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Author(s): Abrahamson, Warren G., Christy R. Abrahamson Title: Effects of fire on long-unburned Florida uplands Source: Journal of Vegetation Science 7(4): 565 - 574 Year: 2009 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The widespread suppression of fire during the 20th century has created extensive areas of fire-prone ecosystems that are in long-unburned condition. Plant species of flatwoods and scrubby flatwoods (= oak scrub) in the southeastern USA possess adaptations that facilitate resprouting... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102230 Author(s): Abrantes, N., I. Morais, V. Silva, M. C. Malvar, S. Prats Title: Export of solids and nutrients from burnt areas: effects of fire severity and forest type Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-13799, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Abstract: In the last few decades, the number of wildfires has markedly increased in Mediterranean Europe, including Portugal. Besides a range of direct impacts, wildfires can significantly alter the geomorphological and hydrological processes during a period ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101865 Author(s): Achmidt, H-P., K. FRIEDRICH, H. GERBER and T. BUCHELI. Title: Influencing biochar characteristics through pyrolysis conditions, feedstock blending and post-production treatment Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 4

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Adams, M. A. Title: Distrbution of eucalypts in Australian landscapes: landforms, soils, fire and nutrition Source: pages 61-76, in: Nutrition of Eucalypts, edited by P. M. Attiwill and M. A. adams, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne Year: 1996 Keywords: ecology australia Author(s): Adou, J. K., A. D. V. Brou, B. Porterie Title: Modeling wildland fire propagation using a semi-physical network model Source: Case Studies in Fire Safety 4: 11-18 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling behavior Abstract: In this paper we present a surface wildfire model which can be used to develop and test new firefighting strategies and land use planning practices. This model is simple, easy to implement and can predict the rate of fire spread, the fire contour and both burning and burned areas. It also incorporates weather conditions and land topography... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102028 Author(s): Ager, A., A. Barros, M. Day, H. Preisler, C. Evers Title: Understanding the transmission of wildfire risk on a fire prone landscape-A Case study from Central Oregon Source: EGU General Assembly Conference Year: 2015 Abstract: We develop the idea of risk transmission from large wildfires and apply network analyses to understand its importance within the 3.2 million ha Fire-People-Forest study area in central Oregon, US. Historic wildfires within the study and elsewhere in the ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101871 Author(s): Ahlstrom, Martha M. Title: POST-FIRE DEBRIS FLOW EROSION IN THE SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE STATION FIRE, 2009 Source: M. S. Thesis, Geology, California State University, northridge, 93 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: erosion FRI Access Number: 102290

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Albanesi, Sebastian, Sebastian Dardanelli, Laura M. Bellis Title: Effects of fire disturbance on bird communities and species of mountain Serrano forest in central Argentina Source: Journal of Forest Research 19(1): 105-114 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife birds Abstract: In central Argentina, Serrano forest has a long history of fire disturbance; however, the impact of fire on avifauna remains unknown. We compared the avianhabitat relationships in forest patches with low, moderate, and high fire regimes using a community-level (species richness, abundance, ordination ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102233 Author(s): Alday, Josu G., Victor M. Santana, Hyohyemi Lee, Katherine A. Allen, Rob H. Marrs Title: Above-ground biomass accumulation patterns in moorlands after prescribed burning and low-intensity grazing Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel prescribed burning Abstract: Shrub-dominated ecosystems such as moorlands are recognized internationally as cultural landscapes with high biodiversity conservation value. These ecosystems are commonly managed u... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102005 Author(s): Alexis, M., C. RUMPEL and H. KNICKER. Title: Chemical composition and biological stability of pyrogenic C from a natural fire Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Almendros, G., F. J. GONZ?LEZ-VILA, J. M. DE LA ROSA, H. KNICKER, J. A. GONZ?LEZ-P REZ and Z. HERN?NDEZ. Title: The effect of heat in soil organic matter. Experience from controlled burning experiments of unaltered soil blocks 6

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Ando, Shinjo, Noro, Takenaka, Miura, Sokotela, Funakawa Title: Short-term effects of fire intensity on soil organic matter and nutrient release after slash-and-burn in Eastern Province, Zambia Source: Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 60(2): Year: 2014 Keywords: soils tropics Abstract: According to the slash-and-burn technique used in Eastern Province, Zambia, cut trees are piled and burned in only a part of the cleared fields, because adequate tree biomass is not available to burn the entire field. Due to a recent decrease in emergent trees, not only ... Author(s): Andreychuck, Justine, C. Alina Cansler Title: The influence of fire on herbaceous community composition of subalpine parkland in the North Cascades Source: Poster, Northwest Scientific Association Annual Meeting. Missoula, MT; 03/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: We examined the impacts of fire on herbaceous community composition within the Abies lasiocarpa (subalpine fir) vegetation zone in the northern Cascade Range of Washington. We used plant functional groups, classified based on growth form, to investigate how the ecological role ... FRI Access Number: 102039 Author(s): Anderson, Steven M., Justin P. Wright, Gregory M. Ames, Matthew G. Hohmann Title: How well do fire-related plant traits predict species pattern and fire behavior along a hydrologic gradient? Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: behavior Abstract: In fire-adapted systems, fire behavior can be strongly controlled by plant species composition because of the variability in flammability across species. Conversely, 7

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 fire behavior can also drive species composition. To better understand the feedbacks between local fire behavior ... Author(s): Anderson, I. C., B. A. Bastias, D. R. Genney, P. I. parkin and J. W. G. Cairney Title: Basidio mycete fungal communities in Australian sclerophyll forest soil are altered by repeated prescribed burning Source: Mycological Research 111: 482-486 Year: 2007 Keywords: fungi soils Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Angelo, Courtney L., Curtis C. Daehler Title: Temperature is the major driver of distribution patterns for C4 and C3 BEP grasses along tropical elevation gradients in Hawai-i, and comparison with worldwide patterns Source: Botany 93(1): 351-372 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology grasslands hawaii Abstract: The distribution patterns of C4 and C3 grasses in relation to climate have attracted much attention, but few studies have examined grass distributions along tropical elevation gradients. Previous studies identified either temperature, precipitation, or both variables as the major climatic factor(s) driving ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Anonymous Title: Hardhat cracking and delamination Source: U. S. National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Risk Management Committee, 1 page Year: 2015 Keywords: equipment safety FRI Access Number: 102108 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Willamette National Forest Gregg Creek Fire Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,Wilamette National Forest, Springfield, Oregon, 1 page Year: 2015 Keywords: Accident investigation injury FRI Access Number: 102114

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Living with Fire Source: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources PUB FR-275 Year: 2007 Keywords: interface Author(s): Anonymous Title: E-346 roll-over Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Sierra National Forest, Clovis, California, 1 page Year: 2015 Keywords: vehicle accident investigation FRI Access Number: 101936 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Dry Creek Fire Near Miss 24Hr Report Source: U. S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, Colorado, 2 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: chainsaw accident investigation FRI Access Number: 101907 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Dry Creek Fire Near Miss 72Hr Report Source: U. S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, Colorado, 2 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: chainsaw accident investigation FRI Access Number: 101906 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Dry Creek near-miss Source: U. S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, Colorado, 36 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: chainsaw accident investigation FRI Access Number: 101905

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Anonymous Title: New South Wales Flora Fire Response Database Version 1.3 Source: (Ed. J Cohn). Biodiversity Research & Management Division, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville. Year: 2002 Keywords: Australia ecology Author(s): Anonymous Title: What you wouldn't believe...the January 2003 Bushfires in the ACT as seen by Bushfire and Emergency Services Personnel Source: ACT Volunteer Brigades Association, Canberra, ACT Year: 2003 Keywords: conflagration investigation australia Abstract: This is an online book at http: //www.firebreak.com.au/jan2003.html Author(s): Anonymous Title: Bushfire statistics - fires on public land in Victoria Source: Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Year: 2010 Keywords: statistics australia FRI Access Number: 102239 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Fuel reduction burning in southern Australia's forests: A review of its effectiveness as a bushfire management tool Source: Victoria Lands Alliance, Benalla, Victoria, Australia 3672, 30 pages Year: 2010 Keywords: Australian prescribed burning FRI Access Number: 102241 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Ecological effects of repeated low-intensity fire in mixed eucalypt foothill forest in south-eastern Australia: summary report (1984-1999) Source: Fire Research Report No. 57, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria 5d 2003 Keywords: frequency prescribed burning australia

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Code of Practice for fire management on public land (revision1) Source: Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Year: 2006 Keywords: management australia Author(s): Anonymous Title: Code of Practice for fire management on public land Source: Department of Environment and Conservation, Victoria, 26 pages Year: 2008 Keywords: management australia FRI Access Number: 102246 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Code of Practice for fire management on public land Source: Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Year: 2012 Keywords: management australia FRI Access Number: 102245 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Changes to the Bureau's fire weather warnings and forecasts Source: Bureau of Meteorology Year: 2009 Keywords: weather forecasting australia FRI Access Number: 101859 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Submission to 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Source: Australian Centre for Biodiversity, Monash University Year: 2009 Keywords: ecology australia FRI Access Number: 101858 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Cattail Fire UTV Burnover/Destroyed by fire Source: Facilitated Learning Analysis, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Osceola Ranger District, 5 pages Year: 2015 11

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: vehicle UTV accident burnover FRI Access Number: 101817 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Community Fire Refuges Source: Emergency Management Victoria, Victoria, Australia, 24 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: interface evacuation australia Abstract: This policy was developed in response to recommendations of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission. It was originally published in October 2011 and revised to incorporate minor amendments in August 2012 and November 2013. The ... FRI Access Number: 101889 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Willow Peak firefighter burn injury Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, 24 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: injury accident investigation chainsaw FRI Access Number: 101886 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Firefighter burn injury Source: Rapid Lesson Sharing, Lessons Learned Center, Phoenix, Arizona, 1 page Year: 2015 Keywords: injury accident investigation chainsaw FRI Access Number: 101887 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Willow Peak Fire, Serious Burn Injury Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, 24/72 Hour Report, 1 page Year: 2015 Keywords: injury accident investigation chainsaw FRI Access Number: 101888 Author(s): Anonymous Title: Firefighter heat stress study Source: Rapid Lesson Sharing, Lessons Learned Center, Phoenix, Arizona, 3 pages 12

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: illness firefitghter safety FRI Access Number: 101857 Author(s): Arca, B., T.Ghisu, M.Casula, G.Pellizzaro and P.Duce Title: A web-based wildfire simulator for operational applications Source: Powerpoint, II International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk, May 26-29 2015, Alghero Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling Abstract: Wildfire management agencies increasingly need to use wildfire simulators at landscape scale for real-time applications such as short-term fire prediction and fire management. Despite the la... FRI Access Number: 102110 Author(s): Arca, B., z A. Ventura, z M. Casula, z G. V.Pintus, z O.Munoz Lozano, z R. Jahdi, Z. V. Bacciu, z G. Diana, z A. M.Pirisi, z Gruppo GAUF and M. Salis Title: Evaluating the capabilities of foam in limiting the fire spead Source: Unknown conference, 2015 Year: 2015 A limited number of scientific studies was devoted to evaluate the ability of fire suppressant foams to improve fire control, although this technique can bring out new opportunities for fire... Author(s): Arellano, Lucrecia and Citlalli Castillo-Guevara Title: Effect of uncontrolled forest fires on the coprophagous beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in a temperate forest in Central Mexico Source: REVISTA MEXICANA DE BIODIVERSIDAD 85: 54-865 Year: 2014 Keywords: insects ecology Abstract: This paper examines the effect of changes in vegetation and soil, resulting from an uncontrolled forest fire, in the dung beetles assemblage (Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae) in a temperate forest in central Mexico. In burned, unburned, and edge sites, soil and vegetation ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102065

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Arnold, Steve, Louisa Emmons, Sarah Monks, Kathy Law, Simone Tilmes, Solene Turquety, Jennie Thomas, Idir Bouarar, Jean-Christophe Raut, Johannes Flemming, Vincent Huijnen, Jingqiu Mao, Bryan Duncan, Steve Steenrod, Sarah Strode, Yasuko Yoshida Title: Impacts of Boreal wildfire emissions on Arctic tropospheric ozone: A multi-model analysis Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 6047-6068 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: We have evaluated tropospheric ozone enhancement in air dominated by biomass burning emissions at high latitudes ( > 50_ N) in July 2008, using 10 global chemical transport model simulations from the POLMIP multimodel comparison exercise. In model air masses... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102193 Author(s): Asah, Stanley T. Title: Professionals? Perspectives: Exploring the Occupational and Organizational Psychology of Community-Agency Interactions in Forest Fire Management Source: Forestry 87(4): 552-561 Year: 2014 Keywords: psychology interface Abstract: Researchers exploring the challenges of public intolerance for forest fires in the US predominantly focus on non managers. Forest fire managers have unique perspectives on public perceptions and attitudes towards forest fires because managers frequently interact directly with the public ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102215 Author(s): Ascough, P., M. BIRD, W. MEREDITH, C. SNAPE and D. LARGE Title: Degradation versus stability: Understanding the source, fate and age of pyrogenic carbon in the environment Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 14

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Atahan, Pia, Henk Heijnis, John Dodson, Kliti Grice, Pierre Le Me-tayer, Kathryn Taffs, Sarah Hembrow, Martijn Woltering, Atun Zawadzki Title: Pollen, biomarker and stable isotope evidence of late Quaternary environmental change at Lake McKenzie, southeast Queensland Source: Journal of Paleolimnology 53(1): Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology climate Abstract: Unravelling links between climate change and vegetation response during the Quaternary is important if the climate-environment interactions of modern systems are to be fully understood. Using a sediment core from Lake McKenzie, Fraser Island, we reconstruct changes in the lake ecosystem and ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102043 Author(s): Atkins, Zak; Clemann, Nick; Robert, Kylie A. Title: Does Shelter Site Selection Aid Persistence of a Threatened Alpine Lizard? Assessing Liopholis guthega Populations a Decade after Severe Fire in Southeastern Australia. Source: Journal of Herpetology 49(2): 222-229 Year: 2015 Keywords: reptiles wildlife Abstract: Species? tolerance of and response to fire varies. Environments that experience frequent fires will contain fire-tolerant fauna, whereas fauna that occur in environments that burn infrequently may lack strategies to cope with fire. In 2003, intense summer wildfires in southeastern Australia's alpine region burned more than 1.3 million ha. The Guthega... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101861 Author(s): Attiwill, P. M, D. Packham, T. Barker and I. Hamilton Title: The People's Review of Bushfires, 2002-2007, in Victoria Source: The People's Review, Richmond, Victoria, 82 pages Year: 2009 Keywords: Australia management Author(s): Attiwill, P. M. and B. A. Wilson Title: Succession, disturbance, and fire Source: pages 361-377, in: Ecology: An Australian Perspective, 2nd edition, edited by P. M. Attiwill and B. A. Wilson, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Year: 2006 15

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: ecology australia Author(s): Auld, T. D. and Denham, A. J. Title: A technique to estimate the prefire depth of burial of Grevillea seeds by using seedlings after fire Source: Aust J Bot 53: 401-405 Year: 2005 Keywords: seeds regeneration Author(s): Bacciu, Valentina Bacciu, z R. Trigo,. z D. Spano,. z F. Masala,. z B. Duguy,. z P. Pastor, z P. Sousa, z A. Venalainen, z F. Mouillot, z J. M. Moreno, z G. Zavala, z I. R. Urbieta, z N. Koutsias, z F. Xystrakis, z M. Arianoutsou, z G. Mallinis, z M. E. Gonzalez, z R. Urrutia, z A. Lara, z A. Kavcaci, z G. Midgley, z D. Guo, z D. le Maitre, z G. Forsyth, z D. Southey, z B. Arca, z L. Bonora, z C. Conese, z C. da Camara, z M. G. Pereira, z C. Gouveia, z A. Camia, z G. Amatulli, z L. Vilar, z J. San Miguel-Ayanz, z T. Hairech, z F. Assali, z A. Mokssit, z K. Cherki,z H. Alaoui Title: Fire and weather relationships: present climate Source: in: Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world, edited by Jose M. Moreno Year: 2013 Keywords: weather climate Abstract: The relationships between weather/climate conditions and fire through the analysis of historical meteorological data and fire records were investigated using different algorithms and methodo... FRI Access Number: 102002 Author(s): Baker, P. and L. Oborne Title: Post-fire reconstructions of fire intensity from fire severity data: quantifying the role of spatial variability of fire intensity on forest dynamics Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-3233, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Abstract: Large, high-intensity fires have direct and long-lasting effects on forest ecosystems and present a serious threat to human life and property. However, even within the most catastrophic fires there is important variability in local-scale intensity that has important ... FRI Access Number: 101867

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Bamforth, Emily L, Isabel Fendley, Hans C E Larsson Title: Paleoclimate and biodiversity dynamics immediately prior to the end-Cretaceous extinction (65Ma) in central Canada: Evidence from paleosols, fossil leaves and vertebrate microsites. Source: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory canada Abstract: The fossil-rich deposits of the latest Maastrichtian Frenchman Formation (66Ma) of Saskatchewan, Canada, coeval with the upper Hell Creek and Lance formations in the USA, contain a complete and continuous record of terrestrial vertebrate diversity during the last half-million years leading up to the end-... [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101943 Author(s): Barbati, A., M. Arianoutsou, P. Corona, De Las Heras J., P. Fernandes, F. Moreira, K. Papageorgiou, R. Vallejo, G. Xanthopoulos Title: Post-fire forest management in southern Europe: A COST action for gathering and disseminating scientific knowledge Source: iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry 3(1): Year: 2010 Keywords: statistics Abstract: Every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning half a million hectares of forests and rural lands; between 1995 and 2004, more than 4 million hectares burned in the Mediterranean Region alone. Post-fire management of burned areas has been given much lesser attention ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102164 Author(s): Barbero, R., J. T. Abatzoglou, N. K. Larkin, C. A. Kolden and B. Stocks Title: Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States Source: International Journal of Wildland Fire, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: Very large fires (VLFs) have important implications for communities, ecosystems, air quality and fire suppression expenditures. VLFs over the contiguous US have been strongly linked with meteorological and climatological variability. Building on prior modelling of VLFs (.5000 ha), an ensemble of 17 global climate models... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101975 17

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Barreiro, A., A. Lombao, M. Diaz-Ravina, A. Martin Title: Microbial response following straw application in a soil affected by a wildfire Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-7599, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: microbes soils Abstract: Mulching treatment is often recommended to reduce post-fire erosion and sediments yields but information concerning their effects on soil microorganisms is scarce ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101895 Author(s): Baranovskiy, N. V. and A. E. Nee Title: NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER IN SOIL UNDER THE ACTION OF A LOCAL IGNITION SOURCE IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FORMULATION Source: Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics 87(6): 1438-1444 Year: 2014 Keywords: soils Abstract: Forest fi res have an adverse effect on soils. The so-called pyrogenic soils can be formed. In this paper, we have modeled mathematically unsteady conductive heat transfer in soil under the action of a local ignition source. Physical and mathematical models of heat transfer in the layer structure... FRI Access Number: 101961 Author(s): Barbero, Renaud, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Katherine C. Hegewisch, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Harry Podschwit Title: Multi-scalar influence of weather and climate on very large-fires in the Eastern United States Source: International Journal of Climatology 35(8): Year: 2014 Keywords: weather climate Abstract: A majority of area burned in the Eastern United States (EUS) results from a limited number of exceptionally large wildfires. Relationships between climatic conditions and the occurrence of very large-fires (VLF) in the EUS were examined using composite and climate-niche analyses that consider ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102225 18

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Barros, A., A. Ager, H. Preisler, M. Day, T. Spies, J. Bolte Title: Understanding coupled natural and human systems on fire prone landscapes: integrating wildfire simulation into an agent based planning system Source: EGU General Assembly Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Agent-based models (ABM) allow users to examine the long-term effects of agent decisions in complex systems where multiple agents and processes interact. This framework has potential application to study the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101864 Author(s): Bardsley, D. K., D. Weber, G. M. Robinson, E. Moskwa, A. M. Bardsley Title: Wildfire risk, biodiversity and peri-urban planning in the Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia Source: Applied Geography 63: 155-165 Year: 2015 Keywords: risk interface Abstract: Major fires on the periphery of Australian cities are reframing perceptions of what constitutes effective landscape planning and vegetation management. The emerging governance challenge to simultaneously mitigate wildfire risk and support improved conservation practices is reviewed in the context of pre- ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Barth, Molly Augusta Frederica Title: Use of a forest reconstruction model to assess changes to Sierra Nevada mixedconifer forest during the fire suppression era Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Montana, Forestry, 174 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling ecology exclusion Abstract: Fire suppression has resulted in dramatic changes to species composition and structural diversity in the Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests. We need a better understanding of how these forests have changed during the fire suppression era, but ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102295

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Barth, M. A. F., A. J. Larson, J. A. Lutz Title: A forest reconstruction model to assess changes to Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest during the fire suppression era Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling ecology exclusion Abstract: Fire suppression has resulted in dramatic changes to species composition and structural diversity in the Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests. We need a better understanding of how these forests have changed during the fire suppression era, but ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Batista, Antonio Carlos, Alexandre FranCa Tetto, Flavio Deppe, Leocadio Grodzki Title: A Impacts of climate change on forest fire risk in Parana State-Brazil Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: climate tropics Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102018 Author(s): Batista, Antonio Carlos Title: Fire behavior of prescribed burns in grass: woody steppe on Parana State, Brazil Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Coimbra Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior prescribed burning Abstract: navegaCao consulta e descarregamento dos titulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressup-em a aceitaCao plena e sem reservas dos Termos e CondiC?es de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponiveis em https: //digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos. Conforme ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102049 Author(s): Baylon, P., D. A. Jaffe, N. L. Wigder, H. Gao, J. Hee Title: Ozone enhancement in western US wildfire plumes at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory: The role of NOx Source: Atmospheric Environment 109: 297e304 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke 20

