Thomas Veblen, professor, Department of Geography, University of
Colorado, Boulder
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New book on fire in the earth system Fire on Earth: An Introduction, Andrew C. Scott et al. 2014, Wiley Blackwell Books, 413 pages, $43.95
Fire on Earth puts fire in its rightful place as an integral part of the study of geology, geography, biology, human histroy, physics and global chemistry. Fire is ubiquitous in various forms throughout Earth and belongs as part of formal inquiries about our world. This full-colour test, containing over 250 illustrations of fire in all contexts, is designed to provide a synthesis of contemporary thinking, bringing together the most powerful concepts and disciplinary voices to examine, in an international setting, whiy planetary fire exists, how it works, and why is looks the way it does today. Students, lecturers, researchers and professionals interested in the physical, ecological and historical characteristics of fire will find this book, and accompanying web-based material, essential reading, it is an indispensible text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in all related disciplines, for general interest and for providing an interdisciplinary foundation for further study.
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Stephen Pyne's New Book
Between Two Fires, Stephen J. Pyne, 2015, University of Arizona Press, 539 pages.
Hardcover $50.66, paperback $18.79
Between Two Fires is America's story told through the nation's flames. Award-winning author stephen J. Pyne
tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as simple suppression, stalled in the 1980s counterrevolution,
and finally was replaced with more enlightened programs of fire management. But today, writes Pyne, fire
agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips
with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has constructed a history of record that will shape
our next century of fire management.
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The Year Yellowstone Burned: A twenty-Five-Year Perspective
Jeff Henry, 2015, Taylor Trade Publishing, 285 pages. $15.75 new and $11.70 used
Jeff Henry was working in Yellowstone National Park as a firefighter during the 1988 fires while
developing a career as a professional writer and photographer. Many of the excellent pictures in this
beautiful book are his. With a forward by Bob Barbee, Yellowstone's Superintendent from 1983-1994,
the book starts with an illustrated background of the history of fire in Yellowstone, and then is
organized chronologically by day.
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Black Saturday at Steels Creek
Peter Stanley, 2013, Scribe Press, Melbourne, 221 pages. Paperback $16.21
The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people - wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in
Australia's history. Ten of those victims died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne's
outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the evening of 7
February 2009, it felt like a battlefield. the most detailed account of any one community to emerge
from the fire, Black Saturday at Steels Creek shows what Black Saturday means not only for Steels
Creek, but also for Australia as a whole.
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Fire Phenomena and the Earth System: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Fire Science
Edited by Claire M. Belcher, John Wiley and Sons, 333 pages, $133.95 new and $75.00
used
This is a colorful and beautifully put together book that will appeal to most everyone. Its 16 chapters, written by
fire scientists, are divided into sections on Fire Behaviour, Fire and the Biosphere, Fire and the Earth's Past and
Fire and the Earth System. Authors include Samual Abiven, Claire M. Belcher, William J. Bond, Luigi Boschetti,
Margaret E. Collinson, G. Matt Davies, Stefan H. Doerr, Ian J. Glasspool, Karen Hammes, Timothy M. Lenton,
James E. Lovelock, Ondrej Masek, Jeremy J. Midgley, Elsa Pastor, Eulalia Planas, Mitchell J. Power, Guillermo
Rein, David P. Roy, Andrew C. Scott, Richard A. Shakesby, Albert Simeoni, Alistair M.S. Smith, Jose L. Torero,
Solene Turguety and Andrew j. Watson.
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Painting the Landscape with Fire: Longleaf Pines and Fire Ecology, Den Latham, 2013,
University of South Carolina Press, 218 pages, $24.51 new and $16.75 used
"Painting the Landscape with Fire weaves three narratives into its masterful account of the longleaf pine forest.
The fascinating story of its distinctive ecossystem supports Den Latham's explanation of why both wildfires and
controlled burns are increasingly recognized as essential to its health, while his profiles of numerous people who
live and work in this forest contribute a rich cultural perspective as well as a skein of droll dialogue." John Elder,
author of Reading the Mountains of Home and coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing.
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New Book on Yarnell Hill
From Tragedy to Recovery: The Yarnell Hill Wildfire of 2013, Emad Mohit. 2015. $15.00
new and $10.86 used
I would not recommend this book for someone looking for a description of events involving the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew. This is written by a member of the Yarnell community who provides a background to the reader of the community, the events of the fire (including the hotshot crew) from their perspective, and the post-fire recovery efforts.
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The Fire Smart Home Handbook, Clyde Soles, Syons Press, 268 pages, $18.43 new and
$4.98 used
"A good primer for anyone who wants to understand wildfires."
—Durango Herald
"No threat is left untouched in this handbook worthy of a firefighters academy library."
—Publishers Weekly
“The Fire Smart Home Handbook is essential reading for people who live in fire-prone areas because it offers
practical information on how you can reduce the threat of wildfire against yourself and your neighbors.”
—Paul L. Cooke, director of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control
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Hinckley and the Fire of 1894, 2014, Alaina Wolter Lyseth and Walt Tomas, Arcadia
Publishing, 128 pages, $11.30 new and $10.06 used
Imagine a force in nature more powerful than multiple atomic bombsthat was the Great Hinckley Fire of
September 1, 1894. In only four hours, the fire incinerated over 400 square miles of forest, killed at least 418
settlers and an unknown number of forest-dwelling Native Americans, and destroyed six towns in a firestorm of
flame. The elements that led to this unprecedented catastrophe included careless logging practices, a drought,
freakish weather, and suspected sparks from passing locomotives. The story of the 1894 fire is a saga of
devastation, heartbreak, heroism, survival, hope, and rebuilding that captured worldwide attention. Recently
discovered photographs provide a backdrop for a fresh look at the events surrounding the disaster and the
courage of the pioneers who survived to tell the tale.
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The Peshtigo Fire of 1871, Charles River Editors, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 34
pages, $6.99 new and $4.44 used
"The air burned hotter than a crematorium and the fire traveled at 90 mph. I read an account of a Civil War veteran who had been through some of the worst battles of the war. He described the sound - the roar - during the fire as 100 times greater than any artillery bombardment.” – Bill Lutz
In arguably the most famous fire in American history, a blaze in the southwestern section of Chicago began to burn out of control on the night of October 8, 1871. It had taken about 40 years for Chicago to grow from a small settlement of about 300 people into a thriving metropolis with a population of 300,000, but in just two days in 1871, much of that progress was burned to the ground.
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Ahead of the Flaming Front: A Life on Fire, 2014, Jerry D. Mathes III, Caxton Press, 260
pages, $16.82 new and $9.50 used
Veteran wildland firefighter Jerry Mathes II takes readers into the heart of wildfires from the forests of Idaho to
the deserts of the Mexican border and reveals the camaraderie of men and women bonded by the terror and
beauty and hardship of life on the fireline. He makes us live through thunderstorms scattering lightning and hail,
endure the high summer heat and shivering nights where bears prowl through wilderness spike camps, and the
quiet days of reflection waiting for what may come next. With a poets lyricism he tells of the life and death of
friends, negotiating the bureaucracy of the federal fire service, the rivalry of competing agencies, and carrying the
weight of absence from his daughters as they grow and the desperate feeling he is failing even as he seems to be
succeeding. Readers live alongside him as he grows from a stunned rookie trembling under flames arcing hundreds
of feet into the air to a seasoned member of the training cadre, bringing full circle his life on fire by fusing hard
won field experience with the classroom to give his students the tools to work and survive in the chaotic fire world
so that they can slay the dragon and the dragon does not slay them.
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Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia: A Global Biodiversity Hotspot, 2014, Hans Lambers, editor, University of Western Australia Press, 348 pages, $59.72
Southwest Australia is a region increasingly recognized for its high levels of biodiversity and endemism, and it is recognized as one of the world's top 25 'biodiversity hotspots,' based largely on its highly diverse and endemic flora. This book has been assembled with current research and understanding about the southwestern Australian flora, the greatest richness of which is on the sandplains, especially on the most nutrient-impoverished soils. To be able to conserve threatened species, the animals that depend upon them, and the habitats they live in, it is necessary to understand their functioning in the past and present in order to protect them for the future. The book is an updated version of Kwongan: Plant Life of the Sandplain (Pate & Beard, 1984), and it demonstrates how much knowledge and understanding has been gained over the past 30 years. The profound Aboriginal knowledge of kwongan is also included in this beautifully illustrated book. [Subject: Australian Studies, Natural History, Botany, Aboriginal Studies]
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New Book on Birds and Fire (for Young People)
Fire Birds: Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests, 2015, Sneed B. Collard III,
Bucking Horse Books, 48 pages, $10.63 new and $5.92 used
In Fire Birds Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests, award-winning science author Sneed B. Collard III
challenges society s negative views toward natural forest fires. By focusing on the research of biologist Richard
Hutto, Collard reveals the complex relationships between fire and thriving plant and animal communities. The
book especially focuses on the heavy use of burned forests by dozens of bird species and debunks the idea that
burned forests are worthless wastelands.
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A New Book on Smokejumping
Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters, 2015, Jason A. Ramos and Julian Smith, William Morrow Press, 256 pages, $13.00 new and
$12.45 used
Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year — record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of residential housing into the wilderness have combined to create a powder keg that threatens millions of acres and thousands of lives every year. One select group of men and women are part of America's front-line defense: smokejumpers. The smokejumper program operates through both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Though they are tremendously skilled and only highly experienced and able wildland firefighters are accepted into the training program, being a smokejumper remains an art that can only be learned on the job. Forest fires often behave in unpredictable ways: spreading almost instantaneously, shooting downhill behind a stiff tailwind, or even flowing like a liquid. In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes readers into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping’s remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before.
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New Book on Fighting Fires Back in the Day
Fighting Forest Fires, 2014, G. Harvey Ralphson, Create Space Independent Publishing
Platform, 64 pages, $4.12
This collection of literature compiles many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
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New Book on the Importance of High-Severity Fires
The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Firest: Nature's Phoenix, 2015,
Dominick A. DellaSala and Chad T. Hanson, Elsevier, 450 pages, $63.50
The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in
the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems.
While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is focused on
fire prevention and suppression, little has been reported on the ecological role of fire, and nothing has been
presented on the importance of high-severity fire with regards to the maintenance of native biodiversity
and fire-dependent ecosystems and species.
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New Book on Wildland Fire
Wildland Fires: A Worldwide Reality, 2015, Antonio Jose Bento Concalves and Antonio
Avelino Batista Vieira, Nova Press, 235 pages, $190.00
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Just a Few Jumper Stories, 2015, Rod Dow, CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform, 270 pages, $14.92
"Just a Few Jumper Stories" is a collection of 70 stories from 46 years of firefighting (32 with the smokejumpers) by
Alaska Smokejumper Rod Dow. It is intended as a straightforward attempt to archive campfire stories from the life
of a long time firefighter. All true tales, mostly funny incidents from his career, they portray the thrill, humor, and
love of the outdoors that comes from parachuting into wild country in Alaska and throughout the mountain west.
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Fire Call! Memoirs of a Smokejumper. 2015.
Major L. Boddicker, 324 pages, $15.00
Major Boddicker had a career with the U.S. Forest Service as a Smokejumper. He got to fires by parachuting out of
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More or Less Crazy, 2014, Murry A. Taylor, Amazon Digital Services, 437 pages, $19.99
I bought the paperback, downloaded and read the preview and could not wait. Went back and bought the Kindle version. I could not put it down! Granted, I am an old smokejumper. I was a 3rd year jumper from Boise on the lower ’48 booster crew to Fairbanks in 1973. Murry nailed it. The T-Hanger, the personalities and perspectives of the smokejumpers were perfectly depicted. Every jumper has a unique experience; the random nature of the jump list, combined with the number and nature of fire calls, means that each jumper had a different mix of shared events. Smokejumpers live on the edge and thereby savor the senses more than most. If you are interested in what it was really like... this book is for you. By Robert M Totten
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Blue Ridge Fire Towers, 2015, Robert Sorrell, Arcadia Publishing, 144 pages, $10.23
Fire lookout towers have graced the highest peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains for more than a century. Early
mountaineers and conservationists began constructing lookouts during the late 1800s. By the 1930s, states and the
federal government had built thousands of towers around the country, many in the Blue Ridge. While technology
allowed forestry services to use other means for early detection of fires, many towers still stand as a testament to
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Auditoría de información en la prevención de incendios forestales, Codina Canet María Adelina and Codina Canet Victor Manuel , 2015, Editorial Académica Española, 76 pages,
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El documento aporta un análisis de los circuitos de información en la prevención de incendios forestales y el control de las quemas agrícolas. Proporciona una panorámica del funcionamiento de los actuales canales de información en el ámbito de la Organización, analizándose los factores estructurales y las tecnologías de la comunicación. La investigación está basada en la metodología de la auditoria de información, cuyo objetivo central es analizar el flujo de información, identificar la problemática y reflexionar sobre las estrategias para mejorar la comunicación. La comarca de El Comtat es un terreno con un bosque autóctono de sierras y un Parque Natural catalogado de especial protección coexistiendo con una arraigada agricultura de montaña y cultura del fuego. El análisis concluye que se precisa una reflexión sobre los aspectos y elementos que intervienen en la gestión de la información. Las conclusiones de la investigación tienen como objetivo influir en la toma de decisiones y ser una herramienta para la reflexión sobre la situación actual del control de la información. Nuestro ánimo ha sido aportar soluciones para mejorar y corregir situaciones irregulares detectadas.
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New Spanish Language Two Volume Set on the Ecology of Fire
Rodríguez Trejo Dante Arturo, 2014 and 2015, Incendios de vegetación. Su ecología, manejo e historia. (Forest fires. Ecology, management and history), Volume 1, 889 pages, and Volume 2, 811 pages,
Published by Editorial Colegio de Posgraduados, the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Autonomous Chapingo University and the Comisión Forestal Nacional, México. 811 p., price not available
Volume one focuses on the fire ecology of Mexican ecosystems, this is most of what is known about fire regimes, fire adaptations, and fire effects on the environment, plus traditional fire management and implications for integrated fire management. All this for: pine forests, oak, forests, true fir forests, shrublands, grasslands, tropical rain forests, tropical seasonal forests, cloud forests, savannas, palm lands, mangroves, wetlands, and reforestated areas. Volume two includes chapters on combustion, fire behavior, essentials of prevention, presupression, detection, dispatch, fire fighting, and mopping up, as well as prescribed burning and physical fitness of the fire fighter and the veteran. The last chapters refer to history of forest fires in Mexico: genesis of forest fires on Earth, the start of use of fire for prehistoric humans, mesoamerican cultures, Conquista through the 21st century in Mexico. Volume two includes the cited literature, with 1,600 bibliographical references, a general alphabetical index, scientific names index, glossary, as well as abstracts in English language of each one of the chapters of both volumes. In both volumes are mentioned 1,900 plant and animal species.
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Actualización en métodos y técnicas para el estudio de los suelos afectados por los incendios forestales, Antonio Jordán, eds. Artemi Cerdà, 2011, Universidad de Valencia,
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El objetivo de la investigación científica es alcanzar el conocimiento, y éste se obtiene mediante la observación y el razonamiento sistemáticamente estructurado. De ello se deducen principios y leyes. Y para ello es necesario que los científicos desarrollen y apliquen métodos y técnicasque permitan aprehender la realidad. En definitiva, se buscan procedimientos y estrategias para hallar la verdad, y hacerla visible: el método; junto a un conjunto de procedimientos y recursos que hagan posible la cuantificación: la técnica.
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New Book on the Plant Ecology of Smoke
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New Book on Climate and the Paleohistory of Fire
Climate, Fire and Human Evolution, 2015, Andrew Gibson and Colin Groves, Springer,
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This book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4
million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the
ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable
carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under
increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene,
human survival depended on both―biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity.
This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during
long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans
developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality,
omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks
and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as
but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about ~7000 years-ago
production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination
and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning
large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth’s hundreds of
millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift
in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great
mass extinctions of species―constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth.
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Author(s): Abbott, K. N., B. Leblon, G. C. Staples, D. A. Maclean and M. E. Alexander Title: Fire danger monitoring using RADARSAT-1 over northern boreal forests Source: International Journal of Remote Sensing 28(6): 1317-1338 Year: 2007 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: The goal of this study was to evaluate the potential use of RADARSAT-1 images to assess daily variations in dead fuel moisture over a northern boreal forest area, as parameterized by the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Abom, R. and L. Schwarzkopf Title: Short-term responses of reptile assemblages to fire in native and weedy tropical savannah Source: Global Ecology and Conservation 6: 58-66 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife reptiles Abstract: Fire is frequently used as a management tool to reduce the cover of weeds, to reduce the amount of fuel available for future fires, and to create succession mosaics that may enhance biodiversity. We determined the influence of fire on wildlife, by quantifying ... Note: this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Accary, Gilbert, Oleg Bessonov, Dominique Fougere, Sofiane Meradji and Dominique Morvan Title: Optimized Parallel Approach for 3D Modelling of Forest Fire Behaviour Source: Pages 96-192, in: V. Malyshkin (Ed.): PaCT 2007, LNCS 4671 Year: 2007 Keywords: behavior modeling Abstract: In this paper we present methods for parallelization of 3D CFD forest fire modelling code on Non-uniform memory computers in frame of the Open MP environment. Mathematical model is presented first. Then, some peculiarities of this class of computers are considered, along with properties and limitations of the...
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Adamonyte, G., J. Motiejunait-, R. Irsenaite Title: Crown fire and surface fire: effects on myxomycetes inhabiting pine plantations Source: Science of The Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology fungi Abstract: Myxomycetes are heterotrophic eukaryote organisms that have three life stages, none of which are known to be resistant to fire. The response of myxobiota to different severity of fire is not well known either. We examined myxomycetes in Pinus mugo ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Adetona, O., T. E. Reinhardt, J. Domitrovich, G. Broyles Title: Review of the health effects of wildland fire smoke on wildland firefighters and the public Source: Inhalation Toxicology 28(3): 95-139 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke health Abstract: Each year, the general public and wildland firefighters in the US are exposed to smoke from wildland fires. As part of an effort to characterize health risks of breathing this smoke, a review of the literature was conducted using five major databases, including ... Author(s): Ager, Alan A., Michelle A. Day, Kevin Vogler Title: Production possibility frontiers and socioecological tradeoffs for restoration of fire adapted forests Source: Journal of Environmental Management, Available online 28 March 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: sociology Abstract: We used spatial optimization to analyze alternative restoration scenarios and quantify tradeoffs for a large, multifaceted restoration program to restore resiliency to forest landscapes in the western US. We specifically examined tradeoffs between provisional ecosystem services, fire protection, and the amelioration of key ecological stressors. The results revealed that
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attainment of multiple restoration objectives was constrained due to the joint spatial patterns of ecological conditions and socioeconomic values ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Agne, M. C., T. Woolley, S. Fitzgerald Title: Fire severity and cumulative disturbance effects in the post-mountain pine beetle lodgepole pine forests of the Pole Creek Fire Source: Forest Ecology and Management 366: 73-86 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology insects Abstract: Recent large scale mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, MPB) outbreaks have created concern regarding increased fuel loadings and exacerbated Fire behavior and have prompted a desire to understand the effects of sequential ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ajin, R.S., A. M. Loghin, M. K. Jacob, P. G. Vinod Title: The Risk Assessment Study of Potential Forest Fire in Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary using RS and GIS Techniques Source: International Journal of Advanced Earth Science and Engineering 5(1): 308-318 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk remote sensing Abstract: In recent years, forest fires have become a major disaster in many countries of the World because of their impact on biodiversity, landscape, health, environment, ecology and Economy. Forest fires are one of the major natural hazards occurring in the forests of the ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Akerberg, Jake Title: Insights from the Survivors Source: Two More Chains 5(4): 4-7 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk fatality Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Author(s): Alcaniz, M., L. Outeiro, M. Francos, J. Farguell, X. Ubeda Title: Long-term dynamics of soil chemical properties after a prescribed fire in a Mediterranean forest (Montgri Massif, Catalonia, Spain) Source: Science of The Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils prescribed burning Abstract: This study examines the effects of a prescribed fire on soil chemical properties in The Montgri Massif (Girona, Spain). The prescribed forest fire was conducted in 2006 to Reduce understory vegetation and so prevent potential severe wildfires. Soil was sampled ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Aldeias, V., H. L. Dibble, D. Sandgathe, P. Goldberg Title: How heat alters underlying deposits and implications for archaeological fire features: A controlled experiment Source: Journal of Archaeological Science 67: 64-79 Year: 2016 Keywords: Archeology Abstract: While it is true that the use of fire is undoubtedly an important behavioral trait, fire can also leave important traces in archaeological deposits, including altering previously deposited sediments and artifacts. The set of controlled experiments reported here do not ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ancog, R. C., L. M. Florece, O. B. Nicopior Title: Fire occurrence and fire mitigation strategies in a grassland reforestation area in the Philippines Source: Forest Policy and Economics 64: 35-45 Year: 2016 Keywords: grasslands tropics Abstract: While fire has been identified as a major factor negatively affecting success of reforestation projects in the Philippines, no study so far has been conducted on the types and extent of fire mitigation strategies being implemented by upland farmers. This study ... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Anonymous Title: Agencies' Efforts to Assess Program Effectiveness and Modernize the Firefighting Aviation Fleet Source: GAO Reports GAO-16-217T, 19 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: Aircraft suppression Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Indigenous peoples/wildfire research Source: Unpublished manuscript, 18 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous bibliography Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Global wildland fire early warning system - african component Source: Unpublished manuscript, 2 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: remote sensing Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Infamous wildland fires around the world by calendar date Source: International Association of Wildland Fire, May 15, 2008, 16 pages Year: 2008 Keywords: fatalities accidents Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Mourning the loss of fallen inmate wildland firefighter Shawna Lynn Jones Source: County of Los Angeles Fire Department, Interagency News Release, march 1, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: fatality suppression Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Author(s): Anonymous Title: Bone Point prescribed fire wildfire conversion review Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Umatilla National Forest, 40 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: prescribed burning escape Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: 2015 Incident Review Summary Source: Lessons Learned Center, Phoenix, Arizona, 10 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: statistics safety accidents Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Science-Based Data Collection Key to Better Wildland Fire Defense Source: ThomasNet News. 2/29/2016, p1 Year: 2016 Keywords: suppression Author(s): Anonymous Title: Faulty installation of equipment beds on truck transports Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rapid Lesson Sharing, 4 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: equipment safety Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Scofield, Anna, The Impacts of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures, M. S. Thesis, University of Wyoming. Outstanding Master's Thesis Source: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 98(2): 658 Year: 2016 Keywords: interface
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Abstract: The wildland urban interface (WUI) increases wildland fire suppression expenditures and impedes land managers' ability to reduce fire risk. Policies to reduce these WUI impacts are hindered by jurisdictional externalities-federal agencies are charged with protecting ... Author(s): Anonymous Title: Wildfire-Season Prep Source: Horse & Rider 55(4): 22 Year: 2016 Keywords: pets horses livestock Author(s): Anonymous Title: North Divide ATV incident Source: Facilitated Learning Analysis, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 5 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: vehicle ATV accident safety Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Engine bed mounting bracket failure Source: Rapid lesson Sharing, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ozark-St. Francis National Forests, 3 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: equipment suppression Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Uniqueness of Frequent Fire Forest Ecosystems Source: Journal of Forestry 114(2): Year: 2016 Keywords: frequency Abstract: Frequent-fire forests are a distinctive category of forests in terms of structure, function, and composition, in part reflecting the uniqueness of fire as a disturbance agent. Widely distributed and diverse - have many common elements, including an open or savanna character, ...
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Author(s): Anonymous Title: Silvicultural Regimes for Fuel Management in the Wildland Urban Interface or Adjacent to High Landscape Values - Guidance Source: Forests for Tomorrow, 9 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: silviculture Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Forest Fuels and Potential Fire Behavior 12 Years After Variable Retention Harvest in Lodgepole Pine Source: Journal of Forestry 114(2): 190-193 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel behavior Abstract: Variable retention harvesting (VRH) in lodgepole pine offers an alternative to con- ventional, even-aged management. This harvesting technique promotes structural complexity and age-class diversity in residual stands and promotes resilience to dis- turbance. We ... Author(s): Anonymous Title: Falling accident in remote area Source: Repid Lesson Sharing, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Los Padres National Forest, 3 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: falling chainsaw accident investigation Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Reduce wildfire risks or pay more for fire disasters Source: Wildfire 24(3): 16-19 Year: 2015 Keywords: management risk Author(s): Anonymous Title: Firefighter Burn and Ankle Injury Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ozark-St. Francis National Forests, Arkansas
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Year: 2016 Keywords: prescribed burning injury accident investigation Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: Log rolled over firefighter Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Lessons Learned, 2 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: chainsaw accident investigation Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Anonymous Title: The crew leader's perspective Source: Two More Chains 5(4): 8-11 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk fatality Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Aragao, Luiz E. O. C., Yosio E Shimabukuro, Andre Lima, Liana O Anderson, Nicolas Barbier and Sassan Saatchi Title: Fire patterns in the Amazonian biome Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-6630, 2010 Year: 2010 Keywords: statistics tropics Abstract: This paper aims to provide an overview of our recent findings on the interplay between climate and land use dynamics in defining fire patterns in Amazonia. Understanding these relationships is currently a fundamental concern for assessing the vulnerability of Amazonia to climate change and its potential for mitigating current increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases. Reducing carbon... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Arianoutsou, Margarita, Vittorio Leone, Daniel Moya, Raffaella Lovreglio, Pinelopi Delipetrou, and Jorge de las Heras
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Title: Management of Threatened, High Conservation Value, Forest Hotspots Under Changing Fire Regimes Source: Pages 257-289, Chapter 11, in: F. Moreira et al. (eds.), Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European 257 Forests, Managing Forest Ecosystems 24, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 Year: 2012 Keywords: ecology Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Arizpe, A. H. Title: Widespread Fire Years in Conifer Forests are Contingent on Both Winter and Monsoon Precipitation in the US-Mexico Sky Islands Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Arizona Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The climate of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico is marked by a Bimodal precipitation regime with the majority of moisture arriving during (1) the cool season Via intermittent frontal storm systems (November to February) and (2) intense, convective ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Artes, Tomas, Adrian Cardil, Ana Corts, Tomas Margalef, Domingo Molina, Lucas Pelegr!n, Joaquin Ramirez Title: Forest Fire Propagation Prediction Based on Overlapping -AS Forecasts Source: Procedia Computer Science 51: 1623-1632 Year: 2015 Keywords: behavior modeling Abstract: Forest fire devastate every year thousand of hectares of forest around the world. Fire behavior prediction is a useful tool to aid coordination and management of human and mitigation re- sources when fighting against these kind of hazards. Any fire spread forecast system requires to be fitted with different kind ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Aruffo, E., F. Biancofiore, P. Di Carlo, M. Busilacchio Title: Impact of Biomass Burning emission on total peroxy nitrates: fire plume identification during the BORTAS campaign
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Source: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, pages 1-28 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: The total peroxy nitrates (dPNs) concentrations have been measured using a thermal dissociation laser induced fluorescence (T-DLIF) instrument during the BORTAS campaign, which focused on the impact of boreal biomass burning emissions on air quality in the Northern hemisphere. The strong correlation observed between the ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Babai, D. and Molnar, Z. Title: Small-scale traditional management of highly species-rich grasslands in the Carpathians Source: Agric Ecosyst Environ 182: 123-130. Year: 2014 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Abandonment or change of traditional (pre-modern) management systems threaten semi-natural grasslands worldwide. Understanding existing traditional grassland management could greatly help to improve our ability to preserve biodiversity in traditionally... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Baranovskiy, N. V., V. B. Barakhnin, K. N. Andreeva Title: Mathematical Modeling of Thermal Influence from Forest Fire Front on a Coniferous Tree Trunk Source: EPJ Web of Conferences Volume 110, 6 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: Numerical research results of heat transfer in layered tree trunk influenced by heat flux from forest fire presented. The problem solved in two-dimensional statement in Cartesian system of co-ordinates. The typical range of influence parameters of heat flux ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bele, B. and Norderhaug, A.
