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Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:70100011
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Your Fire Management Career—Make It Count!
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 ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010107 -
Burning at the Edge: Integrating Biophysical and Eco-Cultural Fire Processes in Canada’s Parks and Protected Areas
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010074 -
Personal Perspectives on Commercial versus Communal African Fire Paradigms when Using Fire to Manage Rangelands for Domestic Livestock and Wildlife in Southern and East African Ecosystems
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010057 -
The Present Status of Fire Ecology, Traditional Use of Fire, and Fire Management in Mexico and Central America
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010040 -
The Use of Fire in the Cerrado and Amazonian Rainforests of Brazil: Past and Present
Humans have been changing the natural fire regimes in most Brazilian vegetation types for over 4000 years. Natural lightning fires can easily happen in savannas and grasslands, but they are rare in the moist r...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010024 -
Speculations about the Effects of Fire and Lava Flows on Human Evolution
Recent research argues that an association with fire, stretching back millions of years, played a central role in human evolution resulting in many modern human adaptations. Others argue that hominin evolution...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010013 -
Australia—A Model System for the Development of Pyrogeography
We define pyrogeography as an integrative, multidisciplinary perspective of landscape fire, its ecological effects, and its relationships with human societies. Like biogeography, this program spans geographic ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2011 7:7010005 -
Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-First Century. 2008. By Sara E. Jensen and Guy R. McPherson. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA. 180 pp. Cloth. US$32.95. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25589-0
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030142 -
Acorn Dispersal of California Black Oak after a Stand-Replacing Fire
We investigated California black oak (Quercus kelloggii Newberry) acorn dispersal by rodents and birds in the months after a stand-replacing fire in a mixed conifer forest in the San Bernardino Mountains of south...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030136 -
Spatially Heterogeneous Estimates of Fire Frequency in Ponderosa Pine Forests of Washington, USA
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 ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030117 -
The Effects of Raking on Sugar Pine Mortality following Prescribed Fire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA
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 ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030097 -
Native Bunchgrass Response to Prescribed Fire in Ungrazed Mountain Big Sagebrush Ecosystems
Fire was historically a dominant ecological process throughout mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. vaseyana [Rydb.] Beetle) ecosystems of western North America, and the native biota have devel...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030086 -
Burn Severity of Areas Reburned by Wildfires in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, USA
We describe satellite-inferred burn severity patterns of areas that were burned and then reburned by wildland fire from 1984 to 2004 within the Gila Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico, USA. Thirteen f...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030077 -
Fire-Excluded Relict Forests in the Southeastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA
The rare relict ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa C. Lawson) mixed-conifer forests of northern California’s Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (WNRA), USA, present a classic example of fire exclusion. Altered fir...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030062 -
Historic Fire Regime of an Upland Oak Forest in South-Central North America
Prescribed burning is used in upland oak forests of south-central North America to improve wildlife habitat, reduce fire hazard, restore ecosystem integrity, and maintain biological diversity. However, little ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030045 -
Impact of Climate Change on Forest Fire Severity and Consequences for Carbon Stocks in Boreal Forest Stands of Quebec, Canada: a Synthesis
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6030016 -
Germination Patterns of Soil Seed Banks in Relation to Fire in Portuguese Littoral Pine Forest Vegetation
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 ...
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Conducting Prescribed Fires: A Comprehensive Manual. By John R. Weir. 2009. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas, USA. 194 pp. Paper. US$28.00. ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-134-6
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020115 -
Using Fire History Data to Map Temporal Sequences of Fire Return Intervals and Seasons
Analysis of complex spatio-temporal fire data is an important tool to assist the management and study of fire regimes. For fire ecologists, a useful visual aid to identify contrasting fire regimes is to map te...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020097 -
Does Fuels Management Accomplish Restoration in Southwest Oregon, USA, Chaparral? Insights from Age Structure
Fuels management is often intended to both reduce fire hazard and restore ecosystems thought to be impacted by fire suppression. Objectives to reduce fire hazard, however, are not compatible with restoration i...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020076 -
Prescribed Fire and Post-Fire Seeding in Brush Masticated Oak-Chaparral: Consequences for Native and Non-Native Plants
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020060 -
Indigenous Fire Use to Manage Savanna Landscapes in Southern Mozambique
Prescribed burn regimes for protected areas in southern Africa are often based solely on modeling of historic data and onsite experimentation. Most rural communities in this region continue to rely on fire to ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020043 -
Bark Beetle Responses to Stand Structure and Prescribed Fire at Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest, California, USA: 5-Year Data
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 ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020026 -
Does Time since Fire Explain Plant Biomass Allocation in the Florida, USA, Scrub Ecosystem?