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: We looked at 19 wildfire events that were observed in the summers of 2012 and 2013 at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory (MBO, 2.7 km a.s.l.), a mountaintop site located in central Oregon. We identified wildfire plumes using enhancement ratios (DY/DX), which we calculated for each plume by taking the Reduced Major Axis linear regression slope of various species.We reported... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102060 Author(s): Becker, Wendy S., Michael J. Burke Title: Instructional Staff Rides for Management Learning and Education Source: Academy of Management Learning and Education 13(4): 510-524 Year: 2014 Keywords: safety training Staff rides offer many advantages for developing managers and followers, yet they are relatively underutilized in management learning and education. Staff rides are planned learning events that recreate a significant historical incident while engaging participants in ... FRI Access Number: 102020 Author(s): Beckage, Brian, Gabriela Bucini, Louis J. Gross Title: Global controls on the distribution of savannas: impacts of discrete and continuous environmental factors Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: grasslands ecology Abstract: Research on savanna ecosystems has largely focused on tropical savannas to the exclusion of savannas in temperate and high latitude regions. We examine the possibility of generalizing to savannas outside of the tropics recent findings ... Author(s): Benscoter, Brian W., Dan Greenacre, and Merritt R. Turetsky Title: Wildfire as a key determinant of peatland microtopography Source: Can. J. For. Res. 45: 1133-113 Year: 2015 Keywords: peat Abstract: Microtopography is a common attribute of wetlands, particularly boreal bog and fen peatlands. This self-organized patterning is primarily an autogenic process; however, the role of allogenic forces such as disturbance in the maintenance of microtopography is poorly understood. In this study, we quantify... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102061 21

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Bennett, Lauren T., Cristina Aponte, Kevin G. Tolhurst, Markus L w, Thomas G. Baker Title: Decreases in standing tree-based carbon stocks associated with repeated prescribed fires in a temperate mixed-species eucalypt forest Source: Forest Ecology and Management 306: 243-255 Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon prescribed burning Abstract: Prescribed fire is a common management practice in fire-tolerant forests, and one that has potential carbon costs. Previous assessments of the carbon costs of prescribed fire regimes in temperate Australia have been based on little empirical data, and have focused on direct fire effects (area burnt, fuel consumed) but have largely ignored potentially substantive indirect... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102243 Author(s): Benyon, R., D. Culvenor, N. Sims, k. Opie, A. Siggins and T. Doody Title: Evaluation of remote sensing for predicting long term hydrological impacts of forest regeneration as a result of bushfire Source: Technical Report No. 163, Ensis, Canberra Year: 2007 Keywords: Australia remote sensing FRI Access Number: 102249 Author(s): Bickford, Wesley A.; Needelman, Brian A.; Miller, Michele W.; Hutchins, Emily G. Title: Prescribed Fire Increases Soil Temperatures through Canopy Removal in a MidAtlantic Brackish Marsh Source: Journal of Coastal Research 31(4): 941-945 Year: 2015 Keywords: precribed burning soils Abstract: Canopy removal produced by prescribed fire may influence soil temperatures, which has the potential to affect conditions for plant growth and other temperaturerelated soil functions. We assessed the changes in soil temperatures following prescribed fire using manipulative treatments in a brackish tidal marsh in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County, Maryland, using two randomized complete... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102027 22

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Bidaburu, Aitor Title: Chainsaw Operations, Fuel Handling, and Safety Source: National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group, 3833 South Development Avenue; Boise, ID 83705, 2 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: chainsaw safety FRI Access Number: 101868 Author(s): Bil, C., A. R. Ravindran, M. J. Walsh, C. S. Leung, C. Y. Tan, Tian, H.; Pattarangoon, W., Leung, E. and Wang, Y. Title: C-17 conversion for fire fighting operations Source: In: AIAC16: 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress. Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia, 2015: 26-31 Year: 2015 Keywords: suppression equipment Abstract: Australian summers are hot and dry and bushfires are a significant risk to life and property. The worst ever recorded natural disaster were the Victorian Black Saturday Bushfires in 2009, where 173 people lost their lives. To limit bushfire damage, an effective firefighting ... Author(s): Biswas, Sumalika z Kristofer D. Lasko z Krishna Prasad Vadrevu Title: Fire Disturbance in Tropical Forests of Myanmar-Analysis Using MODIS Satellite Datasets Source: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Se... Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: In this study, we quantified the relationship between fires and vegetation disturbance at varied spatial scales using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) datasets for the p... Author(s): Blasco, Ruth, Jordi Rosell, Pablo Sanudo, Avi Gopher, Ran Barkai Title: What happens around a fire: Faunal processing sequences and spatial distribution at Qesem Cave (300 ka), Israel Source: UISPP XVII World Congress; 09/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory wildlife ecology Abstract: The technological innovation involving the controlled use of fire represents a decisive change in the hominin subsistence. Hearths and the spatial distribution patterns 23

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 associated with them constitute a valuable element to deepen our knowledge about human behaviour and its evolution... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102040 Author(s): Black, Anne E. Title: Toward understanding and managing the human condition in risk management Source: International Association of Wildland Fire - Large Wildland Fires: Social, Political and Ecological Effects, Missoula, MT, USA; 05/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: risk Abstract: Managing wildland fire is a risky business, so as a professional community, we spend considerable time, energy and resources trying to improve our risk management. We think about the physical fire environment and the myriad ways this complex system can cook up surprise. We devote tremendous ... FRI Access Number: 102073 Author(s): Bock, Carl E.; Bock, Jane H. Title: Effects of wildfire on riparian trees in southeastern Arizona Source: Southwestern Naturalist 59(4): 568-574 Year: 2014 Keywords: wetlands Abstract: We measured fire damage to 250 riparian trees in 2003-2004, and again in 2012-2013, in a southeastern Arizona grassland burned by wildfires in 2002, 2009, or both. Following a single fire, combined mortality or survival only by ground-level resprout was 64% for desert willow... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101853 Author(s): Boer, M. Title: A hydroclimatic model of global fire patterns Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-11806, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: hydrology remote sensing Abstract: Satellite-based earth observation is providing an increasingly accurate picture of global fire patterns. The highest fire activity is observed in seasonally dry (sub-) tropical environments of South America, Africa and Australia, but fires occur with varying ... 24

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101849 Author(s): Bowman, David M. J. S., Brett P. Murphy, Grant J. Williamson, Mark A. Cochrane Title: Pyrogeographic models, feedbacks and the future of global fire regimes Source: Global Ecology and Biogeography 23(7): 821-824 Year: 2014 Keywords: climate Abstract: Conceptual and phenomenological macroecological models of current global fire activity have demonstrated the overwhelming control exerted by primary productivity. Fire activity is very high in savanna regions with intermediate primary productivity, and very low in both densely forested regions ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102022 Author(s): Bowman, David and Fay Johnston Title: Bushfires, Human Health Economics, and Pyrogeography Source: Geographical Research 52(3): 340-343 Year: 2014 Keywords: economics australia Abstract: Bushfires (landscape fires) are a key Earth system process that affects humans and our societies and economies. In a recent article, we explored the coupling of humans to landscape fire through the lens of human health impacts of bushfire smoke. We noted that such an approach ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102302 Author(s): Bower, Deborah S., Leonie E. Valentine, Anthony C. Grice, Lauren Hodgson, Lin Schwarzkopf Title: A trade-off in conservation: Weed management decreases the abundance of common reptile and frog species while restoring an invaded floodplain Source: Biological Conservation 179: 123-128 Year: 2014 Keywords: exotics wildlife reptiles Abstract: Responsible conservation decisions are made when managers consider the benefits provided by an action in relation to the potential negative effects incurred. Some introduced grasses can be managed using fire and grazing, but experiments, replicated in time and space, are required to determine ... 25

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102063 Author(s): Box, W., S. Keestra, P. Nyman, C. Langhans, G. Sheridan Title: Extreme erosion response after wildfire in the Upper Ovens, south-east Australia: Assessment of catchment scale connectivity by an intensive field survey Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-1274-1, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: erosion soils Abstract: South-eastern Australia is generally regarded as one of the world's most fireprone environments because of its high temperatures, low rainfall and flammable native Eucalyptus forests. ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101901 Author(s): Branson, David Title: Sustainable management of grasshoppers in grassland ecosystems using fire and livestock grazing Source: Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: insects ecology grazing agriculture Author(s): Brach, Michal and Jan Kaczmarowski Title: Suitability of the HSI model for the analysis of the forest fire spread Source: Sylwan 158(10): 769-778 Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior Abstract: An attempt was made to determine fire selectivity for different vegetation classes and habitat conditions using the HSI (Habitat Suitability Index) model. This is an example of expert model based on theoretical knowledge and experience of researchers. HSI analyses were originally designed to ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102059 Author(s): Breininger, David R., Eric D. Stolen, Geoff C. Carter, Donna M. Oddy, Stephanie A. Legare Title: Quantifying how territory quality and sociobiology affect recruitment to inform fire management 26

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Source: Animal Conservation 17(1): 72-79 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife prescribed burning Abstract: The combined effects of habitat quality, breeder experience and sociobiology on population demography are poorly understood. Natural fire regimes, which influence habitat quality and sociobiology, have been replaced by controlled fire management in most ecosystems... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102074 Author(s): Britton, Neil R. Title: Disaster Investigation Report No. 6, the bushfires in Tasmania, February 1982 Source: James Cook University, Centre for Disaster Studies, Townsville Year: 1984 Keywords: investigation conflagration australia Author(s): Brown, D., M. T. Jorgenson, T. A. Douglas, V. E. Romanovsky Title: Interactions of fire and climate exacerbate permafrost degradation in Alaskan lowland forests Source: Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: We examined the effects of fire disturbance on permafrost degradation and thaw settlement across a series of wildfires (from~ 1930? 2010) in the forested areas of collapse- scar bog complexes in the Tanana Flats lowland of interior Alaska. Field measurements ... Author(s): Brown, L. E., Holden, J. and Palmer, S. M. Title: Effects of Moorland Burning on the Ecohydrology of River basins Source: Key findings from the EMBER project. University of Leeds, 11 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: hydrology FRI Access Number: 102281 Author(s): Brown, L. E., J. Holden, S. M. Palmer, K. Johnston Title: Effects of fire on the hydrology, biogeochemistry and ecology of peatland river systems Source: Freshwater Sciences, available online 2015 Year: 2015 27

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: peat hydrology Abstract: Peatlands are found around the world and cover~ 3.4% of the Earth's surface. In the UK, peatlands cover 17.2% or~ 1.58 Mha of the land surface and occur mainly in upland areas covering the headwaters of most major British rivers. However, large areas are now ... Author(s): Brucher, Tim, Silvia Kloster, Brovkin V, Wilkenskjeld Title: Controls on fire activity over the Holocene Source: Climate of the Past 11: 781-788 Year: 2015 Abstract: Changes in fire activity over the last 8000 years are simulated with a global fire model driven by changes in climate and vegetation cover. The changes were separated into those caused through variations in fuel availability, fuel moisture or wind speed, which react differently to changes in climate. Disentangling these controlling... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101910 Author(s): Brucher, T., V. Brovkin, S. Kloster, J. R. Marlon, M. J. Power Title: Climate of the Past Comparing modelled fire dynamics with charcoal records for the Holocene Source: Climate of the Past 1: 911-924 Year: 2014 Abstract: An earth system model of intermediate complex-ity (CLIMate and BiosphERe CLIMBER-2) and a land surface model (JSBACH), which dynamically represent veg-etation, are used to simulate natural fire dynamics through the last 8000 yr. Output variables of the fire model (burned area and fire carbon ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101924 Author(s): Brucher, T., V. Brovkin, S. Kloster, J. R. Marlon, M. J. Power Title: Modelled vs. reconstructed past fire dynamics-how can we compare? Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-4860, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling paleohistory Abstract: Fire is an important process that affects climate through changes in CO2 emissions, albedo, and aerosols (Ward et al. 2012). Fire-history reconstructions from charcoal accumulations in sediment indicate that biomass burning has increased since the Last ... 28

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101878 Author(s): Brundrett, Mark C ., Karen Clarke, Vanda Longman Title: Setting comprehensive and effective monitoring targets for banksia woodland restoration and management Source: 57th Annual Symposium of the Association for Vegetation Science, Perth, Western Australia; 09/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: restoration Abstract: One of the greatest challenges in restoration practice is to develop completion targets based on flora and vegetation data that represents local plant community types while acknowledging limitations to plant recovery in disturbed habitats. This presentation ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101948 Author(s): Bucheli, T. D. and I. Hilber. Title: The janus face of pyrogenic carbon regarding the distribution and availability of organic pollutants Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Burkle, Laura A., R. Travis Belote, Jonathan A. Myers Title: Responses of plant and pollinator biodiversity to wildfires across a productivity gradient in the Northern Rockies Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Wildfires are increasingly important disturbances in ecological communities, yet we lack a synthetic understanding of how complex networks of species interactions respond to these disturbances especially at the large spatial scales most germane to conservation and ...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Burrough, Sallie L and Kathy J Willis Title: Ecosystem resilience to late-Holocene climate change in the Upper Zambezi Valley Source: The Holocene, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Peat deposits from wetlands in the Upper Zambezi Valley provide an important long-term window on ecosystem dynamics in the Kalahari basin during the late Holocene. We use fossil pollen and macro-charcoal extracted from peat cores contained in three wetland sites to examine the response of vegetation to regional climate change. We find that during the last 6?ka, internal... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102269 Author(s): Burrows, N. D., B. Ward and A. D. Robinson Title: The role of indicators in developing appropriate fire regimes Source: Australian Bushfire Conference, Albury, Australia, 7-9 July, 1999 Year: 1999 Keywords: ecology australia FRI Access Number: 102192 Author(s): Calcaterra. Luis A., Yamil Di Blanco, Malena Srur, Juan Briano Title: Fire effect on ground-foraging ant assemblages in northeastern Argentina Source: Journal of Insect Conservation 18(3): 339-352 Year: 2014 Keywords: Ants insects Abstract: Fire is an important component of many natural ecosystems affecting plant communities and arthropods by mortality during combustion and/or indirectly through the modification of the habitat. The Ibera Natural Reserve (INR) is one of the most diverse ecosystems in northern Argentina; it is ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102021 Author(s): Calvo, L., S. Huerta, E. Marcos, J. Calvo-Fernandez and Angela Taboada Title: The role of prescribed fire in the provision of regulating ecosystem services of Spanish heathlands Source: Ecological Questions 21: 71-73 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning 30

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: We provide a synthesis of evidence of the effects of burning and N deposition on the provision of regulating ecosystem services of Cantabrian heathlands (NW Spain). We quantified carbon sequestration in litter, above and belowground biomass, root and soil ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101980 Author(s): Calef, M. P.; Varvak, A.; McGuire, A. D.; Chapin, F. S.; Reinhold, K. B. Title: Recent Changes in Annual Area Burned in Interior Alaska: The Impact of Fire Management Source: Earth Interactions 19(5): 1-17 Year: 2015 Keywords: statistics Abstract: The Alaskan boreal forest is characterized by frequent extensive wildfires whose spatial extent has been mapped for the past 70 years. Simple predictions based on this record indicate that area burned will increase... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101846 Author(s): Cannon, Susan H., Joseph E. Gartner, Raymond C. Wilson, James C. Bowers, Jayme L. Laber Title: Storm rainfall conditions for floods and debris flows for recently burned areas in southwestern Colorado and southern California. Geomorphology Source: Geomorphology 96(3-96): 250-269 Year: 2008 Keywords: erosion Abstract: Debris flows generated during rain storms on recently burned areas have destroyed lives and property throughout the Western U.S. Field evidence indicate that unlike landslide-triggered debris flows, these events have no identifiable initiation source and can occur with little or no antecedent moisture... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102292 Author(s): Carling, P. C., A. E. Newsome, and G. Dudzinski2 Title: Small Mammals, Habitat Components, and Fire in Southeastern Australia Source: in: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-58. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 1982. Year: 1982 Keywords: wildlife 31

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: In Australia, eucalypt forests are the major vegetation form. They are highly fire-prone, but also the major repository of the vertebrate fauna. Recent studies have demonstrated that the fauna, like the flora, may be adapted to fire. Simple divisions... FRI Access Number: 102186 Author(s): Carvalho, A., A. Monteiro, M. Flannigan, S. Solman, A.I. Miranda, C. Borrego Title: Forest fires in a changing climate and their impacts on air quality Source: Atmospheric Environment 45(31): 5545-5553 Year: 2011 Keywords: climate smoke Abstract: In a future climate scenario forest fire activity over Portugal will substantially increase and consequently area burned and forest fire emissions to the atmosphere are also expected to increase. This study investigated the impact of future forest fire emissions on air quality over Portugal under the ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102216 Author(s): Castillo, Alicia Melgoza, Ricardo Mata-Gonzalez, Martha Irma Balandran Valladares, Carmelo Pinedo Alvarez Title: Biology of natal grass Melinis repens (Willd.) and implications for its use or control. Review Source: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Pecuarias 5(4): 429-442 Year: 2014 Keywords: exotic Natal grass (Melinis repens ) is an introduced specie from Africa that is invading different ecosystems. In Mexico, it is present all over the country and dominates large areas of grasslands. Plant invasion reduces quality and quantity of ecosystem goods and services. The knowledge of the b... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102091 Author(s): Casbeer, David W., Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain, Sai-Ming Li and Raman K. Mehra Title: Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs Source: Brigham Young University, 9 pages Year: 2006 Keywords: equipment Abstract: Frequent and detailed updates of the development of a forest fire are essential for effective and safe fire fighting. Since a forest fire is typically inaccessible by ground 32

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 vehicles due to mountainous terrain, small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as a promising ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102296 Author(s): Catry, Filipe X., Francisco Moreira, Rui Tujeira, Joaquim S. Silva Title: Post-fire survival and regeneration of Eucalyptus globulus in forest plantations in Portugal Source: Forest Ecology and Management 310: 194-203 Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology silviculture Abstract: Eucalyptus globulus is one of the most important pulpwood plantation species in the world, and nowadays it is present in most continents. Some of the regions where E. globulus plantations have been expanding have a high incidence of wildfires; therefore, knowing the factors ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102087 Author(s): Cekim, Hatice O., Cem Kad-lar, Gamze Ozel Title: Characterizing Forest Fire Activity in Turkey by Compound Poisson and Time Series Models Source: Unknown Pulbication Year: 2013 Keywords: statistics Abstract: Large forest fires are major disturbances that strongly influence the carbon cycling and vegetation dynamics of Turkish ecosystems. We suggest that compound Poisson model could provide suitable description for the total annual area burned by forest fires and for fire size distribution in ... Author(s): Chetehouna, Khaled, Eddy El Tabach, Loubna Bouazaoui and Nicolas Gascoin Title: Predicting the flame characteristics and rate of spread in fires propagating in a bed of Pinus pinaster using Artificial Neural Networks Source: Process Safety and Environmental Protection 98: 50-56 Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior Abstract: Physical and geometrical characteristics of flame propagation are very important to better understand the forest fire spread behaviour and to improve risk management tools. Having a tool to predict these characteristics is of practical and theoretical interest for a better understanding of the complex chemical and physical 33

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 mechanisms which occur during forest fire phenomena. A metamodel is presented based on Artificial Neural Networks... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102130 Author(s): Cheney, N. P. Title: Canberra: The bush capital or the bushfire capital? Source: Canberra Day Oration, 2004 Year: 2004 Keywords: management australia FRI Access Number: 102248 Author(s): Cheney, N. P. Title: Bush Capital - our city in a flammable landscape Source: Bush Capital Workshop - ACT Planning and Land Authority 7 April 2009 Year: 2009 Keywords: interface australia FRI Access Number: 102247 Author(s): Cheney, N. P. Title: Effectiveness of prescribed burning on reducing fire behaviour Source: Paper presented to a Symposium, "Bush Fire Prevention: Are We Doing Enough?", Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne Year: 2003 Keywords: prescribed burning Author(s): Chordas, Lori Title: Smoke Signals Source: Best's Review 3: 36-38 Year: 2015 Keywords: management Author(s): Clark, A. Title: Fire ash influences on aquatic primary producers through changes in water quality Source: Unpublished manuscript, 9 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: wetlands water quality Abstract: Fire is an important ecological factor in many terrestrial ecosystems, resetting the growth of the ecosystem to an early successional stage. However, current climate 34

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 models predict increased frequencies of forest fires, potentially altering ecosystem function as return ... FRI Access Number: 101984 Author(s): Clack, P. Title: Firestorm, Trial by Fire Source: (book) John Wiley and Sons, Australia Year: 2003 Keywords: management australia Author(s): Clear, Jennifer L Title: Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in the northern European forests Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Liverpool, 211 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Fire has not always been so elusive in the northern European forest yet forest management and active fire suppression has created an ecosystem almost free of fire. This absence of fire is thought to have contributed to the widespread dominance of Picea abies ... FRI Access Number: 102009 Author(s): Clear, Jennifer L., Heikki Sepp , Niina Kuosmanen, Richard H. W. Bradshaw Title: Holocene stand-scale vegetation dynamics and fire history of an old-growth spruce forest in southern Finland Source: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, available online 2015; Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Forest vegetation composition, including dominant keystone species and floristic diversity, is driven by natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Disentangling these complex interactions to identify the role of species competition, climate and disturbances in boreal forest dynamics is challenging. Here, pollen ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102278 Author(s): Clifford, Michael J., Katharine A. LeBoeuf, Robert K. Booth Title: Drought and fire drove rapid changes in forest community composition in the northeastern United States Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 35

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: Climate change has been linked to changes in forest disturbance and community structure over the past several decades, with forest dieback and vegetation shifts predicted to continue during the next century. However, anticipating regional-scale changes.... Author(s): Coates, Fiona, Philip Cullen, Heidi Zimmer and james Shannon Title: How snow gum forests and sub-alpine peatlands recover after fire Source: Parks Victoria, 68 pages Year: 2009 Keywords: ecology australia FRI Access Number: 102150 Author(s): Cochrane, M. A. Title: Spreading like wildfire: Tropical forest fires in Latin America and the Caribbean: prevention, assessment and early warming Source: United Nations Environmental Programme, Report 3153 Year: 2002 Keywords: Tropics Abstract: A summary of the main document which provides an overview of the forest fire situation in Latin America and the Caribbean and the impact that fires have had on the region and its population over the past few years. It also covers the causes, effects and implications of fires and links these to fire managements tools available to policymakers.... FRI Access Number: 102126 Author(s): Cohen, Jack D.; Finney, Mark A. Title: Fine fuel particle heating during experimental laboratory fires Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, D. X. Viegas (Ed.), 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: spotting embers Abstract: Fuel particle temperature measurements were related to measurements of particle irradiance and impinging gas temperatures during seven fire spread experiments at the U.S. Forest Service Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, Montana. Fine particle temperature increases corresponded to pulses of impinging... FRI Access Number: 102271 Author(s): Cohen, J. D. Title: Fuel Particle Heat Exchange during Wildland Fire Spread 36

