Fire regimes
Altered Fire Regimes and the Persistence of Quaking Aspen in the Rocky Mountains: A Literature Review
... Throughout the Rocky Mountains aspen are represented in a variety of elevational gradients and community types. For example, aspens are commonly found on mountain slopes, high plateaus, mesa tops, talus slopes, avalanche ...
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Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes
... intentional fire on the landscape, commonly referred to as traditional burning practices, for a number of reasons: clearing meadows of thick brush and trees to create better forage for wildlife and facilitate the ...
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Multi-scale synthesis of historical fire regimes along the south-central US prairie–forest border
... prescribed fire management, and recent years of elevated wildfire activity have increased interest in understanding the region ’ s long-term fire regime ...compared fire intervals, seasonality, ...
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Restoring historical fire regimes increases activity of endangered bats
... with fire-dependent communities (Estill and Cruzan 2001; Noss et ...historical fire season (Knapp et ...this fire-adapted landscape. Although it appears to use fire-dependent vegetation ...
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Controls on Fire Regimes Along an Elevational Gradient on the East Slope of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA
... in fire-prone pine forests in the American southwest ...high fire frequency and extent in each region corresponds with the ENSO phase that brings drier and warmer con- ...Mountains, fire years were ...
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Vegetation Responses to Changing Fire Regimes in a Rocky Mountain Forest
... past fire severity and ...identify fire and ecological impacts in the deep past ...identified fire events, to pollen spectra from periods between ...of fire events may be inferred. Fire ...
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Climate, Rain Shadow, and Human-Use Influences on Fire Regimes in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
... few fire history studies of eastern Sierra Nevada forests in California, USA, where a steep elevation gradient, rain shadow conditions, and forest stand isolation may produce different fire regimes ...
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Contrasting Fire Regimes in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest and a Savanna Ecosystem in the Western Ghats, India
... forest fire regimes within these two exten- sive types of ...Forest fire re- gimes in a predominantly dry forest in In- dia, the Nilgiri landscape, and a predomi- nantly savanna ecosystem in the ...
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Fuel Moisture Differences in a Mixed Native and Non-Native Grassland: Implications for Fire Regimes
... to fire re- gimes in the Mojave Desert, USA, threatening native plants and altering habitat and food plants of the endangered desert tortoise (Go- pherus agassizii Cooper; Brooks and Esque ...creased fire ...
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Changes in southwestern Tasmanian fire regimes since the early 1800s
... the fire regime of southwestern Tasmania over the past 170 years. The fire regime has changed from an Aboriginal fire regime of frequent low-intensi ty fires in buttongrass moorland (mostly in spring ...
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Rapid response of habitat structure and above ground carbon storage to altered fire regimes in tropical savanna
... different fire regimes on carbon stored in Australian savan- nas (Murphy et ...lower fire frequencies (Cook et ...Park fire plots the early biennial fire caused a re- duction of 10 t C ...
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Comparing Existing Fire Records with Historical Fire Regimes for Fuel Mitigation Recommendations in the Wildland Urban Interface: A 10 year Case Study of the North Carolina Sandhills
... National Fire Plan (USFS, 2000) called for the distribution of $10 billion over the course of the current decade to be used for the protection of communities and restoration of healthy forests in ...
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Do mixed fire regimes shape plant flammability and post fire recovery strategies?
... from fire, including lignotubers [62,63], epicormic bud resprouting [64], serotinous fruits [65–67], and clonal root suckering ...and fire regimes [69], the biogeographical pattern of these ...
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Simulated Effects of Two Fire Regimes on Bighorn Sheep: The San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA
... used fire to remove vegetation to improve access for travel, provide construction materi- als, increase the production of edible and me- dicinal plants, and enhance opportunities for hunting (Keeley 2002, 2004; ...
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Australian Savanna Fire Regimes: Context, Scales, Patchiness
... As well, for northern Australia a variety of AVHRR- and especially LANDSAT-scale fi re mapping studies have been undertaken to characterise regional fi re regimes, and address attendant ecological, greenhouse gas ...
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Simulation of the Consequences of Different Fire Regimes to Support Wildland Fire Use Decisions
... TELSA is a spatially explicit modeling framework that can project the consequences of alternative management and fire scenarios (Kurz et al. TELSA simulates forest [r] ...
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Dendrochronological reconstruction of fire history in coniferous forests in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
... Sur, fire return intervals are shorter compared with their boreal or austral counterparts (Yocom and Fulé ...thermore, fire regimes may vary according an eleva- tional gradient, due to the large ...
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Indigenous Fire Use to Manage Savanna Landscapes in Southern Mozambique
... burn regimes for protected areas in southern Africa are often based solely on modeling of historic data and onsite ...on fire to manage natural resources for subsistence needs, yet rela- tively few detailed ...
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Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?
... and fire behaviour to predict changes in fire result- ing from herbivore-caused alterations of ...reduce fire intensity and rate of spread [64]. In the Serengeti ecosystem, fire models predict ...
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Climate Change Impact on Future Wildfire Danger and Activity in Southern Europe: A Review
... in fire regimes could enhance or accelerate such shifts that affect fuel ...in fire activity or behaviour with respect to the current situation could alter fuels ...landscape. Fire feedbacks ...
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