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Title: Traditional land use of the boreal forest landscape: Examples from Lierne, Nord-Trondelag, Norway Source: Norwegian J. Geogr., 67, 12-23 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Nature conservation in Norway is based on the idea that wilderness and forest nature reserves should be left to develop naturally. Several studies show that forests have been influenced by human activities to a large extent. The article documents former land use practices in a boreal forest landscape in Nordli, Central Norway, and discussed the ecological consequences with respect to conservation. Traditionally, outfield... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Benali, Akli, Ana Russo, Ana C. L. Sa, Renata M. S. Pinto, Owen Price, Nikos Koutsias and Jose M. C. Pereira Title: Determining Fire Dates and Locating Ignition Points With Satellite Data Source: Remote Sensing 8: 21 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: history remote sensing Abstract: Each wildfire has its own "history", burns under specific conditions and leads to unique environmental impacts. Information on where and when it has started and its duration is important to improve understanding on the dynamics of individual wildfires. This information is typically included in fire databases that are known to have... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bernard, T. and Moetapele, N. Title: Desiccation of the Gomoti River: Biophysical process and indigenous resource management in Northern Botswana Source: J Arid Environ 63: 256-283 Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Bing Lu, Yuhong He and Alexander Tong Title: Evaluation of spectral indices for estimating burn severity in semiarid grasslands
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Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 147-157 Year: 2016 Keywords: severity remote sensing Abstract: Wildfire plays a vital role in grassland ecosystems. Satellite images with a high spatial and temporal coverage offer an effective tool for investigating grassland fires. This study used Landsat imagery that was available publicly to investigate a wildfire disturbance in the Grasslands National Park, Canada and provided insights for fire management in the grasslands. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Biondi, Franco, Megan Bradley, Jonathan Cheek, Leia Jamieson, Mackenzie Kilpatrick and Jason Sibold Title: Fire and Climate History of Mixed Conifer Woodlands in the Great Basin, USA Source: Poster, for conference Year: n. d. Keywords: climate Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Black, R. R., Aurell, J., Holder, A., George, I. J., Gullett, B. K., Hays, M. D., Geron, C. D., Tabor, D. Title: Characterization of Gas and Particle Emissions from Laboratory Burns of Peat Source: Atmospheric Environment (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.02.024 Year: 2016 Keywords: peat smoke Abstract: Peat cores collected from two locations in eastern North Carolina (NC, USA) were burned in a laboratory facility to characterize emissions during simulated field combustion. Particle and gas samples were analyzed to quantify emission factors for particulate matter (PM2.5), organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon, light absorbing carbon, absorption Angstrom exponent, metals, polycyclic... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Bligh, Joshua Daniel Title: Confessions of an inmate firefighter
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Source: Wildfire 25(1): 41-42 Year: 2016 Keywords: management firefighters prisoners Author(s): Blouin, Karen D., Mike D. Flannigan, Xianli Wang and Bohdan Kochtubajda Title: Ensemble lightning prediction models for the province of Alberta, Canada Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 421-432 Year: 2016 Keywords: lightning Abstract: Lightning-caused wildfires in remote areas have large suppression costs and a greater chance of escaping initial attack when compared to human-caused wildfires. We present an ensemble forecasting approach based on 6-h and 24-h random forest models. The models provide a significant improvement in lightning prediction for Alberta's forested areas, achieving hit rates of up to 85%. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bohlman, G. N. Title: Shrub Removal in Reforested Post-fire Areas Increases Plant Species Richness Source: M. S. Thesis, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, 2015, 48 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: restoration ecology Abstract: Large, high severity fires are becoming more prevalent in Sierra Nevada mixed- Conifer forests, largely due to heavy fuel loading and forest densification caused by past and Current management practices. In many cases these large areas of severely burned ... Author(s): Bondur, V. G. and A. S. Ginzburg Title: Emission of carbon-bearing gases and aerosols from natural fires on the territory of Russia based on space monitoring Source: Doklady Earth Sciences 466(2): 148-152 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: ... fires require application of space methods of moni toring to solve the problem of their detection and esti mation of consequences [1-4, 6, 7]. In
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this work we present the results of the space monitoring of natural fires to evaluate the area of the territory destroyed by the fire CO2, CO ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bova, Anthony S., William E. Mell and Chad M. Hoffman Title: A comparison of level set and marker methods for the simulation of wildland fire front propagation Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 229-241 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: Fire front propagation may be modelled by changing values at fixed points within a grid, or by moving markers that are connected to form a front. Here, we demonstrate that both methods produce similar results for a given model of fire spread. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bovill, W., S. Hawthorne, J. Radicb, C. Baillie, A. Ashton, P. Noske, P. Lane and G. Sheridan Title: Effectiveness of automated fuelsticks for predicting the moisture content of dead fuels in Eucalyptus forests Source: in: 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Gold Coast, Australia, 29 Nov to 4 Dec 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel moisture equipment Abstract: The fuel moisture content (FMC) of forest litter strongly affects fire ignition and behaviour, and is a key factor in planning when and where to burn. Planned burns are safest and most efficient when FMC lies within a narrow range (9% - 17%). Drier fuels (<9% FMC) can burn too intensely and fires may be difficult to control, while wetter fuels (>17% FMC) may fail to ignite and/or burn poorly. Planned burning is associated with real risks... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bower, Bruce Title: Fired-Up Apes Source: Science News 188(6): 22-26 Year: 2015
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Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Fongoli apes seem to be able to predict wildfire behavior - to avoid getting burned. Author(s): Bradley P. Smith, Matthew Browne, Tess A. Armstrong and Sally A. Ferguson Title: The accuracy of subjective measures for assessing fatigue related decrements in multi-stressor environments Source: Safety Science 86: 238-244 Year: 2016 Keywords: stress fatigue human factors Abstract: It has become increasingly common for rural fire-fighting agencies to encourage their volunteers to control and monitor their own levels of fatigue and performance abilities. Yet, the accuracy of subjective evaluations, especially during exposure to multi-stressor working conditions similar to those faced by rural fire-fighters has yet to be examined. A total of 91 rural fire-fighters took part in a 4-day/3-night live-in study that... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Brown, Lee E., Joseph Holden, Sheila M. Palmer, Kerrylyn Johnston, Sorain J. Ramchunder and Richard Grayson Title: Effects of fire on the hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology of peatland river systems Source: Freshwater Science 34(4):1406-1425 Year: 2015 Keywords: hydrology peat Abstract: Peatlands are found around the world and cover 3.4% of the Earth's surface. In the UK, peatlands cover 17.2% or 1.58 Mha of the land surface and occur mainly in upland areas covering the headwaters of most major British rivers. However, large areas are now subject to prescribed vegetation burning despite policy guidance that recommends a strong presumption against burning on deep blanket peat. Wildfires occur sporadically but are forecast to increase in frequency in the future. This paper provides a synthesis of current knowledge about how UK peatland-dominated river... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Brown, J., A. York, F. Christie, M. McCarthy
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Title: Effects of fire on pollinators and pollination Source: Journal of Applied Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration ecology Abstract: Increased incidence of landscape fire, and pollinator declines with co- extinctions of dependent plant species, are both globally significant. Fire can alter species distributions, but its effects on plant-pollinator interactions are poorly understood so its ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Brooks, Michael Title: Why fire remains a burning issue Source: New Statesman 144(5279): 16 Year: 2015 Keywords: management Author(s): Brose, P., Schuler, T., Van Lear, D., et al. Title: Bringing fire back: The changing regimes of the Appalachian mixed-oak forests Source: J For 99: 30-35 Year: 2001 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Brovkin, Victor, Tim Brucher, Thomas Kleinen, Sonke Zaehle, Fortunat Joos, Raphael Roth, Renato Spahni, Jochen Schmitt, Hubertus Fischer, Markus Leuenberger, Emma J. Stone, Andy Ridgwell, Jerme Chappellaz, Natalie Kehrwald, Carlo Barbante, Thomas Blunier, Dorthe Dahl Jensen Title: Comparative carbon cycle dynamics of the present and last interglacial Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 137: 15-32 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Changes in temperature and carbon dioxide during glacial cycles recorded in Antarctic ice cores are tightly coupled. However, this relationship does not hold for interglacials. While climate cooled towards the end of both the last (Eemian) and present (Holocene) interglacials, CO2 remained stable during the Eemian while rising in the Holocene...
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Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Burke, Dee Title: The family of the fallen's perspective Source: Two More Chains 5(4): 14-16 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk fatality Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Burkepile, D. E., D. I. Thompson, R. W. S. Fynn, S. E. Koerner, Stephanie Eby, Navashni Govender, Nicole Hagenah, Nathan P. Lemoine, Katherine J. Matchett, Kevin R. Wilcox, Scott L. Collins, Kevin P. Kirkman, Alan K. Knapp and Melinda D. Smith Title: Fire frequency drives habitat selection by a diverse herbivore guild impacting top-down control of plant communities in an African savanna Source: Oikos, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: frequency wildlife Abstract: In areas with diverse herbivore communities such as African savannas, the frequency of disturbance by fire may alter the top-down role of different herbivore species on plant community dynamics. In a seven year experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, we examined the habitat use of nine common herbivore species ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Bustos-Schindler, C., Le Quesne, C., Gonzalez, M. E. et al. Title: Preliminary fire history and (multi) cultural practices in the Cachapoal river's middle basin (34 degrees S), Central Chile Source: Bosque 31: 17-27 Year: 2010 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: This work was developed in the Cachapoal river basin, Andean Mountain, of Central Chile. In this basin the relations between anthropogenic factors and fire frequency in Austrocedrus chilensis forests were explored. Fire history of this area was reconstructed using cypress cross-sections dating,
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historical revision and local people interviews. Archaeological information reports human occupation of this zone since the Early... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Burdon, Amanad Title: After the fires Source: Australian Geographic 132: 114-118 Year: 2016 Keywords: Australia parks Author(s): Buscardo, Erika, Susana Rodriguez-Echeverria, Helena Freitas, Paolo De Angelia, Joao Santos Pereira and Ludo A. H. Muller Title: Contrasting soil fungal communities in Mediterranean pine forests subjected to different wildfire frequencies Source: Fungal Diversity, available online 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: fungi ecology Abstract: Mediterranean forest ecosystems are characterized by various vascular plant groups with their associated mycorrhizae and free living soil fungi with various ecological functions. Fire plays a major role in Mediterranean ecosystem dynamics and impacts both above- and below-ground community structure and functioning. However... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Calkin, David E., Mentis, Mike Title: The use of natural hazard modeling for decision making under uncertainty Source: Forest Ecosystems. 2:11. doi: 10.1186/s40663-015-0034-7 Year: 2015 Keywords: decision makeing modeling Abstract: Decision making to mitigate the effects of natural hazards is a complex undertaking fraught with uncertainty. Models to describe risks associated with natural hazards have proliferated in recent years. Concurrently, there is a growing body of work focused on developing best practices for natural hazard modeling and to create structured evaluation criteria for complex environmental models. However, to our knowledge there has been less focus on the conditions where decision makers can confidently rely on results from these models. In this review we propose a preliminary set of conditions necessary for
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the appropriate application of modeled results to natural hazard decision making and provide relevant examples within US wildfire management programs. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Calvino-Cancela, Maria, Maria L. Chas-Amil, Eduardo D. Garcia-Martinez, Julia Touza Title: Wildfire risk associated with different vegetation types within and outside wildland-urban interfaces Source: Forest Ecology and Management 372: 1-9 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk interface Abstract: Wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) are areas where urban settlements and wildland vegetation intermingle, making the interaction between human activities and wildlife especially intense. Their relevance is increasing worldwide as they are expanding and are associated with fire risk. The WUI may affect the fire risk associated with the type of vegetation (land cover/land use; LULC), a w... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Callister, K. E., P. A. Griffioen, S. C. Avitabile, A. Haslem Title: Historical Maps from Modern Images: Using Remote Sensing to Model and Map Century-Long Vegetation Change in a Fire-Prone Region Source: PLoS ONE 11(3): e0150808. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150808 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Understanding the age structure of vegetation is important for effective land management, especially in fire-prone landscapes where the effects of fire can persist for decades and centuries. In many parts of the world, such information is limited due to an ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Calkin, David Title: Defining the right objectives at the right scale for wildfire risk management Source: Wildfire 24(3): 22-24
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Year: 2015 Keywords: management Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Camar, M., C. D. S. J. Gbemavo, V. K. Salako, F. N. Kouame, Bienvenu Sambou and Romain L. Glele Kakai Title: Woody plant species diversity in the last wild habitat of the Derby Eland (Taurotragus derbianus derbianus Gray, 1847) in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal, West Africa Source: International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation 8(2): 32-40 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology tropics Abstract: .. In each plot, list of plants species, their number of individuals, and the environmental factors (soil hardness and type, altitude, percentages of vegetation cover and fire occurrence) were noted. Fifty (50) trees species belonging to 40 genera and 29 families were recorded. ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Campos, Isabel, Nelson Abrantes, Jan Jacob Keizer, Carlos Vale, Patricia Pereira Title: Major and trace elements in soils and ashes of eucalypt and pine forest plantations in Portugal following a wildfire Source: Science of The Total Environment, Available online 12 February 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Wildfires can play an important role in the environmental distribution of major and trace elements, including through their mobilization by fire-induced runoff and associated transport of soil and ash particles. In particular, fire-induced inputs of these elements into the environment are relevant due to their toxicity and environmental persistence. This study aimed to evaluate the role of wildfire and time-since-fire on the redistribution... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Cansler, C. A. Title: Multi-scale Analysis of Fire Effects in Alpine Treeline Ecotones Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 132 pages Year: 2016
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Keywords: ecology Abstract: Although the direct effects of climate change have been studied though observational and experimental methods in alpine treeline ecotones (ates), indirect effects due to shifts in disturbance regimes have received less attention, despite evidence that the frequency ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Carvalho, J. A., S. S. Amaral, M. A. M. Costa, T. G. S. Neto Title: CO2 and CO emission rates from three forest fire controlled experiments in Western Amazonia Source: Atmospheric Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Forests represent an important role in the control of atmospheric emissions through carbon capture. However, in forest fires, the carbon stored during photosynthesis is released into the atmosphere. The carbon quantification, in forest burning, is important for the ... Author(s): Carmenta, Rachel, George Alan Blackburn, Gemma Davies, Claudio de Sassi, Andre Lima, Luke Parry, Wlodek Tych, Jos Barlow Title: Does the Establishment of Sustainable Use Reserves Affect Fire Management in the Humid Tropics? Source: PloSONE 11(2): e0149292.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149292 Year: 2016 Keywords: Tropics Abstract: Tropical forests are experiencing a growing fire problem driven by climatic change, agricultural Expansion and forest degradation. Protected areas are an important feature of forest Protection strategies, and sustainable use reserves (surs) may be reducing fire prevalence Since they promote sustainable livelihoods... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Cassidy, L. Title: Anthropogenic burning in the Okavango Panhandle of Botswana: Livelihoods and spatial dimensions Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida
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Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Caverley, N., Langlois, B., Eustache, J., Krishnaswamy, A., Cunningham, B., MacGregor, J., Carlson, M. and K. Strobl Title: Understanding Occupational Health and Safety Culture for BC Aboriginal Fire Crews and Emergency Service Personnel: Research Update Source: Journal of Ecosystems and Management 14(1): 1-3 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Chafer, Chris J., Cristina Santin and Stefan H. Doerr Title: Modelling and quantifying the spatial distribution of post-wildfire ash loads Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 249-255 Year: 2016 Keywords: Ash Abstract: We present a new methodology that allowed modelling the amount and spatial distribution of wildfire ash (t ha-1) in a burnt south-east Australian eucalypt forest. This tool can be applied in the region and adapted for use elsewhere, to inform post-fire land management for mitigating the effects of ash, such as debris flows or water contamination. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Chavarde s, Rapha l D. and Lori D. Daniels Title: Altered mixed-severity fire regime has homogenised montane forests of Jasper National Park Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 433-444 Year: 2016 Keywords: severity ecology Abstract: Dendrochronological data from 29 montane sites in Jasper National Park provided evidence of a mixed-severity fire regime. Historical fires leaving scars or even-aged cohorts burned between 1646 and 1905. In the absence of fires after 1905, forests have matured simultaneously, homogenising the landscape. Proactive management to counter fire suppression effects is justified. Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Chen, Y., D. C. Morton, N. Andela, L. Giglio, J. T. Randerson Title: How much global burned area can be forecast on seasonal time scales using sea surface temperatures? Source: Environmental Research Letters 11(4): 45001-45013 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: ... Some of the variability in burned area is predictable on seasonal timescales because fuel characteristics respond to the cumulative effects of climate prior to the onset of the fire season. Here we systematically evaluated the ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Cherry, M. J., R. J. Warren, L. M. Conner Title: Fear, fire, and behaviorally mediated trophic cascades in a frequently burned savanna Source: Forest Ecology and Management 368: 133-139 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Ecologists increasingly recognize the importance of trait-mediated indirect interactions and suggest behavioral traits aimed to reduce predation risk can induce trophic cascades. However, the application of theory developed in simple experimental systems ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Chuvieco, E., C. Yue, A. Heil, F. Mouillot, I. Alonso-Canas Title: A new global burned area product for climate assessment of fire impacts Source: Global Ecology and Biogeography, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: This paper presents a new global burned area (BA) product developed within the framework of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme, along with a first assessment of its potentials for atmospheric and carbon cycle modelling. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Coggins, C. R.
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Title: Ferns and fire: village subsistence, landscape change, and nature conservation in China's southeast uplands Source: J Cultural Geogr 19: 12-159 Year: 2002 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Coop, Jonathan D., Sean A. Parks, Sarah R. Mcclernan and Lisa M. Holsinger Title: Influences of prior wildfires on vegetation response to subsequent fire in a reburned Southwestern landscape Source: Ecological Applications, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Large and severe wildfires have raised concerns about the future of forested landscapes in the southwestern United States, especially under repeated burning. In 2011, under extreme weather and drought conditions, the Las Conchas fire burned over several previous burns as well as forests not recently exposed to fire... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Copsey, J. A., Jones, J. P. G., Andrianandrasana, H., et al. Title: Burning to fish: local explanations for wetland burning in Lac Alaotra, Madagascar Source: Oryx 43:403-406 Year: 2009 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Lac Alaotra is Madagascar's largest lake and a recognized wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. It supports several Critically Endangered species, including the Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis. A principal threat facing... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Costafreda-Aumedes, Sergi, Cardil, Adrian, Molina, Domingo M., Daniel, Sarah N.; Mavsar, Robert; Vega-Garcia, Cristina Title: Analysis of factors influencing deployment of fire suppression resources in Spain using artificial neural networks
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Source: iForest - Biogeosciences & Forestry 9(1): 138-145 Year: 2016 Keywords: suppression management Abstract: In Spain, the established fire control policy states that all fires must be controlled and put out as soon as possible. Though budgets have not restricted operations until recently, we still experience large fires and we often face multiple-fire situations. Furthermore, fire conditions are expected to worsen in the future and budgets are expected to drop. To optimize the deployment of firefighting resources, we must gain... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Coughlan, M. R. Title: Errakina: pastoral fire use and landscape memory in the Basque region of the French western Pyrenees Source: J Ethnobiol 33:86-104 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Couch, A. J. Title: Fur or Fire: Was the use of fire the initial selection pressure for fur loss in ancestral hominins? Source: PeerJPreprints, 6 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: A variety of reasons have been advanced to explain the loss of fur in humans and Why they differ in this way from all other primates. None of these reasons has become Generally accepted as the explanation for the absence of functionally effective thermally ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Coughlan, M. R. Title: Wildland Arson as Clandestine Resource Management: A Space-Time Permutation Analysis and Classification of Informal Fire Management Regimes in Georgia, USA Source: Environmental Management, available online 2016 Year: 2016
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Keywords: Arson Abstract: Forest managers are increasingly recognizing the value of disturbance-based land Management techniques such as prescribed burning. Unauthorized,"arson" fires are Common in the southeastern United States where a legacy of agrarian cultural heritage ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Crowther, M. S., G. Ortac, S. Pedersen, C. McArthur Title: Interactions between fire and introduced deer herbivory on coastal heath vegetation Source: Austral Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife australia Abstract: The coastal heathlands of the Royal National Park are impacted by both fire and herbivory by introduced deer, and to date these two factors have been dealt with independently in the management of natural areas. In recent years, there has been ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Croft, Peter, John T. Hunter, Nick Reid Title: Forgotten fauna: Habitat attributes of long-unburnt open forests and woodlands dictate a rethink of fire management theory and practice Source: Forest Ecology and Management 366 (2016) 166-174 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Thresholds for burning vegetation communities in New South Wales (NSW) are based on plant species' responses to fire and do not consider other issues such as site attributes or fauna requirements. We investigated knowledge gaps concerning the impact of fire on habitat features of open forests and woodlands, and consider the adequacy of fire management... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Crossing, K., R. Thomas Title: What do cats, bilbies and native title have in common? Source: Native Title Newsletter Year: 2015
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Keywords: wildlife australia Abstract: ... She also suspects Above: Bilby habitat showing at least 3 different fire ages. ... Analysis of satellite Imagery shows that the pattern of fire scars in these hunting grounds is remarkably similar to That from the 1950s, as seen in aerial photos taken for the Blue Streak rocket launch. ... Author(s): Crotteau, Justin S., Christopher R. Keyes, Elaine K. Sutherland, David K. Wright and Joel M. Egan Title: Forest fuels and potential fire behaviour 12 years after variable-retention harvest in lodgepole pine Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: behavior Abstract: Variable-retention harvesting in lodgepole pine offers an alternative to conventional, even-aged management. This harvesting technique promotes structural complexity and age-class diversity in residual stands and promotes resilience to disturbance. We examined fuel loads and potential fire behaviour 12 years after two modes of variableretention harvesting (dispersed and aggregated retention patterns) crossed... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): da Cunha Menezes, Isilda Augusta Luis Pereira Title: Construcao de um modelo de interaccao atmosfera/fogo aplicado a gestao florestal e avaliacao de risco de fogos florestais no Alentejo Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Universidade de Evora, 236 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling risk Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Dampha, A., Camara, K., and Beck, C. Title: Management of forest fires through the involvement of local communities: The Gambia Source: Bangkok, Thailand: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, RAP 2003/8 Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history
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Author(s): Davignon, Didier Title: Operational Wildfire Modelling: Emergency Response and Impact on Air Quality Source: Powerpoint, conference Year: 2014 Keywords: weather smoke canada Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Davignon, Didier, Radenko Pavlovic, Paul-Andre Beaulieu, Sylvain Menard, Samuel Gilbert and Hugo Landry Title: Meteorological Service of Canada Air Quality and Smoke Forecasting System: Firework 2014 Source: Powerpoint, conference Year: 2014 Keywords: weather smoke canada Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Davies, Kirk W., Chad S. Boyd, Jon D. Bates and April Hulet Title: Winter grazing can reduce wildfire size, intensity and behaviour in a shrub-grassland Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 191-199 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife behavior Abstract: This study investigated the effects of winter grazing on fire characteristics. Winter grazing moderated fire behaviour, decreased area burned and reduced fire temperature. This study suggests that winter grazing can decrease wildfire risk and intensity. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Davies, Kirk W., Chad S. Boyd, Jon D. Bates and April Hulet Title: Winter grazing decreases the probability of fire-induced mortality of bunchgrasses and may reduce wildfire size: A response to Smith et al. (this issue) Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 489-493 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife
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Abstract: Winter grazing decreases the likelihood of large wildfires and fire-induced mortality of native bunchgrasses. Contrary to claims by Smith et al. (2016), our data and prior literature provide strong evidence that grazing reduced the duration of elevated temperatures experienced by bunchgrasses and moderated fire behaviour. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): de Foy, B., C. Wiedinmyer and J. J. Schauer Title: Estimation of mercury emissions from forest fires, lakes, regional and local sources using measurements in Milwaukee and an inverse method Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 8993-9011, 2012 Year: 2012 Keywords: smoke toxicity mercury Abstract: Gaseous elemental mercury is a global pollutant that can lead to serious health concerns via deposition to the biosphere and bio-accumulation in the food chain. Hourly measurements between June 2004 and May 2005 in an urban site (Milwaukee, WI) show elevated... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): de Groot, W. J., and M. D. Flannigan Title: Climate Change and Early Warning Systems for Wildland Fire Source: Pages 127-151, in Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change, edited by Z. Zommersand A. Singh, Springer, Dordrecht, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8598-3. Year: 2014 Keywords: weather Author(s): DeGrosky, M. Title: Transitions Source: Wildfire25(2): 10-11 Year: 2016 Keywords: management Author(s): DeGrosky, M. Title: A framework for self-improvement Source: Wildfire 24(3): 12-13
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Year: 2015 Keywords: management human factors Author(s): DeGrosky, M. Title: Civility Source: Wildfire 25(1): 12-13 Year: 2016 Keywords: management human factors Author(s): de Melo, M. M. and Saito, C. H. Title: Regime de queima das cacadas com uso do fogo realizadas pelos Xavante no Cerrado Source: Biodiversidade Brasileira: 97-109 Year: 2011 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Science literature has underestimated the fire management with cultural purposes. Nevertheless, there are evidences that fire was broadly used as a management tool by indigenous people in different types of ecosystems. In Brazil, the indigenous have been using fire as a management tool. The objective of this article is to investigate and characterize ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): DeVillier, J. and M. Rinellaf Title: Silvicutural Treatments Reduce Fire Behavior in the Wildland Urban-Interface Source: Journal of Forestry 114(2): 253-255 Year: 2016 Keywords: behavior interface Abstract: The state of Arizona largest recorded wildfire, the 2011 Wallow Fire, burned over 215,000 hectares on the Apache Sitgreaves national forest located along to Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains in east-central Arizona. The fire burned through areas thinned in the wildland-urban ... Author(s): Dodgshon, R. A. and Olsson, G. A. Title: Heather moorland in the Scottish Highlands: The history of a cultural landscape, 1600-1880 Source: J. Hist Geogr 32: 21-37
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Year: 2006 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Dorman, Sandra C. and Stacey A. Ritz Title: Smoke Exposure Has Transient Pulmonary and Systemic Effects in Wildland Firefighters Source: Journal of Respiratory Medicine Volume 2014, Article ID 943219, 9 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Respiratory exposure to air pollutants is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and firefighters have been shown to be at an increased risk of work-related cardiovascular events. Wildland firefighters experience intermittent, intense exposure to biomass smoke. The aim of this study was to characterize the respiratory and systemic effects of smoke exposure in wildland firefighters. Seventeen seasonal firefighters... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Dotson, Travis Title: Because it's fun Source: Two More Chains 5(4): 2-3 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Douglas, M., N. Pettit, S. Setterfield Title: Fire in Australia's Riparian landscapes: Source: Chapter 16, in: Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes: Biology, Ecology and Management, edited by S. Capon, C. James and M. Reid, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton south, Victoria, Australia Year: 2016 Keywords: Australia ecology wetlands Abstract: Fire is a widespread natural disturbance in Australian ecosystems and its impacts and management in terrestrial ecosystems have been widely examined. In comparison, the impact of fires on riparian zones, and its consequent impacts on stream ecosystems, has ... Author(s): Drimmer, Stephanie Warren
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Title: FIRESTORM Source: Science World 72(5): 14-17 Year: 2015 Keywords: conflagration suppression management Abstract: The article discusses the different factors triggering the increase in wildfires and includes information on climate change and people's tendency to view fire as a catastrophe.... Author(s): Drobyshev, Igor, Yves Bergeron, Anne de Vernal, Anders Moberg, Adam A. Ali and Mats Niklasson Title: Atlantic SSTs control regime shifts in forest fire activity of Northern Scandinavia Source: Scientific Reports, 14 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: Understanding the drivers of the boreal forest fire activity is challenging due to the complexity of the interactions driving fire regimes. We analyzed drivers of forest fire activity in Northern Scandinavia (above 60 N) by combining modern and proxy data over the Holocene. The results suggest that the cold climate in northern Scandinavia was... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Dunn, C. J., J. D. Bailey Title: Tree mortality and structural change following mixed-severity fire in Pseudotsuga forests of Oregon's western Cascades, USA Source: Forest Ecology and Management 365: 107-118 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Mixed-severity fires are increasingly recognized as common in Pseudotsuga forests of the Pacific Northwest and may be an important mechanism for developing or maintaining their structural diversity and complexity. Questions remain about how tree mortality varies ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Dunn, Christopher J.