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Source: Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, 2015, 117 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: spotting embers Abstract: Wildland fire spread is the result of fuel particle ignitions yet fuel particle heat exchange leading to ignition remains poorly understood. Current operational fire spread models are based on empirical associations and do not describe fire spread processes ... Author(s): Collins, Brandon, Scott Stephens Title: Historical forest variability across a large Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer landscape Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: history ecology Abstract: US Forest Service National Forests throughout the western US are beginning to revise their Land Management Plans, and ecological restoration will be the central theme across individual plans. While numerous studies have been conducted that describe ... Author(s): Collins, L., T. D. Penman, O. F. Price, R. A. Bradstock Title: Will environmental revegetation increase the threat wildfire poses to assets? Source: MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation., Adelaide; 12/2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: restoration Abstract: Active and passive revegetation is dramatically altering vegetation characteristics across agricultural landscapes globally. There is concern within communities that increased fuel loads associated with revegetation will increase the threat wildfire poses to assets ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102077 Author(s): Conlisk, Erin, Sara Motheral, Rosa Chung, Colleen Wisinski, Bryan Endress Title: Using spatially-explicit population models to evaluate habitat restoration plans for the San Diego cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus sandiegensis) Source: Biological Conservation 175: 42-51 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: A long-standing debate within conservation is how best to allocate limited management resources: should reserve area be increased, should anthropogenic disturbances be mitigated, or should connectivity be increased? We explore these issues for the San Diego cactus wren, a California ... 37

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101956 Author(s): Conard, S., B. Stocks, D. Cahoon, W. de Groot, A. Soja Title: Understanding Fire Patterns and Fuel Consumption in Russian Forests: Progress and Challenges Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-14349, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel Abstract: Research conducted over the past 20 years has greatly changed our understanding of the extent, patterns, and impact of wildfire in the forests of Russia. The availability of remote sensing data at various scales has been essential to improvements in burned area ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101827 Author(s): Conte, P., C. DE PASQUALE, G. CIM?, V. MARSALA, A. POZZI, M. VALAGUSSA, A. MICALIZZI, G. BUTERA, V. DISPENZA, L. SIDOTI and G. ALONZO. Title: Biochar surface properties through application of an innovative NMR technique: Fast field cycling relaxometry Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Cook, R. Title: Show Low, Arizona, inferno: evacuation lessons learned in the Rodeo? Chedeski fire Source: National Fire Protection Association Journal 97(2): 10-14 Year: 2003 Keywords: interface evacuation Author(s): Costafreda-Aumedes, S., A. Cardil, D. M. Molina, Sarah N. Daniel, Robert Mavsar, Cristina Vega-Garcia Title: Analysis of factors influencing deployment of fire suppression resources in Spain using artificial neural networks Source: iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry, available online 2015 38

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: suppression management Abstract: Wildland fires are one of the main threats for Mediterranean forests and cause their degradation. Spain, one of the Mediterranean countries most affected, currently sustains a full suppression policy under which all fires are fought until extinguished. As in ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102111 Author(s): Cova, T. J., Dennison, P. E., Kim, T. H. and Moritz, M. A. Title: Setting wildfire evacuation trigger points using fire spread modeling and GIS Source: Transactions in GIS 9(4): 603-617 Year: 2005 Keywords: interface evacuation Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102173 Author(s): Craig, Matthew E., Scott M. Pearson, and Jennifer M. Fraterrigo Title: Grass invasion effects on forest soil carbon depend on landscape-level land use patterns Source: Ecology 96(8): 2265-2279 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology soils exotics microbes Abstract: Plant invasions can alter the quality and quantity of detrital and root-derived inputs entering a system, thereby influencing the activities of microbial decomposers and affecting the soil carbon cycle. The effect of these inputs on soil carbon storage is often conflicting... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102132 Author(s): Cronan, J. B., C. S. Wright, M Petrova Title: Effects of dormant and growing season burning on surface fuels and potential fire behavior in northern Florida longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) flatwoods Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: season fuel behavior Abstract: Prescribed fire is widely used to manage fuels in high-frequency, low-severity fire regimes including pine flatwoods of the southeastern USA where prescribed burning 39

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 during the growing season (the frost-free period during the calendar year) has become more ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102199 Author(s): Cruz-Sanchez, M. A ., J. D. Asis, J. A. Gonzalez, J. Tormos, S. F. Gayubo Title: Wildfires: its influence on the diversity parameters of predatory-insect communities in a Mediterranean agroecosystem of European interest Journal of Insect Conservation 18(5): Year: 2014 Keywords: insects Abstract: A ''space-for-time substitution'' was used to analyse how the communities of Spheciformes wasps varied in different diversity parameters for a period of 15 years after a summer wildfire in a Mediterranean ag-roecosystem (Arribes del Duero, western Spain), employ-ing Malaise traps and ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102095 Author(s): Cruz, Miguel G. and Martin E. Alexander Title: Uncertainty in model predictions of wildland fire rate of spread Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, D. X. Viegas (Ed.), 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior Abstract:This paper highlights the results obtained from a comprehensive survey recently published by the authors on the error statistics associated with studies that have used independent data derived from field observations of wildfires, prescribed fires and experimental fires to evaluate the performance... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102228 Author(s): Cruz, M. G., J. S. Gould, M. E. Alexander, A. L. Sullivan Title: Empirical-based models for predicting head-fire rate of spread in Australian fuel types Source: Australian Forestry, available online 2105 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling fuel behavior Abstract: The knowledge of a free-burning fire's potential rate of spread is critical for safe and effective bushfire control and use. A number of models for predicting the head-fire rate of spread in various types of Australian vegetation have been developed over the past 60 ... 40

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102270 Author(s): Czaja, M. R., A. D. Bright, S. P. Cottrell Title: Integrative complexity, beliefs, and attitudes: Application to prescribed fire Source: Forest Policy and Economics, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning Abstract: This study examines integrative complexity as a moderator between basic beliefs about wildland fire management and attitudes toward prescribed fire. Integrative complexity measures an individual's level of complexity when thinking about an issue. This, in turn, ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102123 Author(s): Dahale, Ambarish R., Selina Dover, Babak Shotorban, Shankar Mahalingam Title: Effects of Crown Fuel Bulk Density Distribution and Thermophoresis of Soot Particles on Wildland Fires Source: ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition; 01/2011 Year: 2011 Keywords: fuel smoke Abstract: The roles of two physical effects in wildfire are explored through simulations in this study. They are the spatial variation of the bulk density of crown fuel and the thermophoresis forces acting on the produced soot particles. The spatial variation of crown fuel bulk density is modeled as a function of shrub ... Author(s): Dahl, Nathan, Haidong Xue, Xiaolin Hu, Ming Xue Title: Coupled fire-atmosphere modeling of wildland fire spread using DEVS-FIRE and ARPS Source: Natural Hazards 06/2015; 77(2). Year: 2015 Keywords: behavior modeling remote sensing Abstract: This article introduces a new wildland fire spread prediction system consisting of the raster-based Discrete Event System Specification Fire model (DEVS-FIRE) and the Advanced Regional Prediction System atmospheric model (ARPS). Fire-atmosphere feedbacks are r...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Dapeng. Li, Thomas. J. Cova, Philip. E. Dennison Title: Integrating fire-spread and household-level trigger modeling to stagewildfire evacuation warnings Source: pages 125-131, in Unknown Publication Year: n. d. Keywords: interface evacuation FRI Access Number: 102172 Author(s): Dapeng Li, Thomas J. Cova, Philip E. Dennison Title: A household-level approach to staging wildfire evacuation warnings using trigger modeling Source: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 54: 56-67 Year: 2015 Keywords: evacuation interface Abstract: Wildfire evacuation trigger points are prominent geographic features (e.g., ridges, roads, and rivers) utilized in wildfire evacuation and suppression practices, such that when a fire crosses a feature, an evacuation is recommended for the communities or firefighters in the path of the fire. Recent studies of wildfire evacuation triggers ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102202 Author(s): Davignon, Didier, Radenko Pavlovic, Alain Malo, Paul-Andre Beaulieu, Michael D. Moran, Sylvain Menard Title: Operational Wildfire Modelling at Environment Canada: Emergency Response and Impact on Air Quality Source: Powerpoint, Wildland Fire Canada Conference, 2014, Halifax, Canada; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling canada smoke Abstract: Environment Canada (EC) provides two types of operational services related to wildfire events. The first, FireWork is an air quality forecast system with added near-realtime wildfire emissions. The second, MLDP0 ("Modele Langragien de Dispersion de Particules"- Langragian Model ... FRI Access Number: 101968 Author(s): Davignon, Didier Title: Canadian meteorological centre smoke forecasting system: Firework 2014 Source: Environment Canada, powerpoint Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke canada 42

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 102220 Author(s): Davis, Raymond, Louisa Evers, Yanu Gallimore, Jena DeJuilio and C. Belongie Title: Modeling Large Stochastic Wildfires and Fire Severity within the Range of the Northern Spotted Owl Source: Appendix D, Modeling Wildfires and Fire Severity Year: n. d. Keywords: modeling FRI Access Number: 101821 Author(s): Davis, Mark A.; Douglas, Marlis R.; Webb, Colleen T.; Collyer, Michael L.; Holycross, Andrew T.; Painter, Charles W.; Kamees, Larry K.; Douglas, Michael E. Title: Nowhere to Go but Up: Impacts of Climate Change on Demographics of a ShortRange Endemic (Crotalus willardi obscurus) in the Sky-Islands of Southwestern North America. Source: PLoS ONE. Jun2015, Vol. 10 Issue 6, p1-20 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate rare endangered reptiles wildlife snakes Abstract: Biodiversity elements with narrow niches and restricted distributions (i.e., 'short range endemics,? SREs) are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The New Mexico Ridgenosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi obscurus, CWO), an SRE listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act within three sky islands of southwestern... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101844 Author(s): Dawson, James P. Title: Impact of Wildfire on the spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus in Kosciuszko National Park Source: Masters thesis, University of New South Wales, 2005, 183 pages Year: 2005 Keywords: wildlife australia FRI Access Number: 102151 Author(s): de Lafontaine, Guillaume and Serge Payette Title: Shifting zonal patterns of the southern boreal forest in eastern Canada associated with changing fire regime during the Holocene Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (2011) 867e875 Year: 2011 Keywords: ecology paleohistory 43

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: This research aims at uncovering the stand-scale Holocene fire history of balsam fir forest stands from two bioclimatic zones of the boreal forest and assessing the existence of a sub-continental shift in past fire activity that could have triggered a change in the Holocene zonal pattern. In eastern Canada, the extant closed-crown boreal forest corresponds to two ecological... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102275 Author(s): de la Rosa, J. M. and H. KNICKER. Title: Can N-rich charcoal be used as an efficient N-fertilizer? Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): De Graff, Jerome V. Title: Improvement in quantifying debris flow risk for post-wildfire emergency response Source: Geoenvironmental Disasters 1: 5 Year: 2014 Keywords: erosion Abstract: Floods and debris flows are recognized post-fire responses to rainfall within burned watersheds. The ability of debris flows to travel rapidly over significant distances from the area of initiation and their destructive force make them a hazard of particular concern. Individuals and organizations responsible for infrastructure, property, and public safety along the potential path of post-fire debris flows must understand... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102288 Author(s): De Graff, J. V., S. Cannon, J. E. Gartner Title: Timing of Susceptibility to Post-fire Debris Flows in the Western USA Source: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Watersheds recently burned by wildfires can have an increased susceptibility to debris flow, although little is known about how long this susceptibility persists, and how it changes over time. We here use a compilation of 75 debris-flow response and fire-ignition ... 44

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Dean, Sarah; Farrer, Emily C.; Menges, Eric S. Title: Fire Effects on Soil Biogeochemistry in Florida Scrubby Flatwoods Source: American Midland Naturalist 174(1): 49-64 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: Fire is a major factor in the ecosystem dynamics of upland Florida habitats. Fire impacts have been well studied in terms of plant community responses, but the effects of fire on soil characteristics and post-fire plant-microbial interactions in these systems... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101915 Author(s): Degerliyurt, Mehmet Title: Determination of Forest Fires? Effect to Erosion by Using Geographical Information Systems: Case Study, Amanos Mountains Source: MARMARA COGRAFYA DERG?S? SAYI: 29, OCAK - 2014, S. 195-219, ISTANBUL ISSN: 1303-2429 E-ISSN 2147-7825 Year: 2014 Keywords: soils erosion Abstract: Erosion which is typically the transportation of soil covering the surface via rivers and winds, is a global phenomenon resulting from thinning of land cover and aridity of soil. The best element preventing the erosion is forests. However, the most detrimental element to the forests which have vital importance in protecting the soil is forest fires... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101925 Author(s): DellaSala, Dominick A, Chad T. Hanson Title: The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix Source: Elsevier Publishing, 450 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology severity Abstract: The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is focused on fire prevention and suppression, little has been reported on the ecological role... 45

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Dennison, Philip E. Title: Imaging spectroscopy for wildfire applications Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Wildfire is one of the most ubiquitous terrestrial ecosystem disturbances. Imaging spectroscopy has been applied to all phases of wildfire: measuring pre-fire fuel type and fuel moisture, retrieval of fire temperature and fractional area, and monitoring post-fire recovery. This Ignite talk will cover the key advances ... Author(s): Dexter, B. and Athol Hodgson Title: The facts behind the fire: A scientific and technical review of the circumstances surrounding the 2003 Victorian bushfire crisis Source: Forest Fire Victoria, Incorporated, Victoria Year: 2005 Keywords: management australia FRI Access Number: 102240 Author(s): Dean, S., E. C. Farrer, E. S. Menges Title: Fire Effects on Soil Biogeochemistry in Florida Scrubby Flatwoods Source: The American Midland Naturalist 174(1): 49-54 Year: 2015 Abstract: Fire is a major factor in the ecosystem dynamics of upland Florida habitats. Fire impacts have been well studied in terms of plant community responses, but the effects of fire on soil characteristics and post-fire plant-microbial interactions in these systems remain ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101915 Author(s): DellaSala, Dominick A, Chad T. Hanson Title: The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix Source: Elsevier Publishing, 450 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology severity Abstract: The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is focused on fire prevention and suppression, little has been reported on the ecological role... 46

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Dennison, Philip E. Title: Imaging spectroscopy for wildfire applications Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Wildfire is one of the most ubiquitous terrestrial ecosystem disturbances. Imaging spectroscopy has been applied to all phases of wildfire: measuring pre-fire fuel type and fuel moisture, retrieval of fire temperature and fractional area, and monitoring post-fire recovery. This Ignite talk will cover the key advances ... Author(s): Dexter, B. and Athol Hodgson Title: The facts behind the fire: A scientific and technical review of the circumstances surrounding the 2003 Victorian bushfire crisis Source: Forest Fire Victoria, Incorporated, Victoria Year: 2005 Keywords: management australia FRI Access Number: 102240 Author(s): Diaz, John Michael Title: Community Based Fire Management: Local Ecological Knowledge and Fire Management Source: Unknown Source, 47 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: ecology Abstract: Policy makers and natural resource managers have identified a relationship between declining forest health across the national landscape and the increasing risk of catastrophic wildfire, which threatens both landscapes and communities. Since 2000, national wildfire policy has encouraged federal, state, and local agencies responsible for... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102298 Author(s): Diaz, J. M., T. Steelman, B. Nowell Title: Local Ecological Knowledge and Fire Management: What Does the Public Understand? Source: Journal of Forestry, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology 47

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102299 Author(s): Dietterick, Brian, Christopher Surfleet, Drew Perkins, Drew Loganbill. Dylan Theobald and Mary Crable Title: Post-Harvest and Post-Fire Watershed Response in the Little Creek Watershed, Santa Cruz County, California: Observations, Assessments, and Evaluations from 2001 through 2013 Source: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, 124 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: silviculture hydrology FRI Access Number: 102143 Author(s): Dimitrakopoulos, Alexandros P., M. Vlahou, Ch. G. Anagnostopoulou, I. D. Mitsopoulos Title: Impact of drought on wildland fires in Greece: implications of climatic change? Source: Climatic Change 109(3): 331-347 Year: 2011 Keywords: climate Abstract: An increasing trend and a statistically significant positive correlation between wildfire occurrence, area burned and drought (as expressed by the Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI) have been observed all over Greece, during the period 19611997. In the more humid and colder ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102168 Author(s): Dinh, T., N. Hewitt, T. D. Drezner Title: Fire History Reconstruction in the Black Oak (Quercus velutina) Savanna of High Park, Toronto Source: Natural Areas Journal 35(3): 468-475 Year: 2015 Keywords: history grasslands Abstract: We employed tree-ring analysis to reconstruct the fire history of High Park, Toronto, Canada, in one of the largest remnants of black oak (Quercus velutina) savanna in Ontario. This heavily urbanized area has a long history of fire suppression, which has ... 48

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102146 Author(s): Doerr, S. H., C. Santin, B. de Groot Title: Towards an improvement of carbon accounting for wildfires: incorporation of charcoal production into carbon emission models Source: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: ... climate. Critically, however, part of the biomass C affected by fire is not emitted during burning, but converted into charcoal, which is very resistant to environmental degradation and, thus, contributes to long-term C sequestration. ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101900 Author(s): Doerr, S. H. and C. SANTIN Title: Where does all the pyrogenic C go? Its redistribution in the environment Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Douville, Brant, Scott Abella, Lora B. Perkins Title: Plant-derived smoke influences germination of native and invasive plants in the Northern Great Plains Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke regeneration seeds Abstract: Plant-derived smoke has stimulated seed germination in many fire-prone ecosystems, but forecasting influences of different types of smoke and which species are responsive remains challenging. The historic fire return interval in the Northern Great ... Author(s): Dowdy, A. J., G. A. Mills, K. Finkele and W. de Groot Title: Australian weather as represented by the McArthur forest fire index and the Canadian forest fire weather index Source: Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, Australia Year: 2009 Keywords: weather australia canada 49

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 102238 Author(s): Drews, Frank A., Adrian Musters, Laura K. Siebeneck, Thomas J. Cova Title: Environmental factors that influence wildfire protective-action recommendations Source: International Journal of Emergency Management 10(2): 153-168 Year: 2014 Keywords: management decision-making Abstract: Each year wildfire incident commanders (ICs) manage thousands of events throughout the USA that often threaten life and property. In this task they make important decisions to protect both firefighters and citizens, usually under time pressure and uncertainty... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102107 Author(s): Drissi, M. Title: Modeling the spreading of large-scale wildland fires Source: Unpublished manuscript, 31 pages Year: N. D. Abstract: The objective of the present study is twofold. First, the last developments and validation results of a hybrid model designed to simulate fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes are presented. The model combines the features of a stochastic small-world network model with those of a deterministic semi-physical model of the interaction between burning and non-burning ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102128 Author(s): Driscoll, Don A. and Meredith K. Henderson Title: How many common reptile species are fire specialists? A replicated natural experiment 4 highlights the predictive weakness of a fire succession model Source: Draft Manuscript, 35 pages Year: N. D. Keywords: wildlife reptiles Abstract: Species with strong preferences for early or late successional stages after fire may be extinction prone under current fire regimes. However the extent of specialisation to time since fire is poorly understood, and, for reptiles, succession models for predicting responses are in the development phase. In this study we tested ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102262 50

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Drosos, Vasileios C., Vasileios J. Giannoulas, Christodoulos Daoutis Title: Forest construction infrastructures for the prevision, suppression, and protection before and after forest fires Source: Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014) Year: 2014 Keywords: suppression management Abstract: Climatic changes cause temperature rise and thus increase the risk of forest fires. In Greece the forests with the greatest risk to fire are usually those located near residential and tourist areas where there are major pressures on land use changes, while there are no currently ... Author(s): du Toit, J. C. O., T. G. O'Connor, L. Van den Berg Title: Photographic evidence of fire-induced shifts from dwarf-shrub-to grass-dominated vegetation in Nama-Karoo Source: South African Journal of Botany, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: encroachment ecology Abstract: The Nama-Karoo is a semi-arid inland biome in South Africa dominated by dwarf shrubs with grasses, shrubs, geophytes and herbs at varying levels of abundance. The position of the Nama-Karoo/grassland boundary is determined in part by rainfall amount, ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102201 Author(s): Duce, P., D. spano, M. Vannini and a. Navarra Title: II international conference on fire behavior and risk, Alghero (Italy); 05/2015 Source: Universita Degli studi di Sassari, Italian society for climate Sciences and others Year: 2015 Keywords: behavior risk FRI Access Number: 102187 Author(s): Dunnette, Paul V., Philip E. Higuera, Kendra K. McLauchlan, Kelly M. Derr, Christy E. Briles and Margaret H. Keefe Biogeochemical impacts of wildfires over four millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine watershed New Phytologist (2014) 203: 900-912 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory geology soils severity

