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Back to the past: burning wood to save the globe
Johnston, van Kooten
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

The role of precipitation type, intensity, and spatial distribution in source water quality after wildfire
Murphy, Writer, Mccleskey, Martin
Storms following wildfires are known to impair drinking water supplies in the southwestern United States, yet our understanding of the role of precipitation in post-wildfire water quality is far from complete. We quantitatively assessed water-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Studying the effects of a changing climate on wildfires and the impacts to the United States' air quality
Val Martin, Pierce, Heald
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Forest Service Coordinated Tribal Climate Change Research Project
Kruger, Lynn
From the text ... 'The Forest Service Research All-Station Coordinated Tribal Climate Change Research Project is an interstation collaboration created to better understand and respond to tribal research needs and to learn from American Indian and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Potential climate change impacts on fire weather in the United States
Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
From the text ... 'Researchers at Michigan State University and the Forest Services's Northern Research Station worked on a joint study to examine the possible effects of future global and regional climate change on the occurrence of fire-weather…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance
Millar, Stephenson
Although disturbances such as fire and native insects can contribute to natural dynamics of forest health, exceptional droughts, directly and in combination with other disturbance factors, are pushing some temperate forests beyond thresholds of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Tree-fall gaps and regeneration in old-growth cross timbers forests
Karki, Hallgren
Cross Timbers forests of south-central North America contain large expanses of relatively undisturbed old-growth forest where gap-phase regeneration is the main mode of canopy replacement. These forests are threatened by fire suppression,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Projected carbon stocks in the conterminous USA with land use and variable fire regimes
Bachelet, Ferschweiler, Sheehan, Sleeter, Zhu
The dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) MC2 was run over the conterminous USA at 30 arc sec (~800 m) to simulate the impacts of nine climate futures generated by 3GCMs (CSIRO, MIROC and CGCM3) using 3 emission scenarios (A2, A1B and B1) in the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Has the advancing onset of spring vegetation green-up slowed down or changed abruptly over the last three decades?
Wang, Piao, Xu, Ciais, MacBean, Myneni, Li
Aim: Change in spring phenology is a sensitive indicator of ecosystem response to climate change, and exerts first-order control on the ecosystem carbon and hydrological cycles. The start of season (SOS) in spring can be estimated from satellite…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Adapting conservation easements to climate change
Rissman, Owley, Shaw, Thompson
Perpetual conservation easements (CEs) are popular for restricting development and land use, but their fixed terms create challenges for adaptation to climate change. The increasing pace of environmental and social change demands adaptive…
Year: 2015
Type: Document