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Title: Ghost fire of the North: The historical account of a lost boreal forest mega-fire Source: Ecology 97(3): 813-814 Year: 2016 Keywords: historical Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Dutta, Ritaban, Aruneema Das, and Jagannath Aryal Title: Big data integration shows Australian bush-fire frequency is increasing significantly Source: R. Soc. Open sci. 2016; 3:150241 Year: 2016 Keywords: statistics climate Abstract: Increasing Australian bush-fire frequencies over the last decade Has indicated a major climatic change in coming future. Understanding such climatic change for Australian bush-fire Is limited and there is an urgent need of scientific research, Which is capable enough to contribute... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Dymov, A. A. Title: Changes of boreal forest soils and soil organic matter under harvesting operation and fires (Komi Republic, Russia) Source: Pages 27-, in: International Conference, Protection of soil functions - challenges for the future, 15-18 October, 2013, Putawy, Poland Year: 2013 Keywords: soils Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Eby, Stephanie, Deron E. Burkepile, Richard W. S. Fynn, Catherine E. Burns, Navashni Govender, Nicole Hagenah, Sally E. Koerner, Katherine J. Matchett, Dave I. Thompson, Kevin R. Wilcox, Scott L. Collins, Kevin P. Kirkman, Alan K. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith Title: Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa Source: Oecologia (2014) 175:293-303 Year: 2014
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Keywords: grasslands wildlife Abstract: Arge herbivore grazing is a widespread disturbance in mesic savanna grasslands which increases herbaceous plant community richness and diversity. However, humans are modifying the impacts of grazing on these ecosystems by removing grazers. A more general understanding of how grazer loss will impact... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Efta, J. A. Title: Evaluation of post-fire runoff response to two high-intensity, short-duration thunderstorm events, Sioux and Ashland Ranger Districts, Custer National Forest, Montana Source: Unpublished technical report, 11 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: hydrology Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Erickson, Michael J., Charney, Joseph J., Colle, Brian A. Title: Development of a Fire Weather Index Using Meteorological Observations within the Northeast United States Source: Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology 55(2): 389-402 Year: 2016 Keywords: weather Abstract: A fire weather index (FWI) is developed using wildfire occurrence data and Automated Surface Observing System weather observations within a subregion of the northeastern United States (NEUS) from 1999 to 2008. Average values of several meteorological variables,... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Eriksen, C. Title: Why do they burn the "bush"? Fire, rural livelihoods, and conservation in Zambia Source: The Geographical Journal 173: 242-264 Year: 2007 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Despite the historical importance of fire as a savanna land management tool, much controversy still surrounds discussions on anthropogenic fire utilization and the sustainability of indigenous land
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management practices in African savannas. This controversy is arguably a result of a discord between official fire policies and actual indigenous fire practices - a discord based on a gap in existing... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Erickson, T. E. and D. J. Merritt Title: Introduction to plant diversity of the Pilbara Source: Chapter 1, in: Pilbara Seed Atlas and Field Guide: Plant Restoration, edited by T. E. Erickson, R. L. Barrett, D. J. Merritt and K. W. Dixon, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: ... More striking are annual species that abound after good rains as well as fire ephemerals and herbaceous elements that grow in higher densities immediately after fire and in the buffered corners of the landscapes (eg rocky mesa outcrops and permanent waterholes). ... Author(s): Eriksen, Christine, Trent Penman, Bronwyn Horsey and Ross Bradstock Title: Wildfire survival plans in theory and practice Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 363-377 Year: 2016 Keywords: interface Abstract: This paper examines how wildfire preparedness differs between residents with a mental, written or no survival plan, and the implications of plans having been discussed and practised with others. It highlights why explicit and consistent official preparedness advice is important for risk communication and communities at risk. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ertugrul, M. and t. Varol Title: EVALUATION OF FIRE ACTIVITY IN SOME REGIONS OF AEGEAN COASTS OF TURKEY VIA CANADIAN FOREST FIRE WEATHER INDEX SYSTEM (CFFWIS) Source: APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL Research 14(2): 93-105 Year: 2016 Keywords: statistics weather Abstract: Canakkale, Izmir and Mugla regions, which have much higher number of fires and larger burnt area values than Turkey's mean values, are the regions
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at 1st rank in terms of forest fire risk. The negative changes in climate conditions in recent years have ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Eskelson, B. N. I., V. J. Monleon, J. S. Fried Title: A 6 year longitudinal study of post-fire woody carbon dynamics in California's forests Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46: 610-620 Year: 2016 Keywords: carbon Abstract: We examined the dynamics of aboveground forest woody carbon pools-live trees, standing dead trees, and down wood-during the first 6 years following wildfire across a wide range of conditions, which are characteristic of California forest fires. from repeated ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Eskelson, B. N. I., J. S. Fried, V. J. Monleon Title: Modeling post-fire woody carbon dynamics with data from remeasured inventory plots Source: In: Stanton, Sharon M.; Christensen, Glenn A., comps. 2015. Pushing boundaries: new directions in inventory techniques and applications: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2015. 2015 December 8-10; Portland, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-931. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. P. 227. Year: 2015 Keywords: carbon ecology modeling Abstract: In California, the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots within large fires were Visited one year after the fire occurred resulting in a time series of measurements before and After fire. During this additional plot visit, the standard inventory measurements were ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Eugenio, F. C., A. R. Dos Santos, N. C. Fiedler, G. A. Ribeiro Title: Applying GIS to develop a model for forest fire risk: A case study in Espirito Santo, Brazil
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Source: Journal of Environmental Management 173: 65-71 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing risk Abstract: A forest fire risk map is a basic element for planning and protecting forested areas. The main goal of this study was to develop a statistical model for preparing a forest fire risk map using GIS. Such model is based on assigning weights to nine variables divided into ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Everson, C. S. and T. Everson Title: The long-term effects of fire regime on primary production of montane grasslands in South Africa Source: African Journal of Range & Forage Science, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Natural grasslands deliver essential ecosystem services through plant production, which Enhances water supply, nutrient cycling, soil retention and greenhouse gas mitigation. Although the condition of montane grasslands for provision of ecosystem services is ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Falcon-Lang, H. J., V. Mages, M. Collinson Title: The oldest Pinus and its preservation by fire Source: Geology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory ecology Abstract: Pinus (Pinaceae) is a diverse conifer genus that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today and is noteworthy for its fire-adapted traits. Here we describe the oldest known fossils attributable to the genus from the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian, ca. 133-140 Ma ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Felix, Erika D., Afifi, Walid Title: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ON MENTAL HEALTH AFTER MULTIPLE WILDFIRE DISASTERS Source: Journal of Community Psychology 43(2): 156-170 Year: 2015
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Keywords: sociology Abstract: Disasters can erode mental health (MH), even if it does not reach mental illness. This study explored the direct or moderating role of social support on MH after multiple wildfires, with attention to evacuation status and participant sex. Participants (N = 402) responded... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ferreira, R. V., D. Serpa, A. I. Machado, M. L. Rodriguez-Blanco, L. F. Santos, M. T. Taboada-Castro, M. A. Cerqueira and J. J. Keizer Title: Short-term nitrogen losses by overland flow in a recently burnt forest area in north-central Portugal: A study at micro-plot scale Source: Science of the Total Environment, available onlline 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils nitrogen Abstract: Over the past decades,wildfires have affected extensive areas of theMediterranean regionwith negative impacts on the environment.Most of the studies on fire-affected areas have focused on sediment losses by overland flow, whereas few have addressed post-fire nutrient export. The present study aimed to address this research gap by assessing nitrogen (nitrate and total... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ferreira, C. C., X. Santos, M. A. Carretero Title: Does ecophysiology mediate reptile responses to fire regimes? Evidence from Iberian lizards Source: PeerJ Preprints, 38 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology reptile Abstract: Reptiles are sensitive to habitat disturbance induced by wildfires but species frequently show opposing responses. Functional causes of such variability have been scarcely explored. In the northernmost limit of the Mediterranean bioregion, lizard species ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Fernandez-Manso, Alfonso, Oscar Fernandez-Manso, Carmen Quintano
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Title: SENTINEL-2A red-edge spectral indices suitability for discriminating burn severity Source: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 50: 170-175 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Fires are a problematic and recurrent issue in Mediterranean ecosystems. Accurate discrimination between burn severity levels is essential for the rehabilitation planning of burned areas. Sentinel-2A MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) record data in three red-edge wavelengths, spectral domain especially useful on agriculture and vegetation applications. Our objective is to find out whether ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Fernandez, Cristina and Jose A. Vega Title: Evaluation of RUSLE and PESERA models for predicting soil erosion losses in the first year after wildfire in NW Spain Source: Geoderma 273: 64-72 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils erosion Abstract: The accelerated erosion that occurs after wildfire in forest ecosystems is a major factor affecting the sustainability of these environments. Soil erosion prediction models are crucial for estimating fire impacts and for planning post-fire soil stabilization measures. We evaluated the performance of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and the Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ferrell, E. K. Title: Midterm impacts of fire severity on headwater stream ecosystems in the Klamath Mountains, California Source: M. S. Thesis, Natural Resouces, Humboldt State University, 82 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Wildfire disturbances in riparian areas can impact stream chemistry, primary production, and trophic dynamics for years to decades after burning.
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Previous studies in headwater streams have focused on immediate and short term impacts, while effects during the midterm (1- ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Ferreir, R. V., D. Serpa, M. A. Cerqueira, J. J. Keizer Title: Short-time phosphorus losses by overland flow in burnt pine and eucalypt plantations in north-central Portugal: A study at micro-plot scale Source: Science of The Total Environment 551-552: 631-639 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Over the past decades, wildfires have affected vast areas of Mediterranean ecosystems leading to a variety of negative on- and off-site environmental impacts. Research on fire-affected areas has given more attention to sediment losses by fire-enhanced overland flow than to nutrient exports, especially in the Mediterranean region... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Fichino, Betania Santos, Julia R. G. Dombroski, Vania R. Pivello and Alessandra Fidelis Title: Does Fire Trigger Seed Germination in the Neotropical Savannas? Experimental Tests with Six Cerrado Species Source: Biotropica, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: Tropics regeneration Abstract: The Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) is a biodiversity hotspot with a history of fire that goes back as far as 10 million years. Fire has influenced the evolution of several aspects of the vegetation, including reproduction and life cycles. This study tested how fire by-products such as heat and smoke affect the germination of six species... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Fideli, A., L. F. Daibes, A. R. Martins Title: To resist or to germinate? The effect of fire on legume seeds in Brazilian subtropical grasslands Source: Acta Botanica Brasilica 30(1): 147-151 Year: 2016
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Keywords: Fire plays an important role in several grassland ecosystems in the world. Fire Can trigger germination in several species, by breaking the physical dormancy of their Seeds. Thus, we hypothesized that exposure to high temperatures during fire would break ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Field, R. D., A. C. Spessa, N. A. Aziz, A. Camia, A. Cantin, R. Carr, W. J. de Groot, A. J. Dowdy, M. D. Flannigan, K. Manomaiphiboon, F. Papperberger, V. Tanpipat and X. Wang Title: Development of a global fire weather database Source: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 1407-1423 Year: 2015 Keywords: weather statistics Abstract: The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System is the mostly widely used fire danger rating system in the world. We have developed a global database of daily FWI System calculations, beginning in 1980, called the Global Fire WEather Database ( ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Field, Robert Title: Introducing GFWED: The Global Fire Weather Database Source: NASA Technical Report, powerpoint Year: 2015 Keywords: weather statistics Abstract: The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System is the mostly widely used fire danger rating system in the world. We have developed a global database of daily FWI System calculations, beginning in 1980, called the Global Fire WEather Database ( ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Fillmore, Stephen Title: The unbidden wildfire Source: Wildfire25(2): 34-37 Year: 2016 Keywords: management
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Author(s): Fitzgerald, Stephen A. Title: Fire, fuels and hazard reduction around your home and woodlands Source: Powerpoint, Oregon State University, 42 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: interface Author(s): Fody, Joshua and Tony P. Petrelli Title: Developing a more effective fire shelter Source: Wildfire25(2): 30-33 Year: 2016 Keywords: equipment safety Author(s): For, P., C. Jackson, M. Reeves, B. Bird, D. Turner Title: Landscape-scale patterns of fire and drought on the high plains, USA Source: In: Sustainable use of grassland resources for forage production, biodiversity and environmental protection; proceedings, XXIII International Grassland Congress; 2015 November 20-24; New Delhi, India. 3 p. Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology weather Abstract: We examine 31 years (1982-2012) of temperature, precipitation and natural wildfire occurrence Data for Federal and Tribal lands to determine landscape-scale patterns of drought and fire on The southern and central High Plains of the western United States. The High Plains states ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Francos, Marcos, Paulo Pereira, Meritxell Alca$iz, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Xavier Ubeda Title: Impact of an intense rainfall event on soil properties following a wildfire in a Mediterranean environment (North-East Spain) Source: Science of the Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Intense rainfall events after severewildfires can have an impact on soil properties, above all in theMediterranean environment. This study seeks to examine the immediate impact and the effect after a year of an intense rainfall event on a Mediterranean forest affected by a high severity wildfire. The work
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analyses the following soil properties: soil aggregate stability, total nitrogen, total carbon, organic... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Frejaville, Thibaut, Thomas Curt and Christopher Carcaillet Title: Tree cover and seasonal precipitation drive understorey flammability in alpine mountain forests Source: Journal of Biogeography, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: flammability Abstract: Interrelationships between tree cover, precipitation seasonality and species composition govern the understorey flammability of mountain forests. We also found evidence that tree cover strongly constrains fire spread by driving the amount and type of surface fuel, which suggests that land-use change can have a strong influence on flammability patterns.... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): French, N. H. F., M. A. Whitley, L. K. Jenkins Title: Fire-disturbance effects on land surface albedo in Alaskan tundra Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The study uses satellite MODIS Albedo products (MCD43A3) to assess changes in albedo at two sites in the treeless tundra region of Alaska, both within the foothills region of the Brooks Range, the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) and 2012 Kucher Creek Fire ( ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Gaglioti, Benjamin V., Daniel H. Mann, Benjamin M. Jones, Matthew J. Wooller, and Bruce P. Finney Title: High-resolution records detect human-caused changes to the boreal forest wildfire regime in interior Alaska Source: The Holocene, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing paleohistory Abstract: Stand-replacing wildfires are a keystone disturbance in the boreal forest, and they are becoming more common as the climate warms. Paleo-fire
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archives from the wildland-urban interface can quantify the prehistoric fire regime and assess how both human land-use and climate change impact ecosystem dynamics. Here, we use a combination of a sedimentary charcoal record preserved ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Galie, M., R. Gasparri, R. M. Perta, E. Biondi, N. Biscotti Title: Post-fire regeneration of Calicotome villosa (Poiret) Link. and vegetation analysis Source: Plant Sociology 52(2): 101-120 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology regeneration Abstract: Calicotome villosa (Poiret) Link. is a leguminous deciduous shrub that is often associated with disturbance processes, such as fires. This species is characterised by a primary dormancy imposed by its water-impermeable seed coat. In the present study, the ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Gammage, B. Title: Plain facts: Tasmania under aboriginal management Source: Landscape Research 33: 241-254 Year: 2008 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Garbolino, Emmanuel, Valrie Sanseverino-Godfrin, Guillermo Hinojos-Mendoza Title: Describing and predicting of the vegetation development of Corsica due to expected climate change and its impact on forest fire risk evolution Source: Safety Science, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology climate Abstract: Among the consequences pointed out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is assumed that xeric and thermophilic ecosystems, which are mostly involved in forest fires, could colonize areas currently less or not exposed to forest fire risk. The aim of our study is to assess the spatial distribution of xeric and thermophilic botanical taxa... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): George, Ingrid J., Robert R. Black, Chris D. Geron, Johanna Aurell, Michael D. Hays, William T. Preston, Brian K. Gullett Title: Volatile and semivolatile organic compounds in laboratory peat fire emissions Source: Atmospheric Environment 132: 163-170 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: In this study, volatile and semi-volatile organic compound (vocs and svocs) mass emission factors were determined from laboratory peat fire experiments. The peat samples originated from two National Wildlife Refuges on the coastal plain of North Carolina, U.S.A. Gas- and particle-phase organic compounds were quantified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and by high pressure liquid chromatography. Hazardous ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Gibos, Kelsy Title: One fire, many nations of firefighters Source: Wildfire 24(3): 36-37 Year: 2015 Keywords: management canada Author(s): Giglio, L., W. Schroeder, C. O. Justice Title: The collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products Source: Remote Sensing of Environment 178: 31-41 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing detection Abstract: The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments, on- board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, have provided more than a decade of global fire data. Here we describe improvements made to the fire detection algorithm and swath- ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Glick, Daniel and Ted Wood Title: Into the fire
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Source: Wildfire 24(3): 46, 48, 51 Year: 2015 Keywords: management film media Author(s): Gott, B. Title: Aboriginal fire management in southeastern Australia: Aims and frequency Source: J Biogeogr 32: 1203-1208 Year: 2005 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Gould, Gregory K., Mingliang Liu, Michael Barber, Keith A. Cherkauer, Peter Robichaud, Jennifer C. Adam Title: The Effects of Climate Change and Extreme Wildfire Events on Runoff Erosion over a Mountain Watershed Source: Journal of Hydrology, Available online 23 February 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate soils erosion Abstract: Increases in wildfire occurrence and severity under an altered climate can substantially impact terrestrial ecosystems through enhancing runoff erosion. Improved prediction tools that provide high resolution spatial information are necessary for location-specific soil conservation and watershed management. However, quantifying... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Greeshma, A. A., K. R. Sridhar, M. Pavithra, S. D. Ghate Title: Impact of fire on the macrofungal diversity in scrub jungles of south-west India Source: Mycology, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: fungi ecology Abstract: Fortnightly survey in control and fire-impacted regions of scrub jungle of south- West coast of India during south-west monsoon (50 m2 quadrats up to 10 weeks) yielded 34 And 25 species of macrofungi, respectively. The species as well as sporocarp richness ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Guo, F., S. Selvaraj, F. Lin, G. Wang, W. Wang, Z. Su, A. Liu Title: Geospatial information on geographical and human factors improved anthropogenic fire occurrence modeling in the Chinese boreal forest Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: statistics china Abstract: We applied a classic logistic regression (LR) together with a geographically weighted Logistic regression (GWLR) to determine the relationship between anthropogenic fire Occurrence and potential driving factors in the Chinese boreal forest, and to test whether ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Haight, Robert G. and Jeremy s. Fried Title: Deploying Wildland Fire Suppression Resources with a Scenario-Based Standard Response Model Source: INFOR 45(1): 31-39 Year: 2007 Keywords: economics interface suppression Abstract: Wildland fire managers deploy suppression resources to bases and dispatch them to fires to maximize the percentage of fires that are successfully contained before unacceptable costs and losses occur. Deployment is made with budget constraints and uncertainty about the daily number, location, and intensity of fires, all of which affect... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hamma, Christopher C. Title: EFFECTS OF WILDLAN-DURBAN INTERFACE FUEL TREATMENTS ON POTENTIAL FIRE BEHAVIOR AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN THE CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA Source: M. S. Thesis, California Polytechnic State University, 192 pages Year: 2011 Keywords: interface fuel behavior Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Hammill, K., T. Penman, R. Bradstock
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Title: Responses of resilience traits to gradients of temperature, rainfall and fire frequency in fire-prone, Australian forests: potential consequences of climate change Source: Plant Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: frequency ecology climate Abstract: The composition of plant communities may be driven by responses of key plant Resilience traits (resprouting R+, non-resprouting R, persistent P+ and transient P Seedbanks) to either resource competition or disturbance regimes. We explored ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hancock, David Title: Native wisdom Source: Australian Geographic 132: 76-85 Year: 2016 Keywords: indigenous australia prescribed burning Author(s): Hanan, E. J., C. M. D'Antonio, D. A. Roberts, J. P. Schimel Title: Nitrogen Retention During the Early Stages of Recovery from Fire in Coastal Chaparral Ecosystems Source: Ecosystems, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology nitrogen Abstract: Fire is a fundamental reorganizing force in chaparral and other Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Postfire nutrient redistribution and cycling are frequently invoked as drivers of ecosystem recovery. The extent to which N is transported from slopes to streams following ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hanan, Erin J., Michael S. Ross, Pablo L. Ruiz and Jay P. Sah Title: Multi-Scaled Grassland-Woody Plant Dynamics in the Heterogeneous Marl Prairies of the Southern Everglades Source: Ecosystems 13: 1256-1274 Year: 2010 Keywords: grasslands wetlands
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Abstract: The Everglades freshwater marl prairie is a dynamic and spatially heterogeneous landscape, containing thousands of tree islands nested within a marsh matrix. Spatial processes underlie population and community dynamics across the mosaic, especially the balance between woody and graminoid components, and landscape patterns reflect... Author(s): Hanamaraddi, P. M. Title: A LITERATURE STUDY ON IMAGE PROCESSING FOR FOREST FIRE DETECTION Source: International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research 4(1): 2695-2700 Year: 2016 Keywords: bibliography remote sensing Abstract: Forests can purify water, stabilize soil, cycle nutrients, moderate climate, and store carbon. They can create habitat for wildlife and nurture environments rich in biological diversity. They can also contribute billions of dollars to the country's economic wealth. ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Hand, Michael S., Thompson, Matthew P., Calkin, David E. Title: Examining heterogeneity and wildfire management expenditures using spatially and temporally descriptive data Source: Journal of Forest Economics. 22: 80-102 Year: 2016 Keywords: economics Abstract: Increasing costs of wildfire management have highlighted the need to better understand suppression expenditures and potential tradeoffs of land management activities that may affect fire risks. Spatially and temporally descriptive data is used to develop a model of wildfire suppression expenditures, providing new insights into the role of spatial and temporal heterogeneity in determining expenditures. Incorporating heterogeneity improves model fit and predictive ability over a model with data based on the point and time of fire ignition. The model is potentially useful for providing expenditure information for simulated fire applications and post-season evaluation of suppression activities. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Hantson, S., S. Kloster, M. Coughlan, A. Daniau, B. Vannie re, T. Brucher, N. Kehrwald, and B. Magi Title: Fire in the Earth System - bridging data and modelling research Source: Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. doi:10.1175/BAMS--D15-00319.1 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology modelling Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hantson, S., A. Arneth, S. P. Harrison, D. I. Kelley, I. C. Prentice, S. S. Rabin, S. Archibald, F. Mouillot, S. R. Arnold, P. Artaxo, D. Bachelet, P. Ciais, M. Forrest, P. Friedlingstein, T. Hickler, J. O. Kaplan, S. Kloster, W. Knorr, G. Lasslop, F. Li, S. Mangeon, J. R. Melton, A. Meyn, S. Sitch, A. Spessa, G. R. van der Werf, A. Voulgarakis, C. Yue Title: The status and challenge of global fire modelling Source: Biogeosciences Discuss., 31 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling Abstract: Biomass burning impacts vegetation dynamics, biogeochemical cycling, atmospheric chemistry, and climate, with sometimes deleterious socio-economic impacts. Under future climate projections it is often expected that the risk of wildfires will increase. Our ability to predict the magnitude and geographic pattern of future fire impacts rests on our ability to model fire regimes,... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hantson, Stijn, Salvador Pueyo and Emilio Chuvieco Title: Global fire size distribution: from power law to log-normal Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): Year: 2016 Keywords: statistics Abstract: Fire size distribution is expected to follow a power-law distribution. Here, we show that instead, log-normal emerges as a suitable option to fit fire size distribution, with only two out of eight areas where fire size distribution can be adequately described by a power law. Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Hansen, Winslow D., F. Stuart Chapin III, Helen T. Naughton, T. Scott Rupp, David Verbyla Title: Forest-landscape structure mediates effects of a spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreak on subsequent likelihood of burning in Alaskan boreal forest Source: Forest Ecology and Management 369 (2016) 38-46 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology insects Abstract: Characterizing how variation in forest landscape structure shapes patterns of natural disturbances and mediates interactions between multiple disturbances is critical for anticipating ecological consequences of climate change in high-latitude forest ecosystems. During the 1990s, a massive spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreak took place in boreal spruce forest on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska allowing us to ask (1) How did the... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hanson, C. T. Title: Conservation concerns for Sierra Nevada birds associated with high-severity fire Source: Western Birds Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife birds Abstract: Numerous avian species are positively associated with "snag forest" habitat created by patches of high-severity fire, mainly because of the abundance of standing fire-killed trees (snags) and fire-following shrubs. There is now considerably less severe fire than there was historically in the forests of California's Sierra Nevada, owing to fire ... Author(s): Hartel, T., Dorresteijn, I., Klein, C., Orsolya Mathe, Cosmin I. Moga, Kinga Ollerer, Marlene Roellig, Henrik von Wehrden and Joern Fischer Title: Wood-pastures in a traditional rural region of Eastern Europe: Characteristics, management and status Source: Biol Conserv 166: 267-275 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous history Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Harvey, B. J., D. C. Donato, M. G. Turner Title: High and dry: post-fire tree seedling establishment in subalpine forests decreases with post-fire drought and large stand-replacing burn patches Source: Global Ecology and Biogeography Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration ecology Abstract: Climate warming and increased wildfire activity are hypothesized to catalyse biogeographical shifts, reducing the resilience of fire-prone forests world-wide. Two key mechanisms underpinning hypotheses are:(1) reduced seed availability in large stand- ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hatten J. and Goni, M. Title: Cupric Oxide (CuO) Oxidation Detects Pyrogenic Carbon in Burnt Organic Matter and Soils Source: PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151957. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151957 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Wildfire greatly impacts the composition and quantity of organic carbon stocks within watersheds. Most methods used to measure the contributions of fire altered organic carbon - i.e. pyrogenic organic carbon (Py-OC) in natural samples are designed to quantify specific fractions such as black carbon or polyaromatic hydrocarbons. In contrast, the CuO oxidation procedure yields a variety of products Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hatten J. and Goni, M. Title: Cupric Oxide (CuO) Oxidation Detects Pyrogenic Carbon in Burnt Organic Matter and Soils Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Wildfire greatly impacts the composition and quantity of organic carbon stocks within watersheds. Most methods used to measure the contributions of fire altered organic carbon-i.e. pyrogenic organic carbon (Py-