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Our results support modern studies of forest successional C and N accumulation and indicate pronounced, long-lasting biogeochemical impacts of wildfires in subalpine forests. However, even repeated high-severity fires over millennia probably did not... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102222 Author(s): Dunwiddie, Peter Title: Burning the land: Lessons and questions from three decades of prescribed fire in the Puget Lowland prairies Source: Douglasia, Winter, 2014, pages 1-2 Year: 2014 Keywords: prescribed burning FRI Access Number: 101969 Author(s): Duguy, Beatriz, Susana Paula, Juli G. Pausas, Jose Antonio Alloza, Teresa Gimeno, and Ramon V. Vallejo Title: Effects of Climate and Extreme Events on Wildfire Regime and Their Ecological Impacts Source: Chapter 6, in: A. Navarra and L. Tubiana (eds.), Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 2: Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services and People, Advances in Global Change Research 51, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5772-1_6, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: climate ecology Abstract: Fire regime has been affected by climate changes in the past, and is expected to do so in relation to the projected climate warming in the near future. For the Mediterranean Basin, higher fi re risk, longer fi re season, and more frequent large, severe fi res are expected. The projected increased drought... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102023 Author(s): Dunwiddie, Peter Title: Burning the land: Lessons and questions from three decades of prescribed fire in the Puget Lowland prairies Source: Douglasia, Winter, 2014, pages 1-2 Year: 2014 Keywords: prescribed burning FRI Access Number: 101969 52

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Duguy, Beatriz, Susana Paula, Juli G. Pausas, Jose Antonio Alloza, Teresa Gimeno, and Ramon V. Vallejo Title: Effects of Climate and Extreme Events on Wildfire Regime and Their Ecological Impacts Source: Chapter 6, in: A. Navarra and L. Tubiana (eds.), Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 2: Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services and People, Advances in Global Change Research 51, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5772-1_6, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: climate ecology Abstract: Fire regime has been affected by climate changes in the past, and is expected to do so in relation to the projected climate warming in the near future. For the Mediterranean Basin, higher fi re risk, longer fi re season, and more frequent large, severe fi res are expected. The projected increased drought... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102023 Author(s): Dunn, C. J. Title: Mixed-Severity Fire Effects on Biological Legacies and Vegetation Response in Pseudotsuga Forests of Western Oregon's Central Cascades, USA Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, Forest Resources, 143 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: severity ecology Abstract: Mixed-severity fire occurrence is increasingly recognized in Pseudotsuga forests of the Pacific Northwest, but questions remain about how tree mortality varies, and forest structure is altered, across the disturbance gradient observed in these fires. Therefore, we sampled ... FRI Access Number: 101862 Author(s): Dunnette, P. V., P E Higuera, K M Derr Title: Biogeochemical response to fire over six millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest Source: 98th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN Year: 2013 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Increasing fire activity linked to warm, dry conditions in western U.S. forests has raised concerns about feedbacks among climate, fire, and biogeochemical cycles. Fires disrupt forest C and N cycling, yet little is known about the ecosystem impacts of fire over multi-decada... 53

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Dwomoh, Francis K., Michael C. Wimberly Title: Understanding fire regimes and tropical forest resilience: Fire-mediated alternative stable states in the West African tropical rainforest Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology tropics Author(s): Eckmeier, E. Title: Charcoal in archaeological research - why preservation matters Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Eftichidis, George Title: GREEK NATIONAL FIRE OBSERVATORY Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: research greece Author(s): Eftychidis, G., G. Laneve, F. Ferrucci, A. S. Lopez, Louciano Lourenco, Stephen Clandillon, Lucia Tampellini, Barbara Hirn, Dimitris Diagourtas, George Leventakis Title: PREFER: A European service providing forest fire management support products Source: Proc. SPIE 9535, Third International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2015), 953517 (June 19, 2015) Year: 2015 Keywords: prevention remote sensing Abstract: PREFER is a Copernicus project of the EC-FP7 program which aims developing spatial information products that may support fire prevention and burned areas restoration decisions and establish a relevant web-based regional service for making these products ... Author(s): El-Guellab, Ahmed, Hugo Asselin, Sylvie Gauthier, Yves Bergeron, Adam A. Ali Source: Holocene variations of wildfire occurrence as a guide for sustainable management of the northeastern Canadian boreal forest Source: Forest Ecosystem 15(1): 54

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Cumulative impacts of wildfires and forest harvesting can cause shifts from closed-crown forest to open woodland in boreal ecosystems. To lower the probability of occurrence of such catastrophic regime shifts, forest logging must decrease when fire frequency increases, so that the combined disturbance rate does not exceed the Holocene maximum. Knowing how climate warming will ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102191 Author(s): Elia, Mario, Raffaele Lafortezza, Raffaella Lovreglio and Giovanni Sanesi Title: Developing Custom Fire Behavior Fuel Models for Mediterranean Wildland-Urban Interfaces in Southern Italy Source: Environmental Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: behavior modeling Abstract: The dramatic increase of fire hazard in wildland? urban interfaces (WUIs) has required more detailed fuel management programs to preserve ecosystem functions and human settlements. Designing effective fuel treatment strategies allows to achieve goals such as resilient... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101832 Author(s): Ellison, AUTUMN, MELANIE KNAPP, JESSE ABRAMS, MAX NIELSEN-PINCUS, TRAVIS PAVEGLIO, AND CASSANDRA MOSELEY Title: Community Experiences with Wildfire: Actions, Effectiveness, Impacts, and Trends Source: University of Oregon, Institute for a sustainable Environment, Ecosystem Workforce Program Working paper Number 56, 24 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: interface sociology FRI Access Number: 101822 Author(s): Emery, Sarah M., S. Luke Flory, Keith Clay, Joseph R. Robb, Brian Winters Title: Demographic responses of the invasive annual grass Microstegium vimineum to prescribed fires and herbicide Forest Ecology and Management 308: 207-213 Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology exotics Abstract: Management of invasive species in forests often includes combinations of prescribed fire and herbicides. However for most efficient management, evaluations of 55

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 these tools should include whole-population responses of targeted plants. In this study, we evaluated ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102293 Author(s): Eriksen, Christine and Don L Hankins Title: The Retention, Revival, and Subjugation of Indigenous Fire Knowledge through Agency Fire Fighting in Eastern Australia and California Source: Society and Natural Resources 27(12): 1288-1303 Year: 2014 Keywords: indigenous Abstract: This article explores the potential impact of training and employment with wildfire management agencies on the retention of Indigenous fire knowledge. It focuses on the comparative knowledge and experiences of Indigenous Elders, cultural practitioners, and land stewards in connection ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102104 Author(s): Espelta, Josep Maria, Anna Barbati, Lidia Quevedo, Reyes Tarrega, Pablo Navascues, Consuelo Bonfil, Guillermo Peguero, Marcos Fernandez-Martinez Title: Post-fire management and restoration of Southern European forests Source: Chapter 8: Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests, 2012 edited by Moreira F., Arianoutsou M., Corona P. De las Heleras J., Springer., ISBN: 978-94-007-2208-8 Year: 2012 Keywords: restoration Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102256 Author(s): Exbrayat, J. F., T. L. Smallman, A. A. Bloom, M. Williams Title: Using a data-assimilation system to assess the influence of fire on simulated carbon fluxes and plant traits for the Australian continent Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-6421, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: carbon Abstract: Natural disturbances, such as fire, play an important role in the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems. Both burned emissions and the impact of fire on plant growth 56

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 must be considered to quantify the magnitude of the current and future terrestrial carbon sink. ... FRI Access Number: 101873 Author(s): Feduck, Michael, Philippe Henry, Richard Winder, David Dunn, Ren I Alfaro, Lara vanAkker, Brad Hawkes Title: The genetic basis of cone serotiny in Pinus contorta as a function of mixed-severity and stand-replacement fire regimes Source: bioRxiv preprint first posted online July 27, 2015; Year: 2015 Keywords: genetics Abstract: Wildfires and mountain pine beetle (MPB) attacks are important contributors to the development of stand structure in lodgepole pine, and major drivers of its evolution. The historical pattern of these events have been correlated with variation in cone serotiny (possessing cones that remain closed and retain seeds until opened by... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102189 Author(s): Feizizadeh, B., K. Omrani, F. B. Aghdam Title: Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process and Spatially Explicit Uncertainty Analysis Approach for Multiple Forest Fire Risk Mapping Source: Journal for Geographic Information Science 1: 72-80 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling risk Abstract: Uncertainty is associated with GIS-Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) when applied to disaster modeling. Technically speaking, GIS-MCDA model outcomes are prone to multiple types of uncertainty and error. In order to minimize the inherent ... FRI Access Number: 101890 Author(s): Fenton, Nicole J., Martin Simard, Yves Bergeron Title: Emulating natural disturbances: The role of silviculture in creating even-aged and complex structures in the black spruce boreal forest of eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research Source: Journal of Forest Research 10/2009; 14(5): 258-267 Year: 2009 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Ecosystem-based forest management is based on the principle of emulating regional natural disturbance regimes with forest management. An interesting area for a 57

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 case study of the potential of ecosystem-based forest management is the boreal forest of north-western Qu bec ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102276 Author(s): Feurdean, A ., J. Liakka, B. Vanniere, E. Marinova, S. M. Hutchinson, V. Mosburgger, T. Hickler Title: 2,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): A data-model approach Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 81: 48e61 Year: 2013 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The usefulness of sedimentary charcoal records to document centennial to millennial scale trends in aspects of fire regimes (frequency, severity) is widely acknowledged, yet the long-term variability in these regimes is poorly understood. Here, we use a high-resolution, multi-proxy ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101993 Author(s): Filimonova, Svetlana, Andre Hilscher, Ingrid Kogel-Knabner Title: Nano-structural and chemical characterization of charred organic matter in a fireaffected Arenosol Source: Geoderma 232-234: 538-546 Year: 2014 Keywords: soils Abstract: The objective of this study was to characterize the formation and properties of black carbon (BC) domains within pyrogenic organic material (PyOM) of an Arenosol derived from a fire-affected site in Portugal (Algarve, Faro). Both the particulate organic matter (POM) and organo-... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101935 Author(s): Florance, Sandra Title: The Bega Bushfires of 1952: A fiftieth-anniversary commemoration Source: Bega Pioneers Museum, Bega Year: 2002 Keywords: investigation conflagration australia Author(s): Flory, S. Luke, Keith Clay, Sarah Emery, Joseph Robb 58

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Title: Fire and the invasive annual grass Microstegium vimineum in eastern deciduous forests Source: Journal of Applied Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Non-native plant invasions have the potential to change natural and prescribed fire regimes by increasing fuel loads, continuity of fuels, and fuel composition, which may alter fire intensity, damage native species, and promote further invasions. In this project we sought to evaluate the interaction between fire and the invasive... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102294 Author(s): Foley, J. C. Title: A study of the meteorological conditions associated with bush and grass fires and fire protection in australia Source: Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology, Commonwealth of Australia, bulletin No. 38 Year: 1947 Keywords: weather australia Author(s): Fontaine, S., S. Barot, P. Barre, N. Bdioui, B. Mary and C. Rumpel Title: Stability of organic carbon in deep soil layers controlled by fresh carbon supply Source: Nature 450: 277-280 Year: 2003 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The world's soils store more carbon than is present in biomass and in the atmosphere1. Little is known, however, about the factors controlling the stability of soil organic carbon stocks2-4 and the response of the soil carbon pool to climate change... FRI Access Number: 102237 Author(s): Foran, Clare Title: Can Drones Solve America's Wildfire Crisis? Source: National Journal Daily AM. 7/7/2015, p5 Year: 2015 Keywords: Aircraft equipment remote sensing FRI Access Number: 102083

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Forkel, R., D. Brunner, A. Balzarini, R. Baro, M. Hirtl, Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero, Oriol Jorba, Juan L. Perez, Guido Pirovano, Roberto San Jose, Wolfram Schroder, Johannes Werhahn, Ralf Wolke and Rahela Zabkar Title: Case studies on aerosol feedback effects in online coupled chemistry-meteorology models during the 2010 Russian fire event Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-1921, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Abstract: Aerosol particles are known to have an impact on weather and climate directly via radiation and via their impact on cloud formation and subsequent modified optical properties of clouds. Integrated or" online" coupled regional meteorology-chemistry models like WRF ... FRI Access Number: 101866 Author(s): Fox, Laurel R., Mizael Preza, Kevin Yu Title: Changing paradigms in post-fire chaparral communities: interactions of herbivory, competition and facilitation continue affecting chaparral dynamics of >70 years after fire Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife grazing Abstract: Most studies of chaparral communities focus on the first decade after fires, when herbivory and interactions among plants drive rapid changes in plant composition. The few studies of chaparral many decades after fire conclude that recruitment and biotic ... Author(s): Franklin, Jerry F. Title: Managing forest landscapes in the context of changing disturbance regimes Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: climate Abstract: In many forest ecosystems climate change is being experienced most prominently in the form of altered disturbance regimes, such as increased severity and size of wildfires, massive insect outbreaks, and increased frequency and intensity of storms... Author(s): Franklin, Michael J. M., E. Charles Morris, Richard E. Major Title: Relationships between time since fire and honeyeater abundance in montane heathland Source: The Emu 114(1): 61 60

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife ecology australia birds Abstract: Montane heath communities in south-eastern Australia provide a valuable nectar resource for honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) but are subject to variable fire regimes that may influence the production of this resource and the abundance of honeyeaters. Little is known about changes in honeyeater ... Author(s): Freund, James A., Jerry F. Franklin, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz Title: Multi-decadal establishment for single-cohort Douglas-fir forests Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44(9): 1068-1078 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The rate at which trees regenerate following stand-replacing wildfire is an important but poorly understood process in the multi-century development of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) forests... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102067 Author(s): Freestone, M., T. Wills, J. Read Title: Post-fire succession during the long-term absence of fire in coastal heathland and a test of the chronosequence survey method Source: Australian Journal of Botany, Year: 2015 Abstract: Post-fire vegetation succession in long-unburnt heathland in south-east Australia is not well understood. We investigated temporal change in vegetation along a 37 year post- fire chronosequence in coastal heathland in the Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park, Victoria, ... Author(s): Fregeau, M., S. Payette, P. Grondin Title: Fire history of the central boreal forest in eastern North America reveals stability since the mid-Holocene Source: The Holocene, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Past and present fire frequencies are key factors to evaluate fire-mediated changes in climate, but this metric is difficult to evaluate realistically in paleoecological and climatic reconstructions. Here, we applied charcoal analysis of forest soils to test from direct ... 61

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Fuerst-Bjelis, Borna, Marin Cvitanovic, Anamarija Durbesic Title: Fire risk incidence over the last 200 years; Case study in the Mediterranean Croatia Source: X International Seminar: Overarching Issues of the European Area, Univesidade do Porto; Faculdade de Letras, Porto; 05/2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: risk history Abstract: Considering the fire risk, Mediterranean is the one of the most endangered areas on Earth, apart from North American pine forests and African savanna, primarily due to climate features, regular and often long drought periods, and a lot of dry and flammable material. Although ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101934 Author(s): Ganzlin, Peter Title: The long-term effects of fuel treatments on ecosystem processes: Revisiting the Lubrecht Forest Fire and Fire Surrogates Study Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: fuel Abstract: As a result of decades of fire suppression, many western forests previously accustomed to frequent low-intensity fire have become exceedingly dense and accumulated excessive amounts of fuels. Fuels reduction treatments such as mechanical thinning and/or prescribed burning are used by forest managers to restore firesuppressed western forests to pre-settlement density... Author(s): Gao-Lin Wu, Ling-Ping Zhao, Dong Wang, Zhi-Hua Shi Title: Effects of Time-Since-Fire on Vegetation Composition and Structures in Semi-Arid Perennial Grassland on the Loess Plateau, China Source: CLEAN - Soil Air Water 42(1). Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology encroachment Abstract: Although there is an increased understanding of fire's role in maintaining grassland ecosystems, few studies on vegetation develops after a fire disturbance has been reported in arid perennial grasslands on the Loess Plateau. To understand how vegetation recovers after a fire ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101920 62

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Garcia-Menendez, Fernando, Yongtao Hu, Mehmet T Odman Title: Simulating smoke transport from wildland fires with a regional-scale air quality model: Sensitivity to spatiotemporal allocation of fire emissions Source: Science of The Total Environment 493C: 544-553. Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Air quality forecasts generated with chemical transport models can provide valuable information about the potential impacts of fires on pollutant levels. However, significant uncertainties are associated with fire-related emission estimates as well as their distribution ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101965 Author(s): Gartner, Stefanie M., Mike Bokalo, S. Ellen Macdonald, Ken Stadt Title: Variation in post-wildfire regeneration of boreal mixedwood forests: underlying factors and implications for natural disturbance-based management Source: New Forests 45(2): 215-234 Year: 2014 Keywords: regeneration ecology Abstract: To test the direct regeneration hypothesis and support natural disturbancebased forest management we characterized the structure and composition of boreal mixedwood forests regenerating after large wildfires and examined the influence of pre-fire stand composition and post-fire competing ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101923 Author(s): Gartner, Joseph E., Susan H. CANNON and Paul M. SANTI Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF POST-FIRE DEBRIS-FLOW HAZARD ASSESSMENTS ALONG DRAINAGE NETWORKS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. Source: pages 855-863, in: Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment - Book www.ijege.uniroma1.it - 2011 Casa Editrice Universit La Sapienza Year: 2011 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Burned watersheds in Southern California steeplands can be particularly susceptible to debris flow. Rapid assessments of potential debris-flow hazards following a fire are necessary to provide timely information to the public, land managers, and emergencyresponse agencies about locations most... FRI Access Number: 102284 63

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Gibson, Jason, C.E.M. Nano Title: Fire impacts and fire management of Desert Biomes of central Australia: An overview of historical and ecological evidence Source: Ecological Society of Australia, Alice Springs; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology australia Author(s): Gibson, R. K., R. A. Bradstock, T. Penman, D. A. Keith Title: Climatic, vegetation and edaphic influences on the probability of fire across mediterranean woodlands of south-eastern Australia Source: Journal of Biogeography, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: We investigated how the probability of burning is influenced by the time since fire (TSF) and gradients of climate, soil and vegetation in the fire-prone mediterraneanclimate mallee woodlands of south-eastern Australia. This provided insight into the processes controlling ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102203 Author(s): Gifford, JOHN Title: Fires Source: Southwest Review 100(2): 153-168 Year: 2015 Keywords: management FRI Access Number: 101938 Author(s): Gill, A. Malcolm Title: Fire pulses in the heart of Australia: fire regimes and fire management in central Australia Source: Report to Environment Australia Year: 2002 Keywords: ecology australia

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Glaser, B.. Title: Potential and constraints of biochar for plant-available water supply Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Gollner, Michael John, Raquel Hakes, Sara Caton, Kyle Kohler Title: Pathways for Building Fire Spread at the Wildland Urban Interface Source: Fire Protection Research Foundation, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, 3106 J.M. Patterson Building, College Park, Maryland USA 207423031 Year: 2015 Keywords: behavior interface Abstract: Fires in the WUI communities are a rapidly growing problem in the US. The last 15 years contains six of this century's top ten most damaging U.S. single fire events; all of these events occurred in WUI communities. Over 46 million homes in 70,000 ... FRI Access Number: 102273 Author(s): Gonzalez, M. E. and T. T. Veblen Title: Wildfire in Araucaria araucana forests and ecological considerations about salvage logging in areas recently burned Source: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural Year: 2007 Keywords: chile Abstract: Fire is the most important kind of disturbance shaping the Araucaria araucana forest landscapes of south-central Chile and Argentina. In the Araucarian region, climate and humans have influe... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102000 Author(s): Gorgone-Barbosa, Eiizabeth, Vania R. Pivello, Susana Bautista, Talita Zupo, Mariana Ninno Rissi and Alessandra Fidelis Title: How can an invasive grass affect fire behavior in a tropical savanna? A community and individual plant level approach Source: Biological Invasions, available online 2013 Year: 2013 65

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Some invasive grasses have been reported to change fire behavior in invaded plant communities. Urochloa brizantha is an aggressive invasive grass in the Brazilian Cerrado, an ecosystem where fire is a common disturbance. We investigated the effects of U. brizantha on fire behavior in an open... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102004 Author(s): Grau, H. Ricardo, Ricardo Torres, N. Ignacio Gasparri, Pedro G. Blendinger, Sofia Marinaro, Leandro Macchi Title: Natural grasslands in the Chaco. A neglected ecosystem under threat by agriculture expansion and forest-oriented conservation policies Source: Journal of Arid Environments 12/2014; Year: 2014 Keywords: grasslands agriculture Abstract: In most tropical and subtropical biomes, conservation strategies are mainly focused on the preservation of forests. However, neotropical dry forest and savanna ecoregions include open habitats that may deserve conservation attention. We analyzed the historical patterns and potential... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102050 Author(s): Green, David S., Gary J. Roloff, Brian R. Heath, Kay E. Holekamp Title: Temporal dynamics of the reponses by African mammals to prescribed fire Source: The Journal of Wildlife Management 79(2): 235-242 2015 Keywords: ecology wildlife Abstract: Prescribed fire is an important management tool in east Africa as a way to improve foraging conditions for herbivores, and to make wildlife easier for tourists to observe and photograph. Although past research has investigated the factors influencing herbivore use of post-fire vegetation, the temporal dynamics of these effects have seldom been documented, and use of burned... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102025 Author(s): Green, M. A. Title: Castle Mound Pine Forest State Natural Area: Fire history at the edge of the Driftless Area in central Wisconsin Source: Unpublished manuscript, 23 pages Year: n. d. 66

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: history Abstract: Fire is an integral process in forest systems around the globe (Bowman et. al., 2011). Historical patterns of fire activity varied with respect to vegetation type, climate, and human activities. In dry forests, such as the mixed conifer forests of the American Southwest, ... FRI Access Number: 102119 Author(s): Griffiths, Anthony D., Barry W. Brook Title: Fire impacts recruitment more than survival of small-mammals in a tropical savanna Source: Ecosphere 6(6): 99 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology wildlife Abstract: The frequency and spatial patterning of fire for optimal biodiversity conservation is often poorly understood by managers, in part due to a lack of understanding of the mechanisms responsible for altering population dynamics of individual species. We investigated changes in ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101911 Author(s): Griffiths, Anthony D., Stephen T. Garnett, Barry W. Brook Title: Fire frequency matters more than fire size: Testing the pyrodiversity? biodiversity paradigm for at-risk small mammals in an Australian tropical savanna Source: Biological Conservation 186: 337-346 Year: 2015 Keywords: frequency Abstract: Patch-mosaic burning is a widely accepted practical approach to managing biodiversity, whereby spatial and temporal diversity of fire is manipulated to benefit biotic diversity. We use simulation experiments based on stochastic population viability analysis to evaluate the implications of contrasting patch-mosaic burning scenarios for the population dynamics and risk of decline of four species... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101833 Author(s): Guenther, A. B., C. N. Hewitt, D. Erickson, R. Fall, C. Geron and T. Graedel Title: A global model of natural volatile organic compound emissions Source: Journal of Geophysical Research 100: 8873-8892 Year: 1995 Keywords: smoke 67

