Fire intensities and surface temperatures during prescribed burning.

Considerations for Prescribed Burning

Physiological responses of ponderosa pine in western Montana to thinning, prescribed fire and burning season.

Low-elevation ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws.) forests of the northern Rocky Mountains historically experienced frequent low-intensity fires that maintained open uneven-aged stands. A century of fire exclusion has contributed to denser ponderosa pine forests with greater competition for resources, higher tree stress and greater risk of insect attack and stand-destroying fire. A...

Atmosphere-only GCM (ACCESS1.0) simulations with prescribed land surface temperatures

General circulation models (GCMs) are valuable tools for understanding how the global ocean–atmosphere– land surface system interacts and are routinely evaluated relative to observational data sets. Conversely, observational data sets can also be used to constrain GCMs in order to identify systematic errors in their simulated climates. One such example is to prescribe sea surface temperatures (...

Prescribed burning in southern Europe: developing fire management in a dynamic landscape

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America S European landscapes are fire-prone due to the Mediterranean climate, the presence of flammable vegetation, and the rugged terrain (Pausas et al. 2008). The environmental and societal impacts of fire in the region have increased markedly during the 20th century. Pre-industrial fire regimes were generally associated with widespread ...

Grassland ManageInent With Prescribed Fire