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OC) in natural samples are designed to quantify specific fractions such as black carbon or polyaromatic hydrocarbons. In contrast, the CuO oxidation procedure yields a variety of products derived from a variety of precursors, including both unaltered and thermally altered sources. Here, we test whether or not the benzene carboxylic acid and hydroxy benzoic acid... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hawthorne, Donna, Fraser J.G. Mitchell Title: Identifying past fire regimes throughout the Holocene in Ireland using new and established methods of charcoal analysis Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 137: 45-53 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Globally, in recent years there has been an increase in the scale, intensity and level of destruction caused by wildfires. This can be seen in Ireland where significant changes in vegetation, land use, agriculture and policy, have promoted an increase in fires in the Irish landscape. This study looks at wildfire throughout the Holocene and draws on lacustrine charcoal records from seven study sites spread across Ireland... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hayes, John P. Title: Evaluation of the influences of salvage and salvage intensity on wildlife Source: Research Prospectus, 18 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: wildlife restoration Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Hecht, S. B. Title: Kayapo savanna management: fire, soils, and forest islands in a threatened biome Source: In Woods WI, Teixeira WG, Lehmann J, Steiner C, WinklerPrins AMGA, and Rebellato L, (Eds). Amazonian dark earths: Wim Sombroek's vision. New York, NY: Springer Year: 2009 Keywords: indigenous history
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Author(s): Helbig, M., C. Pappas, and O. Sonnentag Title: Permafrost thaw and wildfire: Equally important drivers of boreal tree cover changes in the Taiga Plains, Canada Source: Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2015GL067193, 10 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: boreal ecology Abstract: Boreal forests cover vast areas of the permafrost zones of North America, and changes in their composition and structure can lead to pronounced impacts on the regional and global climate. We partition the variation in regional boreal tree cover changes between 2000 and 2014 across the Taiga Plains, Canada, into its main causes: permafrost thaw, wildfire disturbance, and postfire regrowth... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hess, jurgen Title: The Northwest fires: Couger Creek Burnout Source: Wildfire 24(3): 28-30 Year: 2015 Keywords: management burnout backfire Author(s): Hessburg, P. F., T. A. Spies, D. A. Perry, C. N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, Peter M. Brown, Scott L. Stephens, Andrew J. Larson, Derek J. Churchill, Nicholas A. Povak, Peter H. Singleton, Brenda mccomb, William J. Zielinski, Brandon M. Collins, R. Brion Salter, John J. Keane, Jerry F. Franklin and Greg Riegel Title: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology management Abstract: Increasingly, objectives for forests with moderate-or mixed-severity fire regimes are To restore successionally diverse landscapes that are resistant and resilient to current and Future stressors. Maintaining native species and characteristic processes requires this ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Author(s): Higgins, J. M. Title: Re: Comment on the Rim Fire Reforestation Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Source: Sierra Forest Legacy, letter Year: 2016 Keywords: restoraton Abstract: These comments are submitted On behalf of Sierra Forest Legacy and our coalition partners. We have reviewed the Rim ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Hill, R. and Baird, A. Title: Kuku-Yalanji rainforest Aboriginal people and carbohydrate resource management in the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia Source: Hum Ecol 31: 27-52 Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hill, Michael Scott Title: The Tasmanian fires of 2016 Source: Wildfire25(2): 14-20 Year: 2016 Keywords: Australia management Author(s): Hill, K. C. Title: Prescribed fire in grassland butterfly habitat: Targeting weather and fuel conditions to reduce risk to larvae and enhance post-burn habitat heterogeneity Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Washington, 121 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: insects butterfly Abstract: Prescribed burning is one of the primary tools used for habitat restoration in the fire-adapted prairies of the Pacific Northwest. Concerns about detrimental effects of burning on butterfly populations, however, can inhibit implementation of treatments. Burning in cool and humid ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Author(s): Hinojosa, M. B., A. Parra, V. A. Laudicina, J. M. Moreno Title: Post-fire soil functionality and microbial community structure in a Mediterranean shrubland subjected to experimental drought Source: Science of The Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Fire may cause significant alterations in soil properties. Post-fire soil dynamics can vary depending, among other factors, on rainfall patterns. However, little is known regarding variations in response to post-fire drought. This is relevant in arid and semiarid areas with ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Holden, S. R., B. M. Rogers, K. K. Treseder, J. T. Randerson Title: Fire severity influences the response of soil microbes to a boreal forest fire Source: Environmental Research Letters 11: 035004 Year: 2016 Keywords: severity soils microbes Abstract: Wildfire activity is projected to increase in boreal forests as a result of climate warming. The consequences of increased wildfire activity for soil carbon (C) storage in boreal forests may depend on the sensitivity of soil microbes to fire severity, but microbial ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected], Author(s): Holmstrom, Matt Title: Common denominators on tragedy fires Source: Wildfire 25(1): 26-34 Year: 2016 Keywords: management safety Author(s): Hosseini, M., J. J. Keizer, O. G. Pelayo, S. A. Prats, C. Ritsema Title: Effect of fire frequency on runoff, soil erosion, and loss of organic matter at the micro-plot scale in north-central Portugal Source: Geoderma 269: 126-137 Year: 2016 Keywords: hydrology
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Abstract: Wildfire is a natural phenomenon that is a common ecological factor in Mediterranean ecosystems. The increase in occurrence in recent decades has raised Widespread concern about the impact of repeated wildfires on runoff and erosion, a topic ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hosseini, M., J. J. Keizer, O. G. Pelayo, S. A. Prats, C. Ritsema Title: Effect of fire frequency on runoff, soil erosion, and loss of organic matter at the micro-plot scale in north-central Portugal Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-472-2, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Wildfire is a natural phenomenon that is a common ecological factor in Mediterranean ecosystems. The increase in occurrence in recent decades has raised Widespread concern about the impact of repeated wildfires on runoff and erosion, a topic ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, Carissa L. Wonkka, William E. Grant, and William E. Rogers Title: Range expansion of invasive shrubs: implication for crown fire risk in forestlands of the southern USA Source: Aob Plants. 2016; 8:plw012 Year: 2016 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Non-native plant invasions and changing management activities have dramatically altered the structure and composition of forests worldwide. Invasive shrubs and fire suppression have led to increased densification and Biomass accumulation in forest ecosystems of the southeastern USA. Notably, Chinese and European privets are Rapid growing, shade-tolerant shrubs which ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Hu, X., C. Yu, D. Tian, M. Ruminski, K. Robertson, Lance A. Waller and Yang Liu Title: Comparison of the Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire Product to Ground-based Fire Records in Georgia, USA
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Biomass burning has a significant and adverse impact on air quality, climate change, and various ecosystems. The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) detects fires using data from multiple satellite sensors in order to maximize its fire detection rate. However, to ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Huffman, M. R. Title: Community-based fire management at La Sepultura Biopshere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico Source: Ph. D. dissertation, Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University Year: 2011 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Hume, Alexandra, Han Y.H. Chen, Anthony R. Taylor, Gordon J. Kayahara, Rongzhou Man Title: Soil C:N:P dynamics during secondary succession following fire in the boreal forest of central Canada Source: Forest Ecology and Management 369 (2016) 1-9 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Measures of soil nutrient availability such as concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus ([N] and [P]) are important indicators of terrestrial productivity. Optimal plant growth and ecosystem functioning are also strongly correlated with nutrient ratios in soils. Long-term trends in soil [C], [N], [P], and their stoichiometric ratios during secondary succession in the fire-driven boreal forest remain unclear. We used replicated 7- to 209-year chronosequences... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hurteau, Matthew D. Title: Stabilizing carbon in a flammable forest Source: Powerpoint, University of New Mexico Year: n. d. Keywords: soils Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hurteau, Matthew D., Shuang Liang, Katherine L. Martin, Malcolm P. North, George W. Koch and Bruce A. Hungate Title: Restoring forest structure and process stabilizes forest carbon in wildfire-prone southwestern ponderosa pine forests Source: Ecological Applications 26(2): 382-391 Year: 2016 Keywords: carbon ecology Abstract: Changing climate and a legacy of fire-exclusion have increased the probability of high-severity wildfire, leading to an increased risk of forest carbon loss in ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern USA. Efforts to reduce high-severity fire risk through forest thinning and prescribed burning require both the removal and emission of carbon from these forests, and any potential carbon benefits from treatment may depend on... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Hyde, Josh, Eva K. Strand, Andrew T. Hudak and Dale Hamilton Title: A case study comparison of landfire fuel loading and emissions generation on a mixed conifer forest in Northern Idaho, USA Source: Fire Ecology 11(3): 108-127 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology fuel smoke Abstract: The use of fire as a land management tool is well recognized for its ecological benefits in many natural systems. To continue to use fire while complying with air quality regulations, land managers are often tasked with modeling emissions from fire during the planning process. To populate such models, the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) program has developed raster layers representing ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Iwahana, Go, Uchida, Masao, Lin Liu, Wenyu Gong, Meyer, Franz J., Guritz, Richard; Tsutomu Yamanokuchi; Hinzman, Larry Title: InSAR Detection and Field Evidence for Thermokarst after a Tundra Wildfire, Using ALOS-PALSAR Source: Remote Sensing 8(3): 1-18 Year: 2016
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Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Thermokarst is the process of ground subsidence caused by either the thawing of ice-rich permafrost or the melting of massive ground ice. The consequences of permafrost degradation associated with thermokarst for surface ecology, landscape evolution, and hydrological processes have been of great scientific interest and social concern. Part of a tundra patch affected by wildfire in northern Alaska (27.5 km2) was investigated here... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Iyengar, Rishi Title: Wildfires Kill at Least Four in Western Australia Source: Time.com. 11/18/2015, pN.PAG. 1p. Year: 2015 Keywords: fatalities australia Author(s): Jackson, W. J. and P. F. Moore Title: The role of indigenous use of fire in forest management and conservation Source: Unpublished paper, 10 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: indigenous agriculture silviculture Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Jasper, Andre, Uhl, Dieter, Agnihotri, Deepa, Tewari, Rajni, Pandita, Sundeep K., Wanderley Benicio, Jose Rafael; Pires, Etiene Fabbrin; Da Rosa, Atila Augusto Stock; Bhat, Gulam D.; Suresh Pillai, S. K. Title: Evidence of wildfires in the Late Permian (Changsinghian) Zewan Formation of Kashmir, India Source: Current Science 110(3): 419-423 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The first record of palaeo-wildfire evidence in the form of charcoal is documented from the Late Permian in India. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Jay, S. M., B. P. Smith, S. Windler, J. Dorrian, S. A. Ferguson
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Title: Does Suspected Sleep Disordered Breathing Impact on the Sleep and Performance of Firefighting Volunteers during a Simulated Fire Ground Campaign? Source: International Journal of Environ. Res. Public Health 13(2): Year: 2016 Keywords: health Abstract: Adequate sleep is fundamental to workplace performance. For volunteer firefighters who work in safety critical roles, poor performance at work can be life threatening. Extended shifts and sleeping conditions negatively impact sleep during multi-day fire ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Jesus E. Gomez, Jenny Lohmiller and Anthony Joern Title: Importance of vegetation structure to the assembly of an aerial web-building spider community in North American open grassland Source: Journal of Arachnology 44:28-35 Year: 2016 Keywords: insects ecology Abstract: Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of suitable habitat in grasslands can promote species and functional diversity In arthropods, including responses by ubiquitous web-building spiders. A field experiment in tallgrass prairie habitat was Performed to examine the response in abundance and web-type richness of aerial web-building spiders to changes in the Availability of structure for web placement... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Jimenez-Gonzalez, M. A. and J. M. De la Rosa Title: Post-fire recovery of soil organic matter in a Cambisol from typical Mediterranean forest in Southwestern Spain Source: Science of The Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Wildfire is a recurrent phenomenon in Mediterranean ecosystems and contributes to soil degradation and desertification, which are partially caused by alterations to soil organic matter (SOM). The SOM composition from a Cambisol under a Mediterranean ...
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Jo, Aurahm Title: The effect of landscape pattern and vegetation cover types on the fire regime of a savanna in southern Mali Source: M. S. Thesis, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, 2016, 57 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology grasslands Abstract: Understanding the causes of specific fire regimes is critical for determining the long term impacts of fire on vegetation cover. Numerous studies using 30 m Landsat data find a relationship between fire timing and vegetation type, but this relationship has not been ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Jordan, Peter Title: Post-wildfire debris flows in southern British Columbia, Canada Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 322-336 Year: 2016 Keywords: hydrology erosion soils Abstract: Post-wildfire debris flows have occurred as a result of several severe wildfires in the southern interior of British Columbia since 2003. Such events can present a significant hazard to public safety and infrastructure below burned areas. Debris flows have been triggered by spring snowmelt, high-intensity summer rain and long-duration fall rain. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Joubert, L., J. S. Pryke, M. J. Samways Title: Positive effects of burning and cattle grazing on grasshopper diversity Source: Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: insects ecology Abstract: Burning and grazing at moderate levels should be integral to local landscape management, as these impacts benefit grasshoppers in grassland ENs. Some areas should be left undisturbed to create a mosaic of different successional stages at the landscape spatial scale, providing diverse habitat for a wide range of species.
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kaage, Bill Title: The program leader's perspective Source: Two More Chains 5(4): 12-13 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk fatality Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Kalabokidis, K., A. Ager, M. Finney, N. Athanasis Title: AEGIS: A wildfire prevention and management information system Source: Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Science 16: 643-661 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: We describe a Web-GIS wildfire prevention and management platform (AEGIS) developed as an integrated and easy-to-use decision support tool to manage wildland fire hazards in Greece (http://aegis.aegean.gr). The AEGIS platform assists with early fire warning, fire planning, fire control and coordination of firefighting forces by providing online... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kanade, V., R. Levi, Z. Lotker, F. Mallmann-Trenn Title: Distance in the forest fire model how far are you from eve? Source: Pages 1602-1620, in: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: Leskovec, Kleinberg and Faloutsos (2005) observed that many social networks Exhibit properties such as shrinking (ie bounded) diameter, densification, and (power-law) Heavy tail degree distributions. To explain these phenomena, they introduced a ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kaur, Inderpreet, Andrea Mentrelli, Frederic Bosseur, Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Gianni Pagnini Title: Turbulence and fire-spotting effects into wild-land fire simulators
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Source: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Available online 12 March 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: spotting embers modeling Abstract: This paper presents a mathematical approach to model the effects and the role of phenomena with random nature such as turbulence and fire-spotting into the existing wildfire simulators. The formulation proposes that the propagation of the fire-front is the sum of a drifting component (obtained from an existing wildfire simulator without turbulence and fire-spotting) and a random fluctuating component... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kawahara, T., S. HATAE, T. KANYAMA, Y. ISHIZAKI Title: Development of Eco-Friendly Soap-Based Firefighting Foam for Forest Fire Source: Environmental Control in Biology 54(1): 75-78 Year: 2016 Keywords: retardant equipment suppression Abstract: Recently, large-scale forest fires have been occurring frequently worldwide. In forest fires, The use of the firefighting foam has greatly improved fire extinguishing effects, but the Environmental impact from firefighting activities using foam still cause concerns. We have ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Keeley, Jon E., Marti Witter and Liz van Mantgem Title: Proximate causes of abrupt fire-regime changes Source: Research Brief for Resource Managers, California Fire Science Consortium, 2 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Keeley, Jon E., Marti Witter and Liz van Mantgem Title: Evolution of Resprouting and Seeding by Fire Source: Research Brief for Resource Managers, California Fire Science Consortium, 2 pages
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Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration sprouting Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Keeley, Jon E., Marti Witter and Liz van Mantgem Title: Understanding the complex nature of resprouting Source: Research Brief for Resource Managers, California Fire Science Consortium, 2 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration sprouting Abstract: Understanding and predicting plant response to disturbance is of paramount importance in our changing world. Resprouting ability is often considered a simple qualitative trait and used in many ecological studies. Our aim is to show some of the complexities of resprouting while highlighting cautions that need be taken in using resprouting ability to predict... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Keeley, J. E., S. Miguel-Ayanz, J. Bedia, J. M. Moreno Title: Fire activity as a function of fire-weather seasonal severity and antecedent climate across spatial scales in southern Europe and Pacific western USA Source: Environ. Res. Lett. 10 (2015) 114013 Year: 2015 Keywords: weather climate Abstract: Climate has a strong influence on fire activity, varying across time and space. We analyzed The relationships between fire/Weather conditions during the main fire season and Antecedent water-balance conditions and fires in two Mediterranean-type regions with ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Keller, JEREMY A., BROWNE, W. PARKER Title: Resource Management for High-Capacity Water Shuttles Source: Fire Engineering169(2): 47-56 Year: 2016 Keywords: suppression equipment
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Author(s): King, T. G. Title: A burning question? Fire, livelihoods and sustainability in the Navosa region of the Fiji Islands Source: Ph. D. dissertation, Palmerston North, NZ: Massey University Year: 2004 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Kitchen, Stanley G. Title: Climate and human influences on historical fire regimes (AD 1400-1900) in the eastern Great Basin (USA) Source: The Holocene 26:397-407 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: High fire activity in western North America is associated with drought. Drought and fire prevail under negative El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) phases in the Southwest and with positive phases in the Northwest. .. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kitzberger, Thomas, Peter M. Brown, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Thomas W. Swetnam and Thomas T. Veblen Title: Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(2): 543-548 Year: 2007 Keywords: climate Abstract: Widespread synchronous wildfires driven by climatic variation, such as those that swept western North America during 1996, 2000, and 2002, can result in major environmental and societal impacts. Understanding relationships between continental-scale patterns of drought and modes of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) such as El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO),... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kiyeon, K. O. Title: First wildland fire conference in asia Source: Wildfire 24(3): 34-35
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Year: 2015 Keywords: management Author(s): Konovalov, I. B., E. V. Berezin, P. Ciais, G. Broquet, Matthias Beekmann, et al. Title: Constraining CO2 emissions from open biomass burning by satellite observations of co-emitted species: A method and its application to wild_res in Siberia Source: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14 (19): 10383-10410 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke Abstract: A method to constrain carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from open biomass burning by using satellite observations of co-emitted species and a chemistry-transport model (CTM) is proposed and applied to the case of wildfires in Siberia. CO2 emissions... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Koster, Kajar, Frank Berninger, Jussi Heinonsalo, Aki Linden, Egle Koster, Hannu Ilvesniemi and Jukka Pumpanen Title: The long-term impact of low-intensity surface fires on litter decomposition and enzyme activities in boreal coniferous forests Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 213-223 Year: 2016 Keywords: intensity fuel Abstract: We assessed the impact of low-intensity surface fires in natural sub-arctic stands. Our results indicate long-lasting fire effects on soil CO2 efflux, litter decomposition, soil fungal and microbial biomass, and extracellular enzyme activities. These values were lowest soon after fire and recovered within 40 to 60 years following the fire disturbance. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Krivtsov, V., Gray, A., Valor, T., Legg, C.J., and Davies, G.M. Title: The fuel moisture content of peat in relation to meteorological factors Source: In "Modelling, monitoring and management of forest fires", editors J. de la Heras, C.A. Brebbia, D. Viegas & V. Leone. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Volume 119, pp. 193-200. ISBN 978-1-84564-141-2. Year: 2008
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Keywords: fuel moisture Abstract: This paper gives a brief overview of the important factors relating to fuel properties and the propagation of fire in peatlands, and presents a case study combining monitoring and modelling of factors related to peat fuel moisture in relation to meteorological changes.... Author(s): Krishnaraj, S. J., T. G. Baker, P. J. Polglase, L. Volkova Title: Prescribed fire increases pyrogenic carbon in litter and surface soil in lowland Eucalyptus forests of south-eastern Australia Source: Forest Ecology and Management 366: 98-105 Year: 2016 Keywords: prescribed burning Abstract: Low intensity prescribed fire is widely practiced in seasonally dry forests in many Countries to reduce fuel loads and the risk of uncontrollable wildfires. Associated with low Intensity fire is the heating and alteration of organic matter of the litter and surface soil to ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Kukavskaya, Elena A., Amber J. Soja, Alexander P. Petkov, Evgeni I. Ponomarev, Galina A. Ivanova and Susan G. Conard Title: Fire emissions estimates in Siberia: evaluation of uncertainties in area burned, land cover, and fuel consumption Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research Year: 2012 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Boreal forests constitute the world's largest terrestrial carbon pools. The main natural disturbance in these forests is wildfire, which modifies the carbon budget and atmosphere, directly and indirectly. Wildfire emissions in Russia contribute substantially to the global carbon cycle and have potentially important feedbacks to changing climate... Author(s): Kukavskaya, Elena A., Amber J. Soja, Alexander P. Petkov, Evgeni I. Ponomarev, Galina A. Ivanova and Susan G. Conard Title: Fire emissions estimates in Siberia: evaluation of uncertainties in area burned, land cover, and fuel consumption Source: Powerpoint, 29 pages Year: 2012
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Keywords: smoke Abstract: Boreal forests constitute the world's largest terrestrial carbon pools. The main natural disturbance in these forests is wildfire, which modifies the carbon budget and atmosphere, directly and indirectly. Wildfire emissions in Russia contribute substantially to the global carbon cycle and have potentially important feedbacks to changing climate... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Kulig, Judith C. and Anna Pujadas Botey Title: Facing a wildfire: what did we learn from individual and community resilience? Source: Natural Hazards, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: psychology interface Abstract: Resilience has become a significant concept to help understand the coping processes after adversity experienced by communities. This article reports on the perspectives of individual resilience by community stakeholders (n = 20) and parents (n = 19) who experienced a devastating wildfire. The findings show the links between individual and community resilience through our key themes' personality, physical environment, economy, attachment to ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Lafleur, Benoit, Saliha Zouaoui, Nicole J. Fenton, Pierre Drapeau, Yves Bergeron Title: Short-term response of Cladonia lichen communities to logging and fire in boreal forests Source: Forest Ecology and Management 372: 44-52 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology silviculture Abstract: Fire is the major disturbance agent in boreal forests that initiates forest regeneration and succession, and plays a major role in determining the composition of terricolous lichen communities. In recent decades however, logging has become an important disturbance agent in boreal forests. In this context, growing concerns about logging effects on endangered species such as woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) has emerged and drawn attention on... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Langlois, B., Caverley, N., Krishnaswamy, A., MacGregor, J., and J.B. Cunningham Title: Safeguarding our Indigenous Communities: Measuring the health and safety culture of Aboriginal fire crews and emergency service personnel in British Columbia Source: WorkSafeBC, report RS2010-IG38, 41 pages Year: 2012 Keywords: indigenous Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Langer, Lisa and Grace Aroha Stone Title: Maori use of fire Source: Wildfire 24(3): 38-40 Year: 2015 Keywords: management indigenous new zealand Author(s): Lapuma, Inga Title: Smoke science: Review of smoke models Source: Research Brief for Resource Managers, North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange, 3 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke modeling Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Larsen, A., J. H. May, P. Moss, J. Hacker Title: Could alluvial knickpoint retreat rather than fire drive the loss of alluvial wet monsoon forest, tropical northern Australia? Source: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Drainage rejuvenation through headward migration of alluvial knickpoints is common in ephemeral semi-arid streams, but has not yet been described for tropical rivers. In the Australian monsoon tropics (AMT), wet monsoon forests have an important ... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Lazarina, M., S. P. Sgardelis, T. Tscheulin, A. S. Kallimanis, Jelle Devalez and Theodora Petanidou Title: Bee response to fire regimes in Mediterranean pine forests: The role of nesting preference, trophic specialization, and body size Source: Basic and Applied Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: insects ecology Abstract: Fire is an important and frequent disturbance in Mediterranean-type ecosystems affecting the structure and dynamics of bee communities. We explored the effect of fire history on taxonomic and functional composition of wild bees on Rhodes Island, Greece, ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Leah, L., S. M. Legge, K. Tuft, H. W. Mcgregor, L. A. Barmuta Title: Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia's tropical savannas Source: Wildlife Research, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Changes in abundance following fire are commonly reported for vertebrate Species, but the mechanisms causing these changes are rarely tested. Currently, many Species of small mammals are declining in the savannas of northern Australia. These ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Leahy, Mike and Malissa Underwood Title: Patch-Burn Grazing with Cattle as a Prairie Management Tool on Missouri Department of Conservation Lands Source: Missouri Department of Conservation, 30 pages Year: 2010 Keywords: prescribed burning wildlife Abstract: Tallgrass prairies, one of North America's most endangered ecosystems, evolved with fire, drought, and native grazers (bison and elk). In Missouri, over 99% of the original tallgrass prairie has been converted mainly to
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row-crop fields and tall fescue pastures. Concomitant with these landscape changes have been dramatic... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Lehtonen, I., A. Venalainen, M. Kamarainen, H. Peltola and H. Gregow Title: Risk of large-scale fires in boreal forests of Finland under changing climate Source: Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 239-253 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: The target of this work was to assess the impact of projected climate change on forest-fire activity in Finland with special emphasis on large-scale fires. In addition, we were particularly interested to examine the intermodel variability of the projected change of fire danger. For this purpose, we utilized fire statistics covering the period 1996-2014 and consisting of almost 20 000 forest fires, as well as daily meteorological data from... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Lehsten, Veiko, Almut Arneth, Allan Spessa, Kirsten Thonicke and Aristides Moustakas Title: The effect of fire on tree-grass coexistence in savannas: A simulation study Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 137-146 Year: 2016 Keywords: encroachment ecology Abstract: A dynamic vegetation model is used to assess the effect of fire on tree:grass ratios and the African savanna biome distribution. High fire frequencies were found to maintain tree-grass coexistence under mesic conditions (700-900 mm mean annual precipitation) and the incorporation of fire substantially improved continental simulations of biomes. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Leonard, Stephen S., Vince Castranova, Bean T. Chen, Diane Schwegler-Berry, Mark Hoover, Chris Piacitelli, Denise M. Gaughan Title: Particle size-dependent radical generation from wildland fire smoke Source: Toxicology 236 (2007) 103-113 Year: 2007 Keywords: smke
