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BACKGROUND: Vegetation fires can release substantial quantities of fine particles (PM2.5), which are harmful to health. The fire smoke may be transported over long distances and can cause adverse health effects over wide areas. OBJECTIVE: We…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, pollution, Europe, wildland fires, air pollution, forest fires, particulate matter, health impacts, Southeast Asia, fine particles, quality
Past and current forest management affects wildland fire smoke impacts on downwind human populations. However, mismatches between the scale of benefits and risks make it difficult to proactively manage wildland fires to promote both ecological and public health…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2013 Rim Fire, air quality, PM - particulate matter, socioecological systems, wildfires, wildland fire, Sierra Nevada, fire management, NOAA Hazard Mapping System, public health, PM2.5
The exposure of Vitis vinifera L. berries to forest fire smoke changes the concentration of phenylpropanoid metabolites in berries and the resulting wine. The exposure of Vitis vinifera L. berries (i.e., wine grapes) to forest fire smoke can…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, volatile phenols, wine, phenylpropanoid, polyphenol, smoke exposure, smoke taint
Background: Wildfire events are increasing in prevalence in the western United States. Research has found mixed results on the degree to which exposure to wildfire smoke is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Methods: We tested for an association…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfire smoke, wildfires, environmental epidemiology, mortality, Washington, PM2.5
Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations, smoke effects, wildfires, climate change, health factors, fire management, wildfire, Fire-Adaptive Communities, fire management, climate change, Smoke and Health
Background: Shortleaf pine is a fire-adapted tree species, and prescribed fire is commonly used to increase its regeneration success, improve wildlife habitat, and reach conservation objectives associated with open forest ecosystems. We studied direct effects of heat and smoke…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: heat, germination, natural regeneration, shortleaf pine, season of burn, Missouri
The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and…
Person: Lata
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, smoke exposure, germination, plant growth, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, Linum lewisii, Penstemon barbatus
The purpose of this study was to examine how exposure to two different types of plant-derived smoke (grass smoke and wood smoke) affects the germination of common native and invasive plants found in the northern Great Plains. First, we hypothesize that smoke (…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: germination, vegetation dynamics, grasses
Seeds of some eastern Australian Grevillea species show the characteristics of non-deep physiological dormancy, which is broken by exposure to heat shock and/or smoke. The current study tested whether the restrictive effect of the seed coat on germination was…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, Australia, seed dormancy, seed germination, fire management, smoke management, Embryonic Growth Potential, Mechanical Constraint, Non-Deep Physiological Dormancy, Selective Seed Coat Removal, water potential
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In the Southwest United States, many ponderosa pine forests no longer resemble the pre-European settlement forests that were adapted to frequent, low-severity wildfires. The cumulative effects of fire suppression, livestock grazing, high-grading, and insect…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: biomass, ponderosa pine, thinning, pile burning, fire risk reduction
Exposure to smoke can influence the germination of seeds in many fire-prone ecosystems, but this effect is not well studied in grasslands. Smoke treatments such as smoke water could be useful as management and restoration tools if the response of target species…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: seeds, liquid smoke, germination, Texas, grasslands, laboratory experiments, emergence
This StoryMap presents information about the use of prescribed fire on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, specifically: 1) what is prescribed fire, 2) types of prescribed fire, 3) pile burning, 4) understory burning, 5) broadcast burning, 6) benefits of mitigating risk, 7)…
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Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
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[from the text] For millennia, Indigenous communities managed forests in the American West with fire to produce a range of environmental and cultural benefits. This long history of cultural burning combined with frequent lightning produced fire-adapted forests, woodlands, and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: forest resilience, community protection, environmental conservation, risk reduction, private lands, public benefits, liability, forest health, permitting, air quality
Prescribed fire (rx fire) is a safe way to apply a natural process, ensure ecosystem health and reduce wildfire risk. This webinar will provide an introduction to prescribed fire for air quality and air resource specialists as well as other non-fire…
Person: Long
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: SFE - Southern Fire Exchange, fire regimes, fire suppression effects, fire-adapted ecosystems, animals, fire reduction, combustion, fire spread, ignition method, smoke management
The field of aerobiology is expanding due to a recognition of the diversity of roles microbes play in both terrestrial and atmospheric ecology. Smoke from global biomass burning has had significant and widespread ecological and human health consequences, but the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: aerobiology, atmospheric biology, bioaerosols, forest pathology, fungal dispersal, microbial ecology, microbiology, wildfires, Florida, Idaho
Wildfire severity is a key indicator of both direct ecosystem impacts and indirect emissions impacts that affect air quality, climate, and public health far beyond the spatial footprint of the flames. Comprehensive, accurate inventories of severity and emissions…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: burn severity, emissions inventory, fire progression maps, GEE - Google Earth Engine, WBSE - Wildfire Burn Severity and Emissions Inventory, dNBR - differenced Normalized Burn Ratio, CBI - composite burn index
[from the text] June 2022 in Alaska was a remarkable month for wildfire. An incredible 1.84 million acres burned, nearly tying the all-time record for June. Notably, 1.2 million acres burned in southwestern Alaska, more than doubling the area burned in that region since the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire management, wildfire environment, tundra fire, carbon release, wildfire mitigation
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…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat, Brazil, South America, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, cerrado, grasslands, savannas, tropical regions, Campo Sujo, fire-prone ecosystem, heat shock, tropical savannas, wet grasslands, heat shock, Brazilian Cerrado, high temperatures, dormancy, Fluctuations, conservation, grasslands, management, plants
Many plants in fire-prone ecosystems produce seeds that are cued to germinate after fire. However, fire is not uniform in the landscape, and there are often refugia where fire does not reach, like rocky outcrops or moist valleys. Erica coccinea, a heath shrub from the South…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, fire refugia, fire-prone ecosystem, intraspecies trait variation, seeder, resprouter, Erica coccinea, germination, seeds
Wildfires are an important component of terrestrial ecosystem ecology but also a major natural hazard to societies, and their frequency and spatial distribution must be better understood. At a given location, risk from wildfire is associated with the annual fraction of burned…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: future fire activity, biogeochemistry, climate change impact analysis, ecological modeling, atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide, area burned, fire models, fire size, wildfires, climate change, population density, fire management, fire hazard
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, C - carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services
The Arctic is experiencing record heat and wildfires are ramping up across the global north. New research shows northern forest fire frequency and severity are rapidly increasing, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and worsening climate feedback loops. WHRC…
Person: Rogers, Natali, Frumhoff
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forests, 2020 fire season, climate change, fire frequency, fire severity, burned area, C - carbon, carbon release, air temperature, carbon emissions, wildfires, black carbon, human health, permafrost, fire management, carbon budget
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Person: Littell, Trainor
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire, fire management, wildfire management, climate change, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, partnerships, boundary organization, decision making, human health, fuels management, PM2.5, fire regime change, fire frequency, annual area burned
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire, wildfire, fire science
Wildland fire incident management activities create an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases: high-density living and working conditions, lack of access to and use of soap and sanitizers, and a transient workforce. These and other environmental and…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: infectious disease, COVID-19