| Titre : | AMBIO 37(7-8) - DEC 2008 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
Dépouillements
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Dante Arturo Rodriguez Trejo, Auteur
I propose several broad fire regimes and provide an analysis of fire ecology for the principal vegetation types in Mexico. Forty percent of Mexican ecosystems are fire-dependent (pine forests, several oak forests, grasslands, several shrublands,[...]
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Fire and Vegetation Dynamics in High-elevation Neotropical Montane Forests of the Dominican Republic
Ruth E. Sherman, Auteur ;
Patrick H. Martin, Auteur ;
Timothy J. Fahey, Auteur ;
Steve D. Degloria, Auteur
In March and April 2005, severe fires burned over 1000 km(2) of tropical montane forests in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. The fire burned through our network of permanent vegetation plots, which were established in 1999 to examine [...]
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Ricardo J. Santiago-Garcia, Auteur ;
Sandra Molina Colon, Auteur ;
Phillip Sollins, Auteur ;
Skip J. Van Bloem, Auteur
The threat of fire is always a consideration when establishing a forest restoration program. Two wildfires occurred in 2006 and 2007 in an established dry forest restoration project in Puerto Rico. The original goal of the project was to determi[...]
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A. Marcus J. Robbins, Auteur ;
Claus-Martin Eckelmann, Auteur ;
Maya Quinones, Auteur
This paper presents a summary of the forest fire reports in the insular Caribbean derived from both management reports and an analysis of publicly available Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrodiometer (MODIS) satellite active fire products from [...]
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Grizelle Gonzalez, Auteur ;
William A. Gould, Auteur ;
Andrew T. Hudak, Auteur ;
Teresa Nettleton Hollingsworth, Auteur
In this study, we set up a wood decomposition experiment to i) quantify the percent of mass remaining, decay constant and performance strength of aspen stakes (Populus tremuloides) in dry and moist boreal (Alaska and Minnesota, USA), temperate ([...]
Article
William A. Gould, Auteur ;
Grizelle Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Andrew T. Hudak, Auteur ;
Teresa Nettleton Hollingsworth, Auteur ;
Jamie Hollingsworth, Auteur
Forest fragmentation affects the heterogeneity of accumulated fuels by increasing the diversity of forest types and by increasing forest edges. This heterogeneity has implications in how we manage fuels, fire, and forests. Understanding the rela[...]
Article
Theresa B. Jain, Auteur ;
William A. Gould, Auteur ;
Russell T. Graham, Auteur ;
David S. Pilliod, Auteur ;
Leigh B. Lentile, Auteur ;
Grizelle Gonzalez, Auteur
Methods for evaluating the impact of fires within tropical forests are needed as fires become more frequent and human populations and demands on forests increase. Short- and long-term fire effects on soils are determined by the prefire, fire, an[...]
Article
Thomas J. Brandeis, Auteur ;
Christopher W. Woodall, Auteur
Quantification of the downed woody materials that comprise forest fuels has gained importance in Caribbean forest ecosystems due to the increasing incidence and severity of wildfires on island ecosystems. Because large-scale assessments of fores[...]
Article
JOSEPH J. O'BRIEN, Auteur ;
J. Kevin Hiers, Auteur ;
Mac A. Callaham, Auteur ;
Robert J. Mitchell, Auteur ;
Steve B. Jack, Auteur
Fire-dependent pine forests in the Caribbean Basin cover extensive areas in the coastal plain of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico and on several islands in the Bahamas Archipelago, Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Honduran Bay islands. These forest[...]
Article
Peter L. Weaver, Auteur ;
Joseph J. Schwagerl, Auteur
Secondary forest succession and tree planting are contributing to the recovery of the Cabo Rojo refuge (Headquarters and Salinas tracts) and Laguna Cartagena refuge (Lagoon and Tinaja tracts) of the Fish and Wildlife Service in southwestern Puer[...]
Article
Mark A. Cochrane, Auteur ;
William F. Laurance, Auteur
The Amazon is being rapidly transformed by fire. Logging and forest fragmentation sharply elevate fire incidence by increasing forest desiccation and fuel loads, and forests that have experienced a low-intensity surface fire are vulnerable to fa[...]
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Arjan J. H. Meddens, Auteur ;
Andrew T. Hudak, Auteur ;
Jeffrey S. Evans, Auteur ;
William A. Gould, Auteur ;
Grizelle Gonzalez, Auteur
An increased ability to analyze landscapes in a spatial manner through the use of remote sensing leads to improved capabilities for quantifying human-induced forest fragmentation. Developments of spatially explicit methods in landscape analyses [...]
