Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2016 The field of adaptive management has been embraced by researchers and managers in the United States as an approach to improve natural resource stewardship in the face of uncertainty and complex environmental problems.
Christopher A. Armatas +4 more
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Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems
Ecology and Society, 2021 With the growing challenge of addressing modern fire risk, land managers and researchers are increasingly looking to Indigenous knowledge as a primary source of information for enabling resilience of fire-dependent social-ecological systems (SES ...
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz +2 more
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A Disrupted Historical Fire Regime in Central British Columbia
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In the 2017 and 2018, 2.55 million hectares burned across British Columbia, Canada, including unanticipated large and high-severity fires in many dry forests.
Wesley Brookes +4 more
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Ecological Applications, 2022 AbstractIndigenous land stewardship and mixed‐severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900‐ha dry, Douglas fir–dominated forest in the traditional territory of the T'exelc (Williams Lake ...
Kelsey Copes‐Gerbitz +2 more
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Exceptional variability in historical fire regimes across a western Cascades landscape, Oregon, USA
Ecosphere, 2023 Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we describe one of the first annually resolved reconstructions of historical (1500–1900 ce) fire ...
James D. Johnston +5 more
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Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in northern Sweden, northern Finland, and northwest Russia [PDF]
, 2009 Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label to producers who meet certain environmental and social criteria set for their forest products.
Johansson, J. +3 more
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Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems [PDF]
, 2008 We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by ...
Enright, N.J., Thomas, I.
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, 2023 Abstract Background Late dry-season wildfires in Sub-Saharan Africa’s savanna-protected areas are intensifying, increasing carbon emissions, and threatening ecosystem functioning. Addressing these challenges requires local community engagement and support for wildfire policy.
Abigail Rose Croker +2 more
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Landscape preferences, ecological quality and biodiversity protection [PDF]
, 2002 The loss of biological diversity is a major environmental problem occurring on a global scale. Human-environment researchers have an important role in shaping policy and programs at a local, national and international level.
Cary, John, Williams, Kathryn
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Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire
Fire EcologyAbstract Wild and intentionally ignited fires are not new to North American landscapes or to the Indigenous cultures whose ancestral places encompass them. For millennia, Indigenous fire stewardship has been regionally and locally distributed across North American ecosystems.
Don L. Hankins +12 more
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