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The Ecological Role of Fire in Natural Conifer Forests of Western ...


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.

Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life - Oxford Academic

However, as human populations have expanded their use of fire, their actions have come to dominate some ecosystems and change natural processes in ways that ...

THE ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF SEVERE WILDFIRES

Helping western forests heal: the prognosis is poor for US forest ecosystems. Nature 408: 135–136. Covington, W. W., and M. M. Moore. 1994. Southwestern.

The Ecological Importance of California's Rim Fire

This forest rejuvenation begins in the first spring after the fire. Native wood-boring beetles rapidly colonize burn areas, detecting the fires ...

Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate ... - PNAS

Wildfires in the western United States are concerning in part because conifer forests may not regenerate under increasingly warm, ...

Drivers of California's changing wildfires - CSIRO Publishing

Additionally, factors related to the suppression of the Indigenous use of fire, aggressive fire suppression and, in some cases, changes in logging practices or ...

Fire in Nature | Smokey Bear

Natural fire frequency in this ecosystem ranges from one to 10 years, with some of these forests historically burning every year. Most of the southern pine ...

Fire intensity impacts on post-fire temperate coniferous forest net ...

Abstract. Fire is a dynamic ecological process in forests and impacts the carbon (C) cycle through direct combustion emissions, tree mortality, ...

Climate, Environment, and Disturbance History Govern Resilience of ...

Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience ...

ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FIRE AND ITS MANAGEMENT IN ...

Heinselman 1973 'The ecological role of fire in natural conifer forests of western and northern North America.' Quat Res 3: 319-28. This article outlines ...

Fire Ecology & Policy - The Fire Restoration Group

This led in the early 1970s to a radical change in Forest Service policy—to let fires burn when and where appropriate. It began with allowing natural-caused ...

Southwestern Forests Burn Only a Fraction as Often as They Once ...

The research underscores the critical role that prescribed burns and managed wildfires play in restoring the natural resilience of dry conifer ...

Global Fire Partnership - Conservation Gateway

While fire may play a secondary role in maintaining natural ecosystem structure and function in fire-sensitive ... managed conifer forests of the western U.S., an ...

Changing fire regimes in the southwestern U.S. - USGS.gov

However, there is considerable debate on the historic role of high-severity fires in mixed-conifer forests, and restoration priorities and fire ...

Restoring Fire to the Ecosystems of the Area, Minnesota, and to ...

Heinselman, Miron L. 1970b. The natural role of fire in northern conifer forests. From symposium on "The role of fire· in the Intermountain West," Inter ...

Common Ground on the Role of Wildfire in Forested Landscapes of ...

Diverging views over how “natural” high-severity fire is in conifer forests across the western U.S have, in some cases, impeded the effective integration of ...

Fire in Western Forest Ecosystems - DigitalCommons@USU

Occurrence and frequency of presettlement fire regime types by Forest and Range Environmental Study (FRES) ecosystems, Kuchler potential natural vegetation ...

Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in ...

We broadly assessed the influence of forest protection levels on fire severity in pine and mixed- conifer forests of the western United States ...

A method for determining fire history in coniferous forests in the ...

The procedures were applied on three study areas in the Bitterroot National. Forest of western Montana where they provided a detailed analysis of the role of ...

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American ...

Past forest management, including widespread harvest of fire‐ and climate‐tolerant large old trees and old forests, fire exclusion (both Indigenous and ...