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Landowner perceptions of woody plants and prescribed fire in the Southern Plains, USA. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Grassland environments face a number of threats including land use change, changing climate and encroachment of woody plants. In the Southern Plains of the United States, woody plant encroachment threatens traditional agricultural grazing economies in ...
Stroman DA, Kreuter UP, Wonkka CL.
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Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease. [PDF]
Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol, 2022 Recently, tick-borne illnesses have been trending upward and are an increasing source of risk to people’s health in the United States. This is due to range expansion in tick habitats as a result of climate change. Thus, it is imperative to find a practical and cost-efficient way of managing tick populations.
Guo E, Agusto FB.
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Optimizing prescribed fire allocation for managing fire risk in central Catalonia [PDF]
Science of The Total Environment, 2018 We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to identify suitable strategic locations on forest lands for fuel treatments in order to: 1) disrupt major fire movements, 2) reduce ember emissions, and 3) reduce the ...
Alcasena FJ +4 more
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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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A New Picture of Fire Extent, Variability, and Drought Interaction in Prescribed Fire Landscapes: Insights From Florida Government Records. [PDF]
Geophys Res Lett, 2018 Florida, United States, government records provide a new resource for studying fire in landscapes managed with prescribed fire. In Florida, most fire area (92%) is prescribed.
Nowell HK +4 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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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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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 L. Cummins +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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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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