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  2. Remotely sensed imagery has been used extensively in the western US to evaluate patterns of burn severity and vegetation recovery following wildland fires. Its application in southern US ecosystems, however, h...

    Authors: David R. Godwin and Leda N. Kobziar
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7020099
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  3. We surveyed burned and unburned plots across four habitat reserves in San Diego County, California, USA, in 2005 and 2006, to assess the effects of the 2003 wildfires on the community structure and relative ab...

    Authors: Cheryl S. Brehme, Denise R. Clark, Carlton J. Rochester and Robert N. Fisher
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7020081
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  5. Fire frequency, area burned, and fire severity are important attributes of a fire regime, but few studies have quantified the interrelationships among them in evaluating a fire year. Although area burned is of...

    Authors: James A. Lutz, Carl H. Key, Crystal A. Kolden, Jonathan T. Kane and Jan W. van Wagtendonk
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7020051
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  6. The role of fire in the maintenance of oak-dominated ecosystems is widely recognized. Fire exclusion results in structural and compositional shifts that alter fuelbed composition and structure, together influe...

    Authors: Eamon A. Engber, J. Morgan Varner III, Leonel A. Arguello and Neil G. Sugihara
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7020032
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  7. The soil seed bank plays a central role in the regeneration of obligate seeding species in fire-prone habitats. We evaluated how seed density and species composition changed with time-since-fire in the Florida...

    Authors: Jennifer J. Navarra, Nancy Kohfeldt, Eric S. Menges and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7020017
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  10. This paper is an expansion of the thoughts I presented in the closing plenary at the 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Conference in Savannah, Georgia, USA. After ruminating over several days of oral ...

    Authors: Dale D. Wade
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010107
    Content type: Forum Article Published on:

  11. Currently, high intensity, large-area lightning fires that burn during droughts dominate Canada’s fire regimes. However, studies from several disciplines clearly show that humans historically ignited burns wit...

    Authors: Clifford A. White, Daniel D. B. Perrakis, Victor G. Kafka and Timothy Ennis
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010074
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  12. Africa is often referred to as the Fire Continent, and fire is recognised as a natural factor of the environment due to the prevalence of lightning storms and an ideal fire climate in the less arid regions wit...

    Authors: Winston S. W. Trollope
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010057
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  13. Traditionally, forest fires in Mexico, the Caribe, and Central America have been perceived, by both urban and some rural societies and government agencies, only as destructive phenomena. Certainly 40% of fores...

    Authors: Dante Arturo Rodríguez-Trejo, Pedro Arturo Martínez-Hernández, Héctor Ortiz-Contla, Manuel Román Chavarría-Sánchez and Faustino Hernández-Santiago
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010040
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  19. Many fire history studies have evaluated the temporal nature of fire regimes using fire interval statistics calculated from fire scars. More recently, researchers have begun to evaluate the spatial properties ...

    Authors: James T. Kernan and Amy E. Hessl
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030117
    Content type: Practices and Applications in Fire Ecology Published on:

  20. Prescribed fire is an important tool for fuel reduction, the control of competing vegetation, and forest restoration. The accumulated fuels associated with historical fire exclusion can cause undesirably high ...

    Authors: Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, Kevin L. O’Hara, Phillip J. van Mantgem and Perry de Valpine
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030097
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  25. The global boreal forests comprise large stocks of organic carbon that vary with climate and fire regimes. Global warming is likely to influence several aspects of fire and cause shifts in carbon sequestration...

    Authors: Simon van Bellen, Michelle Garneau and Yves Bergeron
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030016
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  26. Germination behavior of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) forests soil seed banks after fire treatments in controlled laboratory conditions was analyzed. Germination response of all tree and shrub seeds after ...

    Authors: Lourdes Santos, Jorge Capelo and Mário Tavares
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030001
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  31. In fire-suppressed oak-chaparral communities, land managers have treated thousands of hectares by mechanical mastication to reduce hazardous fuels in areas of wildland-urban interface. The chipped debris, whic...