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Guinto, D. F., P. G. Saffigna, Z. H. Xu, A. P. N. House, M. C. S. Perera Title: Soil nitrogen mineralisation and organic matter composition revealed by 13C NMR spectroscopy under repeated prescribed burning in eucalypt forests of south-east Queensland Source: Australian Journal of Soil Research 37(1): Year: 1999 Keywords: nutrients soils prescribed burning Abstract: The erects of burning on in situ extractable nitrogen (NH4+-N+NO3--N) and net N mineralisation following scheduled fuel reduction burns in repeatedly burnt dry and wet sclerophyll forest sites in south-east Queensland were assessed. In addition, soil organic matter composition ... Author(s): Guldaker, Nicklas, Per-Olof Hallin Title: Spatio-temporal patterns of intentional fires, social stress and socio-economic determinants: A case study of Malmo, Sweden Source: Fire Safety Journal 70: 71-80 Year: 2014 Since the end of the 1990s, the number of fires has increased dramatically in Malmo, a city in the southernmost part of Sweden. Between 1998 and 2009, the increase was 215%, and a large number of the fires were intentional. The aim of this paper is to deepen our understanding of the... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102127 Author(s): Guo, F., G. Wang, J. L. Innes, X. Ma, L. Sun, H. Hu Title: Gamma generalized linear model to investigate the effects of climate variables on the area burned by forest fire in northeast China Source: Journal of Forestry Research, available online 2014 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine a suitable model for investigating the effects of climate factors on the area burned by forest fire in the Tahe forest region, Daxing'an Mountains, in northeast China. The response variables were the area burned ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Gupta, Vaibhav; Reinke, Karin J.; Jones, Simon D.; Wallace, Luke; Holden, Lucas Title: Assessing Metrics for Estimating Fire Induced Change in the Forest Understorey Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Source: Remote Sensing 7(6): 8180-8201 Year: 2015 68

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Quantifying post-fire effects in a forested landscape is important to ascertain burn severity, ecosystem recovery and post-fire hazard assessments and mitigation planning. Reporting of such post-fire effects assumes significance in fire-prone countries such as USA, Australia, Spain, Greece and Portugal where prescribed burns are routinely... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101863 Author(s): Hahn, Philip G., John L. Orrock Title: Land use history, canopy thinning and consumers interact to affect seedling establishment Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 08/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: history ecology Abstract: Legacies of historical agriculture have persistent and dramatic effects on plant community composition decades to centuries following abandonment. Furthermore, much of the land that is recovering from historic agriculture is in fire-maintained ecosystems ... Author(s): Hahn, P. G. Title: Land-use history and fire management drive context-dependent plant-herbivore interactions Source: Ph.D. Dissertation, THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2015, 267 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: history ecology Abstract: Land-use legacies often interact with other factors such as fire suppression to generate persistent changes in soil conditions and plant communities in many ecosystems. However, little is known about how these habitat modifications affect higher trophic levels ... Author(s): Haikerwal, Anjali,Muhammad Akram, Anthony Del Monaco,Karen Smith, Malcolm R. Sim, Mick Meyer, Andrew M. Tonkin, Michael J. Abramson, Martine Dennekamp Title: Impact of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Exposure During Wildfires on Cardiovascular Health Outcomes Source: Journal of the American Heart Association, available online 2015 Keywords: smoke health

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: PM2.5 exposure was associated with increased risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and IHD during the 2006-2007 wildfires in Victoria. This evidence indicates that PM2.5 may act as a triggering factor for acute coronary events during wildfire episodes... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101912 Author(s): Hammond, Darcy H., J. Morgan Varner, John S. Kush, Zhaofei Fan Title: Contrasting sapling bark allocation of five southeastern USA hardwood tree species in a fire prone ecosystem Source: Ecosphere, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Fire affects numerous aspects of plant growth and anatomy, particularly in those species adapted to persist in fire-prone environments. A key aspect of tree survival is rapid accum... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101999 Author(s): Hamilton, S. D., A. C. Lawrie, P. Hopmans and B. V. Leonard Title: Effects of fuel reduction burning on a eucalyptus obliqua forest ecosystem in Victoria Source: Austalian Journal of botany 39: 203-217 Year: 1991 Keywords: prescribed burning australia Author(s): Hanson, C. T., R. L. Sherriff, R. L. Hutto, D. A. DellaSala, T. T. Veblen, W. L. Baker Title: Setting the stage for mixed- and high-severity fire Source: Chapter 1, pages 3-22; The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix, Dominick A. DellaSala and Chad T. Hanson. Published by Elsevier Inc. Year: 2015 Keywords: severity FRI Access Number: 101922 Author(s): Hardtl, Werner, Thomas Niemeyer, Thorsten Assmann, Hartmut Meyer, Goddert Von Oheimb Title: Can prescribed burning compensate for atmospheric nutrient loads in wet heathlands? Source: Phytocoenologia 37(2): 161-174 Year: 2007 Keywords: prescribed burning smoke 70

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: The increased deposition of nutrients from the atmosphere has contributed to widespread changes in wet heathland ecosystems throughout Europe. As a result, management measures are nowadays considered a tool with which to mitigate impacts of atmospheric nutrient loads by ... FRI Access Number: 102280 Author(s): Heikkala, Osmo, Mai Suominen, Kaisa Junninen, Aino Hamalainen, Jari Kouki Title: Effects of retention level and fire on retention tree dynamics in boreal forests Source: Forest Ecology and Management 328: 193-201 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Retention forestry has been used for over 20 years to reduce the unfavorable impacts of intensive forest management on biodiversity. The assumed positive effects of retention trees, however, depend on the dynamics of trees in providing substrates or structures for forest-dwelling organisms... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Henriquez, W. I., P. I. Moreno, B. V. Alloway, G. Villarosa Title: Vegetation and climate change, fire-regime shifts and volcanic disturbance in Chiloe Continental (43x S) during the last 10,000 years Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 123: 158-167 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: Disentangling the roles of paleofires and explosive volcanism from climatic drivers of past vegetation change is a subject insufficiently addressed in the paleoecological literature. The coastal region of the Chiloe Continental sector of northwestern Patagonia is ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102200 Author(s): Herath, S., M. CAMPS ARBESTAIN, M. HEDLEY, R. VAN HALE and P. BUURMAN. Title: Fate of biochar carbon from corn stover after 510 dayincubation in an andisol and alfisol Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 71

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Hewitt, Rebecca E., Elizabeth Bent, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, F. Stuart Chapin, D. Lee Taylor Title: Resilience of Arctic Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities after Wildfire Facilitated by Resprouting Shrubs Source: Ecoscience 20(3): 296-310. Year: 2014 Keywords: fungi ecology Abstract: Climate-induced changes in the tundra fire regime are expected to alter shrub abundance and distribution across the Arctic. However, little is known about how fire may indirectly impact shrub performance by altering mycorrhizal symbionts. We used molecular tools, including ARISA and ... FRI Access Number: 102034 Author(s): Highland, Steven A., Julia A. Jones Title: Extinction debt in naturally contracting mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest, USA: varying responses of plants and feeding guilds of nocturnal moths Source: Biodiversity and Conservation 23(10): Year: 2014 Keywords: insects ecology exclusion climate Abstract: Fire suppression and climate change are leading to habitat fragmentation in temperate montane meadows across the globe, raising concerns about biodiversity loss. Restoration strategies may depend on the rate and nature of species response to habitat loss. We examined the effects of ... [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102088 Author(s): Higuera, P. E., J. T. Abatzoglou, J. S. Littell, P. Morgan Title: The changing nature of fire-climate relationships in the U.S. Northern Rockies, 19022008 Source: VII Southern Connection Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand; 08/2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: climate Abstract: Climate influences wildfire activity at multiple temporal scales, but if and how these relationships vary through time is poorly understood. Time-varying fire-climate relationships have direct relevance for understanding the controls of fire regimes and projecting ...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Hill, Randal W. Title: Effect of prescribed fire on a shrub-steppe plant community infested with Bromus tectorum Source: Unknown publication Year: N. D. Keywords: prescribed burning exotics Abstract: Prescribed fire has been used to manipulate plant communities and is used to remove plants and litter for efficient application of pre-emergent herbicides to the soil. An experiment was conducted to determine if prescribed fire in the fall would have a.. Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102268 Author(s): Hmielowski, Tracy L., Kevin M. Robertson, William J. Platt Title: Influence of season and method of topkill on resprouting characteristics and biomass of Quercus nigra saplings from a southeastern US pine-grassland ecosystem Source: Plant Ecology, available online 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The resprouting ability of woody plants in frequently burned ecosystems may be influenced by the season and method of topkill. We conducted an experiment to test for the effects of season and method of topkill on aboveground biomass, belowground biomass, and mortality of hardwoods found in ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101964 Author(s): Hodges, H. Title: Whose Priority Is It? What Determines Spending Choices on Fire Risk Reduction Projects By Federal Land Management Agencies Source: 2015 Fall Conference: The Golden Age of Evidence- Based Policy, November 1214, 2015, Miami, florida Year: 2015 Keywords: economics Abstract: Pressman and Wildavsky's,"Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland" describes obstacles that can occur with policy implementation. We examine the implementation of the 2002 National Fire Plan (NFP), in which five federal ...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Hodges, D., A. E. Luloff, J. Finley Title: Public Perceptions of Values Associated with Fire Protection and WUIs Using Mixed Methods Source: FINAL REPORT for Cooperative Agreement No. L11AC20266, Joint Fire Science Program, 152 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: interface sociology Abstract: For generations, the public was told that fire destroys forests and many of its associated values (eg, timber, wildlife, recreation, aesthetics, ecosystem services). Recently, the science of fire prevention and fuel treatments has experienced renewed and enhanced ... FRI Access Number: 101983 Author(s): Hodgson, A. Title: The feral fire Source: in: Bushfire; the bush's salvation, a public meeting in Bairnsdale, Victoria, 23 May 2004 Year: 2004 Keywords: Australia management Author(s): Hohnen, R., K. D. Tuft, S. Legge, I. J. Radford, S. Carver Title: Post-fire habitat use of the golden-backed tree-rat (Mesembriomys macrurus) in the northwest Kimberley, Western Australia Source: Austral Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Abstract: Fire regimes are changing throughout the world. Changed fire patterns across northern Australian savannas have been proposed as a factor contributing to recent declines of small-and medium-sized mammals. Despite this, few studies have examined ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Holz, Andres, Sam W. Wood, Thomas T. Veblen, David M. J. S. Bowman Title: Effects of high severity fire drove the population collapse of the subalpine Tasmanian endemic conifer Athrotaxis cupressoides Source: Global Change Biology 21(1): Year: 2014 Keywords: severity rare endangered Abstract: Athrotaxis cupressoides is a slow growing and long-lived conifer that occurs in the subalpine temperate forests of Tasmania, a continental island to the south of 74

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Australia. In 1960-61 human-ignited wildfires occurred during an extremely dry summer that killed many A. cupressoides stands on the high ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102052 Author(s): Holdgate, Guy R., Malcolm W. Wallace, Ian R.K. Sluiter, Daniel Marcuccio, Thomas A. Fromhold, Barbara E. Wagstaff Title: Was the Oligocene-Miocene a time of fire and rain- Insights from brown coals of the southeastern Australia Gippsland Basin Source: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 411: 65-78 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Despite prevailing warm,wet climate conditions and the predominance of rainforests that are suggested to have characterized the Cenozoic of southern Australia, some swamp taxa were clearly already pre-adapted to tolerate fire and are likely to have been the ancestors of the fire-adapted floral communities of modern arid Australia.... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101963 Author(s): Holmes, Patricia Title: Exploring thresholds to restoration in alien-invaded fynbos shrublands Source: Medecos X111, Olmue Chile; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: restoration exotics Abstract: Exploring thresholds to restoration in alien-invaded fynbos shrublands P M Holmes, M Gaertner, K J Esler, S Hall Two decades ago we drafted protocols for restoration based on an understanding of fynbos ecology, specifically: recruitment dynamics, community structure and ecosystem function... FRI Access Number: 102072 Author(s): Hongjun Wang, Curtis J. Richardson and Mengchi Ho Title: Dual controls on carbon loss during drought in peatlands Source: Nature Climate Change 5: 584-588 Year: 2015 Keywords: black carbon paleohistory Abstract: Peatlands store one-third of global soil carbon1. Drought/drainage coupled with climate warming present the main threat to these stores1-4. Hence, understanding drought effects and inherent feedbacks related to peat... Contact Author: [email protected]; [email protected] 75

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 101934 Author(s): Hood, S., A. Sala, E. K. Heyerdahl, M. Boutin Title: Low-severity fire increases tree defense against bark beetle attacks Source: Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: severity insects Abstract: Induced defense is a common plant strategy in response to herbivory. Although abiotic damage, such as physical wounding, pruning, and heating, can induce plant defense, the effect of such damage by large-scale abiotic disturbances on induced defenses has not ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102177 Author(s): Howell, John T. Title: A Study on Photodegradation and The Fate of Pyrogenic Carbon Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 69 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: carbon Abstract: Accounting for all possible sources of atmospheric CO2 is a pressing issue today due to the increasing effects of climate change. Estimates suggested that on the order of 1.3 million tons of dissolved pyrogenic carbon (pyDOC) could be entering the northern Gulf... FRI Access Number: 101917 Author(s): Hubbart, J. A. Title: Vegetation Structure and Soil Water Content after 60 years of Repeated Prescribed Burning in the Missouri Ozarks Source: Proceedings of the 4th Fire in Eastern Oaks Conference. U.S. Forest Service, GTRNRS-P-102 Year: 2012 Keywords: prescribed burning soils hydrology Author(s): Humphries, R. K. Title: The effects of single autumn and spring prescribed fires on small mammal and reptile ecology in Wombat state Forest Source: M. S. Thesis, Applied Science, University of Ballarat, Australia Year: 1994 Keywords: prescribed burning australia 76

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Ikeda, Hiroshi, Mac A. Callaham Jr, Joseph J. O'Brien, Benjamin S. Hornsby, Evelyn S. Wenk Title: Management of the invasive earthworm, Amynthas agrestis, with prescribed fire Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: worms Abstract: Earthworms function as ecosystem engineers by changing and constructing environments, and by influencing the community structure of other soil organisms. Therefore, invasion of earthworms into ecosystems can cause significant alterations. Amynthas agrestis ... Author(s): Inger Elisabeth M ren, Janovsk? Z., Spindelb ck J. Daws M.I., Kaland P.E., Vandvik V. Title: Prescribed burning of northern heathlands: Calluna Vulgaris and germination cues Source: IAVS, Crete, Greece; 05/2009 Year: 2009 Keywords: prescribed burning regeneration ecology Abstract: Anthropogenic use of fire, often in conjunction with grazing, is contributing to the creation and maintenance of semi-natural ecosystems on marginal lands world-wide, e.g. the African savannas and the Australian kwongan. The European coastal heathlands are important habitats ... Author(s): Ito, Akinori, Guangxing Lin, Joyce E. Penner Title: Global modeling study of soluble organic nitrogen from open biomass burning Source: Atmospheric Environment, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: Atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen (N) species from large fires may contribute to enrichment of nutrients in aquatic ecosystems. Here we use an atmospheric chemistry transport model to investigate the supply of soluble organic nitrogen (ON) from open biomass burning to the ocean... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102218 Author(s): Jacques, Marie-Eve Title: LOW-BASAL AREA TREATMENT AND PRESCRIBED FIRE TO RESTORE OAK-PINE SAVANNAS ALTER SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES Source: M. S. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 105 pages 77

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2006 Keywords: prescribed burning wildlife Abstract: Following decades of fire suppression, many savanna ecosystems have changed drastically to dense forests. Restoration of these ecosystems is seen as a way to reduce woody encroachment, dangerous fuel loads, and loss of biological diversity. The management practices to achieve these goals, thinning and prescribed fire, have the potential to affect small mammal communities. Because small mammals... FRI Access Number: 102142 Author(s): Jackson, W. D. Title: The Tasmanian legacy of man and fire Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, Volume 133/1 Year: 1999 Keywords: management australia FRI Access Number: 102183 Author(s): Jackson, W. D. Title: Nutrient stocks in Tasmanian vegetation and approximate losses due to fire Source: Proceedings of the Royal society of Tasmania 134; 1-18 Year: 2000 Keywords: soils ecology FRI Access Number: 102211 Author(s): Jeffery, Kathryn Jane, Lisa Korte, Florence Palla, Gretchen Walters, Lee J. T. White, Kate A. Abernethy Title: FIRE MANAGEMENT IN A CHANGING LANDSCAPE: A CASE STUDY FROM LOPE NATIONAL PARK, GABON Source: Parks 20(1): 35-48 Year: 2014 Keywords: management tropics Abstract: A key management goal in Lope National Park, Gabon, is to protect regionallyrare savannah ecosystems within the continuous rainforest block. In order to evaluate the impact of existing protection efforts, data on burning season environmental conditions, burning effort and current woody ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102037

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Jennifer M. Fill, William J. Platt, Shane M. Welch, Jayme L. Waldron, Timothy A. Mousseau Title: Updating models for restoration and management of fiery ecosystems Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: restoration Abstract: Scientific models that guide restoration/management protocols should be reviewed periodically as new data become available. We examine ecological concepts used to guide restoration of pine savannas and woodlands, historically prominent but now rare habitats in the southern North American Coastal Plain. For many decades, pine savanna management... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102285: w Author(s): Jeter, Guy Wilburn Jr. Title: A Vegetation Analysis on Horn Island, Mississippi, ca. 1940 Using Characteristic Dimensions Derived from Historical Aerial Photography Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 69 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: history Abstract: Horn Island is part of the MS/AL barrier island chain in the northern Gulf of Mexico located approximately 18kn off the coast of Mississippi. This island's habitats have undergone many transitions over the last several decades... FRI Access Number: 101918 Author(s): Jhariya, Manoj Kumar, Abhishek Raj, Indira Gandhi, Krishi Viswavidyalaya Title: Effects of wildfires on flora, fauna and physico-chemical properties of soil-An overview Source: Journal of Applied and Natural Science 6 (2): 887 - 897 Year: 2014 Keywords: endangered rare ecology Abstract: Fire is one of the most destructive threats faced by our forests. Fire is good servant but a bad master. The fire season starts in March/April continues up to June. Wildfires destroy not only flora (tree, herbs, grassland, forbs, etc.) and their diversity but also considerable long term negative impact on fauna including wild endangered... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102100

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Jimenez-Compan, E., N. Jimenez-Morillo, A. Jordan Title: Factors controlling short-term soil microbial response after laboratory heating. Preliminary results Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-1072, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: microbes soils Abstract: Soil microbial response after fire is controlled by numerous variables which conclude with a mosaic of results depending on organic carbon alterations or pH fireinduced changes. ... FRI Access Number: 101899 Author(s): Jimenez-Gonzalez, M. A., J. Maria De la Rosa Title: Fire impact and assessment of post-fire actions of a typical Mediterranean forest from SW Spain Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-2248, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: restoration Abstract: Wildfires may cause significant changes in soil physical and chemical properties. In addition, soil organic matter (SOM) content and chemical properties are usually affected by fire. Fire impacts may negatively affect soil health and quality, and induce or enhance ... FRI Access Number: 101825 Author(s): Jindo, K., H. Mizumoto, Y. Sawada, M. A. Sanchez-Monedero and T. Sonoki Title: Physical and chemical characterization of biochars derived from different agricultural residues Source: Biogeosciences 11: 6613-6621 Year: 2014 Keywords: charcoal soils Abstract: Biochar is widely recognized as an efficient tool for carbon sequestration and soil fertility. The understanding of its chemical and physical properties, which are strongly related to the type of the initial material used and pyrolysis conditions, is crucial to identify the most suitable application of biochar in soil. A selection of organic wastes... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102210

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Johnson, Jeffrey, Michele Ginsberg, Nancy French, Brian Thelen, Benjamin Koziol Title: Use of Syndromic Surveillance Information for Expanded Assessment of Wildfire Disaster Source: Online J Public Health Inform. 5(1): e95 Year: 2013 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: This presentation describes how syndromic surveillance information was combined with fire emission information and spatio-temporal fire occurrence data to evaluate, model and forecast climate change impacts on future fire scenarios. Introduction Syndromic surveillance information can be a useful for the early recognition of ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102232 Author(s): Johnston, Fay H., Ivan C. Hanigan, David M. J. S. Bowman Title: Pollen Loads and Allergic Rhinitis in Darwin, Australia: A Potential Health Outcome of the Grass-Fire Cycle Source: Ecohealth 6(1): 99-108 Year: 2009 Year: health australia Abstract: ...of several tropical plant families and sales of medications for the treatment of allergic rhinitis in darwin, australia-a tropical setting in which grass abundance has increased due to increased fire frequencies and the introduction of african pasture grasses. daily pollen counts with detailed identification of plant species were undertaken in... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102236 Author(s): Joo, Kidon, Hoon Kang, Sanghoon Ahn, Dongil Peter Shin Title: Development of a Real-Time Monitoring System of Abnormal Fire Incidents Based On the Mining of National Fire, Disaster and Meteorological Data Source: 13 AIChE Annual Meeting; 11/2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: statistics Abstract: Prediction of fire accident is one of the important issues from all over the world. Various researches have been active to improve the sustainability. Nowaday, occurrences of fire incidents are recorded into National Fire Data System (NFDS), and weather data go down in Korea Meteorological... 81

