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  1. Forest fires generate large amounts of ash and biochar, or black carbon (BC), that cover the soil surface, interacting with the soil’s constituents and its seedbank. This study concerns reproductive ecology as...

    Authors: Otilia Reyes, Joeri Kaal, Diego Arán, Raquel Gago, Javier Bernal, Juan García-Duro and Margarita Basanta
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010119
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  2. Acquiring experiential prescribed fire education is difficult for college students. In order to evaluate the effects of instruction on students, we surveyed those who were taking or had completed Oklahoma Stat...

    Authors: J. Derek Scasta, John R. Weir and David M. Engle
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010088
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  3. The probability of stem survival after fire is strongly influenced by energy allocation to bark because bark thickness affects heat transfer during fire. Greater relative investment in inner bark versus outer ...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Schafer, Bradley P. Breslow, Matthew G. Hohmann and William A. Hoffmann
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010074
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  4. Wildfires are a primary disturbance in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina, with approximately 2 152 000 ha burned between 1993 and 2012. However, little is known about the spatial and temporal patterns of fires...

    Authors: Juan P. Argañaraz, Gregorio Gavier Pizarro, Marcelo Zak and Laura M. Bellis
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010055
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  5. Forest wildfires are recognized as sources of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHG) that, altering the dynamics between terrestrial and atmospheric carbon (C) exchange, influence global climate. In central Andean ...

    Authors: Maria Lila Bertolin, Maria Florencia Urretavizcaya and Guillermo Emilio Defossé
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010032
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  6. Understanding fine-scale fire patchiness has significant implications for ecological processes and biodiversity conservation. It can affect local extinction of and recolonisation by relatively immobile fauna a...

    Authors: Sofia L. J. Oliveira, Manuel L. Campagnolo, Owen F. Price, Andrew C. Edwards, Jeremy Russell-Smith and José M. C. Pereira
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2015 11:11010010
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  7. Together with other stressors, interactions between fire and climate change are expressing their potential to drive ecosystem shifts and losses in biodiversity. Closely linked to human well-being in most regio...

    Authors: Mary R. Huffman
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030090
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  8. Synthesis of multiple sources of fire history information increases the power and reliability of fire regime characterization. Fire regime characterization is critical for assessing fire risk, identifying clim...

    Authors: Michael C. Stambaugh, Jeffrey C. Sparks and E. R. Abadir
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030072
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  9. Seeding of native grasses is widely used to restore plant communities and prevent establishment of introduced species following wildfire and prescribed burns. However, there is a lack of long-term data to eval...

    Authors: Laura M. Busby and Darlene Southworth
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030063
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  10. Post-fire mulch and seeding treatments, often applied on steep, severely burned slopes immediately after large wildfires, are meant to reduce the potential of erosion and establishment of invasive plants, espe...

    Authors: Penelope Morgan, Marshell Moy, Christine A. Droske, Leigh B. Lentile, Sarah A. Lewis, Peter R. Robichaud and Andrew T. Hudak
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10030049
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  14. Student fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-orien...

    Authors: Daniel S. Godwin and Jena Ferrarese
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020092
    Content type: Forum Article: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  15. While fire and rangeland managers frequently have different land management roles and objectives, their data needs with regards to herbaceous biomass (fuel loads and forage) often overlap, and can be served wi...

    Authors: Edward C. Rhodes, Doug R. Tolleson, Jay P. Angerer, John A. Kava, Judith Dyess and Tessa Nicolet
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020076
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  16. The specific temporal patterns of antecedent conditions associated with fire occurrence in the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin are poorly understood. Using 25 years of combined fire and climate data...

    Authors: James D. Arnold, Simon C. Brewer and Philip E. Dennison
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020064
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  17. Understanding the distribution of fire severity patches across a landscape is of critical importance to managers and researchers. Of particular interest are those areas that burn multiple times. Understanding ...

