Exploring Prescribed Fire Severity Effects on Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Taxonomic and Functional Community Composition [PDF]
Fire, 2023 Prescribed fire is a management tool that is frequently used to foster biodiversity. Simultaneously, insects that provide essential ecosystem services are globally declining.
Stephen C. Mason +4 more
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We’re Not Doing Enough Prescribed Fire in the Western United States to Mitigate Wildfire Risk
Fire, 2019 Prescribed fire is one of the most widely advocated management practices for reducing wildfire hazard and has a long and rich tradition rooted in indigenous and local ecological knowledge. The scientific literature has repeatedly reported that prescribed
Crystal A. Kolden
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How do invasive predators and their native prey respond to prescribed fire? [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFire shapes animal communities by altering resource availability and species interactions, including between predators and prey. In Australia, there is particular concern that two highly damaging invasive predators, the feral cat (Felis catus) and ...
Darcy J. Watchorn +4 more
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Responses to Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Smoke: A Survey of a Medically Vulnerable Adult Population in the Wildland-Urban Interface, Mariposa County, California [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023 Sumi Hoshiko +2 more
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Bees and Fire: How does Fire in Longleaf Pine Savannas Affect Bee Communities?
EDIS, 2022 Bees are efficient pollinators known to be key components of healthy forests. Thus, bees are often used as indicators of community response to restoration and disturbances, including fire.
Nicole Mitchell +2 more
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Is Wildfire Suppression in Giant Sequoia Groves a Problem, a Solution, or Neither? [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIn 1910, the U.S. federal government began an official policy of suppressing wildfires. Decades later it became understood that the giant sequoia, the world's most massive tree, is serotinous and depends upon fire to effectively reproduce. For a century,
Chad T. Hanson
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Fire, 2023 Fire-prone landscapes found throughout the world are increasingly managed with prescribed fire for a variety of objectives. These frequent low-intensity fires directly impact lower forest strata, and thus estimating surface fuels or understory vegetation
Eva Louise Loudermilk +8 more
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A prescribed fire cost model for public lands in south-east Queensland [PDF]
, 2021 Prescribed fire is a management tool in many Australian and international ecosystems, where it can benefit biodiversity conservation and potentially reduce the risk of extreme wildfires threatening highly valued assets.
Lewis, T +4 more
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Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape
Ecosphere, 2022 Fire is a critical ecological process to the forests of the Southern Appalachians. Where fire was excluded from forest types that historically burned frequently, unanticipated changes can occur when fire is reintroduced.
Zachary J. Robbins +6 more
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Prescribed Fire Size, Patchiness, and Pyrodiversity in the Southeastern United States
EDIS, 2023 This publication aims to provide information on how variation in prescribed fire size and heterogeneity and their impact over time relate to the habitat needs of animals and plants that live in frequently burned savannas. Written by Jennifer M. Fill and
Jennifer M. Fill, Raelene M. Crandall
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