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Characterizing Predictability of Fire Occurrence in Tropical Forests and Grasslands: The Case of Puerto Rico

Global estimates of fire frequency indicate that over 70% of active fires occur in the tropics, and the size and frequency of fires are increasing every year. The majority of fires in the tropics are an unintended consequence of current land-use practices that promotes the establishment of grass and shrubland communities, which are more flammable and more adapted to...

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Author(s):

Ana Carolina Monmany; William Gould; Maria Jose Andrade-Nunez; Grizelle Gonzalez; Maya Quinones

Year:

2017

Keywords:

wildfire, tropical dry forests, wildfire predictability, climate change, Caribbean

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Forest Ecology and Conservation. Chapter 4. InTech: Rijeka, DOI: 10.5772/63322

Multi-temporal LiDAR and Landsat quantification of fire-induced changes to forest structure

Measuring post-fire effects at landscape scales is critical to an ecological understanding of wildfire effects. Predominantly this is accomplished with either multi-spectral remote sensing data or through ground-based field sampling plots.While these methods are important, field data is usually limited to opportunistic post-fire observations, and spectral data often...

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T. Ryan McCarley; Crystal A. Kolden; Nicole M. Vaillant; Andrew T. Hudak; Alistair M. S. Smith; Brian M. Wing; Bryce S. Kellogg; Jason Kreitler

Year:

2017

Keywords:

wildfire, Eastern Cascades, dNBR, d74, canopy cover, simultaneous autoregression

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Remote Sensing of Environment. 191: 419-432.

Short-Term Impacts of the Air Temperature on Greening and Senescence in Alaskan Arctic Plant Tundra Habitats

Climate change is warming the temperatures and lengthening the Arctic growing season with potentially important effects on plant phenology. The ability of plant species to acclimate to changing climatic conditions will dictate the level to which their spatial coverage and habitat-type dominance is different in the future. While the effect of changes in temperature on...

Author(s):

Jeremy May; Nathan Healey; Hella Ahrends; Robert Hollister; Craig Tweedie; Jeffrey Welker; William Gould; Steven Oberbauer

Year:

2017

Keywords:

arctic shrubs, Mobile Instrumented Sensor Platform, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, climate change, phenology

Source:

Remote Sensing

Oregon’s forest resources, 2001–2010: ten-year Forest Inventory and Analysis report

This report highlights key findings from a comprehensive vegetation survey of all forested land across the state of Oregon. A total of 5,180 forested field plots in Oregon were visited by Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) crews over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. Oregon has 30 million acres of forest, covering nearly half the state. The structure and composition...

Author(s):

Sheel Bansal; Leslie Brodie; Sharon Stanton; Karen Waddell; Marin Palmer; Glenn Christensen; Olaf Kuegler; John Chase; Joel Thompson; Sarah Jovan; Andrew Gray; Morgan Todd

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Air pollution, biomass, carbon, dead wood, Douglas-fir, fire, forest land, insects, invasive plants, inventory, timber volume, timberland, Oregon.

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Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-958. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 130 p.

Comparative trends in log populations in northern Arizona mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forests following severe drought

Logs provide an important form of coarse woody debris in forest systems, contributing to numerous ecological processes and affecting wildlife habitat and fuel complexes. Despite this, little information is available on the dynamics of log populations in southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and especially mixed-conifer forests. A recent episode of elevated tree...

Author(s):

Joseph L. Ganey; Scott C. Vojta

Year:

2017

Keywords:

log populations, mixed-conifer, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, coarse woody debris, forest management

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Western North American Naturalist. 77(3): 281-292.

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Characterizing Predictability of Fire Occurrence in Tropical Forests and Grasslands: The Case of Puerto Rico

Multi-temporal LiDAR and Landsat quantification of fire-induced changes to forest structure

Short-Term Impacts of the Air Temperature on Greening and Senescence in Alaskan Arctic Plant Tundra Habitats

Oregon’s forest resources, 2001–2010: ten-year Forest Inventory and Analysis report

Comparative trends in log populations in northern Arizona mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forests following severe drought

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