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Abstract: Firefighting, along with construction, mining and agriculture, ranks among the most dangerous occupations. In addition, the work environment of firefighters is unlike that of any other occupation, not only because of the obvious physical hazards but also due to the respiratory and systemic health hazards of smoke... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Lepofsky, D., Hallett, D., Washbrook, K., et al. Title: Documenting pre-contact plant management on the northwest coast: An example of prescribed burning in the central and upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia Source: In Deur D. E. and Turner N. J. (Eds). Keeping it living: Traditions of plant use and cultivation on the northwest coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press Year: 2005 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Leroy, C., A . Leduc, N. Thiffault, Y. Bergeron Title: Forest productivity after careful logging and fire in black spruce stands of the Canadian Clay Belt Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: silviculture Abstract: Some regenerating stands of the boreal forest exhibit low juvenile growth after major disturbances, which compromise sustainable forest management objectives. In black spruce- feather moss stands of eastern Canada subject to paludification, careful logging methods ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Levine, C. R., F. Krivak-Tetley, N. S. van Doorn, J. A. S. Ansley Title: Long-term demographic trends in a fire-suppressed mixed-conifer forest Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology exclusion Abstract: In the western US, forests are experiencing novel environmental conditions related to changing climate and a suppression of the historical fire
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regime. Mixed-conifer forests, considered resilient to disturbance due to their heterogeneity in structure and composition, ... Author(s): Lewis, M. Title: Return to Flame: Resurgence of Aboriginal fire use in the vicinity of Lytton, British Columbia Source: Master's Thesis. University of New Brunswick Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous Author(s): Lichang, Z., Long, W., Yaqiao, Z., et al. Title: Community-based forest fire management in Wenyime village, Sanchahe township, Dayao county, Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, China Source: Bangkok, Thailand: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, RAP 2003/8 Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Lingli Wang, John Qu, Xianjun Hao Title: Remote Sensing of Soil and Vegetation Moisture from Space for Monitoring Drought and Forest Fire Events Source: Pages 507-536, in: Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing, ISBN: 978-1-4398-7745-6 Year: 2012 Keywords: remote sensing fuel moisture Author(s): Lindenmayer, David, Wade Blanchard, Christopher MacGregor, Philip Barton, Sam C. Banks, Mason Crane, Damian Michael, Sachiko Okada, Laurence Berry, Daniel Florance and Malcolm Gill Title: Temporal trends in mammal responses to fire reveals the complex effects of fire regime attributes Source: Ecological Applications, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife
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Abstract: Fire is a major ecological process in many ecosystems worldwide. We sought to identify which attributes of fire regimes affect temporal change in the presence and abundance of Australian native mammals. Our detailed study was underpinned by time series data on 11 mammal species at 97 long-term sites in southeastern Australia between 2003 and 2013. We explored how temporal aspects of fire regimes influenced the presence and conditional abundance of species. The key fire regime components examined were: (1) severity... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Lipoma, M. L., D. E. Gurvich, C. Urcelay, S. Diaz Title: Plant community resilience in the face of fire: experimental evidence from a semi-arid shrubland Source: Austral Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology australia Abstract: The ability of communities or ecosystems to recover their structure and function after a disturbance is known as resilience. According to different views, resilience can be influenced by the resource-use strategies of the plant functional types that dominate the ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Liu, Y.-H. and W. Ma Title: Carbon distribution and combustibility of fuels in Larix olgensis plantations Source: Beijing Linye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing Forestry University Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon Abstract: In order to study the interaction between fuel carbon storage (CS) distribution and combustibility of plantation ecosystem at different stages in depth, and evaluate forest fire risk grade comprehensively, the carbon storages and ... Author(s): Loehman, Rachel A., Elizabeth Reinhardt, Karin L. Riley Title: Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Seeing the forest and the trees - A cross-scale assessment of wildfire and carbon dynamics in fire-prone, forested ecosystems Source: Forest Ecology and Management 317 (2014) 9-19 Year: 2014
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Keywords: smoke Abstract: Wildfires are an important component of the terrestrial carbon cycle and one of the main pathways for movement of carbon from the land surface to the atmosphere. Fires have received much attention in recent years as potential catalysts for shifting landscapes from carbon sinks to carbon sources. Unless structural or functional ecosystem shifts occur, net carbon balance in fire-adapted systems at steady state is zero when assessed over the entire post-fire successional... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): London, S. Title: Community-based fire management in Lao People's Democratic Republic: past, present and future Source: Bangkok, Thailand: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, RAP 2003/8 Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Madsen, Matthew D. Title: Influence of Soil Water Repellency on Post-fire Revegetation Success and Management Techniques to Improve Establishment of Desired Species Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Brigham Young University, 166 pages Year: 2010 Keywords: soils repellency Author(s): Malevsky-Malevich, S. P., E. K. Molkentin, E. D. Nadyozhina and O. B. Shklyarevich Title: An assessment of potential change in wildfire activity in the Russian boreal forest zone induced by climate warming during the twenty-first century Source: Climatic Change (2008) 86:463-474 Year: 2008 Keywords: climate Abstract: The problem of forest fires is very important for Russia. In this paper we consider this problem in the connection with the projection of significant climate change. An approach to determine the magnitude of change in wildfire
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risk in Russia under the influence of climate warming is discussed. Observations for the European part of Russia and for Siberia have been used in this analysis... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mallinis, G., I. Mitsopoulos, E. Beltran, J. Goldammer Title: Wildfire Risk in Cultural Heritage Properties Using High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Satellite Imagery and Spatially Explicit Fire Simulations: The Case of Holy Mount Athos, Greece Source: Forests 7(2): Year: 2016 Keywords: risk remote senisng Abstract: Fire management implications and the design of conservation strategies on fire prone landscapes within the UNESCO World Heritage Properties require the application of wildfire risk assessment at landscape level. The objective of this study was to analyze the ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Martins, F. S. R. V., J. R. dos Santos, L. S. Galvao, H. A. M. Xaud Title: Sensitivity of ALOS/PALSAR imagery to forest degradation by fire in northern Amazon Source: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 49: 163-174 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: We evaluated the sensitivity of the full polarimetric Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR), onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), to forest degradation caused by fires in northern Amazon, Brazil. We searched for ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Maranghides, A. and D. McNamara Title: 2011 Wildland Urban Interface Amarillo Fires Report# 2 - Assessment of Fire Behavior and WUI Measurement Science Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Technical Note, 1909, 164 pages Year: 2016
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Keywords: behavior interface Abstract: On February 27, 2011, three fires began on the outskirts of Amarillo, Texas, two of which destroyed or damaged buildings in multiple housing developments. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as part of its Disaster and Failure Studies Program, ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Maringer, Janet, Davide Ascoli, Nicolas Ku ffer, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Marco Conedera Title: What drives European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) mortality after forest fires of varying severity? Source: Forest Ecology and Management 368 (2016) 81-93 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology severity Abstract: Predicting the timing and amount of tree mortality after a forest fire is of paramount importance for postfire management decisions, such as salvage logging or reforestation. Such knowledge is particularly needed in mountainous regions where forest stands often serve as protection against natural hazards (e.g., snow avalanches, rockfalls... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Marshall, Abigail, Lauren Waller and Ylva Lekberg Title: Cascading effects of fire retardant on plant-microbe interactions, community composition and invasion Source: Ecological Applications, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: retardant toxicity Abstract: Climate change, historical fire suppression and a rise in human movements in urban-forest boundaries have resulted in an increased use of long-term fire retardant (LTFR). While LTFR is an effective fire-fighting tool, it contains high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, and little is known how this nutrient pulse affects terrestrial ecosystems. We used field surveys and greenhouse experiments to quantify effects of... Author(s): Marchal, J., S. G Cumming, E. J. B. Mcintire Title: Exploiting Poisson additivity to predict fire frequency from maps of fire weather and land cover in boreal forests of Quebec, Canada
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Source: Ecography, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling weather Abstract: Predictive models of fire frequency conditional on weather and land cover are essential to assess how future cover-type distributions and weather conditions may influence fire regimes. We modelled the effects of bottom-up variables (eg land cover) and ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mariani, M. and M. S. Fletcher Title: The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia Source: Geophysical Research Letters, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate ecology Abstract: Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the primary mode of atmospheric variability in the Southern Hemisphere. While it is well established that the current anthropogenic-driven Trend in SAM is responsible for decreased rainfall in southern Australia, its role in driving ... Author(s): Masipiquena, A., Persoon, G. A, and Snelder, D. J. Title: The use of fire in Northeastern Luzon (Philippines): conflicting views of local people, scientists and government officials Source: In: Ellen R., Parkes P., and Bicker A., (Eds). Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations: critical anthropological perspectives. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Year: 2000 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Massman, W. J. Title: A non-equilibrium model for soil heating and moisture transport during extreme surface heating: The soil (heat-moisture-vapor) HMV-Model Version 1 Source: Geoscientific Model Development 8(11): 3659-3680 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils temperature Abstract: Increased use of prescribed fire by land managers and the increasing likelihood of wildfires due to climate change require an improved modeling
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capability of extreme heating of soils during fires. This issue is addressed here by developing and testing the soil (heat-moisture-vapor) HMVmodel, a 1-D (one-dimensional) non-equilibrium (liquid-vapor phase change) model of soil evaporation that simulates the coupled simultaneous transport of... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mateen, S. A., Y. BEGUM Title: A FOREST FIRE MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON GPS AND ZIGBEE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK Source: International Journal of Eminent Engineering Technologies 4(3): 7-12 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: This Paper presents some basic ideas on the configuration of a mobile system for Detecting and locating fire places efficiently and effectively. This paper describes the main Features of the overall system, which consist of a sensor head that can detect fire over ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Matthews, Wendy Title: Humans and fire: Changing relations in early agricultural and built environments in the Zagros, Iran, Iraq Source: The Anthropocene Review, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: Agriculture paleohistory Abstract: Fire-centred studies have recently been highlighted as powerful avenues for investigation of energy flows and relations between humans, materials, environments and other species. The aim in this paper is to evaluate this potential first by reviewing the diverse theories and methods that can be applied to investigate ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mayor, Angeles G., Silvana B. GoirAn, V. Ramon Vallejo and Susana Bautista Title: Variation in soil enzyme activity as a function of vegetation amount, type, and spatial structure in fire-prone Mediterranean shrublands
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Source: Science of The Total Environment 04/2016; DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.139 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Fire-prone Mediterranean shrublands may be seriously threatened by land degradation due to progressive opening of the vegetation cover driven by increasing drought and fire recurrence. Ho... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): McAdoo, J. Kent, Brad W. Schultz, and Sherman R. Swanson Title: Aboriginal Precedent for Active Management of Sagebrush-Perennial Grass Communities in the Great Basin Source: Rangeland Ecology & Management 66(3): 241-253 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous Abstract: Until recently, most contemporary ecologists have ignored or diminished anecdotal historical accounts and anthropologists? reports about aboriginal fire in the Great Basin. Literature review shows that Indians practiced regular use of fire for many purposes, including the obvious reasons of increasing the availability of desired plants, maintaining habitats for animals used as food, and driving game during hunts. Historical ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): McCoy, K., V. Krasko, P. Santi, D. Kaffine, S. Rebennack Title: Minimizing economic impacts from post-fire debris flows in the western United States Source: Natural Hazards, pages 1-28, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: erosion soils Abstract: For individual burned drainage basins, existing hazard models and readily available data can be combined in a geographic information system to rapidly estimate debris-flow-related damages following a wildfire. The results can then be integrated into ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): McCrea, Richard C. Title: Flames in our backyards
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Source: Wildfire 24(3): 31-32 Year: 2015 Keywords: management Author(s): McDonald, Christine Title: Introversion in fireline leadership Source: Wildfire25(2): 26-28 Year: 2016 Keywords: management Author(s): McGregor, H. W., S. Legge, M. E. Jones, C. N. Johnson Title: Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats Source: Scientific Reports, 7 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife cats Abstract: Feral cats are normally territorial in Australia's tropical savannahs, and hunt intensively with home-ranges only two to three kilometres across. Here we report that they also undertake expeditions of up to 12.5 km from their home ranges to hunt for short ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): McNeill, Ilona M., Patrick D. Dunlop, Timothy C. Skinner and David L. Morrison Title: A value- and expectancy-based approach to understanding residents' intended response to a wildfire threat Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): Year: 2016 Keywords: interface Abstract: This study examines personal factors affecting residents' intended response to a wildfire alert. Those who intend to leave on awareness of a fire threat differ from those who do not in the value attached to different wildfire outcomes and perceived likelihood of achieving them through defence vs evacuation. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Meintel, Julie
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Title: Keeping Fires in Check Source: The Journal of the Air Mobility Command's Magazine 24(3): 10-11 Year: 2015 Keywords: Aircraft suppression Abstract: The article talks about the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) program established by the U.S. Congress with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Department of Defense (dod). Topics discussed include the functions of MAFFS, how the MAFFS system... Author(s): Mendez-Garabetti, Miguel, GermAn Bianchini, Paola Caymes-Scutari, Maria Laura Tardivo Title: Increase in the quality of the prediction of a computational wildfire behavior method through the improvement of the internal metaheuristic Source: Fire Safety Journal 82: 49-62 Year: 2016 Keywords: behavior Abstract: Wildfires cause great losses and harms every year, some of which are often irreparable. Among the different strategies and technologies available to mitigate the effects of fire, wildfire behavior prediction may be a promising strategy. This approach allows for the identification of areas at greatest risk of being burned, thereby permitting to make decisions which in turn will help to reduce losses and ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Metailie, J. and Agnoletti, M. Title: Mountain landscape, pastoral management and traditional practices in the northern Pyrenees (France) Source: In Agnoletti M, (Ed.). The conservation of cultural landscapes. Oxfordshire: CABI Year: 2006 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Mhawe, Mario, Ghaleb Faour, Chadi Abdallah, Jocelyne Adjizian-Gerard Title: Towards an establishment of a wildfire risk system in a Mediterranean country Source: Ecological Informatics, Available online 20 February 2016
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Year: 2016 Keywords: risk Abstract: Wildfire is one of many natural hazards affecting the Mediterranean basin; its consequences could be fatal for individuals and beyond repair for the environment. While factors worldwide included in a fire ignition are unstandardized, in this paper, we built a model from literature-cited factors - fourteen elements were included... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Miao, Y., X. Fang, C. Song, X. Yan, P. Zhang, Q. Meng, F. Li, Fuli Wu, Shengli Yang, Shuyuan Kang and Yuanping Wang Title: Late Cenozoic fire enhancement response to aridification in mid-latitude Asia: Evidence from microcharcoal records Source: Quaternary Science 139: 53-66 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Fire provides an important indicator of paleoclimatic change. However, little information relating to late Cenozoic fire history has been gathered in mid-latitude Asia (including Inner Asia and East Asia), a key region for understanding the development of ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Miettinen, Jukka, Yosio E. Shimabukuro, Rene Beuchle, Rosana C. Grecchi, Marcela Velasco Gomez, Dario Simonetti and Frederic Achard Title: On the extent of fire-induced forest degradation in Mato Grosso, Brazilian Amazon, in 2000, 2005 and 2010 Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 129-136 Year: 2016 Keywords: degradation Abstract: We analyse the extent of fire-induced forest degradation in Mato Grosso State, Brazil, in 2000, 2005 and 2010. The largest extent of fire-induced forest degradation is recorded in 2010, in a year with less severe fire season than 2005, potentially indicating increase in fire susceptibility of Amazonian forests Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Miller, A. M. Title: Living with boreal forest fires: Anishinaabe perspectives on disturbance and collaborative forestry planning, Pikangikum First Nation, Northwestern Ontario Source: Ph. D. dissertation, Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Year: 2010 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Milberg, PER and KARL-OLOF BERGMAN Title: Varbranning ar inte ett langsiktigt skotselalternativ till bete eller slatter av vardefulla artrika grasmarker Source: Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift, December 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: season prescribed burning Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Milberg, Per, Brenda Akoto, Karl-Olof Bergman, Hakan Fogelfors, Heidi Paltto and Malin Talle Title: Is spring burning a viable management tool for species rich grasslands? Source: Applied Vegetation Science 17: 429-441 Year: 2014 Keywords: season ecology prescribed burning Abstract: Spring burning is not an appropriate long-term management method if the aim is to maintain the conservation value of the vegetation in traditionally managed semi-natural grasslands.... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Minsley, B., N. Pastick, B. Wylie, D. Brown, M. Kass Title: Evidence for non-uniform permafrost degradation after fire in boreal landscapes Source: Journal of Geophysical Research Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering The availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate And ecological succession. However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire- ...
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Miquelajauregui, Y., S. G. Cumming, S. Gauthier Title: Modelling Variable Fire Severity in Boreal Forests: Effects of Fire Intensity and Stand Structure Source: PLoS ONE 11(2): e0150073. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150073 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling severity Abstract: It is becoming clear that fires in boreal forests are not uniformly stand-replacing. On the contrary, marked variation in fire severity, measured as tree mortality, has been found both within and among individual fires. It is important to understand the conditions under ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Miranda, A. I., V. Martins, P. Cascao, J. H. Amorim, J. Valente, R. Tavares, O. Tchepel, C. Borrego, C. R. Cordeiro, A. J. Ferreira, D. X. Viegas, L. M. Ribeiro and L. P. Pita Title: Monitoring fire-fighters' smoke exposure and related health effects during Gestosa experimental fires Source: Pages 83-94, in: Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires II, WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 137, WIT Press Year: 2010 Keywords: smoke health Abstract: The main objective of this study is to contribute to the scientific knowledge regarding fire-fighters' exposure to smoke and its related health effects. Forest fire experiments were developed with an extensive number of measurements of individual exposure to smoke pollutants and of medical parameters for a group of fire-fighters. For the smoke exposure monitoring, ten fire-fighters from four different fire brigades were selected... Author(s): Mirto, M., A. Mariello, A. Nuzzo, M. Mancini, A. Raolil, O. Marra, S. Fiore, C. Sirca, M. Salis, V. Bacciu Title: The OFIDIA Fire Danger Rating System Source: 10th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC) Year: 2015
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Keywords: danger Abstract: Prevention is one of the most important stages in wildfire and other natural hazard management. Fire Danger Rating Systems (FDRSs) have been adopted by many countries to enhance wildfire prevention and suppression planning. With the aim to provide real-time fire danger forecasts and finer-scale fire behaviour analysis, an operational fire... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mistry, J., B. Bilbao and A. Berardi Title: Developing a case for integrating Indigenous fire practices within government fire management policy Source: Working Paper, British Academy, 21 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: indigenous Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Molina, D. M., Martinez, E. R., Garcia, D., Grillo, F. F Title: Wildland Fire Analyst: A needed job position and the required education and training . Source: Wildfire 2007, Sevilla, Spain Year: 2007 Keywords: management Abstract: Wildland fire regimes are changing dramatically and we can state that safety in wildland fire suppression cannot be accomplished without a proper Wildland Fire Analyst. This is a needed job position and required a specific education and training. In Fire Paradox Project (www.fire.paradox.org)... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Moody, John A., Brian A. Ebel, Petter Nyman, Deborah A. Martin, Cathelijne Stoof and Randy McKinley Title: Relations between soil hydraulic properties and burn severity Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 279-293 Year: 2016 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Remote sensing is being widely used to detect landscape changes caused by wildfire and to provide detailed information for models. Our results
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show that remote sensing measures of these changes can be related to changes in soil properties that affect runoff. These relations will improve predictions of catastrophic floods from burned areas. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Moon, K., T. J. Duff, K. G. Tolhurst Title: Sub-canopy forest winds: understanding wind profiles for fire behaviour simulation Source: Fire Safety Journal, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: Operational forest fire simulation models typically incorporate reduction factors to modify winds forecast to meteorological standards for open environments so that they characterise the sub-canopy winds that drive fire spread. While these reduction factors ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Morris, L. R. and E. A. Leger Title: Secondary Succession in the Sagebrush Semidesert 66 Years After Fire in the Great Basin, USA Source: Natural Areas Journal 36(2): 187-193 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) creates multiple challenges as it spreads across the Great Basin, fueling repeated wildfires and dominating large expanses of land that were once sagebrush shrublands. The replacement of ... Contact Author: Lesley.Morris@ oregonstate.edu Author(s): Moroni, M. T., D. M. Morris, C. Shaw, J. N. Stokland, M. E. Harmon, N. J. Fenton, K. Merganicova, J. Merganic, K. Okabe and U. Hagemann Title: Buried Wood: A Common Yet Poorly Documented Form of Deadwood Source: Ecosystems, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel litter
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Abstract: Buried wood (BW: downed deadwood buried more than 50% by soil, litter, or ground vegetation) is a common but understudied part of forest ecosystems. We reviewed the literature and conducted a metaanalysis ofBWthat included newdata fromAustralia, Belarus, Canada, Germany,... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Moussaoui, L., N. J. Fenton, A. Leduc, Y. Bergeron Title: Deadwood abundance in post-harvest and post-fire residual patches: An evaluation of patch temporal dynamics in black spruce boreal forest Source: Forest Ecology and Management 368: 17-27 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel ecology Abstract: In managed boreal forests, variable retention harvest is considered by forest managers as a means of mitigating harvest impacts on biodiversity. Variable retention harvest consists of maintaining within a cutblock structural attributes of the original forest ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mu, Y., X. Qin, L. Zhang, B. Xu Title: Holocene climate change evidence from high-resolution loess/paleosol records and the linkage to fire-climate change-human activities in the Horqin dunefield in northern China Source: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 121: 1-8 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory soils Abstract: The combination of high-resolution sedimentary paleoclimate proxies of total Organic carbon and magnetic susceptibility of a loess/paleosol section with black carbon (BC) records provides us with information about climate change and the linkage of fire .. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mulvaney, Joshua J., Andrew L. Sullivan, Geoffrey J. Cary and Glenys R. Bishop Title: Repeatability of free-burning fire experiments using heterogeneous forest fuel beds in a combustion wind tunnel Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 445-455 Year: 2016
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Keywords: modeling combustion Abstract: This study explores the implications of using heterogeneous fuel beds in combustion wind tunnel experiments. The overall variability in rate of spread was low in comparison to the effects of the experimental treatments, so subsequent experiments using heterogeneous fuel will not require large numbers of replicates to detect effects of treatments. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Munoz-Rojas, M., W. Lewandrowski, T. E. Erickson Title: Soil respiration dynamics in fire affected semi-arid ecosystems: Effects of vegetation type and environmental factors Source: Science of The Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Soil respiration (Rs) is the second largest carbon flux in terrestrial ecosystems and therefore plays a crucial role in global carbon (C) cycling. This biogeochemical process is closely related to ecosystem productivity and soil fertility and is considered as a key ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Munoz-Rojas, M., W. Lewandrowski, T. E. Erickson Title: Understanding environmental drivers in the regulation of soil respiration dynamics after fire in semi-arid ecosystems Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 18, EGU2016-5272-2, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Soil respiration (Rs) has become a major research focus given the increase in atmospheric CO2 emissions and the large contribution of these CO2 fluxes from soils (Van Groenigen et al., 2014). In addition to its importance in the global C cycle, Rs is a fundamental indicator ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Murphy, Brett P., Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Jeremy Russell-Smith and Michael J. Lawes Title: Fire regimes and woody biomass dynamics in Australian savannas Source: Journal of Biogeography (J. Biogeogr.) (2014) 41, 133-144 Year: 2014
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Keywords: ecology Abstract: The drivers of northern Australia's weak thickening trend are uncertain, but likely candidates include increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and water availability, and pastoral intensification. We demonstrate that changes to fire management have the potential to either increase or decrease rates of woody thickening relative to any underlying... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Murphy, Sam W., Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho, Rob Wright, Giovanni Sabatino, Rosa Correa Pabon Title: HOTMAP: Global hot target detection at moderate spatial resolution Source: Remote Sensing of Environment 177:78-88 Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Imagery from polar orbiting satellites can be used to mitigate global hazards from wildfires and volcanoes. An incipient constellation of moderate spatial resolution sensors (i.e. Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2) will provide an unprecedented combined spatial and temporal resolution of imagery with 20 to 30 m pixels and a revisit period of 2 to 4 days. This data stream could provide an invaluable contribution to existing... Author(s): Nacoulma, B. M. I., Schumann, K., Traore, S., et al. Title: Impacts of land-use on West African savanna vegetation: A comparison between protected and communal area in Burkina Faso Source: Biodivers Conserv 20: 3341-3362 Year: 2011 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Biodiversity matters in many aspects for human well-being by providing timber and non-timber products. The most important ecosystems providing these products in West Africa are savannas. In the context of land-use changes, there is an urgent need to understand the impact of land-use on savanna vegetation and biodiversity. This study assesses the impact of land-use on savannas... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Nanda, P. K. and Sutar, P. C.