    Authors: Celeste T. Coulter, Darlene Southworth and Paul E. Hosten
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020060
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  33. Highly effective fire suppression and selective harvesting of large-diameter, fire-tolerant tree species, such as ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa C. Lawson) and Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi Balf.), have resulted in ...

    Authors: Christopher J. Fettig and Stephen R. McKelvey
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020026
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  35. One important legacy of fire exclusion in ecosystems dependent upon frequent fire is the development of organic soil horizons (forest floor) that can be colonized by fine roots. When fire is re-introduced, the...

    Authors: Joseph J. O’Brien, J. Kevin Hiers, R. J. Mitchell, J. Morgan Varner III and Kathryn Mordecai
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020001
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  36. We give an overview of the science application process at work in supporting fire management. First-order fire effects models, such as those discussed in accompanying papers, are the building blocks of softwar...

    Authors: Elizabeth D. Reinhardt and Matthew B. Dickinson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010131
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  37. Models of first-order fire effects are designed to predict tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, and smoke production. Some of these models can be used to predict first-order fire effects on animals ...

    Authors: R. Todd Engstrom
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010115
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  38. Herbaceous plants and shrubs have received little attention in terms of fire effects modeling despite their critical role in ecosystem integrity and resilience after wildfires and prescribed burns. In this pap...

    Authors: Kirsten Stephan, Melanie Miller and Matthew B. Dickinson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010095
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  39. Current operational methods for predicting tree mortality from fire injury are regression-based models that only indirectly consider underlying causes and, thus, have limited generality. A better understanding...

    Authors: Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Matthew B. Dickinson and Anthony S. Bova
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010080
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  40. Wildland fire managers are often required to predict tree injury and mortality when planning a prescribed burn or when considering wildfire management options; and, currently, statistical models based on post-...

    Authors: Bret W. Butler and Matthew B. Dickinson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010055
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  41. Heating soil during intense wildland fires or slash-pile burns can alter the soil irreversibly, resulting in many significant long-term biological, chemical, physical, and hydrological effects. To better under...

    Authors: William J. Massman, John M. Frank and Sacha J. Mooney
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010036
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  42. The robust evaluation of fire impacts on the biota, soil, and atmosphere requires measurement and analysis methods that can characterize combustion processes across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Nume...

    Authors: Robert L. Kremens, Alistair M. S. Smith and Matthew B. Dickinson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010013
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  43. As prescribed fire use increases and the options for responding to wildfires continue to expand beyond suppression, the need for improving fire effects prediction capabilities becomes increasingly apparent. Th...

    Authors: Matthew B. Dickinson and Kevin C. Ryan
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010001
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  44. Giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum [Lindl.] J. Buchholz) preserve a detailed history of fire within their annual rings. We developed a 3000 year chronology of fire events in one of the largest extant groves...

    Authors: Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan, Anthony C. Caprio, Peter M. Brown, Ramzi Touchan, R. Scott Anderson and Douglas J. Hallett
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030120
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  46. Outside of the immediate coastal environments, little is known of fire history in the North Coast Range of California. Fire scar specimens were collected from ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa C. Lawson), sugar pin...

    Authors: Carl N. Skinner, Celeste S. Abbott, Danny L. Fry, Scott L. Stephens, Alan H. Taylor and Valerie Trouet
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030076
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  47. Fire is an ecologically significant process in the fire-prone ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of the northern Sierra Nevada. Fire regimes are influenced by processes that operate over a range of scale...

    Authors: Lisa Gill and Alan H. Taylor
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030057
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  48. Bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa [Vasey] Mayr) is a long-lived, fire-adapted conifer that is endemic to the Transverse Ranges of southern California. At the lower and middle reaches of its elevational ...

    Authors: Keith J. Lombardo, Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan and Mark I. Borchert
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030035
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  49. There have been 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 reg...

    Authors: Malcolm P. North, Kip M. Van de Water, Scott L. Stephens and Brandon M. Collins
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030020
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