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Joubert, Dave, Larkin A. Powell, Walter H. Schacht Title: Visual obstruction as a method to quantify herbaceous biomass in southern African semi-arid savannas Source: African Journal of Range and Forage Science 2014: 1-6 Year: 2014 Keywords: fuel grasslands Abstract: Biomass of aboveground vegetation is a useful descriptor for studies of grazing, fire and wildlife habitat use in grassland systems. The traditional method to estimate biomass, hand-clipping, is time intensive and other indices of biomass have been used successfully. In southern Africa, the disc pasture ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101986 Author(s): Juarez, Sonia, C. Siebe-Grabach, D. Fernandez and L. Michan Title: Bibliometric study of fires in tropical rain forests Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Coimbra, Portugal; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: bibliography Abstract: Bibliometrics allows to analyze on behalf of literature searches the existing knowledge around a specific topic and identify tendencies in its development. Tropical forests are characterized naturally by a low regime of fires. However human activities have dramatically changed this phenomenon. .. Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102124 Author(s): Junfang Zhou, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva and Guohua Ma Title: Effects of smoke water and karrikin on seed germination of 13 species growing in China Source: Cent. Eur. J. Biol. 9(11): 1108-1116 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke regeneration seeds Abstract: Plant-derived smoke water (SW), derived from combusted plant material, has been shown to stimulate seed germination and improve seedling vigor of a number of plant species from fire-dependent Mediterranean-type climate areas. The effects of SW on seed germination of 13 plant species from southern tropical... FRI Access Number: 102102

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Jurskis, V. Title: Vegetation changes since European settlement of Australia: An attempt to clear up some burning issues Source: Australian Forestry 63: 166-173 Year: 2000 Keywords: ecology australia Author(s): Kalabokidis, K., P. Palaiologou, E. Gerasopoulos Title: Effect of Climate Change Projections on Forest Fire Behavior and Values-at-Risk in Southwestern Greece Source: Forests 6: 2214-2240 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate behavior Abstract: Climate change has the potential to influence many aspects of wildfire behavior and risk. During the last decade, Greece has experienced large-scale wildfire phenomena with unprecedented fire behavior and impacts. In this study, thousands of wildfire events were ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101879 Author(s): Kalabokidis, Kostas, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Kostopoulou Efi, Zerefos Christos, Gerasopoulos Evangelos, Giannakopoulos Christos Title: Effect of climate projections on the behavior and impacts of wildfires in Messenia, Greece Source: 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatology and Physics of the Atmosphere COMECAP 2014, Heraklion, Greece; 05/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: climate behavior Abstract: Climate change has the potential to affect many aspects of wildfires, while wildfire itself can accelerate phenomena such as environmental degradation and desertification. As a result, floods, microclimate alteration, environmental changes, destruction of infrastructures, economic ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102064 Author(s): Kanga, S, L K Sharma, P C Pandey, M S Nathawat Title: GIS Modelling Approach for Forest Fire Risk Assessment and Management Source: International Journal of Advancement in Remote Sensing, GIS and Geography 2(1): 30-44 83

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2014 Keywords: risk modeling Abstract: Forest fire models are generally used in different aspects of fire management and are helpful in understanding and prediction of fire behavior. This helps fire fighters to focus on an area with greater risk and to develop better substructure for fire fighter training and ultimately to plan fire-fighting policies to minimize damage and stay safe. In the same way simulation modeling also provides an adequate tool to estimate risk... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102014 Author(s): Karouni, Ali, Bassam Daya, Samia Bahlak, and Pierre Chauvet Title: A Simplified Mathematical Model for Fire Spread Predictions in Wildland Fires Combining between the Models of Anderson and Rothermel 197 International Journal of Modeling and Optimization 4(3): 197-200 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling behavior Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102129 Author(s): Karau, Eva C., Pamela G. Sikkink, Robert E. Keane, Gregory K. Dillon Title: Integrating Satellite Imagery with Simulation Modeling to Improve Burn Severity Mapping Source: Environmental Management 54(1): Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Both satellite imagery and spatial fire effects models are valuable tools for generating burn severity maps that are useful to fire scientists and resource managers. The purpose of this study was to test a new mapping approach that integrates imagery and modeling to create more accurate burn severity maps... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102085 Author(s): Kean, Jason W., Dennis M. Staley, Susan H. Cannon Title: In situ measurements of post-fire debris flows in southern California: Comparisons of the timing and magnitude of 24 debris-flow events with rainfall and soil moisture conditions Source: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 116(F4): 4019Year: 2011 Keywords: erosion 84

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Debris flows often occur in burned steeplands of southern California, sometimes causing property damage and loss of life. In an effort to better understand the hydrologic controls on post-fire debris-flow initiation, timing and magnitude, we measured the flow stage, rainfall, channel bed pore ... FRI Access Number: 102283 Author(s): Kelly, Ryan, Hlne Genet, A. David McGuire, Feng Sheng Hu Title: Model simulations driven by paleo-forcing data reveal large and rapid responses of carbon storage to boreal fire-regime shifts Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: modeling paleohistory Abstract: Climate warming is expected to increase the frequency and severity of natural fires in the boreal forest biome. Boreal forests represent >30% of terrestrial carbon stocks, and fire is a key component of the carbon cycle in these ecosystems. However, predictions ... Author(s): Kelly, David; Zerihun, Ayalsew Title: The Effect of Phenol Composition on the Sensory Profile of Smoke Affected Wines Source: Molecules 20(6): 9536-954 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Vineyards exposed to wildfire generated smoke can produce wines with elevated levels of lignin derived phenols that have acrid, metallic and smoky aromas and flavour attributes. While a large number of phenols are present in smoke affected wines, the effect of smoke vegetation source on the sensory descriptors has not been reported... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101834 Author(s): Kennedy, Aaron and Dan Jamieson Title: Ecological Fire Management in North East Victoria Source: Unknown Source, 9 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: management australia Abstract: In 1998, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and Parks Victoria (PV) formed a Statewide Fire Ecology Working Group tasked to review ecological burn planning and implementation across the State (DNRE, 2002). An outcome was the development of a scientific framework ... Contact Author: [email protected] 85

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 102188 Author(s): Khlystova, Iryna, Stiig Wilkenskjeld, Silvia Kloster Title: Fire emissions simulated by prescribing burned area observations in a global vegetation model Source: EGU General Assembly 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke prescribed burning Abstract: The emissions of trace gases and aerosols from large vegetation fires into the atmosphere have an important climate impact. In this study we integrate observed burned area into a global vegetation model to derive global fire emissions. A global continuous burned area products provided by ... Author(s): Khlystova, Iryna, Stiig Wilkenskjeld, Silvia Kloster Title: Fire emissions simulated by prescribing burned area observations in a global vegetation model Source: EGU General Assembly 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke prescribed burning Abstract: The emissions of trace gases and aerosols from large vegetation fires into the atmosphere have an important climate impact. In this study we integrate observed burned area into a global vegetation model to derive global fire emissions. A global continuous burned area products provided by GFED ... Author(s): Kim, C., J. Jeong, J. H. Park, H. S. Ma Title: Growth and Nutrient Status of Foliage as Affected by Tree Species and Fertilization in a Fire-Disturbed Urban Forest Source: Forests 6: 2199-2213 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology interface Abstract: ... Tree Species and Fertilization in a Fire-Disturbed Urban Forest ... PY: Prunus yedoensis Matsumura; QA: Quercus acutissima Carruth; PT: Pinus thunbergii Parl.) in response to fertilization with different nutrient ratios in a fire-disturbed urban forest ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101898

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): King, Chad B., Rose-Marie Muzika Title: Historic Fire and Canopy Disturbance Dynamics in an Oak-Pine ( Quercus-Pinus) Forest of the Missouri Ozarks (1624-2010) Source: Castanea 79(2): 78-87 Year: 2014 Keywords: history ecology Abstract: Studies of historic forest disturbances provide an important context for the ecological dynamics that affect forest structure and successional trajectory. Previous historical disturbance research in the Missouri Ozark Highlands has highlighted the dynamics of fire regimes. However... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102097 Author(s): Knicker, H., M. VELASCO-MOLINA, F. J. GONZ?LEZ-VILA, J. A. GONZALEZ-P REZ, A. BERNS, J. M. DE LA ROSA, L. CLEMENTESALAS Title: Charcoal- a soil forming factor in frequently burnt soils Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Koga, Takuma, Kentaroh Toyoda, Iwao Sasase Title: Priority based routing for forest fire monitoring in wireless sensor network Source: Journal of Telecommunications and information technology 3: 90-97 Year: 2014 Keywords: detection Abstract: Recently, forest fi re monitoring system in wireless sensor networks has received much attention. The conventional scheme receives fire alert data quickly to inform about fire forest event. However, since two or more nodes may detect a fire, high priority fire detection data frequently collide. In this paper, a new forest fi re monitoring system... FRI Access Number: 102081 Author(s): Kompanikova, Z., M. Gomez-Heras, J. Michnova, T. Durmekova, J. Vlcko Title: Sandstone alterations triggered by fire-related temperatures Source: Environmental Earth Sciences, available online 2014 Year: 2014 87

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: geology Abstract: The aim of the study was to identify and describe changes in two different sandstone types when undergoing different environmental and extreme temperature regimes to assess the possibility of finding insolation weathering and how these sandstones would behave... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102015 Author(s): Kontoes, C., Themistocles HEREKAKIS, Emmanouela IERONYMIDI, Ioannis PAPOUTSIS, Stavros SOLOMOS Title: FireHub: A Space based Fire Management Hub Source: 2nd South Eastern Europe GEO Workshop, Athens, Greece; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Observation based monitoring of Natural Disaster) project, we have developed an operational EO based fire management service namely FIREHUB (http: //ocean.space.noa.gr/FireHub... FRI Access Number: 102214 Author(s): Koster, E., K. Koster, F. Berninger, J. Pumpanen Title: Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from podzols of a fire chronosequence in the boreal forests in Varrio, Finnish Lapland Source: Geoderma Regional, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: In boreal forests, wild fire is an important factor influencing the greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes and emission rates. As the frequency and severity of forest fires are predicted to increase with a changing climate, the knowledge on the influence of GHG fluxes from ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102144 Author(s): Koyu Satoh, Naian Liu, Jinmo Wu, Haixiang Chen, Jiao Lei, Jesse S. Lozano Title: CFD Simulations of Urban and Wildland Fire Spread Among Discrete Fuels Under Effect of Wind Source: ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition; 01/2010 Year: 2010 Keywords: modeling interface fuel 88

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: It is important to investigate the urban and wildland fire behavior to mitigate the fire hazards. There have been many studies on such fires, but the need of real time fire simulations has recent increased and a demand to predict fire spread patterns in urban and wildland regions for decision-making ... Author(s): Kraft, T. S., V. V. Venkataraman Title: Could plant extracts have enabled hominins to acquire honey before the control of fire? Source: Journal of Human Evolution, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Honey is increasingly recognized as an important food item in human evolution, but it remains unclear whether extinct hominins could have overcome the formidable collective stinging defenses of honey bees during honey acquisition. The utility of smoke for this ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Krull, E., J. Lehmann, J. Skjemstad and J. Baldock Title: The global extent of black C in soils: is it everywhere? Source: Pages 13-17, in: grasslands: ecology, management and restoration, edited by H. schroder, nova publishers, hauppauge, new york Year: 2008 Keywords: paleohistory FRI Access Number: 102209 Author(s): Krull, E., J. Baldock, R. Smernik and J. Skjemstad Title: Characterization of biochar Source: pages 53-66, in: Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technolgoy, edited by J. Lehmann and S. Joseph Year: 2009 Keywords: paleohistory Author(s): Kuibin Zhou, NAIAN LIU, PANPAN YIN, XIESHANG YUAN, JUNCHENG JIANG Title: Fire Whirl due to Interaction between Line Fire and Cross Wind Source: FIRE SAFETY SCIENCE-DRAFT PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FIRE SAFETY SCIENCE Year: 2014 Keywords: whirl behavior 89

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: During the wildland fire of Brazil in 2010, a special fire whirl occurred over a narrow but long fire front and moved due to the wind effect. This paper presents an elementary study on such a moving fire whirl by conducting line fire experiments with cross wind. Experimental analysis... FRI Access Number: 102260 Author(s): Kukavskaya, E., .S Conard, G. Ivanova, L. Buryak, A. Soja Title: Fuel Consumption and Fire Emissions Estimates in Siberia: Impact of Vegetation Types, Meteorological Conditions, Forestry Practices and Fire Regimes Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-424-1, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel smoke Abstract: Boreal forests play a crucial role in carbon budgets with Siberian carbon fluxes and pools making a major contribution to the regional and global carbon cycle. Wildfire is the main ecological disturbance in Siberia that leads to changes in forest species composition ... FRI Access Number: 101826 Author(s): Kulig, Judith C. and Richard Westlund Title: Linking Research Findings and Decision Makers: Insights and Recommendations from a Wildfire Study Source: Society and Natural Resources, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: decision making Abstract: Transformation of research findings into relevant policies and programs is a principle for ensuring the creation of usable science. One way of achieving this is to employ knowledge translati... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102008 Author(s): Kunst, Carlos, Roxana Ledesma, Sandra Bravo, Guillermo Defosse Title: Dinamica de la humedad de los combustibles y su relacion con la ecologia y manejo de fuego, region chaquena occidental (Argentina) II: follaje y residuos de arboles y arbustos Source: Agosto 2014, Argentina, pages 165-181 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology 90

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Fire is a common disturbance in the Chaco region of Argentina. The fuel moisture content (CH) is a factor defining inflammability and its changes throughout time. CH could be used to understand the fire regime and ecology, planning the use of prescribed fire and as an index of fire risk. In this research we assessed the dynamics of CH of the foliage (live fuels), litter and coarse woody... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102068 Author(s): Lafontaine-Boyer, Karelle, Konrad Gajewski Title: Vegetation dynamics in relation to late Holocene climate variability and disturbance, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada Source: The Holocene 24(11): 1515-1526 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: A pollen diagram from Lac Brule in southwestern Quebec (45 degrees 4309N, 75 degrees 2632W, 270m) provides a late Holocene history of the vegetation. The presence of varved sediments permitted the development of a high-resolution (10-year), cross-dated chronology ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101978 Author(s): Landry, J. S., H. D. Matthews, N. Ramankutty Title: A global assessment of the carbon cycle and temperature responses to major changes in future fire regime Source: Climatic Change, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate Abstract: Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land? atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate-carbon model to quantify the effect ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102165 Author(s): Larsen, A., J. H. May Title: Ecological destabilisation of alluvial wet monsoon rainforest primarily through hydro-geomorphic feedbacks and secondarily through fire in tropical northern Australia Source: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts Year: 2015 91

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: wetlands tropics Abstract: Isolated patches of wet monsoon forest within a eucalyptus-savanna dominated landscape are present within many springs and alluvial valleys in the Australian Monsoon Tropics (AMT). Using combined field evidence, lidar, and remote sensing data, we ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101851 Author(s): Lasslop, G., V. Brovkin, S. Kloster, C. Reick Title: Tree cover bistability in the MPI Earth system model due to fire-vegetation feedback Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-9831, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The global distribution of tree cover is mainly limited by precipitation and temperature. Within tropical ecosystems different tree cover values have been observed in regions with similar climate. Satellite data even revealed a lack of ecosystems with tree ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101870 Author(s): Lawes, Michael J., Diana O. Fisher, Chris N. Johnson, Simon P. Blomberg, Anke S. K. Frank, Susanne A. Fritz, Hamish McCallum, Jeremy VanDerWal, Brett N. Abbott, Sarah Legge, Mike Letnic, Colette R. Thomas, Nikki Thurgate, Alaric Fisher, Iain J. Gordon, Alex Kutt Title: Correlates of Recent Declines of Rodents in Northern and Southern Australia: Habitat Structure Is Critical Source: PLoS ONE 10(6): e0130626. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0130626 Year: 2015 Keywords: wildlife rodents Abstract: Australia has experienced dramatic declines and extinctions of its native rodent species over the last 200 years, particularly in southern Australia. In the tropical savanna of northern Australia significant declines have occurred only in recent decades. The later onset of these declines suggests that the causes may differ from earlier declines... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101855

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): LeBoeuf, Katharine Ann Title: Holocene Vegetation, Hydrology, and Fire in the North-Central Adirondacks of New York Source: M. S. Thesis, Lehigh University, 77 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory FRI Access Number: 102274 Author(s): Lecq, Stephane, Jean-Marie Ballouard, Sebastien Caron, Barbara Livoreil, Valerie Seynaeve, Anne-Laure Matthieu, Xavier Bonnet Title: Body condition and habitat use by Hermann's tortoises in burnt and intact habitats Source: Conservation Physiology 2(1): 11 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife tortoise turtle Abstract: In Mediterranean regions, fires threaten terrestrial tortoises. Nevertheless, varying proportions of adults survive fire; these surviving individuals can play a central role for population recovery. The regions devastated by fire often include important habitat of Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni hermanni), so ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101994 Author(s): Lee, Joo-Mee, Sang-Woo Lee, Joo-Hoon Lim, Myoung-Soo Won, Hyung-Sook Lee Title: Effects of heterogeneity of pre-fire forests and vegetation burn severity on shortterm post-fire vegetation density and regeneration in Samcheok, Korea Source: Landscape and Ecological Engineering 10: 215-228 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology severity Abstract: This study investigated the combined effects of heterogeneity of pre-fire forest cover and vegetation burn severity on post-fire vegetation density and regeneration at an early stage in Samcheok, Korea. To measure the spatial heterogeneity of pre-fire forests, spatial pattern metrics at a landscape ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102016 Author(s): Lehmann, J. J. Skjemstad, S. Sohi, J. Carter, M. Barson, P. Falloon, K. Coleman, P. Woodbury and E. Krull Title: Australian climate-carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon Source: Nature Geoscience 1: 832-835 93

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2008 Keywords: paleohistory FRI Access Number: 102208 Author(s): Leigh, David S., Theodore L. Gragson, Michael R. Coughlan Title: Chronology and pedogenic effects of mid- to late-Holocene conversion of forests to pastures in the French western Pyrenees Source: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie 59 (Suppl. 2): 225-245 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils encroachment Abstract: This paper presents a place-based examination of the timing and long-term pedogenic effects of human-induced forest to pasture conversion in the French western Pyrenees Mountains, Basque commune of Larrau. We analyzed colluvial stratigraphic sections to derive the chronology of landscape change using radiocarbon dating, charcoal concentrations, magnetic susceptibility, and n-alkanes... FRI Access Number: 101976 Author(s): Leino, Katri, Laura Riuttanen, Tuomo Nieminen, Miikka Dal Maso, Riikka Vaananen, Toivo Pohja, Petri Keronen, Leena Jarvi, Pasi P Aalto, Aki Virkkula, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Tuukka Petaja, Markku Kulmala Title: Biomass-burning smoke episodes in Finland from eastern European wildfires Source: Boreal Environment Research 19(B,SI): 275-292 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke Abstract: Biomass burning emissions from intensive wildfires in eastern Europe were observed in Finland in the spring of 2006 and in the late of summers 2006 and 2010. The smoke plumes were detected at three ground-measurement stations around Finland and in the lower troposphere ... FRI Access Number: 102066 Author(s): Letnic, M., B. Tamayo, C. R. Dickman Title: The responses of mammals to La Nina (El Nino Southern Oscillation)-associated rainfall, predation, and wildfire in central Australia Source: Journal of mammalogy 86(4): 689-703 Year: 2005 Keywords: wildlife climate Abstract: ... time - burned interaction term is suggestive but not conclusive evidence of a wildfire impact (Green 1993). ... was restricted to the number of error degrees of 94

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 freedom for the effect being tested ... 1993) stated that contrasts may be valid when time-related interaction effects are not. ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102185 Author(s): Leverkus, A. B., M. Rojo, J. Castro Title: Habitat complexity and individual acorn protectors enhance the post-fire restoration of oak forests via seed sowing Source: Ecological Engineering 83: 276-280 Year: 2015 Keywords: wildlife ecology Abstract: Oak reforestation via direct sowing has advantages over planting for economic and plant-morphological reasons, but the risk of high acorn predation usually dissuades land managers from using this method. In a previous study we hypothesised that overcoming ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102297 Author(s): Lewis, T. Title: Trophic dynamics of boreal lakes in a changing northern landscape-Impacts of lake drying and forest fires Source: Ph.D. Dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, 2015, 244 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology hydrology Abstract: ... of waterbirds. Nutrient, chlorophyll, and invertebrate levels were largely unaffected by a recent forest fire. This ecosystem stability transferred upward to waterbirds, as brood abundance was also unaffected by the fire. On drying ... Author(s): Li, X. L., Jing Wang, W. G. Song, Jian Ma, Luciano Telesca, Y. M. Zhang Title: Automatic Smoke Detection in MODIS Satellite Data based on K-means Clustering and Fisher Linear Discrimination Source: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 80(10): 971-982 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Satellite-based remote sensing technique provides images to detect and monitor forest fire smoke. Aiming at automatically separating smoke plumes from other cover types, several bands of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard the Terra/Aqua ... 95

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Libonati, Renata, Carlos DaCamara, Alberto W. Setzer, Fabiano Morelli, Arturo Emiliano Melchiori, Pietro de Almeida Candido and Silvia Cristina de Jesus Title: Validating MODIS burned area products over Cerrado region Source: Unknown conference, April, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: We present a validation of three MODIS burned area products, namely AQM/INPE, MCD45A1/NASA and MCD64A1/NASA, covering a 6-year period (2005-2010) over Jalapao, a fire-prone region located in the Cerrado. As reference we use high resolution BA maps derived from Landsat imagery. Because the products to be validated have different spatial resolutions... [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101970 Author(s): Libonati, Renata, Carlos Dacamara, Alberto W Setzer and Fabiano Morelli Title: Spatio-temporal variability of burned area over Brazil for the period 2005-2010 using MODIS data Source: Unknown conference, April, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Brazil contributes as a source of greenhouse gases, aerosols and trace gases to the atmosphere, in particular, due to the continuous conversion of vegetation to pasture and agriculture land using fire practices. Although the Brazil presents huge numbers of fire events, there is a lack... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101971 Author(s): Libonati, Renata, Carlos C. Dacamara, Alberto W. Setzer, Fabiano Morelli, Silvia C. De Jesus, Pietro A. Candido and Arturo E. Melchiori Title: Validation of the Burned Area " (V,W) " Modis Algorithm in Brazil Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, D. X. Viegas (Ed.), 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: This work presents an automated regional algorithm that allows detecting burned areas in Brazil based on information from TERRA/AQUA MODIS data. The procedure relies on the so-called W burni... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102001 Author(s): Lindenmayer, D., D. Blair, L. McBurney, S. Banks 96

