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The ecological role of fire in natural conifer forests of western and ...


Widespread exposure to altered fire regimes under 2 °C warming is ...

Changes in wildfire frequency and severity are altering conifer forests and pose threats to biodiversity and natural climate solutions.

Are Wildfires Good for the Environment? | WFCA

In many ecosystems, wildfires are nature's way of regenerating the earth, allowing important nutrients to re-enter the soil, and creating new habitats for ...

Where and why do conifer forests persist in refugia through multiple ...

Fire refugia are areas that burn less frequently or severely than the surrounding landscape—where dominant elements of pre‐fire vegetation, like trees, persist ...

Fire Ecology - Pacific Biodiversity Institute

Fires often remove alien plants that compete with native species for nutrients and space, and remove undergrowth, which allows sunlight to reach the forest ...

[PDF] The role of fire in the regeneration of conifer forests

It is proposed that understanding the role of fire in the regeneration of conifer forests is essential to prevent catastrophic fires and that the use of ...

Fire-Adapted: Plants and Animals Rely on Wildfires for Resilient ...

In ponderosa pine forests, low severity fires help maintain open spaces between trees, while in lodgepole pine and mixed conifer forests higher ...

Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ...

We compiled landscape-scale evidence of historical fire severity patterns in the ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests from published ...

Predicting conifer establishment post wildfire in mixed conifer forests ...

Due to fire suppression policies, timber harvest, and other management practices over the last century, many low- to mid-elevation forests ...

Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer ...

However, if dry conifer forests across the region as represented by fire history sites are currently burning less frequently or at high severity ...

Impact of Fire Suppression on a Mixed-Conifer Forest

Previous studies have investigated the natural role of fire as well as the effects of prescribed burning within the giant sequoia forest type. Kilgore and ...

The Role of Fire in a Giant Sequoia-Mixed Conifer Forest

In our lower elevation sequoia-mixed conifer forests, however, a considerable fire hazard has built up because of the exclusion of natural fire ...

Symposium on the Ecological Role of Fire in Natural Conifer Forests ...

Symposium on the Ecological Role of Fire in Natural Conifer Forests of Western and Northern North America (1972 University of Minnesota).

Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests

Mechanical fuel reduction in subalpine forests would not represent a restoration treatment but rather a departure from the natural range of variability in stand ...

Wildland Fire Ecology Resource Brief - National Park Service

Wildland fires are an essential part of the natural cycle, playing a major role in forest succession in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Wildfires and Forest Resilience: the case for ecological forestry in ...

The ecological importance of mixed-severity fires : nature's Phoenix. ... thinning and wildfire in ponderosa pine–dominated forests of the south- western United ...

Fire ecology - Wikipedia

Ecological research has shown, however, that fire is an integral component in the function and biodiversity of many natural habitats, and that the organisms ...

Ecological Effects of Severe Fire

Severe fires play an essential role in the ecology of mixed-conifer forests by creating unique conditions that many plant and animal species have evolved to ...

The ecological role of fire in natural conifer forests of western and ...

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets) ; Author: Wright, H. E ; Call Number: 04.1 W93 Pam.

Fire and Forest Management - Center for Biological Diversity

The primary factors that lead to current forest conditions include logging large trees, fire suppression, and livestock grazing.