Although belowground biomass patterns are important in understanding aboveground responses, few studies have quantified how belowground biomass changes in response to fire cycles. In this study, we determined ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020013 -
Acute Physiological Stress and Mortality Following Fire in a Long-Unburned Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6020001 -
First-Order Fire Effects Models for Land Management: Overview and Issues
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010131 -
First-Order Fire Effects on Animals: Review and Recommendations
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 ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010115 -
First-Order Fire Effects on Herbs and Shrubs: Present Knowledge and Process Modeling Needs
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010095 -
A Way Forward for Fire-Caused Tree Mortality Prediction: Modeling A Physiological Consequence of Fire
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010080 -
Tree Injury and Mortality in Fires: Developing Process-Based Models
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-...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010055 -
Advancing Investigation and Physical Modeling of First-Order Fire Effects on Soils
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010036 -
Fire Metrology: Current and Future Directions in Physics-Based Measurements
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010013 -
Introduction: Strengthening the Foundation of Wildland Fire Effects Prediction for Research and Management
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2010 6:6010001 -
Multi-Millennial Fire History of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030120 -
Fire History, Stand Origins, and the Persistence of McNab Cypress, Northern California, USA
Despite their substantial contribution to the uniqueness and diversity of the California Floristic Province’s flora and vegetation, surprisingly little is known about the region’s native cypress species (genus He...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030100 -
Human and Climatic Influences on Fire Occurrence in California’s North Coast Range, USA
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030076 -
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Controls on Fire Regimes Along an Elevational Gradient on the East Slope of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030057 -
Using Bigcone Douglas-Fir Fire Scars and Tree Rings to Reconstruct Interior Chaparral Fire History
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 ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030035 -
Climate, Rain Shadow, and Human-Use Influences on Fire Regimes in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
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...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030020 -
Fire History of a Lower Elevation Jeffrey Pine-Mixed Conifer Forest in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
For thousands of years, fire has shaped coniferous forests of the western United States. In more recent time, land use practices have altered the role fire plays in the Sierra Nevada. By understanding the past...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030004 -
Special issue: Fire History in California
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5030001 -
Comparing Locally Derived and LANDFIRE Geo-Layers in the Great Basin, USA
Locally derived maps of pre-European settlement vegetation patterns (Biophysical Setting-BpS) and Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) were compared to concomitant products from LANDFIRE for the Wassuk Range in ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020126 -
Negligible Influence of Spatial Autocorrelation in the Assessment of Fire Effects in a Mixed Conifer Forest
Fire is an important feature of many forest ecosystems, although the quantification of its effects is compromised by the large scale at which fire occurs and its inherent unpredictability. A recurring problem ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020116 -
Quantifying Char in Postfire Woody Detritus Inventories
Charred biomass generated by wildland fire has attracted increased interest as a functional component of terrestrial ecosystems. Black carbon (C) in the form of char is a widespread but unique material contrib...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020104 -
Long-Term Effects of High Intensity Prescribed Fire on Vegetation Dynamics in the Wine Spring Creek Watershed, Western North Carolina, USA
We examined the long-term effects of a prescribed fire in a southern Appalachian watershed in Nantahala National Forest, western North Carolina, USA. Fire was prescribed in 1995 on this site by forest managers...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020066 -
Fire, Drought, and Human History near the Western Terminus of the Cross Timbers, Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma, USA
Dendrochronological methods were applied to reconstruct the historic occurrence of fires at a Cross Timbers forest-grassland transition site within the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma, USA. Sixty fi...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020051 -
Interactions among Prescribed Fire, Soil Attributes, and Mycorrhizal Community Structure at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA
We identified relationships between prescribed burn treatments and selected soil and fuel attributes on mycorrhizal fungus fruiting patterns in an old-growth ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and white fir (Abies ...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020030 -
Effects of Creating Two Forest Structures and Using Prescribed Fire on Coarse Woody Debris in Northeastern California, USA
Little is known about the dynamics of coarse woody debris (CWD) in forests that were originally characterized by frequent, low-moderate intensity fires. We investigated effects of prescribed burning at the Bla...
Citation: Fire Ecology 2009 5:5020001
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