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Title: Mountain Ash: Fire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant Forests Source: (book) CSIRO Publishing, 208 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology australia Abstract: ... Mountain Ash. Fire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant Forests. ... This book draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. ... Author(s): Lindenmayer, David B.; Wood, Jeff; MacGregor, Christopher; Buckley, Yvonne M.; Dexter, Nicholas; Fortescue, Martin; Hobbs, Richard J.; Catford, Jane A. Title: A Long-Term Experimental Case Study of the Ecological Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Invasive Plant Management in Achieving Conservation Goals: Bitou Bush Control in Booderee National Park in Eastern Australia Source: PLoS ONE. Jun2015, Vol. 10 Issue 6, p1-23. 23p. Year: 2015 Keywords: exotics economics Abstract: Invasive plant management is often justified in terms of conservation goals, yet progress is rarely assessed against these broader goals, instead focussing on short-term reductions of the invader as a measure of success. Key questions commonly remain unanswered including whether invader removal reverses invader impacts and whether... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101845 Author(s): Link, Steven O., Randal W. Hill Title: Effects of herbicides on a shrub-steppe plant community after a prescribed fire Source: Unknown publication, pages 41-70 Year: N. D. Keywords: herbicides prescribed burning Abstract: Herbicides are often used to reduce fuel loading by invasive species in the western United States. We investigated the effect of two herbicides, their concentrations, and repeated herbicide application after a prescribed fire on native and invasive alien plant species in the shrub-steppe. Imazapic did not harm native vegetation... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102266

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Loewe, Veronica M., Victor Vargas, Juan Miguel Ruiz, Andrea Alvarez, Juan Carlos Pinilla, Felipe Lobo Q. Title: Creation and implementation of a certification system for insurability and fire risk classification for forest plantations, to improve sectorial asymmetries and raise competitiveness of small and medium companies (SMEs) Source: Large Wildland Fire Conference, Social, political & Ecological Effects, Missoula, Montana, USA.; 05/2014 Currently the Chilean insurance market sells forest fire policies and agricultural weather risks policies. However, it was detected important difficulty of SMEs to access forest forestry insurance, being a significant proportion of forest plantations without coverage (close to 50%), ... FRI Access Number: 104141 Author(s): Lopes, Sergio, Domingos Xavier Viegas, Luis Teixeira de Lemos, Maria Teresa Viegas Title: Fine forest fuels moisture content monitoring in Central Portugal - a long term experiment Source: Advances in Forest Fire Research, Edited by Domingos Xavier Viegas, 10/2014: chapter Fire Risk Assessment and Climate Change: pages 1133-1141; Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra., ISBN: 978-989-26-0884-6 Year: 2014 Keywords: fuel moisture Abstract: Forest fuel moisture content is a fundamental parameter in forest fire research and management. Due to the complexity of fuel moisture content modelling, direct field measurement is a necessary step to establish a monitoring program for fire risk applications or to assess the validity ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102090 Author(s): Lopez-Martin, M., M. VELASCO-MOLINA, F. J. GONZALEZ VILA and H. KNICKER Title: Wild-fire induced changes in the quantity and quality of organic matter associated to the mineral phase Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Louvet, R., J. Aryal, D. Josselin, C. Genre-Grandpierre Title: R as a GIS: illustrating scale and aggregation problems with forest fire data Source: Procedia Environmental Sciences: Spatial Statistics 2015, 9-12 June 2015, Avignon, France Year: 2015 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: There are no rules for areal aggregation. Although this is no longer entirely true, many studies still use administrative areal units at only one level [2], ignoring scale and aggregation problems. Known as the MAUP (Modifiable Areal Unit Problem), this issue is ... FRI Access Number: 101913 Author(s): Lui, Brianna, John S. Cuddy, Walter S. Hailes, Brent C. Ruby Title: Seasonal heat acclimatization in wildland firefighters Source: Journal of Thermal Biology 45: 134-140 Year: 2014 Keywords: injury conditioning firefighters health Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine changes in physiological markers of heat acclimatization across a 4-month wildland fire season. Wildland firefighters (WLFF) (n=12) and non-WLFF (n=14) were assessed pre and post-season for body mass, percent body fat, and peak VO2. Both groups... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101985 Author(s): Lukenbach, M., K. Devito, N. Kettridge, R. Petrone Title: Hydrogeological controls on post-fire moss recovery in peatlands Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-7218, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Wildfire is the largest disturbance affecting peatlands, however, little is known about the spatiotemporal variability of post-fire recovery in these ecosystems. High water table (WT) positions after wildfire are critical to limit atmospheric carbon losses and enable the ... FRI Access Number: 101874 Author(s): Mackey, Brendan Title: Wildfire, Fire and Future Climate: A forest ecosystem analysis Source: (book) CSIRO Publishing, 2002, Brendan Mackey, editor 99

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2002 Keywords: management australia Author(s): Magyari, E. K., D. Veres, V. Wennrich, B. Wagner, M. Braun, G. Jakab, D. Karatson, Z. Pal, Gy Ferenczy, G. St-Onge, J. Rethemeyer, J.-P. Francois, F. von Reumont, F. Schabitz Title: Vegetation and environmental responses to climate forcing during the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in the East Carpathians: Attenuated response to maximum cooling and increased biomass burning Source: Quaternary Science Reviews 106 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The Carpathian Mountains were one of the main mountain reserves of the boreal and cool temperate flora during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in East-Central Europe. Previous studies demonstrated Lateglacial vegetation dynamics in this area; however, our knowledge on the LGM... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101962 Author(s): Mansilha, Catarina Rodrigues, A. Carvalho, P. Guimaraes, Espinha Marques Title: Effects of forest fires on groundwater contamination Source: IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Lisbon; 09/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: hydrology water quality Abstract: Forest fires are a regular occurrence in Portugal but, until now, little is known about its effect on groundwater quality. Fires may conduct to considerable environmental impacts that are cumulative as a result of pollutants mobilized by the fire, chemicals used to fight the fire and the post-fire response of the landscape... FRI Access Number: 102171 Author(s): Mann, D. H., F. B. Engstrom and J L. bubier Title: Fire history and tree recruitment in an uncut New England forest Source: Quaternary Research 42: 206-215 Year: 1994 Keywords: history FRI Access Number: 102219

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Martin, Silvia, Marta Rodriguez, Jose M. Moreno and David G. Angeler Title: Complex Ecological Responses to Drought and Fire-Retardant Contamination Impacts in Ephemeral Waters Source: Water Air Soil Pollut 225: 2078 Year: 2014 Keywords: water quality retardants Abstract: The frequency and duration of droughts are predicted to increase with global warming, increasing the risk of wildland fires. This motivates research into how drought interacts with management practices to control fires, especially in non-target ecosystems. Fire-... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102046 Author(s): Marlier, Miriam E., Apostolos Voulgarakis, Drew T. Shindell, Greg Faluvegi, Candise L. Henry, James T. Randerson Title: The role of temporal evolution in modeling atmospheric emissions from tropical fires Source: Atmospheric Environment 89: 158-168 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke tropics Abstract: Fire emissions associated with tropical land use change and maintenance influence atmospheric composition, air quality, and climate. In this study, we explore the effects of representing fire emissions at daily versus monthly resolution in a global composition-climate model. We find that simulations of ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102138 Author(s): Margolis, Ellis Q. Title: Quaking Aspen Regeneration following Prescribed Fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, USA Source: Fire Ecology 10(3): 14-26 Year: 2014 Keywords: regeneration prescribed burning Abstract: Prescribed fire is commonly used for restoration, but the effects of reintroducing fire following a century of fire exclusion are unknown in many ecosystems.We assessed the effects of three prescribed fires, native ungulate browsing, and conifer competition on quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102099 101

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Martin, Silvia, Marta Rodriguez, Jose M. Moreno, David G. Angeler Title: Complex Ecological Responses to Drought and Fire-Retardant Contamination Impacts in Ephemeral Waters Source: Water Air and Soil Pollution 225(8). Year: 2014 Keywords: retardant toxicity Abstract: The frequency and duration of droughts are predicted to increase with global warming, increasing the risk of vvildland fires. This motivates research into how drought interacts with management practices to control fires, especially in non-target ecosystems. Fire-retardant chemicals help prevent ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102169 Author(s): Marsden-Smedley, J. B. Title: Planned burning in Tasmania. I. A review of current practice and supporting information Source: Tasforests 19: 86-108 Year: 2011 Keywords: prescribed burning australia Abstract: Planned burning is the deliberate use of fire under specified conditions for the purposes of managing fuels, ecological systems, agricultural green pick or weeds. This paper reviews planned burning as applied in Tasmania, and the underpinning base of knowledge and experience. Subsequent papers cover... FRI Access Number: 102244 Author(s): Marsden-Smedley, J. B., Albrecht, D., Allan, G. E., Brock, C., Duguid, A., Friedel, M., Gill, A. M., King, K. J., Morse, J., Ostendorf, B. and Turner D. Title: Vegetation-fire interactions in central arid Australia: Towards a conceptual framework Source: Ninti One Research Report NR001, Ninti One Limited, Alice Springs, 35 pages Year: 2012 Keywords: ecology australia Abstract: A comprehensive understanding of vegetation and fire dynamics and their interactions is important for effective land management in central arid Australia, the majority of which is vegetated with natural and semi-natural (grazed) vegetation. The potential loss of fire-sensitive populations of tree and shrub species and the impact of invasive grasses on fire regimes are of concern. This paper... FRI Access Number: 102180 102

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Marris, E. Title: Black is the new green Source: Nature 442: 624-626 Year: 2006 Keywords: ecology carbon Abstract: One way to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is to put it back in the ground. In the first of two News Features on carbon sequestration, Quirin Schiermeier asked when the world's coal-fired power plants will start storing away their carbon... FRI Access Number: 102205 Author(s): Marynowski, Leszek, Grzegorz Racki Title: Comment on the Kaiho et al., paper "A forest fire and soil erosion event during the Late Devonian mass extinction" [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392 (2013): 272-280] Source: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 417: 569-572 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils erosion paleohistory Abstract: Kaiho et al. (2013, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392 (2013): 272-280) interpreted the occurrence of elevated concentrations of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and dibenzofuran as indicators of wildfires and enhanced run-off near the Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101921 Author(s): Mast, J. N., T. T. Veblen and Y. B. Linhart Title: Disturbance and climate influences on age structure of ponderosa pine at the pine/grassland ecotone, Colorado Front Range Source: Journal of Biogeography 25(4): 743-755 Year: 1998 Keywords: climate grasslands Abstract: In the Colorado Front Range, disturbances and climatic variation influence stand structure of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) along the lower timberline ecotone. Over the past 100 years the... FRI Access Number: 102109

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Mastrolonardo, G., C. RUMPEL, O. FRANCIOSO, C. NOCENTINI, C. FORTE and G. CERTINI. Title: PyOM characterisation in fire-prone Mediterranean pine forests Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Maxwell, R. Stockton, Alan H. Taylor, Carl N. Skinner, Hugh D. Safford, Rachel E. Isaacs, Catherine Airey, Amanda B. Young Title: Landscape-scale modeling of reference period forest conditions and fire behavior on heavily logged lands Source: Ecosphere 5(3): Art32 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling silviculture Abstract: Forest conditions prior to extensive land clearing are often used as a point-ofreference by ecologists and resource managers for characterizing the historical range of variability in forest conditions shaped by intact disturbance regimes. Quantitative data on forest reference conditions... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101944 Author(s): Maynard, D.G., D. Pare, E. Thiffault, B. Lafleur, K.E. Hogg, B. Kishchuk Title: How do natural disturbances and human activities affect soils and tree nutrition and growth in the Canadian boreal forest? Source: Environmental Reviews 22(2): Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology soils Abstract: There are concerns about the effect of increasing resource extraction and other human activities on the soils and vegetation of the boreal zone. The review covers published papers between 1974 and 2012 to assess the effects of natural disturbances and human activities on soils and tree nutrition and growth ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102024 Author(s): Mayor, Angeles G., Jan Jacob Keizer, Oscar Gonzalez-Pelayo, Alejandro Valdecantos, Ramon Vallejo and Peter de Ruiter 104

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Title: Is the current increase in fire recurrence causing a shift in the soil fertility of Iberian ecosystems? Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-15606-2, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: Since the mid of the last century fire recurrence has increased in the Iberian peninsula and the overall Mediterranean basin due to changes in land use and climate. The warmer and drier climate projected for this region will further increase the risk of wildfire ... FRI Access Number: 101880 Author(s): May, B. and P. M. Attiwill Title: Nitrogen-fixation by Acacia dealbata and changes in soil properties 5 years after mechanical disturbance or slash-burning following tirnber harvest Source: Forest Ecology and Management 217: 1-17 Year: 2003 Keywords: soils Abstract: Logging followed by slash-burning can result in large losses of Nitrogen from an ecosystem. Acacia dealbata (silver wattle) is the main N-fixing plant in Eucalyptus regnans (mountain ash) forest in Victoria, but its potential N-fixing capacity is uncertain. Losses of N and changes in other soil properties as a result of logging and slash-burning ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Mayr, M., J. Le Roux, C. Samimi Title: Identifying the controls of wildfire activity in Namibia using multivariate statistics Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-7028-1, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: statistics Abstract: ... Within the fire-affected regions, a strong spatial and inter-annual variability characterizes the dry-season fire situation. In order to understand these patterns, it appears critical to identify the causative factors behind fire occurrence and to examine their interactions in detail. ... FRI Access Number: 101894

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): McCaffrey, Sarah Title: Community Wildfire Preparedness: A Global State-of-the-Knowledge Summary of Social Science Research Source: Current Forestry Reports 1: 81-90 Year: 2015 Keywords: interface sociology Abstract: This article builds on findings from a synthesis of fire social science research that was published from 2000 to 2010 to understand what has been learned more recently about public response ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102017 Author(s): McCarthy, G. J., K. G. Tolhurst and K. Chatto Title: Determination of sustainable fire regimes in the Victorian Alps using plant vital attributes Source: Research Report No. 54, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Year: 2003 Keywords: ecology australia Author(s): McCarthy, G. J. and Tolhurst, K. G. Title: Effectiveness of fire-fighting first attack operation Source: NRE Victoria 1991192-1994/95. Research Report No. 45. Fire Managernent. Department of Natural Resources and Environnment, Victoria. Year: 1998 Keywords: suppression australia Author(s): McDougall, K., N. Walsh, G. Wright Title: Recovery of treeless subalpine vegetation in Kosciuszko National Park after the landscape-scale fire of 2003 Source: Australian Journal of Botany, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The response of vegetation to a single fire depends on many variables but can be expected to be largely a function of the response of its constituent flora, which may in turn be related to long-term fire patterns. An expected increase in fire frequency and severity in ...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): McGranahan, Devan Allen, Aaron L. Daigh, Jessica J. Veenstra, David M. Engle, James R. Miller, Diane M. Debinski Title: Connecting Soil Organic Carbon and Root Biomass with Land-Use and Vegetation in Temperate Grassland Source: Scientific World Journal, volume 2014, 9 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: soils Abstract: Soils contain much of Earth's terrestrial organic carbon but are sensitive to landuse. Rangelands are important to carbon dynamics and are among ecosystems most widely impacted by land-use. While common practices like grazing, fire, and tillage affect soil properties directly related ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102076 Author(s): Melchiori, Arturo E., Alberto W. Setzer, Fabiano Morelli, z Renata Libonati, z Pietro De, Almeida Candido and Silvia C. De Jesus Title: A Landsat-TM/OLI algorithm for burned areas in the Brazilian Cerrado - preliminary results Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, D. X. Viegas (Ed.), 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Accurate burned area information is required and of particular interest for the scientific communities dealing with land use and climate changes. Currently, due to the very broad spatial ext... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101998 Author(s): Menezes, I., S. Freitas, R. Stockler, R. Mello, N. Ribeiro Title: Application of a mesoscale atmospheric coupled fire model BRAMS-SFIRE to Alentejo wildland fire and comparison of performance with the fire model WRF-SFIRE Source: EGU General Assembly Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling Abstract: Models of fuel with the identification of vegetation patterns of Montado ecosystem in Portugal was incorporated in the mesoscale Brazilian Atmospheric Modeling System (BRAMS) and coupled with a spread wildland fire model. The BRAMS-FIRE is a new ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101872 107

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Merino, A., M. T. Fonturbel, J. A. Vega Title: Application of thermal analysis to measure the spatial heterogeneity of organic matter degradation after wildfire: implications for post-fire rehabilitation treatments Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-8970, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: Severe wildfires can cause drastic changes in SOM content and quality with important implications for soil conservation and global C balance. Soil heating usually leads to loss of the most labile SOM compounds (eg carbohydrates, lipids and peptides) and to ... FRI Access Number: 101830 Author(s): Milner, A., J. R. Burgmann, R. Davidson, S. Cousin Title: Ice, fire and flood Science fiction and the Anthropocene Source: Thesis Eleven, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst conservative politicians and journalists, there is a near-consensus amongst scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to possibly ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102176 Author(s): Millin-Chalabi, Gail, Julia McMorrow and Clive Agnew Title: Using ASAR & ERS-2 to Detect a Moorland Fire Scar in the Peak District National Park, UK Source: University of Manchester, poster Year: n. d. Keywords: remote sensing Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102221 Author(s): Millin-Chalabi, Gail, Julia McMorrow, Clive Agnew Title: Detecting a moorland wildfire scar in the Peak District, UK, using synthetic aperture radar from ERS-2 and Envisat ASAR Source: International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(1-1): 54-69 108

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Wildfires occur annually in UK moorland environments, especially in drought years. They can be severely damaging to the ecosystem when they burn deep into the peat, killing ground-nesting birds and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) was evaluated for detecting the 18 April 2003 Bleaklow wildfire scar (7.4 km2). SAR's ability to penetrate cloud is advantageous in this ... Author(s): Mitsopoulos, Ioannis Title: Accuracy assessment of a mediterranean fuel-type map for wildland fire management Source: 7th International Conference on Forest Fire Research; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: fuel Abstract: Classification and mapping of wildland fuel is one of the most important factors that should be taken into consideration for wildland fire prevention and planning. In this paper we demonstrate the accuracy assessment of "ArcFUEL" project which has delivered a complete, up-to-date, methodology... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101928 Author(s): Miteva, Daniela A., Colby J. Loucks, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak Title: Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest Management Certification in Indonesia Source: PLoS ONE 10(7): e0129675. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129675 Year: 2015 Keywords: sociology management Abstract: In response to unsustainable timber production in tropical forest concessions, voluntary forest management certification programs such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) have been introduced to improve environmental, social, and economic performance over existing management practices. However, despite the... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101820 Author(s): Montiel, Cristina and Daniel Draus Title: Best Practices of Fire Use - Prescribed burning and suppression fire programmes in selected case-study regions in Europe Source: European Forest Institute, Tonkatu 34, Joensuu, Finland, Research Report 24, 182 pages Year: 2010 109

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning FRI Access Number: 102206 Author(s): Moore, C. M., S. B. Vander Wall Title: Scatter-hoarding rodents disperse seeds to safe sites in a fire-prone ecosystem Source: Plant Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: regeneration ecology seeds Abstract: Fire can potentially decimate soil seed banks, even for species that are abundant in fire-prone areas. Many plants, like the widespread and dominant members of the genus Arctostaphylos in the fire-prone California Floristic Province, have seeds that (i) have no ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102139 Author(s): Moreira, F., A. Ferreira, N. Abrantes, F. Catry, P. Fernandes, L. Roxoc, J. J. Keizerd, J. Silva Title: Occurrence of native and exotic invasive trees in burned pine and eucalypt plantations: Implications for post-fire forest conversion Source: Ecological Engineering 58: 296-302 Year: 2014 Keywords: silviculture Abstract: Post-fire management objectives for monospecific forest plantations may include conversion to native broadleaved or mixed forests for purposes of diversification of forestry production, enhancing biodiversity and cultural value, or reducing biotic and abiotic hazards. Thus, the potential for post-fire conversion needs to be assessed as a first step in planning such conversion... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102026 Author(s): Moreno J. C., Fatela F., Leorri E., Araujo M. F., Moreno F., de la Rosa J., Freitas M. C., Valente T., Corbett D. R. Title: Bromine enrichment in marsh sediments as a marker of environmental changes driven by Grand Solar Minima and Anthropogenic activity (Caminha, NW of Portugal) Source: Science of the Total Environment 506-507: 554-566 Year: 2015 Keywords: wetlands Abstract: A dated sediment core collected in Caminha tidal marsh, NW Portugal, was used to assess bromine (Br) signal over the last ca. 1700 years. The Br temporal variability 110

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 reflects not only its close relationship with soil/sediment organic matter (OM) but also alterations in Br biogeochemical ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102086 Author(s): Morris, Lesley R., Rebecca J. Rowe Title: Historical land use and altered habitats in the Great Basin Source: Journal of Mammalogy 95(6): 1144-1156 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife Abstract: Vegetation in the Great Basin has been changing over millennia in response to climate but the rate of change since European settlement in the last 150 years has been unprecedented. Beyond the changing climate, explanations for these more recent vegetation alterations are diverse and include a myriad of human influences: the introduction of livestock (cattle, sheep, and horses), homesteading ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101989 Author(s): Morandini, Frederic, Xavier Silvani, Magali Cannac Title: Measurement device for data collection during fire spread experiments in the field Source: Wildfire 2007, Sevilla, Spain, 9 pages Year: 2007 Keywords: behavior Abstract: Wildfires are increasingly damaging forests and threatening homes. Experimental data on fire spread at large scale are rare but such data are needed in order to improve the knowledge of the fire spread mechanisms or to validate and improve fire spread models across vegetative fuels. These considerations have provided the main... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102272 Author(s): Moya, D Title: BOOK REVIEW: Post-fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests: Managing Forest Ecosystems Source: International Forestry Review 14(1): 120 Year: 2012 Keywords: restoration FRI Access Number: 102163