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Title: Management of forest fire through local communities: A study in the Bolangir, Deogarh and Sundergarh districts of Orissa, India Source: Bangkok, Thailand: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, RAP 2003/8 Year: 2003 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: In the state of Orissa, India, the vast rural population is very dependent on forests. A substantial part of the livelihoods of these forest-dependent people is obtained from the trade of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). from a commercial viewpoint, the two most important NTFPs are mahua (Madhuca indica) flowers and kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon) leaves. The flowers of mahua are rich in carbohydrates and form the substrate for locally brewed... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Neale, Timothy, Jessica K. Weir, Tara K. McGee Title: Knowing wildfire risk: Scientific interactions with risk mitigation policy and practice in Victoria, Australia Source: Geoforum 72: 16-25 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk australia Abstract: Over the past decade, major landscape wildfires (or "bushfires" in Australia) in fire-prone countries have illustrated the seriousness of this global environmental problem. This natural hazard presents a complex mesh of dynamic factors for those seeking to reduce or manage its costs, as ignitions, hazard behaviour, and the reactions of different human and ecological communities during and after hazard... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Nelson, K. J., D. G. Long, J. A. Connot Title: LANDFIRE 2010-Updates to the National Dataset to Support Improved Fire and Natural Resource Management Source: U. S. Geological Survey, Report 2016-1010, 59 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling planning Abstract: The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) 2010 data release provides updated and enhanced vegetation, fuel,
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and fire regime layers consistently across the United States. The data represent landscape conditions from ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Nelson, D. M., M. A. Urban, A. P. Kershaw, F. S. Hu Title: Late-Quaternary variation in C3 and C4 grass abundance in southeastern Australia as inferred from k13C analysis: Assessing the roles of climate, pco2, and fire Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 139: 67-76 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Climate, atmospheric pco 2, and fire all may exert major influences on the relative abundance of C 3 and C 4 grasses in the present-day vegetation. However, the relative role of these factors in driving variation in C 3 and C 4 grass abundances in the paleorecord is ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Neris, J., J. C. Santamarta, S. H. Doerr, F. Prieto Title: Post-fire soil hydrology, water erosion and restoration strategies in Andosols: A review of evidence from the Canary Islands (Spain) Source: iforest-Biogeosciences and Forestry, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils hydrology Abstract: Andosols are the most characteristic soils of volcanic regions such as the forested, fire-prone, hillslopes of the mountainous Canary Islands (Spain). Due to their volcanic nature, these soils have traditionally been considered highly resistant to water erosion processes .. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Nowack, Julia, Christine Elizabeth Cooper, and Fritz Geiser Title: Cool echidnas survive the fire Source: Proc R Soc B. 2016; 283:20160382 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Fires have occurred throughout history, including those associated with the meteoroid impact at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary that
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eliminated many vertebrate species. To evaluate the recent hypothesis that the survival of the K-Pg fires by ancestral mammals was dependent on their ability to use energy-conserving torpor, we studied body temperature fluctuations and activity of an egg-laying mammal, the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Nunes, A. N., L. Lourenco, A. C. Castro Meira Title: Exploring spatial patterns and drivers of forest fires in Portugal (1980-2014) Source: Science of The Total Environment, Available online 19 April 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: statistics Abstract: Information on the spatial incidence of fire ignition density and burnt area, trends and drivers of wildfires is vitally important in providing support for environmental and civil protection policies, designing appropriate prevention measures and allocating firefighting resources. The key objectives of this study... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): O'Keeffe, David, Dennekamp, Martine, Straney, Lahn, Mazhar, Mahjabeen, O'Dwyer, Tom, Haikerwal, Anjali, Reisen, Fabienne, Abramson, Michael J., Johnston, Fay Title: Health effects of smoke from planned burns: A study protocol Source: BMC Public Health 16: 1-7 Year: 2016 Keywords: health smoke Abstract: Planned burns depend on weather conditions and dryness of "fuels" (i.e. forest). It is potentially possible that no favourable conditions occur during the study period. To reduce the risk of this occurring, three separate locations have been identified as having a high likelihood of planned burn smoke exposure during the study period, with the full study being rolled out in two of these three locations... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Oliveira, Luiz Eduardo, Cruz de Aragao, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Liana Oighenstein Anderson, Egidio Arai and Valdete Duarte Title: Proposing an improved routine for quantifying and forecasting fire incidence in Amazonia using remote sensing information
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Source: Anais XVI Simp"sio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto - SBSR, Foz do Iguau, PR, Brasil, 13 a 18 de abril de 2013, INPE Year: 2013 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Tropical forest fires are one of the most pressing environmental problems of the 21st century. In Amazonia, fire frequency has increased during the last decade as a consequence of climate variability and prolonged dry seasons (1998, 2005 and 2010 droughts) and human activities. To contribute with the monitoring and mitigation of these fire events, the objective of this paper is to propose a new ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Opperman, Tonja Title: Hmmm...so...you paint...what? Source: Wildfire 25(1): 4-6 Year: 2016 Keywords: Art Author(s): Padhi, Satyajeet, Babak Shotorban, Shankar Mahalingam Title: Computational investigation of interactions of shrub fires under the influence of wind Source: 9th U. S. National Combustion Meeting, Organized by the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, May 17-20, 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio Year: 2015 Keywords: wind behavior Abstract: A three-dimensional multiphase, physics-based model is used to study the effects of crosswind on flames generated from the burning of a fuel matrix comprising of three shrubs. The shrub considered in this investigation is chamise, found in abundance in chaparral vegetation and highly susceptible to bush fires. The model utilizes.. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Padhi, S., B. Shotorban, S. Mahalingam Title: Computational investigation of flame characteristics of a non-propagating shrub fire Source: Fire Safety Journal 81: 64-73
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Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: A three-dimensional multiphase, physics-based model based on large eddy Simulation methodology was used to investigate a model shrub fire at a statistically Stationary state. Governing equations of the solid phase were modified to achieve this ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Parks, S. A., C. Miller, J. T. Abatzoglou, L. M. Holsinger Title: How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US? Source: Environ. Res. Lett. 11 (2016) 035002 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: Fire regime characteristics in North America are expected to change over the next several decades as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Although some fire regime characteristics (eg, area burned and fire season length) are relatively well-studied in the ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Parent, Joana, MArio G. Pereira, Marj Tonini Title: Space-time clustering analysis of wildfires: The influence of dataset characteristics, fire prevention policy decisions, weather and climate Source: Science of The Total Environment 559: 151-165 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology exclusion Abstract: The present study focuses on the dependence of the space-time permutation scan statistics (STPSS) (1) on the input database's characteristics and (2) on the use of this methodology to assess changes on the fire regime due to different type of climate and fire management activities. Based on the very strong relationship between weather and the fire incidence in Portugal, the detected clusters will be interpreted in terms of the atmospheric conditions. Apart from being the country... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Parks, Sean A., Carol Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, L. Scott Baggett and Benjamin J. Bird
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Title: Wildland fire limits subsequent fire occurrence Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 182-190 Year: 2016 Keywords: reburning fuelbreak Abstract: We evaluated the extent to which previous wildland fire inhibits the ignition and spread of subsequent fire in four large study areas in the western US. Results indicate that wildland fire limits subsequent fire occurrence in all study areas. The longevity of this effect, however, varies among study areas. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Parsons, R., W. M. Jolly, C. Hoffman, R. Ottmar Title: The Role of Fuels in Extreme Fire Behavior Source: Pages 55-82, in: Synthesis of Knowledge of Extreme Fire behavior: volume 2 for fire behavior specialists, researchers, and meteorologists, u. s. department of agriculture, forest service, general technical report PNW-GTR-854, 144 pages Year: 2011 Keywords: fuel behavior Abstract: Fuels are central to the problem of extreme fire behavior. While it is possible to have fires without the influence of topography and under diverse weather conditions, it is impossible to have fire without fuels. Numerous instances of fatalities or close calls have occurred in ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Pastor, J. Title: Does Fire Destroy or Maintain the North Woods? Source: Chapter in: What Should a Clever Moose Eat? Natural History, Ecology and the North Woods Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Sometime in early-to mid-August 2011, lightning struck a black spruce snag in a Small bog in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, near Pagami Creek. The fire lingered for several days in a few hundred square meters of the ... Author(s): Paton, D.
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Title: Wildfire hazards, risks, and disasters (a book review) Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 256 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology interface Abstract: This book, which is part of a series that includes volumes on other biological, physical and environmental hazards, boasts an impressive international group of authors. Individual chapters discuss fire issues in the USA, Canada, Chile, Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, India and Russia. Although fire areas such as Brazil, China and Africa are not ... Author(s): Paugam, R., M. Wooster, S. Freitas and M. Val Martin Title: A review of approaches to estimate wildfire plume injection height within large-scale atmospheric chemical transport models Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 907-925 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke behavior Abstract: Landscape fires produce smoke containing a very wide variety of chemical species, both gases and aerosols. For larger, more intense fires that produce the greatest amounts of emissions per unit time, the smoke tends initially to be transported vertically or semi-vertically close by the source region, driven by the intense heat and convective energy released by the burning vegetation. The column... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pausas, Juli G., R. Brandon Pratt, Jon E. Keeley, Anna L. Jacobsen, Aaron R. Ramirez, Alberto Vilagrosa, Susana Paula, Iolana N. Kaneakua-Pia and Stephen D. Davis Title: Towards understanding resprouting at the global scale Source: New Phytologist (2016) 209: 945-954 Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration sprouting Abstract: Understanding and predicting plant response to disturbance is of paramount importance in our changing world. Resprouting ability is often considered a simple qualitative trait and used in many ecological studies. Our aim is to show some of the complexities of resprouting while highlighting cautions that need be taken in using resprouting ability to predict... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pavlovic, Radenko, Didier Davignon, Paul-Andre Beaulieu, Yulia Zaitseva and Michael D. Moran Title: 2014 Firework performance evaluation Source: powerpoint, 11th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 5-7 May 2015, Minneapolis, MN Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pavlovic, R., S. Cousineau, P.-A. Beaulieu, H. Landry and M.D. Moran Title: FIREWORK: ENVIRONMENT CANADA's NORTH AMERICAN AIR QUALITY FORECAST SYSTEM WITH NEAR-REAL-TIME WILDFIRE EMISSIONS Source: Presented at the 14th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 5-7, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: weather air quality smoke Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Paveglio, T. B., J. Abrams, A. Ellison Title: Developing Fire Adapted Communities: The importance of Interactions Among Elements of Local Context Source: Society & Natural Resources, An International Journal, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: interface Abstract: Resident perceptions and actions related to wildfire management are influenced by a complex set of factors that are often tied to a specific local context. We conducted in-depth case studies in two diverse communities to better illustrate how ... Author(s): Payette, S., V. Pilon, P. L. Couillard, M. Fregeau Title: Long-term fire history of maple (Acer) forest sites in the central St. Lawrence Lowland, Quebec Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, available online 2016
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Year: 2016 Keywords: history Abstract: In the St-Lawrence lowlands, sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is considered the dominant species of old-growth deciduous forests while red maple (Acer rubrum) tends to dominate sites recently disturbed by logging and agricultural practices. Considering that the long- ... Author(s): Pechony, Olga, Drew T. Shindell and Greg Faluvegi Title: Direct top-down estimates of biomass burning CO emissions using TES and MOPITT versus bottom-up GFED inventory Source: J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/ jgrd.50624 Year: 2013 Keywords: smoke Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Peek, James M. Title: PRODUCTION AND NUTRIENT CONTENT OF TWO SHRUB SPECIES RELATED TO FIRE IN CENTRAL IDAHO Source: Western North American Naturalist 75(4): 446-459 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: Nutrient content and weight of current year's growth of Cercocarpus ledifolius Nuttall and Physocarpus malvaceus (Greene) Kuntze in central Idaho were obtained during early July in the years 1987-2007. The purpose of this work was to determine whether there was significant variation between years and whether mean monthly temperatures and total monthly precipitation could predict the variation... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Penman, T. D., C. E. Eriksen, B. Horsey, R. A. Bradstock Title: How much does it cost residents to prepare their property for wildfire? Source: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 16: 88-98 Year: 2016 Keywords: economics interface Abstract: Wildfire has resulted in significant loss of property and lives. Residents can improve the probability of survival of structures and themselves by
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undertaking suitable preparation. Only a small proportion of residents adequately prepare for wildfire with monetary and time costs cited as significant impediments. Few studies have quantified the monetary ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pereira, Paulo, Marc Oliva and Artemi Cerda Title: Fire impacts on European Boreal soils: A review Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 18, EGU2016-15644 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: Fire is an important natural disturbance in boreal ecosystems, fundamental to understand plant distribution (Ryan, 2002; Wallenius et al., 2004; Granstrom, 2001). Nevertheless, nowadays the intense and successful, fire suppression measures are changing their ecological role (Pereira et al., 2013a,b). This is consequence of the lack of understanding of stakeholders and decision makers about the role of the fire in the ecosystems (Mierasukas and Pereira, 2013; Pereira et al., 2016). This fire suppression measures... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Perez-Obiol, R., J. C. Garcia-Codron, A. Pe lachs Title: Landscape dynamics and fire activity since 6740 cal yr BP in the Cantabrian region (La Molina peat bog, Puente Viesgo, Spain) Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 135: 65-78 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: A lack of paleobotanic studies with adequate resolution and multiproxy approaches Has limited proper discussion of vegetation dynamics in Cantabria and of the role of fires in The configuration of the plant landscape during the Holocene in the northwest part of the ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pettinari, M. L. and E. Chuvieco Title: Generation of a global fuel data set using the Fuel Characteristic Classification System Source: Biogeosciences 13: 2061-2076 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel
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Abstract: ... The data set was developed from different spatial variables, both based on satellite Earth observation products and fuel databases, and is comprised by a global fuelbed map and a database that includes the parameters of each fuelbed that affect fire behavior and effects. ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Peterson, D. W., E. K. Dodson Title: Post-fire logging produces minimal persistent impacts on understory vegetation in northeastern Oregon, USA Source: Forest Ecology and Management 370: 56-64 Year: 2016 Keywords: silviculture salvage Abstract: Post-fire forest management commonly requires accepting some negative ecological impacts from management activities in order to achieve management objectives. Managers need to know, however, whether ecological impacts from post-fire management ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Picotte, Joshua J., Birgit Peterson, Gretchen Meier and Stephen M. Howard Title: 1984-2010 trends in fire burn severity and area for the conterminous US Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 413-420 Year: 2016 Keywords: severity Abstract: We examined burn severity and area between 1984 and 2010 within the conterminous United States using MTBS data and found that burn severity and area did not change substantially within most of the assessed vegetation groupings. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pilkington, Tony Title: Land owners use control burns to clear brush, cactus Source: The Breckenridge American, February 20, 2016 Year: 2016
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Keywords: prescribed burning Author(s): Pilkington, Tony Title: USDA expert demystifies controlled burn procedures Source: The Graham Leader 140(55): February 20, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: prescribed burning Author(s): Poma, Rosario Lopez Title: Vegetation traits modulate resilience to fire in Mediterranean woodlands Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Universidad de Alicate, 186 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Author(s): Ponisio, LAUREN C ., KATE WILKIN, LEITHEN K . M'GONIGLE, KELLY KULHANEK, LINDSAY COOK, ROBBIN THORP, TERRY GRISWOLD and CLAIRE KREMEN Title: Pyrodiversity begets plant-pollinator community diversity Source: Global Change Biology (2016), doi: 10.1111/gcb.13236 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology regeneration Abstract: Fire has a major impact on the structure and function of many ecosystems globally. Pyrodiversity, the diversity of fires within a region (where diversity is based on fire characteristics such as extent, severity, and frequency), has been hypothesized to promote biodiversity, but changing climate and land management... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Power, M. J., C. Whitlock and P. J. Bartlein Title: Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history across an elevational gradient in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada Source: Quaternary Science Reviews Year: 2011 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: A 13,100-year-long high-resolution pollen and charcoal record from Foy Lake in western Montana is compared with a network of vegetation and fire-history records from the Northern Rocky Mountains. New and previously
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published results were stratified by elevation into upper and lower and tree line to explore the role of Holocene... Author(s): Prat-Guitart, Nuria, Guillermo Rein, Rory M. Hadden, Claire M. Belcher and Jon M. Yearsley Title: Propagation probability and spread rates of self-sustained smouldering fires under controlled moisture content and bulk density conditions Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 456-465 Year: 2016 Keywords: behavior Abstract: We coupled laboratory-scale observations of smouldering fires with statistical models to analyse the self-sustained propagation and spread rates for horizontal distances, which have not been researched before. Our findings enable the effects of peat moisture and density conditions on smouldering propagation dynamics to be understood. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Prat-Guitart, N., G. Rein, R. M. Hadden, C. M. Belcher Title: Effects of spatial heterogeneity in moisture content on the horizontal spread of peat fires Source: The Science of the total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel moisture behavior peat Abstract: ... Measurements of the peak temperature inside the peat, fire duration and longwave thermal radiation from the burning samples revealed important local changes of the smouldering behaviour in response to sharp gradients in moisture content. ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Preece, N. D. Title: Tangible evidence of historic Australian indigenous savanna management Source: Austral Ecol. 38: 241-250 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Prestemon, Jeffrey P., David T. Butry and Douglas S. Thomas
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Title: The net benefits of human-ignited wildfire forecasting: The case of tribal land units in the United States Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling Abstract: Wildfire managers devote scarce resources towards reducing the overall costs and losses associated with human-ignited wildfires. Resource use could be reduced if decision-makers knew when future fires could ignite. We found positive net economic benefits of forecasting incendiary and non-incendiary human-ignited wildfires on tribal lands in the US. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Prince, Annemarie, M. Colter Chitwood, Marcus A. Lashley, Christopher S. DePerno, Christopher E. Moorman Title: Resource selection by southeastern fox squirrels in a fire-maintained forest system Source: Journal of Mammalogy, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Fire is essential to maintain the open forest structure required by the southeastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger niger). In recent decades, managers of the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem have transitioned from dormant-season to growing-season burns, which more effectively limit midstory hardwood encroachment... Author(s): Prior, L., G. Williamson, D. Bowman Title: Impact of high severity fire in a Tasmanian dry eucalypt forest Source: Australian Journal of Botany, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: severity Australia Abstract: Dry eucalypt forests are believed to be highly fire tolerant, but their response to fire is not well quantified. We measured the effect of high severity fires in dry eucalypt forest in the Tasmanian Midlands, the island s driest region. We compared stand structures and ... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Price, Owen F., Bronwyn Horsey, Ningbo Jiang2 Title: Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires Source: Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., doi:10.5194/nhess-2016-66, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Smoke from wildfires poses a significant threat to affected communities. Prescribed burning is conducted to reduce the extent and potential damage of wildfires, but produces its own smoke threat. Planners of 10 prescribed fires model the likely dispersion of smoke to help manage... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Pronto, Lindon Title: Local fires, global worries Source: Wildfire 25(1): 16-24 Year: 2016 Keywords: management Author(s): Pyke, D. A., J. C. Chambers, J. L. Beck, M. L. Brooks Title: Land uses, fire, and invasion: Exotic annual Bromus and human dimensions [Chapter 11] Source: In: Germino, Matthew J.; Chambers, Jeanne C.; Brown, Cynthia S, eds. 2016. Exotic brome-grasses in arid and semiarid ecosystems of the western US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. Springer: Series on Environmental Management. p. 307-336 Year: 2016 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Human land uses are the primary cause of the introduction and spread of exotic annual Bromus species. Initial introductions were likely linked to contaminated seeds used by homesteading farmers in the late 1880s and early 1900s. Transportation routes aided ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Quill, Rachael Title: Fire modeling in an uncertain world Source: Wildfire25(2): 22-23 Year: 2016
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Keywords: modeling Author(s): Rachmawati, Ramya, Melih Ozlen, Karin J. Reinke, John W. Hearne Title: An optimisation approach for fuel treatment planning to break the connectivity of high-risk regions Source: Forest Ecology and Management 368: 94-104 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel risk Abstract: Uncontrolled wildfires can lead to loss of life and property and destruction of natural resources. At the same time, fire plays a vital role in restoring ecological balance in many ecosystems. Fuel management, or treatment planning by way of planned burning, is an important tool used in many countries where fire is a major ecosystem process. In this paper, we propose an approach to reduce the spatial connectivity of fuel hazards while still considering the ecological fire requirements ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Raffaele, E., M. A. Nunez, J. Enestrom, M. Blackhall Title: Fire as mediator of pine invasion: evidence from Patagonia, Argentina Source: Biological Invasions 18(3): 597-601 Year: 2016 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Fire has been found to promote or halt biological invasions. Pine trees (genus Pinus) are highly invasive in the southern hemisphere and the effect of fire on their invasion ability is not clear. An analysis of Pinus spreading after wildfires in Patagonia reveals that ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Raman, A., A. F. Arellano, A. Sorooshian Title: Decreasing Aerosol Loading in the North American Monsoon Region Source: Atmosphere 72(2): 18 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: ... and land-surface properties. We selected 20 aerosol hotspots and classified them Into fire, anthropogenic, dust, and NAM alley clusters based on the dominant driver Influencing aerosol variability. We then analyzed multivariate ...