    Authors: Valentijn Hoff, Casey C. Teske, James P. Riddering, Lloyd P. Queen, Eric G. Gdula and Windy A. Bunn
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020048
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  18. In semi-arid grasslands of the North American Great Plains, fire has traditionally been viewed as having few management applications, and quantitative measurements of fire behavior in the low fuel loads charac...

    Authors: David J. Augustine, Justin D. Derner and David P. Smith
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020036
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  19. The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; MPB) has killed lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.) across 20 million hectares of central British Columbia, Canada, since the late 1990s, ch...

    Authors: Daniel D. B. Perrakis, Rick A. Lanoville, Stephen W. Taylor and Dana Hicks
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10020010
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  24. Land managers rely on prescribed burning and naturally ignited wildfires for ecosystem management, and must balance trade-offs of air quality, carbon storage, and ecosystem health. A current challenge for land...

    Authors: Stacy A. Drury, Narasimhan Sim Larkin, Tara T. Strand, ShihMing Huang, Scott J. Strenfel, Erin M. Banwell, Theresa E. O’Brien and Sean M. Raffuse
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010056
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  27. We demonstrated the utility of digital fire atlases by analyzing forest fire extent across cold, dry, and mesic forests, within and outside federally designated wilderness areas during three different fire man...

    Authors: Penelope Morgan, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Carol Miller, Aaron M. Wilson and Carly E. Gibson
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2014 10:10010014
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  31. Historically, the Cross Timbers forest of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas burned frequently. Fire managers in the region often have varied success when conducting prescribed fires, with one hypothesis being that f...

    Authors: John R. Weir and Ryan F. Limb
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9030080
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  33. I analyzed the spatiotemporal patterning of intentional, unauthorized landscape fires in the state of Georgia, USA, for the years 1987 through 2010 with the aim of delineating socioecological constraints on an...

    Authors: Michael R. Coughlan
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9030045
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  35. In the American Midwest, summer fires are infrequent, and there is little information on their impact on ecosystems. After an accidental wildfire in a 20 ha grassland restoration, new growth provided effective...

    Authors: T. R. Evans, C. J. M. Musters, E. D. Cashatt and G. R. de Snoo
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9030025
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  40. The LANDFIRE Program provides comprehensive vegetation and fuel datasets for the entire United States. As with many large-scale ecological datasets, vegetation and landscape conditions must be updated periodic...

    Authors: Kurtis J. Nelson, Joel Connot, Birgit Peterson and Charley Martin
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9020080
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  41. While fire is widely recognized as an important factor shaping sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems, little is known about the role other natural events play in these systems. Using a state-and-transition modeli...

    Authors: Louisa B. Evers, Richard F. Miller and Paul S. Doescher
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9020057
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  42. Forest fires contribute a significant amount of CO2 to the atmosphere each year, and CO2 emissions from fires are likely to increase under projected conditions of global climate change. In addition to volatilizin...

    Authors: Katherine Heckman, John Campbell, Heath Powers, Beverly Law and Chris Swanston
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9020040
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  44. As the large scale of fuel treatments needed to promote ecosystem health and reduce heavy fuel loads becomes clear in California’s mixed conifer forests, managers are beginning to focus on how to scale up pres...

    Authors: Rick J. Sneeuwjagt, Tim S. Kline and Scott L. Stephens
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9020014
    Content type: Forum: Issues, Management, Policy, and Opinions Published on:

  48. Ecotones are areas of sharp environmental gradients between two or more homogeneous vegetation types. They are a dynamic aspect of all landscapes and are also responsive to climate change. Shifts in the positi...

    Authors: Thomas J. Smith III, Ann M. Foster, Ginger Tiling-Range and John W. Jones
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9010066
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  49. Canebrakes are monodominant stands of cane (Arundinaria gigantea [Walter] Muhl.), a bamboo native to and once prominent in the southeastern USA. Canebrakes were important wildlife habitat within the bottomland ha...

    Authors: Paul R. Gagnon, Heather A. Passmore and William J. Platt
    Citation: Fire Ecology 2013 9:9010055
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