Fire Effects in Northeastern Forests, Aspen
Author: Cary Rouse
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 12
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Author: Cary Rouse
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 12
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cathryn H. Greenberg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 3030732673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions and forest types, as well as detailed information for individual ecoregions, for fire frequencies and severities, fire effects on tree mortality and regeneration, and levels of fire-dependency by plant and animal communities. The foreword addresses emerging ecological and fire management challenges for forests, in relation to sustainable development goals as highlighted in recent government reports. An introductory chapter highlights patterns of variation in frequencies, severities, scales, and spatial patterns of fire across ecoregions and among forested ecosystems across the US in relation to climate, fuels, topography and soils, ignition sources (lightning or anthropogenic), and vegetation. Separate chapters by respected experts delve into the fire ecology of major forest types within US ecoregions, with a focus on the level of plant and animal fire-dependency, and the role of fire in maintaining forest composition and structure. The regional chapters also include discussion of historic natural (lightning-ignited) and anthropogenic (Native American; settlers) fire regimes, current fire regimes as influenced by recent decades of fire suppression and land use history, and fire management in relation to ecosystem integrity and restoration, wildfire threat, and climate change. The summary chapter combines the major points of each chapter, in a synthesis of US-wide fire ecology and forest management into the future. This book provides current, organized, readily accessible information for the conservation community, land managers, scientists, students and educators, and others interested in how fire behavior and effects on structure and composition differ among ecoregions and forest types, and what that means for forest management today and in the future.
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 228
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 92
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T. J. Lynham
Publisher: Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. : Great Lakes Forestry Centre
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: North Central Forest Experiment Station (Saint Paul, Minn.)
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin E. Alexander
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a May 1972 study in central Alberta, 13 0.5 ha plots of semimature trembling aspen were burned experimentally under various conditions to provide new information on fire behaviour and impact, with particular regard to aspen ecosystems. Fire data were documented for all plots, particularly head fire rates of spread and frontal fire intensities. The following August an assessment was made of the impact of burning on aspen overstory mortality and understory vegetation response. In May 1978 two of the plots were jointly reburned. The August survey that followed assessed the effects of the reburning.