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Fire, 2021 Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CAL ...
Tony Marks-Block, William Tripp
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Effects of fire on ground‐dwelling arthropods in a shrub‐dominated grassland
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Arthropods are abundant and diverse animals in many terrestrial food webs. In western Oklahoma, some shrublands are interspersed with discrete, dense thickets of tall, woody vegetation, known as mottes.
Anna Butler +3 more
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Forest Systems, 2022 Aim of study: To evaluate the effects of two different prescribed burning strategies on ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal species in Pinus cubensis-dominated natural forest.
Francisco Durán-Manual +8 more
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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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Impacts of prescribed burning on soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a suburban native forest of south-eastern Queensland, Australia [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2015 Prescribed burning is a forest management practice that is widely used in Australia to reduce the risk of damaging wildfires. Prescribed burning can affect both carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in the forest and thereby influence the soil-atmosphere ...
Y. Zhao, Y. Z. Wang, Z. H. Xu, L. Fu
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Fire, 2023 Prescribed fire is an important land conservation tool to meet ecological, cultural, and public safety objectives across terrestrial ecosystems. While estimates of prescribed burning in the U.S.A. exceed 4.5 million hectares annually, tracking the extent
Karen Cummins +6 more
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Airborne measurements of western U.S. wildfire emissions: Comparison with prescribed burning and air quality implications [PDF]
, 2017 Wildfires emit significant amounts of pollutants that degrade air quality. Plumes from three wildfires in the western U.S. were measured from aircraft during the Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional ...
Beyersdorf, AJ +37 more
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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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Occupational PAH Exposures during Prescribed Pile Burns [PDF]
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 2008 Wildland firefighters are exposed to particulate matter and gases containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), many of which are known carcinogens. Our objective was to evaluate the extent of firefighter exposure to particulate and PAHs during prescribed pile burns of mainly ponderosa pine slash and determine whether these exposures were ...
M S, Robinson +6 more
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Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020 The prescribed burning is one of the most important actions within an extensive network of planning of ecological, cultural, socioeconomic and technical factors that are contemplated in the Integrated and Adaptive Fire Management.
Allan Deyvid Pereira da Silva +5 more
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