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California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2020 Prescribed fire should increase plant and forage biomass for herbivores in meadows, but the response is likely to be influenced by environmental conditions.
Lee H. Williamson, Floyd W. Weckerly
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Factors Influencing County Commissioners’ Decisions about Burn Bans in the Southern Plains, USA
Land, 2021 Woody plant encroachment in North American rangelands has led to calls for greater use of prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads and restore grazing productivity and grassland biodiversity.
Thomas W. McDaniel +3 more
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Effects of prescribed burning on understory Quercus species of Pinus yunnanensis forest
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 IntroductionPositioning studies on prescribed burning in Pinus yunnanensis forests have been conducted for several years, focusing on the effects of fire on the composition and structure, growth, regeneration, relative bark thickness, and bark density of
Ruicheng Hong +8 more
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Particulate Levels Underneath Landscape Fire Smoke Plumes in the Sydney Region of Australia
Fire, 2023 Smoke pollution from landscape fires is a major health problem, but it is difficult to predict the impact of any particular fire. For example, smoke plumes can be mapped using remote sensing, but we do not know how the smoke is distributed in the air ...
Owen F. Price +2 more
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Forest Ecosystems, 2023 Background: More than a decade of fire suppression has changed the structure of fire-adapted shrubland ecosystems in Spain's National Parks, which are now at extreme risk of uncontrolled wildfires. Prescribed burning can mitigate the risk of wildfires by
Juncal Espinosa +5 more
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Prescribed burning techniques [PDF]
Forest@ - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale, 2014 Nella collana “Scienza e innovazione per i sistemi forestali ed ambientali” della Editrice Aracne è stato recentemente pubblicato il volume “La tecnica del fuoco prescritto” a cura di G. Bovio e D. Ascoli dell’Università di Torino.
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Prescribed burning is a major source of a fine particular matter, especially in the southeastern United States, and quantifying emissions from burning operations accurately is an integral part of ascertaining air quality impacts. For instance, a critical
Zongrun Li +6 more
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To Burn or Not to Burn: Ecological Restoration, Liability Concerns, and the Role of Prescribed Burning Associations [PDF]
Rangelands, 2012 F ire suppression in ecosystems that have evolved in the presence of fire, together with the occurrence of other natural and anthropogenic processes, has resulted in the conversion of many grasslands and savannas to woodlands. From an ecological perspective, eliminating fire in areas that evolved with fire inhibits natural processes that limit woody ...
David Toledo +3 more
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Where There's Fire, THere's Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida
EDIS, 2022 Prescribed burning, the carefully planned and directed use of fire to achieve land management goals, is a useful tool for natural resource managers in Florida.
Martha C. Monroe +4 more
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De la peur à la danse du feu ?
Socio-anthropologie, 2023 On November 8th 2018, the Camp Fire, the most destructive « megafire » of California’s history, destroyed the town of Paradise and its surroundings, in the Sierra Nevada.
Élise Boutié
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