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Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Regos, A., N. Aquilue, I. Lopez, M. Codina, J. Retana Title: Synergies Between Forest Biomass Extraction for Bioenergy and Fire Suppression in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Insights from a Storyline-and-Simulation Approach Source: Ecosystems, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel management Abstract: Increases in fire impacts over many regions of the world have led to large-scale investments in fire-suppression efforts. There is increasing recognition that biomass extraction for energy purposes may become an important forest-management practice in ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Remy, S., A. Veira, R. Paugam, M. Sofiev, J. W. Kaiser, F. Marenco, S. P. Burton, A. Benedetti, R. J. Engelen, R. Ferrare and J.W. Hair Title: Two global climatologies of daily fire emission injection heights since 2003 Source: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, april, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate smoke Abstract: The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) assimilates Fire Radiative Power (FRP) observations from satellite-based sensors to produce daily estimates of biomass burning emissions. It has been extended to include information about injection heights provided by two distinct algorithms, which also use meteorological information from the operational weather... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Robichaud, Peter R., Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Fredrick B. Pierson, Kenneth E. Spaeth, Louise E. Ashmun, Corey A. Moffet Title: Infiltration and interrill erosion rates after a wildfire in western Montana, USA Source: CATENA 142: 77-88 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils erosion
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Abstract: The 2000 Valley Complex wildfire burned in steep montane forests with ash cap soils in western Montana, USA. The effects of high soil burn severity on forest soil hydrologic function were examined using rainfall simulations (100mmh'1 for 1 h) on 0.5-m2 plots. Infiltration rates, sediment yields and sediment concentrationswere compared among three treatments: control... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Robichaud, Peter R., William J. Elliot, Sarah A. Lewis and Mary Ellen Miller Title: Validation of a probabilistic post-fire erosion model Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 337-350 Year: 2016 Keywords: erosion modeling Abstract: The Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMiT) provides probabilistic estimates of post-fire hillslope sediment delivery. Significant correlations with eight field sites suggest that ERMiT's predictions provide reasonable estimates, and were able to capture the wide range of observed sediment delivery and approximate the effectiveness of common erosion mitigation treatments and site recovery. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Robertson, Colin, Carson J. Q. Farmer, Trisalyn A. Nelson, Ian K. Mackenzie, Michael A. Wulder, Joanne C. White Title: Determination of the compositional change (1999-2006) in the pine forests of British Columbia due to mountain pine beetle infestation Source: Environ Monit Assess (2009) 158:593-608 Year: 2009 Keywords: ecology insects Abstract: The current mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) outbreak in British Columbia and Alberta is the largest recorded forest pest infestation in Canadian history. We integrate a spatial hierarchy of mountain pine beetle and forest health monitoring... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Robbins, Matthew D., Jack E. Staub and B. Shaun Bushman Title: Development of fine-leaved Festuca grass populations identifies genetic resources having improved forage production with potential for wildfire control in the western United States Source: Euphytica, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: grasslands management Author(s): Rodriguez, I., Albert, P., La Rose, C., et al. Title: A study of the use of fire by Amerindian communities in South Rupununi, Guyana, with recommendations for sustainable land management Source: European Commission Year: 2011 Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Rodman, K. C., A. J. SAnchez Meador, D. W. Huffman and K. M. Waring Title: Reference Conditions and Historical Fine-Scale Spatial Dynamics in a Dry Mixed-Conifer Forest, Arizona, USA Source: Forest Science, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: history Abstract: To improve the knowledge of ecosystem dynamics within frequent-fire forests and to develop targets for forest restoration, we dendrochronologically reconstructed four 1-ha plots within dry mixed-conifer forests in northern Arizona, USA. ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Rosell, J. A. Title: Bark thickness across the angiosperms: more than just fire Source: The New phytologist, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology bark Abstract: Global variation in total bark thickness (TBT) is traditionally attributed to fire. However, bark is multifunctional, as reflected by its inner living and outer dead regions, meaning that, in addition to fire protection, other factors probably contribute to TBT variation. To address ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Roveta, R. J. Title: Traditional use of fire for the provision of ecosystem services: A case study in BRT Wildlife Sanctuary, India Source: M. S. thesis, Freiburg, Germany: University of Freiburg Year: 2008 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: Wildland fires in India are a sensitive issue. On the one hand the Government has attempted to exclude fires from the forest for decades, and on the other hand several forest dwellers still rely on burning practices to obtain some specific ecosystem services. The use of fire as a management tool in the landscape has been practiced in India since thousands of years, and traditional inhabitants have evolved these practices over the course of history, shaping the landscape of today. The Government of... Author(s): Ruffault, J., V. Moron, R. M. Trigo and T. Curt Title: Daily synoptic conditions associated with large fire occurrence in Mediterranean France: evidence for a wind-driven fire regime Source: International Journal of Climatology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: wind weather behavior Abstract: Changes in wildfire activity in the Mediterranean area over recent decades increase the need for a better understanding of the fire-weather relationships and for the development of reliable models to improve fire danger prediction. This study analyses daily synoptic and local weather conditions associated with the occurrence of summer large fires (LFs) in Mediterranean France during recent decades... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Rugemalila, D. M., T. M. Anderson, R. M. Holdo Title: Precipitation and Elephants, Not Fire, Shape Tree Community Composition in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania Source: Biotropica, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife grasslands
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Abstract: Savannas are spatially diverse, variable and are susceptible to high rates of disturbance from fire and herbivory. There is significant interest in woody cover dynamics in relation to disturbance regimes. Less effort has been devoted to understand processes ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Ruiz-Fernandez, Jesus, Alexandre Nieuwendam, Marc Oliva, Vera Lopes, Anabela Cruces, Maria Conceicao Freitas, Ana I. Janeiro, Jose Antonio Lopez-Saez Title: Cryogenic processes and fire activity in a high Atlantic mountain area in NW Iberia (Picos de Europa) during the Mid-Late Holocene Source: Science of the Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology paleohistory Abstract: Mid-Late Holocene environmental changes in the CantabrianMountains are a consequence of both climate variability and human activity. A 182 cm-long sedimentary sequencewas collected from Belbin depression, Western Massif of Picos de Europa (Cantabrian... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Rull, V., T. Vegas-VilarrUbia, E. Montoya Title: The neotropical Gran Sabana region: Palaeoecology and conservation Source: The Holocene, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: ... In the GS, the debate has focused on the indige- nous use of fire as a deforestation agent favouring the expansion of savannas. Owing to its cultural, socio-political and economic implications, this debate exceeds the ambit of ecology and demands an urgent solution. ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sabo, Scott and Bernadette LaManna Title: FIRE AT ROOSA GAP Source: New York State Conservationist 70(5): 14-17 Year: 2016 Keywords: management
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Abstract: Every year as warmer temperatures herald the beginning of spring, thoughts turn to outdoor activities: picnics, barbecues, and...brushfires... Author(s): Sakamoto, K. M., R. G. Stevens and J. R. Pierce Title: The evolution of biomass-burning aerosol size distributions due to coagulation: dependence on fire and meteorological details and parameterization Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi:10.5194/acp-2016-9, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Biomass-burning aerosols have a significant effect on global and regional aerosol climate forcings. To model the magnitude of these effects accurately requires knowledge of the size distribution of the emitted and evolving aerosol particles. Current biomass-burning inventories do not include size distributions, and global and regional models... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Salis, Michele, Maurizio Laconi, Alan A. Ager, Fermin J. Alcasena, Bachisio Arca, Olga Lozano, Ana Fernandes de Oliveira, Donatella Spano Title: Evaluating alternative fuel treatment strategies to reduce wildfire losses in a Mediterranean area Source: Forest Ecology and Management 368: 207-221 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel Abstract: The goal of this work is to evaluate by a modeling approach the effectiveness of alternative fuel treatment strategies to reduce potential losses from wildfires in Mediterranean areas. We compared strategic fuel treatments located near specific human values vs random locations, and treated 3, 9 and 15% of a 68,000 ha study area located in Sardinia, Italy. The effectiveness of each fuel treatment was assessed by simulating... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sankaran, M. Title: Grazing and Fire Effects on Community and Ecosystem Processes in a Tall-Grass Mesic Savanna Ecosystem in Southern India Source: pages 187-205 In: The Ecology of Large Herbivores in South and and Southeast Asia, Volume 225 of Ecological Studies Series, Springer-Verlag
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Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Grazing and fire are processes that are integral to savannas and grasslands worldwide. However, very few studies have evaluated the effects of fire and grazing on community and ecosystem processes in savannas and grasslands in the Indian context. ... Author(s): Sanburn, Josh Title: The Fight to Change How We Fight Fires Source: Time 186(13): 25-26 Year: 2015 Keywords: policy planning management Author(s): Sanjuan, G., C. Brun, T. Margalef, A. Cortes Title: Determining map partitioning to minimize wind field uncertainty in forest fire propagation prediction Source: Journal of Computational Science, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: Wind speed and direction are the parameters that most significantly affect forest fire Propagation. The accurate estimation of such parameters is critical in providing precise Predictions of forest fire propagation. Wind speed and direction can be measured in ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Saxena, P., S. Gunthe, K. Pandey, R. Yadav, V. Sheel Title: Regional biomass burning trends in India: Analysis of satellite fire data Source: Journal of Earth System Science 124(7): 1377-1387 Year: 2015 Keywords: remote sensing statistics Abstract: The results based on the analysis of satellite fire counts detected by the Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) sensors over different regions of India during 1998- 2009 have been presented. Generally, the activities of open biomass burning show large spatial ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sayles, J. S. and Mulrennan, M. E.
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Title: Securing a Future: Cree Hunters? Resistance and Flexibility to Environmental Changes, Wemindji, James Bay Source: Ecol Soc 15:22 Year: 2010 Keywords: indigenous history Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Schwartzman, S., Boas, A. V., Ono, K. Y., Fonseca, M. G., Doblas, J., Zimmerman, B., Junqueira, P., Jerozolimski, A., Salazar, M., Junqueira, R. P. and M. Torres Title: The natural and social history of the indigenous lands and protected areas corridor of the Xingu River basin Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. 368: 1-12 Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Scherer, Sawyer S., Anthony W. D'Amato, Christel C. Kern, Brian J. Palik, Matthew B. Russell Title: Long-term impacts of prescribed fire on stand structure, growth, mortality, and individual tree vigor in Pinus resinosa forests Source: Forest Ecology and Management 368: 7-16 Year: 2016 Keywords: prescribed burning Abstract: Prescribed fire is increasingly being viewed as a valuable tool for mitigating the ecological consequences of long-term fire suppression within fire-adapted forest ecosystems. While the use of burning treatments in northern temperate conifer forests has at times received considerable attention, the long-term (>10 years) effects on forest... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Schupbacha, S., T. Kirchgeorga, D. Colombarolic Title: Specific Molecular Markers in lake sediment cores for biomass burning reconstruction during the Holocene
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Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Universita Ca'Foscari Venezia Graduate School, 118 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory history Author(s): Schneider, H. E., L. C. Sweet - Title: Fire, Pollution, and Grazing: Oh My! A Game in Which Native and Invasive Plants Compete Under Multiple Disturbance Regimes Source: Pages 105-110, in: Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainable Studies, Springer Year: 2016 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Invasive plants can significantly degrade wildlife habitat, alter soil nutrient cycling, increase the risk of wildfires and floods, consume large amounts of water, and disrupt other ecosystem services. In some instances, managing invasives may be difficult or impossible ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Schrey, A. W., A. K. Ragsdale, E. D. Mccoy, H. R. Mushinsky Title: Repeated habitat disturbances by fire decrease local effective population size Source: Journal of Heredity, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: genetics Abstract: Effective population size is a fundamental parameter in population genetics, and factors that alter effective population size will shape the genetic characteristics of populations. Habitat disturbance may have a large effect on genetic characteristics of ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Schmerbeck, Joachim and Niyati Naudiyal Title: Does fire make the edge between grasslands and sholas in the western Ghats? Observations from the Palni Hills Source: Chapter 6, in: Ecology and Management of Grassland Habitats in India Year: n. d. Keywords: encroachment
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Author(s): Scofield, Anna M., Benjamin S. Rashford, Donald M. McLeod, Roger H. Coupal, Scott N. Lieske and Shannon E. Albeke Title: Residential Development Effects on Firefighting Costs in the Wildland-Urban Interface Source: University of Wyoming, UW Extension Publication B-1268, 8 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: economics interface Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Scofield, Anna Title: The impacts of residential development pattern on wildland fire suppression expenditures Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Wyoming Year: 2016 Keywords: interface Author(s): Seijo, F. Title: The politics of fire: Spanish forest policy and ritual resistance in Galicia, Spain Source: Environmental Politics 14: 380-402 Year: 2005 Keywords: indigenous history Abstract: The north-western Atlantic corner of the Iberian peninsula is the region most prone to anthropogenic forest fires in Europe. This study analyses the forest fire problem in Galicia, Spain, a region located in the midst of this conflictive biome. Rural incendiarism in Galicia has puzzled foresters and scholars for years. Although past research efforts have focused on the elaboration of complex causal analyses... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sergey, D., K. Tatiana, R. Tatiana Title: FOREST RESTORATION MANAGEMENT AT THE FIRE SITES (in Russian) Source: VESTNIK of Volga State University of Technology Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: Sandy lowland on the left bank of the Volga river between Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan determines formation of vast pine forests that are open to
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large fires from time to time. A strategy for forest restoration of the area includes establishment of pure pine ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sharples, J. J., C. C. Simpson, J. P. Evans Title: Examination of wind speed thresholds for vorticity-driven lateral fire spread Source: in: 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, Australia, 1-6 December 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: behavior Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated that under conditions of extreme fire weather, bushfires burning in rugged terrain can exhibit highly atypical patterns of propagation, which can have a dramatic effect on subsequent fire development. In particular, wildfires have been observed to spread laterally across steep, lee-facing slopes in a process that has been termed "fire channelling". Fire channelling, in turn, has been associated with serious escalation in fire activity and the development of pyrocumulonimbus storms. Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling using large eddy simulation has indicated... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Shaoliang, Y., Ning, W., Pang, L., et al. Title: Changes in livestock migration patterns in a Tibetan-style agropastoral system: A study in the Three-Parallel-Rivers Region of Yunnan, China Source: Mt Res Dev 27: 138-145 Year: 2007 Keywords: indigenous history Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Shakesby, Richard A., John A. Moody, Deborah A. Martin and Peter R. Robichaud Title: Synthesising empirical results to improve predictions of post-wildfire runoff and erosion response Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 257-261 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils
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Abstract: This short paper is the foreword to a special issue of eight papers selected from those presented at a 2013 conference concerned with post-wildfire hydrogeomorphic impacts. Insufficient understanding of underlying controls to enable... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sheridan, Gary J., Petter Nyman, Christoph Langhans, Jane Cawson, Philip J. Noske, Akiko Oono, Rene Van der Sant and Patrick N. J. Lane Title: Is aridity a high-order control on the hydro-geomorphic response of burned landscapes? Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 262-26 Year: 2016 Keywords: Aridity Abstract: The runoff and sediment generation potential of fire-affected soils is a critical factor in determining the hydro-geomorphic response of burned landscapes. Aridity is a control on soil development, and here we show it is also a strong predictor of post-fire surface runoff generation and high-magnitude erosion processes such as debris flows. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sidman, Gabriel, D. Phillip Guertin, David C. Goodrich, Carl L. Unkrich and I. Shea Burns Title: Risk assessment of post-wildfire hydrological response in semiarid basins: The effects of varying rainfall representations in the KINEROS2/AGWA model Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 268-278 Year: 2016 Keywords: risk hydrology modelling Abstract: The KINEROS2/AGWA model was used to compare several representations of post-fire rainfall events. Results indicated that radar depictions produced more accurate absolute runoff values than design storm depictions. However, risk assessment predictions of relative change between pre- and post-fire scenarios did not vary greatly between rainfall depictions. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sidman, Gabriel, D. Phillip Guertin, David C. Goodrich, David Thoma, Donald Falk and I. Shea Burns
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Title: A coupled modelling approach to assess the effect of fuel treatments on post-wildfire runoff and erosion Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 351-362 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling fuel erosion soils Abstract: Assessing the effectiveness of fuel treatments on reducing post-fire hydrologic response is an important challenge in fire management. We linked fuel treatment, wildfire and hydrological models spatially to measure the effects of fuel treatments on post-fire runoff and erosion in two case studies on National Park Service lands. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Silva, Joaquim S., Patricia dos Santos, Andre Serio and Filomena Gomes Title: Effects of heat on dehiscence and germination in Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 478-483 Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration ecology Abstract: Different combinations of temperature and exposure time were used to test the effect of heat on the dehiscence of capsules and on the germination of seeds of Eucalyptus globulus. This study shows that seed shed is caused by capsule desiccation but not directly by heat, and that capsules provide effective protection to seeds for specific temperature-time combinations. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Silva-SAnchez, N., A. Martinez Cortizas, D. Abel-Schaad, J. A. Lopez-SAez, and T. M. Mighall Title: Influence of climate change and human activities on the organic and inorganic composition of peat during the "Little Ice Age" (El Payo mire, W Spain) Source: The Holocene. published 31 March 2016, 10.1177/0959683616638439 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The study of environmental change during the "Little Ice Age" offers a great potential to improve our current understanding of the climate system and human-environment interactions. Here, a high-resolution multiproxy investigation of a Mediterranean mire from central-western Spain, covering the
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last ~700 years, was used to reconstruct peat dynamics and land-use change and... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Silva, V., N. Abrantes, R. Costa, J. J. Keizer, F. Goncalves Title: Effects of ash-loaded post-fire runoff on the freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea Source: Ecological Engineering 90: 180-189 Year: 2016 Keywords: wetlands clam Abstract: Wildfires, increasingly frequent and severe in the Mediterranean countries, can cause serious impacts on ecosystems. As a diffuse source of contaminants - namely inorganic elements (metals, metalloids and non-metallic elements) and polycyclic ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Simpson, C., J. J. Sharples, J. P. Evans Title: Sensitivity of atypical lateral fire spread to wind and slope Source: Geophysical Research Letters, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: behavior Abstract: This study presents new knowledge of the environmental sensitivity of a dynamic Mode of atypical wildland fire spread on steep lee-facing slopes. This is achieved through a Series of idealized numerical simulations performed with the WRF and WRF-Fire coupled ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sitter, Holly, Julian Di Stefano, Fiona Christie, Matthew Swan and Alan York Title: Bird functional diversity decreases with time since disturbance: Does patchy prescribed fire enhance ecosystem function? Source: Ecological Applicatons 26(1): 115-127 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife birds Abstract: Animal species diversity is often associated with time since disturbance, but the effects of disturbances such as fire on functional diversity are unknown. Functional diversity measures the range, abundance, and
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distribution of trait values in a community, and links changes in species composition with the consequences for ecosystem function. Improved understanding of the relationship between time since fire (TSF) and functional diversity is critical given that the frequency . Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Slack, Andrew W., Nickolas E. Zeibig-Kichas, Jeffrey M. Kane, J. Morgan Varner Title: Contingent resistance in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) growth and defense 10 years following smoldering fires Source: Forest Ecology and Management 364 (2016) 130-138 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology Abstract: In many fire-prone woodlands and forests, fire exclusion has resulted in substantial litter and duff accumulations capable of long-duration smoldering once fire is reintroduced. While previous research has shown that the soil heating from smoldering fires resulted in short-term reductions in coarse root non-structural carbohydrates and latewood growth, information on the long-term effects of smoldering fire is lacking. Our study compared the effects... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Smith, ALISTAIR M. S., CRYSTAL A. KOLDEN, TRAVIS B. PAVEGLIO, MARK A. COCHRANE, DAVID M. J. S. BOWMAN, MAX A. MORITZ, ANDREW D. KLISKEY, LILIAN ALESSA, ANDREW T. HUDAK, CHAD M. HOFFMAN, JAMES A. LUTZ, LLOYD P. QUEEN, SCOTT J. GOETZ, PHILIP E. HIGUERA, LUIGI BOSCHETTI, MIKE FLANNIGAN, KARA M. YEDINAK, ADAM C. WATTS, EVA K. STRAND, JAN W. VAN WAGTENDONK, JOHN W. ANDERSON, BRIAN J. STOCKS AND JOHN T. ABATZOGLOU Title: The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities Source: Bioscience 66(2): 130-146 Year: 2016 Keywords: management interface Abstract: Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process. Fire science has
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been, and continues to be, performed in isolated "silos," including institutions (e.g., agencies versus universities), organizational structures (e.g., federal agency mandates versus ... Author(s): Smith, Alistair M. S., Alan F. Talhelm, Crystal A. Kolden, Beth A. Newingham, Henry D. Adams, Jack D. Cohen, Kara M. Yedinak and Robert L. Kremens Title: The ability of winter grazing to reduce wildfire size and fire-induced plant mortality was not demonstrated: A comment on Davies et al. (2015) Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 484-488 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: This commentary highlights the scientific shortcomings in the paper by Davies et al. (2015). The study has methodological errors, has insufficient data to support the authors' conclusions and lacks thoroughness in their discussion. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Smith, Annabel L., Erin L. Landguth, C. Michael Bull, Sam C. Banks, Michael G. Gardner, and Don A. Driscoll Title: Dispersal responses override density effects on genetic diversity during post-disturbance succession Source: Proc R Soc B. 2016; 283:20152934 Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration ecology genetics Abstract: Dispersal fundamentally influences spatial population dynamics but little is Known about dispersal variation in landscapes where spatial heterogeneity Is generated predominantly by disturbance and succession. We tested the Hypothesis that habitat succession ? Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Smith, Alistair M. S., Aaron M. Sparks, Crystal A. Kolden, John T. Abatzoglou, Alan F. Talhelm, Daniel M. Johnson, Luigi Boschetti, James A. Lutz, Kent G. Apostol, Kara M. Yedinak, Wade T. Tinkham and Robert J. Kremens Title: Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose-response experiments Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25: 158-166
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Year: 2016 Keywords: severity Abstract: Most landscape-scale fire severity research relies on correlations between field measures of fire effects and Relatively simple spectral reflectance indices that are not direct measures of heat output or changes in plant physiology. Although many authors have highlighted limitations of this approach and called for improved assessments of severity, Others have suggested that the operational u... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Smit, K. Title: Climate change is killing ancient Tasmanian forests Source: Green Left Weekly, Issue 1082 (2 Feb 2016) Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology climate Abstract: ... Eucalyptus forests in the rest of Australia need fire to regen- erate. ... In the next decade that number Almost doubled to 30. In a fire risk assessment of the world heritage area, the service said lightning Fires should no longer be viewed as 'natural' because of the influence of ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Soares, Joana and Mikhail Sofiev Title: A Global Wildfire Emission and Atmospheric Composition: Refinement of the Integrated System for Wild-Land Fires IS4FIRES Source: Chapter 41, in: Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIII, January 2014, pages 253-258;, ISBN: 978-3-319-04378-4 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Soares, J., M. Sofiev, and J. Kakkarainen Title: Uncertainties of wild-land fires emission in AQMEII phase 2 case study Source: Atmospheric Environment 115: 361-370 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: The paper discusses the main uncertainties of wild-land fire emission estimates used in the AQMEII-II case study. The wild-land fire emission of
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particulate matter for the summer fire season of 2010 in Eurasia was generated by the Integrated System for wild-land Fires (IS4FIRES). The emission calculation procedure included two steps: bottom-up emission compilation from radiative... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sofiev, M., R. Vankevich, M. Lotjonen, M. Prank, V. Petukhov, T. Ermakova, J. Koskinen and J. Kukkonen Title: An operational system for the assimilation of the satellite information on wild-land fires for the needs of air quality modelling and forecasting Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9: 6833-6847 Year: 2009 Keywords: smoke Abstract: This paper investigates a potential of two remotely sensed wild-land fire characteristics: 4-mu m Brightness Temperature Anomaly (TA) and Fire Radiative Power (FRP) for the needs of operational chemical transport modelling and short-term forecasting of atmospheric... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sofiev, Mikhail, Joana Soares, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Julius Vira, and Marje Prank Title: A two-step combination of top-down and bottom-up fire emission estimates at regional and global scales: strengths and main uncertainties Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 18, EGU2016-14584, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Sofiev, M., J. Soares, J. Vira, M. Prank, R. Kouznetsov Title: Uncertainties of Top-Down Fire Emission Estimates at Regional and Global Scales Source: In: Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, pages 509-512 Year: 2016 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Top-down emission estimation via inverse dispersion modelling is frequently used For estimation of emission from wild-land fires. The approach,
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efficiently constraining the Emission from fires, also has major uncertainties, which are illustrated here with a few ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Soja, A., J. Al-Saadi, B. Pierce, C. Kittaka, J. Szykman, D. J. Williams, T. Pace, L. Giglio, J. Kordzi D. Randall and T. Moore Title: How well does satellite data quantify fire and enhance biomass burning emissions estimates? Source: Unpublished manuscript, 18 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Biomass burning is a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants to the atmosphere, and it is one of the most poorly documented of all sources. Biomass burning can be a significant contributor to a regions inability to achieve the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for PM 2.5 and ozone, particularly on the top... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Sokos, Christos, Periklis Birtsas, Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos, Efstathios Tsachalidis, Alexios Giannakopoulos, Chrysostomos Milis, Vassiliki Spyrou, Katerina Manolakou, George Valiakos, Christos Iakovakis, Labrini V. Athanasiou, Athanasios Sfougaris, and Charalambos Billinis Title: Mammals and habitat disturbance: The case of brown hare and wildfire Source: Current Zoology. published 4 April 2016, 10.1093/cz/zow020 Year: 2016 Keywords: wildlife rabbits hares Abstract: Ecosystem disturbances, such as wildfires, are driving forces that determine ecology and conservation measures. Species respond differentially to wildfires, having diverse post-fire population evolution. This study reports, for first time, the responses of brown hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778) to wildfires. Hare relative abundance, age ratio ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Solomon, T. B., Snyman, H. A. and Smit G. N.
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Title: Cattle-rangeland management practices and perceptions of pastoralists towards rangeland degradation in the Borana zone of southern Ethiopia Source: J Environ Manage 82: 481-494 Year: 2007 Keywords: indigenous history Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stavi, I., D. Barkai, Y. M. Knoll, E. Zaady Title: Livestock grazing impact on soil wettability and erosion risk in post-fire agricultural lands Source: Science of The Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: Agriculture grazing Abstract: Fires in agricultural areas are common, modifying the functioning of agro- ecosystems. Such fires have been extensively studied, and reported to considerably affect soil properties. Yet, understanding of the impact of livestock grazing, or more precisely, ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stawski, C., G. Kortner, J. Nowack, F. Geiser Title: Phenotypic plasticity of post-fire activity and thermal biology of a small mammal Source: Physiology & Behavior 159: 104-111 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology wildlife Abstract: Ecosystems can change rapidly and sometimes irreversibly due to a number of anthropogenic and natural factors, such as deforestation and fire. How individual animals exposed to such changes respond behaviourally and physiologically is poorly understood ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stasova, V. V., S. Branch, O. N. Zubareva, G. A. Ivanova Title: Anatomical features of the Scots pine stem phloem after forest fire Source: Siberian Journal of Forest Science 1: 74-86 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Russia
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Abstract: The changes in anatomical structure of phloem tissue in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Stems influenced by creeping forest fires of various rates were under study. The sampling was carried out in the Lower Angara river region of the Angara provenance, Krasnoyarsk ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stephan, K., Kavanagh K. L., Koyama A. Title: Comparing the influence of wildfire and prescribed burns on watershed nitrogen biogeochemistry using 15N natural abundance in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem components Source: Plos One [PLoS One], ISSN: 1932-6203, 2015 Apr 17; Vol. 10 (4), Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning Abstract: We evaluated differences in the effects of three low-severity spring prescribed burns and four wildfires on nitrogen (N) biogeochemistry in Rocky Mountain headwater watersheds. We compared paired (burned/unburned) watersheds of four wildfires and three spring prescribed burns for three growing seasons... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stevens-Rumann, CAMILLE, PENELOPE MORGAN AND CHAD HOFFMAN Title: Bark beetles and wildfires: How does forest recovery change with repeated disturbances in mixed conifer forests? Source: Ecosphere, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: insects Abstract: Increased wildfire activity and recent bark beetle outbreaks in the western United States have increased the potential for interactions between disturbance types to influence forest characteristics. However, the effects of interactions between bark beetle outbreaks and subsequent wildfires on forest succession remain poorly understood. We collected data in dry... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stevens-Rumann, Camille and Penelope Morgan
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Title: Repeated wildfires alter forest recovery of mixed-conifer ecosystems Source: Ecological Applications, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: frequency Abstract: Most models project warmer and drier climates that will contribute to larger and more frequent wildfires. However, it remains unknown how repeated wildfires alter post-fire successional patterns and forest structure. Here, we test the hypothesis that the number of wildfires, as well as the order and severity of wildfire events interact to alter forest structure and vegetation recovery and implications for vegetation management.... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Stoof, Cathelijne R., Anouk I. Gevaert, Christine Baver, Bahareh Hassanpour, Veronica L. Morales, Wei Zhang, Deborah Martin, Shree K. Giri and Tammo S. Steenhuis Title: Can pore-clogging by ash explain post-fire runoff? Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 294-305 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils ash Abstract: Clogging of soil pores by ash is often named as a factor causing increased surface runoff after fires, yet evidence for this is lacking. Using infiltration experiments with microscope observations, and analysis of surface charge and hydraulic conductivity, we were unable to provide this evidence using pure sands. This suggests that pore-clogging by ash is unlikely to be responsible for post-fire runoff from sands Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Strickland, C., A. C. Liedloff, G. D. Cook, G. Dangelmayr Title: The role of water and fire in driving tree dynamics in Australian savannas Source: Journal of Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: ecology grasslands Abstract: Ecologists rely on models to explore tree compositional changes especially When occurring over decades or centuries. In this paper, we construct a theoretical, Mathematical model to investigate the long-term relationships between savanna stand ... Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Stuhler, J. D. and J. L. Orrock Title: Past agricultural land use and present-day fire regimes can interact to determine the nature of seed predation Source: Oecologia Year: 2016 Keywords: regeneration wildlife Abstract: Historical agriculture and present-day fire regimes can have significant effects on contemporary ecosystems. Although past agricultural land use can lead to long-term changes in plant communities, it remains unclear whether these persistent land-use ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Styger, J., J. B. Kirkpatrick Title: Less than 50 millimetres of rainfall in the previous month predicts fire in Tasmanian rainforest Source: Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 149 pp Year: 2015 Keywords: rain weather Abstract: Rainforests can be eliminated by repeated fire, so we need to know when they require Protection. We use data from 11 extensive fires in western Tasmania to determine the Meteorological conditions in which rainforest will burn. The variables that discriminated ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Tamen, A. T., Y. Dumont, J. J. Tewa, S. Bowong, P. Couteron Title: A minimalistic model of tree-grass interactions using impulsive differential equations and non-linear feed-back functions of grass biomass onto fire-induced tree mortality Source: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling encroachment Abstract: Since savannas are important ecosystems around the world, their long term dynamics is an important issue, in particular when perturbations, like fires, occur more or less often. In a previous paper, we developed and studied a tree-grass model that take into account fires as pulse events using impulsive differential equations. In this work ...
