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Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Weaver
From the text ... 'Fire education specialists are joining with college graduate students and education majors to present a 3-day fire ecology and management program that involves both field and classroom exercises to fourth-through eighth-grade…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether future climate change would trigger an increase in the fire activity of the Waswanipi area, central Quebec. First, we used regression analyses to model the historical (1973-2002) link between…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Turner
In this paper I demonstrate some of the techniques for the analysis of spatial point patterns that have become available due to recent developments in point process modelling software. These developments permit convenient exploratory data analysis,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Keane, Hessburg, Landres, Swanson
This paper examines the past, present, and future use of the concept of historical range and variability (HRV) in land management. The history, central concepts, benefits, and limitations of HRV are presented along with a discussion on the value of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Girard, Payette, Gagnon
Aim We investigate the timing and factors responsible for the transformation of closed-crown forests into lichen-spruce woodlands.Location The study area extends between 70º and 72º W in the closed-crown forest zone from its southern limit near…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Garet, Pothier, Bouchard
Yield curves are traditionally constructed with mean age of dominant trees as the temporal variable. However. When tree longevity is shorter than the average period of time between two successive disturbances. Mean age of dominant trees becomes a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Romme, Allen, Bailey, Baker, Bestelmeyer, Brown, Eisenhart, Floyd-Hanna, Huffman, Jacobs, Miller, Muldavin, Swetnam, Tausch, Weisberg
Pinon-juniper is a major vegetation type in western North America. Effective management of these ecosystems has been hindered by inadequate understanding of 1) the variability in ecosystem structure and ecological processes that exists among the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document