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Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Tchuinte Tamen, Alexis, Yves Dumont, Samuel Bowong, Jean-Jules Tewa, Pierre Couteron Title: Interactions of Pulsed Fires and Water in Tree--Grass Savanna Ecosystems Source: Biomath Communications 3(1): Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling Abstract: We have developed and compared two variants of a minimalistic tree-grass model which account for fire as periodic pulse events using impulsive differential equations (IDEs). Our models explicitly consider both a generic non-linear increasing function of grass and the response function of woody biomass to fire intensity. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Tchuinte Tamen, A., Y. Dumont, S. Bowong, J. J. Tewa, P. Couteron Title: Tree-grass interaction dynamics and pulsed fires: Mathematical and numerical studies Source: Applied Mathematical Modelling (2016). Online Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling Abstract: Savannas are dynamical systems where grasses and trees can either dominate or coexist. Fires are known to be central in the functioning of the savanna biome though their characteristics are expected to vary along the rainfall gradients as observed in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we model the tree-grass dynamics using... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Thokchom, A. and P. S. Yadava Title: Changes in the seasonal cycle of carbon stocks and fluxes due to fires in the grassland ecosystem of Manipur, Northeast India Source: Current Science 110(6): 1088-1094 Year: 2016 Keywords: grasslands carbon Abstract: Fire is a common perturbation in the grassland ecosystems throughout the world. Effect of fire on carbon stock, rate ... and burnt site
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respectively. It indicates that fire decreases the carbon stock in the grassland. However in the ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Thole, Lena, Christoph Schworer, Daniele Colombaroli, Erika Gobet, Petra Kaltenrieder, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, and Willy Tinner Title: Reconstruction of Holocene vegetation dynamics at Lac de Bretaye, a high-mountain lake in the Swiss Alps Source: The Holocene 26:380-396 Year: 2016 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: A deeper understanding of past vegetation dynamics is required to better assess future vegetation responses to global warming in the Alps. Lake sediments from Lac de Bretaye, a small subalpine lake in the Northern Swiss Alps (1780 m a.s.l.), were analysed to reconstruct past vegetation dynamics for the entire Holocene, using pollen, macrofossil and charcoal analyses as main proxies... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Thompson, M. P., P. Freeborn, J. D. Rieck, D. E. Calkin Title: Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: A case study of the Las Conchas Fire Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): Year: 2016 Keywords: suppression Abstract: We present a case study of the Las Conchas Fire (2011) to explore the role of Previously burned areas (wildfires and prescribed fires) on suppression effectiveness and Avoided exposure. Methodological innovations include characterisation of the joint ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Thomas, P. B., P. J. Watson, R. A. Bradstock, T. D. Penman and O. F. Price Title: Modelling surface fine fuel dynamics across climate gradients in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia
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Source: Ecography 37: 827-837 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling fuel Abstract: An understanding of the eff ects of climate on fuel is required to predict future changes to fi re. We explored the climatic determinants of variations in surface fi ne fuel parameters across forests (dry and wet sclerophyll plus rainforest) and grassy woodlands of south-eastern Australia. Infl uences of vegetation type and climate on fuel were examined through statistical modelling for estimates of litterfall, decomposition and steady state fi ne litter fuel load obtained from published studies. Strong relationships were found between... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Tidwell, Tom Title: The human dimension of safety in the wildland fire environment Source: Wildfire 24(3): 14-15 Year: 2015 Keywords: management human factors Author(s): Tinkham, Wade T., Alistair M. S. Smith, Philip E. Higuera, Jeffery A. Hatten, Nolan W. Brewer and Stefan H. Doerr Title: Replacing time with space: using laboratory fires to explore the effects of repeated burning on black carbon degradation Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 242-248 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling Abstract: We highlight via a laboratory experiment the potential of repeated burns to reduce black carbon residence times. Our results indicate that for black carbon that remains in situ to be most effective as a net carbon sink, it must be incorporated deep into the organic layer or into the mineral soil matrix before subsequent burning. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Tinkham, Wade T., Chad M. Hoffman, Jesse M. Canfield, Emma Vakili and Robin M. Reich Title: Using the photoload technique with double sampling to improve surface fuel loading estimates Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 224-228
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Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel Abstract: This study evaluated double sampling to improve photoload estimates of fine woody fuels. We found that double sampling with a regression correction provided a substantial improvement in the accuracy and precision of fine woody fuel load estimates, when sample size is r20 and double sampling rate is r20%. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Titelius, R. Title: Waroona fire: Australia and global warming Source: Guardian (Sydney), January 27, 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: Australia behavior Abstract: Yarloop locals on January 20, and while acknowledging "The scale of the devastation to be quite Shocking", also asserted that the Yarloop/ Waroona fire was unstoppable with its severity worsened By a drying climate in WA's South West. However, does this now mean Premier Barnett ... Author(s): Tohidi, Ali, Nigel B. Kayea Title: Highly Buoyant Bent-Over Plumes In a Boundary Layer Source: Atmospheric Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: behavior Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Trauernicht, Clay, Barry W. Brook, Brett P. Murphy, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman Title: Research papers on rural and indigenous fire use Source: Ecology and Evolution 5: 1908-1918 Year: 2015 Keywords: indigenous history bibliography Author(s): Trauernicht, Clay, Barry W. Brook, Brett P. Murphy, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman Title: The research papers used to examine the objectives and geographic extent of rural and indigenous landscape burning 1 organized by data type (direct ethnography, historical accounts, and descriptive accounts without reference to
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sources) and biome 2 ("mixed" refers to multiple habitat types such as forest/savanna mosaics). Source: Appendix S1Unknown publication Year: n. d. Keywords: indigenous history Author(s): Trauernicht, Clay and Elizabeth Pickett Title: Pre-Fire Planning Guide for Resource Managers and Landowners in Hawai'i and Pacific Islands Source: College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, forest and Natural Resource Management Report RM-20, 8 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: hawaii management planning Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Turco, Marco, Joaquin Bedia, Fabrizio Di Liberto, Paolo Fiorucci, Jost von Hardenberg, Nikos Koutsias, Maria-Carmen Llasat, Fotios Xystrakis, Antonello Provenzale Title: Decreasing Fires in Mediterranean Europe Source: PLoS ONE 11(3): e0150663. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150663 Year: 2016 Keywords: management Abstract: Forest fires are a serious environmental hazard in southern Europe. Quantitative assessment of recent trends in fire statistics is important for assessing the possible shifts induced by climate and other environmental/socioeconomic changes in this area. Here we analyse recent fire trends in Portugal, Spain, southern France... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Turner, Monica G., Timothy G. Whitby, Daniel B. Tinker and William H. Romme Title: Twenty-four years after the Yellowstone Fires: Are postfire lodgepole pine stands converging in structure and function? Source: Ecology, available online 2016 Year: 2016
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Keywords: ecology Abstract: Disturbance and succession have long been of interest in ecology, but how landscape patterns of ecosystem structure and function evolve following large disturbances is poorly understood. After nearly 25 years, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. Latifolia) forests that regenerated after the 1988 Yellowstone Fires (Wyoming, USA) offer a prime opportunity to track the fate of disturbance-created heterogeneity in stand structure and function in a wilderness setting. In 2012, we resampled 72 permanent plots to ask (1) How have postfire stand structure and function changed between 11 and... Author(s): Twidwell, Dirac, William E. Rogers, Carissa L. Wonkka, Charles A. Taylor, Jr., Urs P. Kreuter Title: Extreme prescribed fire during drought reduces survival and density of woody resprouters Source: Proof, 36 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: prescribed burning regeneration Abstract: Extreme fires during drought resulted in exceptionally high levels of mortality across all sizes of woody resprouters and limited recruitment, resulting in 35-55% lower densities of resprouters than in areas not burned. These findings counter prevailing scientific and management expectations, which are based largely on studies... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Urgenson, L., Schmidt, A. H., Combs, J., et al. Title: Traditional Livelihoods, Conservation and Meadow Ecology in Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China Source: Hum Ecol 42: 481-491 Year: 2014 Keywords: indigenous history Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Valko, Orsolya, Balazs Deak, Tibor Magura, Peter Torok, Andras Kelemen, Katalin Toth, Roland Horvath, David D. Nagy, Zsuzsanna Debnar, Gyorgy Zsigrai, Istvan Kapocsi, Bela Tothmeresz Title: Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands - A multi-taxa approach
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Source: Science of the Total Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning Abstract: There are contrasting opinions on the use of prescribed burning management in European grasslands. On the one hand, prescribed burning can be effectively used for the management of open landscapes, controlling dominant species, reducing accumulated litter or decreasingwildfire risk. On the other hand burning can have a detrimental impact on grassland biodiversity by supporting... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): van Eck, C., J. Nunes, D. Vieira, S. Keesstra, J. Keizer Title: Physically-based modelling of the post-fire runoff response of a forest catchment in central Portugal: using field vs. Remote sensing based estimates of vegetation recovery Source: Land Degradation, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling erosion hydrology Abstract: Forest fires are a recurrent phenomenon in Mediterranean forests, with impacts for human landscapes and communities, which must be understood before they can be managed. This study used the LISEM physically based model (LISEM) to simulate rainfall- ... Author(s): Vasquez-Gassibe, P., J. A. Oria-de-Rueda Title: The effects of fire severity on ectomycorrhizal colonization and morphometric features in Pinus pinaster Ait. seedlings Source: Forest Systems, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: severity fungi Abstract: Mycorrhizal fungi in Mediterranean forests play a key role in the complex process of recovery after wildfires. A broader understanding of an important pyrophytic species as Pinus pinaster and its fungal symbionts is thus necessary for forest ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected]
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Author(s): Vogler, Kevin C., Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Michael Jennings and John D. Bailey Title: Prioritization of Forest Restoration Projects: Tradeoffs between Wildfire Protection, Ecological Restoration and Economic Objectives Source: Forests, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: restoration Abstract: The implementation of US federal forest restoration programs on national forests is a complex process that requires balancing diverse socioecological goals with project economics. Despite both the large geographic scope and substantial investments in restoration projects, a quantitative decision support framework to locate optimal project areas and examine tradeoffs among alternative restoration strategies is lacking. We developed... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Vose, J. M., J. S. Clark, C. H. Luce and T. Patel-Weynand Title: Effects of drought on forests and rangelands in the United States: A comprehensive science synthesis Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, General Technical Report WO-83b, 302 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: drought Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Walters, G. M. Title: The Land Chief's embers: ethnobotany of Bateke fire regimes, savanna vegetation and resource use in Gabon Source: Ph. D. dissertation, London, UK: University College London Year: 2010 Keywords: indigenous history Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Walker, R. S., Kesler, D. C., Hill, K. R. Title: Are Isolated Indigenous Populations Headed toward Extinction? Source: PLoS ONE 11(3): e0150987. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0150987 Year: 2016
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Keywords: indigenous remote sensing Abstract: At least 50 indigenous groups spread across lowland South America remain isolated and have only intermittent and mostly hostile interactions with the outside world. Except in emergency situations, the current policy of governments in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru towards isolated tribes is a "leave them alone" strategy, in which isolated ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Walsh, Tim Title: Hand crew utillization on a wldland urban interface fire Source: Unpublished manuscript, 13 pages Year: 2016 Keywords: management suppression interface Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Wang, H. H., C. L. Wonkka, W. E. Grant, W. E. Rogers Title: Range expansion of invasive shrubs: implication for crown fire risk in forestlands of the southern United States. Source: AoB PLANTS 2016 Mar 23;8. pii: plw012. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plw012. Print 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Non-native plant invasions and changing management activities have dramatically altered the structure and composition of forests worldwide. Invasive shrubs and fire suppression have led to increased densification and biomass accumulation in forest ecosystems of the ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Warren, A., Kosonen, J., Katundu, M., et al. Title: Causes and consequences of anthropogenic fire in Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve, southern Malawi Source: M. S. Thesis, Canterbury, UK: University of Kent Year: 2001 Keywords: indigenous history Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access
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Author(s): Webster, Jackson P., Tyler J. Kane, Daniel Obrist, Joseph N. Ryan, George R. Aiken Title: Estimating mercury emissions resulting from wildfire in forests of the Western United States Source: Science of The Total Environment, Available online 18 February 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: Toxicity Abstract: Understanding the emissions of mercury (Hg) from wildfires is important for quantifying the global atmospheric Hg sources. Emissions of Hg from soils resulting from wildfires in the Western United States was estimated for the 2000 to 2013 period, and the potential emission of Hg from forest soils was assessed as a function of forest type ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Welch, J. R., Santos, R. V., Flowers, N. M. et al. Title: Na primeira margem do rio: Territorio e ecologia do povo Xavante de Wedeze Source: Rio de Janeiro: Museo do Indio-FUNAI Year: 2013 Keywords: indigenous history Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Wheeler, V.-M., J. A. McCoy, G. E. Wheeler, J. J. Sharples Title: Curvature flows and barriers in fire front modelling Source: 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, Australia, 1-6 December 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: In this paper we propose a novel mathematical model for describing the evolution of a fire front. Specifically, for a homogeneous fuel bed of varying height with constant ignition temperature Tig we model the isosurface corresponding to... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Williams, E. Title: Maori fire use and landscape changes in southern New Zealand
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Source: Journal of the Polynesian Society 118: 175-189 Year: 2009 Keywords: indigenous history Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Williamson, G. J., L. D. Prior, W. M. Jolly, M. A. Cochrane Title: Measurement of inter-and intra-annual variability of landscape fire activity at a continental scale: The Australian case Source: Environmental Research Letters 11(3): 035003 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: Climate dynamics at diurnal, seasonal and inter-annual scales shape global fire activity, although difficulties of assembling reliable fire and meteorological data with sufficient spatio-temporal resolution have frustrated quantification of this variability. Using ... Author(s): Williamson, Craig E., Erin P. Overholt, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Rachel M. Pilla, Taylor H. Leach, S. Geoffrey Schladow, Joseph D. Warren, Samuel S. Urmy, Steven Sadro, Sudeep Chandra and Patrick J. Neale Title: Sentinel responses to droughts, wildfires, and floods: effects of UV radiation on lakes and their ecosystem services Source: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14(2): 102-109 Year: 2016 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Environmental drivers such as climate change are responsible for extreme events that are critically altering freshwater resources across the planet. In the continental US, these events range from increases in the frequency and duration of droughts and wildfires in the West, to increasing precipitation and floods that are turning lakes and reservoirs brown in the East. Such events transform and transport organic carbon in ways... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Williams, C. Jason, Frederick B. Pierson, Peter R. Robichaud, Osama Z. Al-Hamdan, Jan Boll and Eva K. Strand Title: Structural and functional connectivity as a driver of hillslope erosion following disturbance Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(3): 306-321
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Year: 2016 Keywords: soils erosion Abstract: This study quantifies runoff and erosion across point to hillslope scales and evaluates connectivity of runoff and erosion processes for fragmented and burnt landscapes. The results clearly demonstrate hillslope hydrologic response is governed by water input and the connectivity of surface susceptibility, sediment availability, and runoff and erosion processes. Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Wilkin, K. M., D. D. Ackerly, S. L. Stephens Title: Climate Change Refugia, Fire Ecology and Management Source: Forests 7(4): 77 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: Early climate change ideas warned of widespread species extinctions. As scientists have probed more deeply into species responses, a more nuanced perspective emerged indicating that some species may persist in microrefugia (refugia), including in ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Williams, A. P., J. T. Abatzoglou Title: Recent Advances and Remaining Uncertainties in Resolving Past and Future Climate Effects on Global Fire Activity Source: Current Climate Change Reports Year: 2016 Keywords: climate Abstract: Fire is an integral component of the Earth system that will critically affect how Terrestrial carbon budgets and living systems respond to climate change. Paleo and Observational records document robust positive relationships between fire activity and ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Wittenberg, Lea, Dan Malkinson, Ronel Barzilai Title: The differential response of surface runoff and sediment loss to wildfire events
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Source: Catena 121 (2014) 241-247 Year: 2014 Keywords: hydrology erosion soils Abstract: Wildfires are of primary importance in determining ecosystemfunction and geomorphological process inmost of the forested landscapes across the globe. Following a fire event in a maquis forest located at the Carmel mountain range in northern Israel, we monitored the eco-geomorphic response of the system, in an attempt to explain runoff and sediment yield dynamics. Specifically... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Wosten, J. H. M., J. VAN DEN BERG, P. VAN EIJK, G. J. M. GEVERS, W. B. J. T. GIESEN, A. HOOIJER, ASWANDI IDRIS, P. H. LEENMAN, DIPA SATRIADI RAIS, C. SIDERIUS, M. J. SILVIUS, N. SURYADIPUTRA and IWAN TRICAHYO WIBISONO Title: Interrelationships between Hydrology and Ecology in Fire Degraded Tropical Peat Swamp Forests Source: Water Resources Development 22(1): 157-174 Year: 2006 Keywords: hydrology peat Abstract: 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 related to the occurrence of different vegetation types in this endangered peatland watershed. In dry conditions when groundwater levels are deeper than 1m below soil surface,... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Wyse, Sarah V., George L. W. Perry, Dean M. O'Connell, Phillip S. Holland, Monique J. Wright, Catherine L. Hosted, Samuel L. Whitelock, Ian J. Geary, Kevin J. L. Maurin and Timothy J. Curran Title: A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(4): 466-477 Year: 2016 Keywords: flammability
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Abstract: We quantify the shoot flammability of 60 New Zealand tree and shrub species, including 10 exotic species. Our results corroborate a qualitative assessment of NZ plant flammability based on expert opinion. We advise fire managers on low-flammability species suitable for green firebreaks and identify highly flammable indigenous and exotic species. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Xiaorui Tian, Lifu Shu, Mingyu Wang, Fengjun Zhao and Liguang Chen Title: The fire danger and fire regime for the Daxing'anling region for 1987-2001 Source: Procedia Engineering 62: 1023-1031 Year: 2013 Keywords: danger china Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Xianli Wang, Marc-Andre Parisien, Stephen W. Taylor, Daniel D. B. Perrakis, John Little and Mike D. Flannigan Title: Future burn probability in south-central British Columbia Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(2): 200-212 Year: 2016 Keywords: modeling Abstract: A simulation-based framework was used to assess the effect of future fuels, weather and ignitions on burn probability in the Thompson-Okanagan region, British Columbia. Changes in potential vegetation may offset the effect of increases in the number of fire ignitions and fire weather severity on burn probability in this region. Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Xianli Wang, MARC-ANDRE PARISIEN, MIKE D. FLANNIGAN, SEAN A. PARKS, KERRY R. ANDERSON, JOHN M. LITTLE and STEVE W. TAYLOR Title: The potential and realized spread of wildfires across Canada Source: Global Change Biology (2014) 20, 2518-2530 Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior Abstract: Given that they can burn for weeks or months, wildfires in temperate and boreal forests may become immense (eg., 100 - 104 km2). However, during the period within which a large fire is "active", not all days experience weather that Is conducive to fire spread; indeed most of the spread occurs on a small
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proportion (e.g., 1 - 15 days) of not necessarily Consecutive days during the active period. This study examines and compares the Canada-wide patterns in fireconducive Weather ("potential" spread) and the spread that occurs... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Xinyan Huang, Francesco Restuccia, Michela Gramola, Guillermo Rein Title: Experimental study of the formation and collapse of an overhang in the lateral spread of smouldering peat fires Source: Combustion and Flame, Available online 26 February 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: peat smoldering behavior Abstract: Smouldering combustion is the driving phenomenon of wildfires in peatlands, and is responsible for large amounts of carbon emissions and haze episodes world wide. Compared to flaming fires, smouldering is slow, low-temperature, flameless, and most persistent, yet it is poorly understood. Peat, as a typical organic soil, is a porous and charring natural fuel, thus prone to smouldering. The spread of smouldering... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Xinyan Huang Title: Fundamental study of smouldering combustion of peat in wildfires Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Imperial College London, 156 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: smoldering combustion Abstract: Smouldering combustion is the slow, low-temperature, ameless burning of porous fuels and the most persistent type of combustion, di_erent from aming combustion. Smouldering is the dominant phenomena in _res of coal and natural deposits of peat which are the largest and longest... Author(s): Xinyan Huang and Guillermo Rein Title: Computational study of critical moisture and depth of burn in pe Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: fuel moisture peat Abstract: Smouldering combustion is the slow, low-temperature, flameless burning of porous fuels and the most important phenomenon of wildfires in peatlands. Smouldering fires propagate both horizontally and vertically through
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organic layers of the ground and can reach deep into the soil. In this work, we develop a one-dimensional computational model of reactive porous media in the... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Yamamoto, Y. and K. Takeuchi Title: Mitigating Climate Change by Preventing Peatland Fire: Conditions for Successful REDD+ in Indonesia Source: in: Climate Change Policies and Challenges in Indonesia, 2016, pages 145-158 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate peat Abstract: This chapter investigates key issues related to the implementation of REDD+ in Central Kalimantan Province of Indonesia, where peatland fires contribute significantly to the release of large amounts of carbon. We focus on the investigation of factors that promote ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Yanagi, Yukiko, Syusaku Nishimura, Haruo Shindo Title: Fire-induced formation and biodegradation of humic substances in Andosols of Japan Source: Geoderma Regional, Available online 9 April 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: soils Abstract: The aim of this article was to elucidate the possible mechanisms of the formation and degradation of humic substances in Japanese Andosols. Charred plant residues (CPRs) produced as a result of human activity and wildfires are incorporated into soils and degraded into smaller particles, i.e. charred plant fragments (CPFs). During this process, some CPRs are transformed into fulvic... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): You, W., Z. Zang, L. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Pan, W. Wang Title: National-Scale Estimates of Ground-Level PM2. 5 Concentration in China Using Geographically Weighted Regression Based on 3 km Resolution MODIS AOD Source: Remote Sensing Year: 2016
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Keywords: smoke remote sensing Abstract: ... predictor. Fire emissions detected by MODIS fire count were considered in the model development process. Additionally ... predictor. Fire emissions detected by MODIS fire count were considered in the model development process. Additionally ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Yue, C., P. Ciais, D. Zhu, T. Wang, S. S. Peng, S. L. Piao Title: How have past fire disturbances contributed to the current carbon balance of boreal ecosystems? Source: Biogeosciences 13: 675-680 Year: 2016 Keywords: climate smoke Abstract: Boreal fires have immediate effects on regional carbon budgets by emitting CO2 Into the atmosphere at the time of burning, but they also have legacy effects by initiating a Long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. Quantifying these different ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Zhao, Y., Y. Z. Wang, Z. H. Xu and L. Fu Title: Impacts of prescribed burning on soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a suburban native forest of south-eastern Queensland, Australia Source: Biogeosciences, 12: 6279-6290 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning soils Abstract: Prescribed burning is a forest management practice that is widely used in Australia to reduce the risk of damaging wildfires. Prescribed burning can affect both carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in the forest and thereby influence the soil-atmosphere exchange... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Zhao, H., D. Q. Tong, P. Lee, H. Kim, H. Lei Title: Reconstructing Fire Records from Ground-Based Routine Aerosol Monitoring Source: Atmosphere, 2016
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Year: 2016 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Long-term fire records are important to understanding the trend of biomass burning and its interactions with air quality and climate at regional and global scales. Traditionally, such data have been compiled from ground surveys or satellite remote sensing. To obtain ... Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Zhuosen Wang, A. M. Erb, C. B. Schaaf, Q. Sun, Y. Liu, Y. Yang Title: Early spring post-fire snow albedo dynamics in high latitude boreal forests using Landsat-8 OLI data Source: Remote Sensing of Environment, available online 2016 Year: 2016 Keywords: Albedo remote sensing Abstract: Taking advantage of the improved radiometric resolution of Landsat-8 OLI which, unlike previous Landsat sensors, does not saturate over snow, the progress of fire recovery progress at the landscape scale (< 100 m) is examined. High quality Landsat-8 albedo ... Contact Author: [email protected] Note: Link to this open access pdf at FRI's web site access Author(s): Zimmerman, Tom Title: A more complicated wildland fire situation - what are we doing about it? Source: Wildfire25(2): 4-6 Year: 2016 Keywords: management Author(s): Zimmerman, Tom Title: The increasing importance of risk management and human dimensions in wildland fire management Source: Wildfire 24(3): 4-5 Year: 2015 Keywords: management human factors Author(s): Zimmerman, Tom Title: Improving wildland fire management strategies
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Source: Wildfire 25(1): 4-6 Year: 2016 Keywords: management Author(s): Zimmer, H. C. Title: Limits to recruitment of a rare conifer: Wollemia nobilis Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Melbourne Year: 2016 Keywords: rare endangered ecology australia Abstract: ... With increased light. It is likely that canopy gap creation is required for increased growth Of W. Nobilis seedlings in the wild. Fire and drought are key threats to the survival of Established W. Nobilis seedlings. Through ex situ burning ...