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Muller, Bradley M., Christopher G. Herbster Title: Fire Whirls: Twisters That Light the Sky Source: Weatherwise 67(6): 12-23 Year: 2014 Keywords: whirls behavior Author(s): Muqaddas, Bushra, Xiaoqi Zhou, Tom Lewis, Clyde Wild, Chengrong Chen Title: Long-term frequent prescribed fire decreases surface soil carbon and nitrogen pools in a wet sclerophyll forest of Southeast Queensland, Australia Source: Science of The Total Environment 536: 39-47 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning soils Abstract: Prescribed fire is one of the most widely-used management tools for reducing fuel loads in managed forests. However the long-term effects of repeated prescribed fires on soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools are poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate how different fire frequency ... Author(s): Murthy, M. M. and G. M. Devagiri Title: Assessment of soil chemical properties as effected by forest fire in Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Karnataka Source: Advances in Applied Research 7(1): 47-49 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: A study on the effect of forest fire on soil chemical properties was conducted in Coorg district, Karnataka during the year 2010-2011, in five forest ranges of Rajiv Gandhi National Park (RGNP) using random sampling technique with a sampling intensity of 10 quadrats (10 m ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Naghipour, Ali Asghar, S. J. Khajeddin, H. Bashari, P. Tahmasebi, M. Iravani Title: Effects of fire products on the seed germination of the three dominant species from Astragalus genus in Semi-Steppe rangelands of Central Zagros, Iran (In Persian) Source: unknown source Year: n. d. Keywords: regeneration Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102069

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Navar, Jose Title: Hydro-climatic variability and perturbations in Mexico's northwestern temperate forests Source: Ecohydrology, available online, 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Climate variability and/or change control/s the local hydrologic cycle and consequently forest perturbations such as wildfires and bark beetle outbreaks. This case study addresses the following concerns: (a) the long-term trends in precipitation, potential, and actual evapotranspiration... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101972 Author(s): Neoh, K. B., L. J. Bong, A. Muhammad, M. Itoh, O. Kozan Title: Understanding the impact of fire on termites in degraded tropical peatlands and the mechanisms for their ecological success: current knowledge and research needs Source: Ecological Research, available online 2015 2015 Abstract: Peatlands have experienced large scale changes due to extensive deforestation for logging, conversion to agro-industrial plantations, and frequent peat fires. The adverse effects of peat fires can lead to long-term impacts on invertebrate biodiversity in the ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102134 Author(s): Newsome, A. E., J. McIlroy and P. Catling Title: The effects of an extensive wildfire on populations of 20 ground vertebrates in south-east Australia Source: Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 9: 107-128 Year: 1975 Keywords: ecology wildlife australia Author(s): New, Tim R. Title: Fire Ecology and Insect Ecology Source: pages 1-20, Chapter 1, in: Insects, Fire and Conservation, Springer International Switzerland Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology insects Abstract: Fire is not a recent phenomenon in the world's history, and its influences by far pre-date human interests or involvement in its extent and impacts. The incidence of 113

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 wildfires in North American grasslands, for example, has been stated to have been consistent over their roughly five million year ... Author(s): Null, Jan Title: Weather and Wildland Fires: Firefighting in an Age of Droughts and Urban Sprawl Source: Weatherwise 68(4): 28-33 Year: 2015 Keywords: weather FRI Access Number: 101824 Author(s): Nyman, P., C. Sherwin, G. Sheridan, P. Lane Title: Landscape aridity, fire severity and rainfall intensity as controls on debris flow frequency after the 2009 Black Saturday Wildfires in Victoria Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-14144, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils erosion Abstract: This study uses aerial imagery and field surveys to develop a statistical model for determining debris flow susceptibility in a landscape with variable terrain, soil and vegetation properties. A measure of landscape scale debris flow response was obtained ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101893 Author(s): Odman, M. Talat, Aika Yano, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Yongtao Hu, Scott L. Goodrick, Yongqiang Liu and Gary L. Achtemeier Title: Development and Evaluation of an Air Quality Model for Predicting the Impacts of Prescribed Burns Source: Chapter 87 in: D. G. Steyn et al., editors, Air Pollution Modeling and its Application 22, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, Springer Vergal Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke air quality Abstract: A modeling system has been developed to predict accurately the downwind air quality impacts of prescribed burns. The system has been evaluated in applications to monitored burns and a long-r... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102031

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Ohrtman, Michelle K., Sharon A. Clay, Shauna Waughtel, Janet Moriles Title: Effectiveness of Control Treatments on Young Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) Plants Source: Invasive Plant Science and Management 7(1): 25-31 Year: 2014 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Preventing the establishment of saltcedar in new areas requires early detection and rapid response. However, it is unclear when saltcedar develops perennating tissue and which treatments are most efficacious for young plants. The effectiveness of mowing, herbicide, and fire treatments... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102038 Author(s): Ohrtman, Michelle, Sharon A. Clay, Alexander Smart Title: Tamarix invasion and management in the northern U.S Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: exotics Abstract: Tamarix is expanding northward in North America but it is unclear if this success is due to adaptation or climate change or both. This information is important to better predict areas vulnerable to future invasion and aid in targeting resources for early detection ... Author(s): Oliver, Alena K., Mac A. Callaham Jr, Ari Jumpponen Title: Soil fungal communities respond compositionally to recurring frequent prescribed burning in a managed southeastern US forest ecosystem Source: Forest Ecology and Management 345: 1-9 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning fungi Abstract: Prescribed fire is an important management tool to reduce fuel loads, to remove non-fire adapted species and to sustain fire-adapted taxa in many forested ecosystems of the southeastern USA. Yet, the long-term effects of recurring prescribed fires on soil fungi and their communities in these ... FRI Access Number: 101930 Author(s): Oliver, J., N. R. Britton and M. K. James Title: The ash wednesday bushfires in Victoria Source: Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Disaster investigation report No. 7. Year: 1984 115

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: conflagration investigation australia Author(s): Osborn, M., C. B. McLean, S. C. Burns and T. L. Bell Title: Effects of fire on the mycorrhizal diversity of Caladenia formosa (orchidaceae) Source: International Conference on Mycorrhizas 4, Montreal, Canada Year: 2003 Keywords: fungi ecology Author(s): Pacheco, Abilio Pereira, Joao Claro Title: Flexible planning of the investment mix in a forest fire management system: spatially-explicit intra-annual optimization, considering prevention, pre-suppression, suppression, and escape costs Source: Advances in forest fire research, Edited by Xavier Viegas, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra., ISBN: 978-989-26-0884-6 Year: 2014 Keywords: planning management economics Abstract: We model intra-annual management as a multistage capacity investment problem, considering a portfolio of resources enabling fuel treatment and fire suppression, and having fires as the demand. The solutions are spatially explicit and our Mixed Integer Programming model considers two types of ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102036 Author(s): Pacheco, Abilio Pereira, Jo-o Claro, Tiago M. Oliveira Title: Rekindles or one-e quality in forest fire fighting: validating the pressure on firefighters and implications for forest fire management in Portugal Source: Advances in forest fire research, Edited by Xavier Viegas, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra., ISBN: 978-989-26-0884-6 Year: 2014 Keywords: suppression Abstract: A long time after many business activities started struggling for six sigma quality in their operations, in Portugal, fire suppression operates at a one sigma quality level with disappointing performance results expressed by too many rekindles - re-work caused by defects in the suppression process. ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102213

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Packham, D. and Attiwill, P. M. Title: The fire behaviour case for prescribed burning Source: In: The People's Review of Bushfires, 2002-2007, in victoria, Final Report (Eds P. Attiwill, D. Packham, T. Barker and I. Hamilton) pp. 52-58. The People's Review, Richmond. Year: 2009 Keywords: behavior prescribed burning Author(s): Pang Yong, Guoqing Sun, Li Zengyuan, Che Xuejian, Dong Yanfang, Zhongjun Zhang Title: Land cover change monitoring after forest fire in northeast China Source: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International; 02/2003 Year: 2003 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: The forest fire during May 6 - June 4, 1987 in Northeast China burned 1.14 million hectares of forests and nearly 25 million cubic meters of timber. The land cover has changed dramatically during the last 15 years. In this study, the Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM+ data and JERS-1 SAR... Author(s): Park, Soo-Young, Hee-Won Seo, Dae-Hoi Kim, Nam-Woong Wang, In-Hwan Yeo, Dong-Ho Choi Title: The Experimental Study for Radiant Heat Flux of Non-insulated Glazed Window in Fire Source: Fire Sci Eng 28(2): 26-33 Year: structure interface Abstract: Recently in Korea, the interest for using window and window-wall in building picks up due to the beauty and utilization of space. But, interior space of the buildings shall be compartmentalized by fire resistance structures in accordance with the Korean building codes to prevent the ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102084 Author(s): Parker, V. Thomas Title: Dispersal Mutualism Incorporated into Large-Scale, Infrequent Disturbances Source: PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132625. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132625 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology 117

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Because of their influence on succession and other community interactions, large-scale, infrequent natural disturbances also should play a major role in mutualistic interactions. Using field data and experiments, I test whether mutualisms have been incorporated into large-scale wildfire by whether the outcomes of a mutualism Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101819 Author(s): Pausas, Juli G. and Eloi Ribeiro Title: The global fire-productivity relationship Source: Global Ecology and Biogeography 22(6): 728-736 Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology Abstract: It has been suggested that on a global scale, fire activity changes along the productivity/aridity gradient following a humped relationship, i.e. the intermediate fireproductivity hypothesis. This relation should be driven by differing relative roles of the main fire drivers (weather ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102042 Author(s): Pavlovic, Radenko, Didier Davignon, Paul-Andre Beaulieu, Michael D. Moran, Samuel Gilbert Title: Canadian forecast system FireWork: 2013 and 2014 Performance Analysis Using Surface Observations over the USA and Canada Source: Poster, Wildland Fire Canada Conference, 2014, Halifax, Canada; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: weather canada Abstract: The FireWork-GEMMACH air quality forecast system with near-real-time wildfires emissions was recently developed by Environment Canada. Fire location information is provided to FireWork for both USA and Canada. Once processed, the biomass burning emissions from individual ... FRI Access Number: 103044 Author(s): Pavlovic, Radenko, Didier Davignon, Mourad Sassi, Hugo Landry, Paul-Andfre Beaulieu, Michael D. Moran Title: Analysis of the Impact of Different Near-Real-Time Wildfire Emissions Sources Within the FireWork-GEM-MACH Suite Source: Wildland fire Canada Conference, Halifax, Canada; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke 118

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: A near-real-time wildfire emissions estimation procedure has been devloped to incorporate wildfire and large prescribed burns into Environment Canada's real-time GEM-MACH air quality forecast system. Since the GEM-MACH forecast domain covers Canada and most of the USA, including Alaska... Author(s): Payeur-Poirier, Jean-Lionel, Carole Coursolle, Hank A. Margolis, Marc-Andre Giasson Title: CO2 fluxes of a boreal black spruce chronosequence in eastern North America Source: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 153: 94-105 Year: 2012 Keywords: carbon Abstract: Forest harvest and subsequent stand development can have major effects on the carbon cycle of boreal stands. Carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes of a three-point black spruce harvest chronosequence located in the boreal forest of eastern North America were measured over a ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102277 Author(s): Pekin, B. K., Boer, M. M., Macfarlane, C. and Grierson, P. F. Title: Structural and physiological responses of eucalypt forest to variation in fire frequency and aridity in southwest Australia Source: Forest Ecology and Management 258: 2136 - 2142 Year: 2009 Keywords: ecology frequency Author(s): Pekas, Kristen M., Eugene W. Schupp Title: Effects of sagebrush fire and fire surrogate treatments on a Great Basin seed bank community Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology regeneration seeds Abstract: The influence of sagebrush fuels and restoration treatments on Great Basin vegetation dynamics has been well documented but impacts of treatments on the seed bank community has received little attention. Effects of fuels reduction treatments (prescribed...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Pellizzaro, Grazia, Bachisio Arca, Gian Valeriano Pintus, Roberto Ferrara, Christophe Bouillon, Pierpaolo Duce Title: Human impact on coastal landscape: A diachronic analysis of wildland-urban interface in a Mediterranean area Source: Global Change Research Symposium 2014: Human and Ecosystem Response to Global Change. Evidence and Application, Ostuni; 09/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: interface Abstract: During the last decades, Mediterranean areas have been affected by relevant modifications in the economic and social systems that have often produced transformations of the original landscape due to anthropization processes and land use changes. Large variations in residential expansion often occurred in coastal areas because of intensive tourism development. This is evident also in Sardinia, ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101927 Author(s): Pellatt, Marlow Title: ECOLOGICAL CHANGE, FIRE HISTORY, AND CLIMATE: HOW LAND MANAGERS ARE USING PALEOECOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF ECOSYSTEMS Source: Powerpoint, Geological Society of America, Vancouver, BC; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Paleoecological research including pollen, phytolith, charcoal, and tree ring analyses reveal that fire was an important driver in forest/woodland structure and function in the Strait of Georgia Lowlands, with increasing evidence emerging for the ecocultural influence of First Nations people. ... FRI Access Number: 101942 Author(s): Perry, G. L. W., J. M. Wilmshurst, J. Ogden, N. J. Enright Title: Exotic Mammals and Invasive Plants Alter Fire-Related Thresholds in Southern Temperate Forested Landscapes Source: Ecosystems Year: 2015 Keywords: wildlife exotics Abstract: Human activity has resulted in the emergence of fire-induced forest-shrubland mosaics in many southern temperate forest landscapes. In New Zealand (NZ), this transformation was caused by the introduction of fire to previously very low firefrequency ... Contact Author: [email protected] 120

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Perez-Verdin, Gustavo, bullet Marco, Antonio Marquez-Linares, Maricela Salmeron-Macias Title: Spatial heterogeneity of factors influencing forest fires size in northern Mexico Source: Journal of Forestry Research 25: 291-300 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: In Mexico, forest fires are strongly influenced by environ-mental, topographic, and anthropogenic factors. A government-based database covering the period 2000-2011 was used to analyze the spatial heterogeneity of the factors influencing forest fire size in the... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102012 Author(s): Pereoglou, ., D. B. Lindenmayer, C. Macgregor, F. Ford, J. Wood, S. C. Banks Title: Landscape genetics of an early successional specialist in a disturbance-prone environment Source: Molecular Ecology 22(5). Year: 2013 Keywords: genetics Abstract: Species that specialize in disturbed habitats may have considerably different dispersal strategies than those adapted to more stable environments. However, little is known of the dispersal patterns and population structure of such species. This information is important for conservation because many postfire specialists are at risk from anthropogenic changes to natural disturbance regimes. We used ... Author(s): Pereoglou, F., C. MacGregor, S. C. Banks, J. Wood, F. Ford Title: Landscape, fire and habitat: which features of recently burned heathland influence site occupancy of an early successional specialist? Source: Landscape Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: We developed a series of hypotheses to evaluate the effects of landscape structure, fire history, and site-level habitat quality on site occupancy by an early successional specialist, the eastern chestnut mouse (Pseudomys gracilicaudatus). ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102147

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Pereira, Jose Aldo Alves, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira-Filho, Pedro V. Eisenlohr, Pedro Luiz S. de Miranda, Jose Pires de Lemos-Filho Title: Human Impacts Affect Tree Community Features of 20 Forest Fragments of a Vanishing Neotropical Hotspot Source: Environmental Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: indigenous Abstract: The loss in forest area due to human occupancy is not the only threat to the remaining biodiversity: forest fragments are susceptible to additional human impact.Our aimwas to investigate the effect of human impact on tree community features (species composition and abundance, and structural descriptors) and check if there was a decrease... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101929 Author(s): Perminov, Valeriy Title: Mathematical modeling of crown forest fires spread taking account firebreaks Source: 2014 International Conference on Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Methods; 01/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling behavior firebreaks Abstract: It is developed mathematical model of heat and mass transfer processes at crown forest fire spread which takes into account fire breaks. The paper gives a new mathematical setting and method of numerical solution of this problem. It is based on numerical solution of two dimensional Reynolds ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101992 Author(s): Perrakis, Daniel D. B., Rick A. Lanoville, Stephen W. Taylor, Dana Hicks Title: Modeling wildfire spread rates in mountain pine beetle-affected forest stands, British Columbia, Canada Source: Fire Ecology 10(2-2): 10-35 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling behavior insects Abstract: The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; MPB) has killed lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.) across 20 million hectares of central British Columbia, Canada, since the late 1990s, challenging land managers as well as fire management personnel... Contact Author: [email protected] 122

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 101955 Author(s): Pereira, P., A. Cerda, I. Misiune Title: Modelling soil sodium and potassium adsorption ratio (SPAR) in the immediate period after a grassland fire in Lithuania. Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-2306-2, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils Abstract: The soil sodium and potassium adsorption ratio (SPAR) is an index that measures the amount of sodium and potassium adsorbed onto clay and organic matter surfaces, in relation to calcium and magnesium. Assess the potential of soil dispersion or flocculation, ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101848 Author(s): Pierson, Frederick B., C. Jason Williams, Patrick R. Kormos, Osama Z. AlHamdan Title: Short-Term Effects of Tree Removal on Infiltration, Runoff, and Erosion in Woodland- Encroached Sagebrush Steppe Source: Rangeland Ecology & Management 67(5): 522-538 Year: 2014 Keywords: soils Abstract: Land owners and managers across the western United States are increasingly searching for methods to evaluate and mitigate the effects of woodland encroachment on sagebrush steppe ecosystems. We used small-plot scale (0.5 m 2) rainfall simulations and measures of vegetation, ground cover, ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101967 Author(s): Pinto, Jose Roberto Rodrigues, Henrique Augusto Mews, Halina Soares Jancoski, Beeatriz Schwantes Marimon, Barbara de Oliveira Bomfim Title: Woody vegetation dynamics in a floodplain campo de murundus in central Brazil Source: Acta Botanica Brasilica 28(4): 519-526 Year: 2014 Keywords: Tropics ecology Abstract: Campos de murundus (grasslands dotted with knolls that are covered with savanna-like woody vegetation) are a common landscape in central Brazil. In this study, 123

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 we assessed for the first time the dynamics of the vegetation in a floodplain campo de murundus, describing changes in composition ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102019 Author(s): Pinto, Tiago, Xavier Santos, Helena Freitas, Bruno Moreira Title: Response of Reptile Assemblages to Fire in the Serra da Estrela Natural Park Source: VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife reptiles FRI Access Number: 101985 Author(s): Pinto, Anita, Juncal Espinosa-Prieto, Carlos Rossa, Stuart Matthews, Carlos Loureiro, Paulo Fernandes Title: Modelling fine fuel moisture content and the likelihood of fire spread in blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) litter Source: Advances in Forest Fire Research, edited by D. Viegas, pages 353-359 Year: 2014 Keywords: modeling fuel moisture behavior Abstract: The capabilities of accurately estimating dead fuel moisture content and predicting the likelihood of selfsustained fire spread are crucial to plan prescribed fire operations and achieve the treatment goals, among other fire management objectives. After analysis to determine whether some existing models could be adopted or adapted, we developed user-friendly equations to predict the moisture Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101945 Author(s): Platt, W. J., A. K. Entrup, E. K. Babl, C. Coryell-Turpin, V. Dao, James A. Hebert, Claire D. LaBarbera, Jene F. L. Noto, Similoluwa O. Ogundare, Lucas K. Stamper and Nabin Timilsina Title: Short-term effects of herbicides and a prescribed fire on restoration of a shrubencroached pine savanna Source: Restoration Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: herbicides prescribed burning Abstract: Shrub encroachment occurring worldwide in savannas and grasslands has commonly been hypothesized to result from anthropogenically altered environments. Two disturbance-based approaches to restoration have involved: (1) application of selective ... 124

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102286 Author(s): Pourshakouri, Farrokh, Ali A. Darvishsefat, Farhad Samadzadegan, Pedram Attarod Title: Potential of MODIS Images and Contextual Algorithm for Active Fire Detection in the Zagross Forests, West of Iran (In Persian) Source: Unknown publication, 14 pages Year: n. d. Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) have been widely used for active fire detection in the world as the specific channels used for the fire detection have made the MODIS images applicable. The main objective was to explore the... FRI Access Number: 102055 Author(s): Pourshakouri, Farrokh, Ali A. Darvishsefat, Farhad Samadzadegan, Pedram Attarod, Javad Selyari Title: Assessment of active fire detection algorithm for fire detection in natural resources using MODIS images (Case Study: Golestan national park) (In Persian) Source: Unknown Source, 19 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Monitoring of fire in natural resource using satellite imagery is the most effective method to detect active fires. The main objective of this study was to explore the capability of global active fire detection algorithm for active fire detection using the MODIS images. The study was performed in the Golestan national park located in the western Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101926 Author(s): Power, Bryan Title: The 1973 bushfire in Lysterfield and Rowville Source: Rowville-Lysterfield Community News, March 2003 Year: 2003 Keywords: conflagration australia

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Pyke, David A., Scott E. Shaff, Andrew I. Lindgren, Eugene W. Schupp, Paul S. Doescher, Jeanne C. Chambers, Jeffrey S. Burnham, Manuela M. Huso Title: Region-Wide Ecological Responses of Arid Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities to Fuel Treatments Source: Rangeland Ecology & Management 67(5): 455-467 Year: 2014 Keywords: fuel Abstract: If arid sagebrush ecosystems lack resilience to disturbances or resistance to annual invasives, then alternative successional states dominated by annual invasives, especially cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.), are likely after fuel treatments. We identified six Wyoming big sagebrush ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101947 Author(s): Qing-ming Wu, Hong-fei Zou, Jian-zhang Ma Title: Nest site selection of white-naped crane (Grus vipio) at Zhalong National Nature Reserve, Heilongjiang, China Source: Journal of Forestry Research 25(4): Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife birds china Abstract: White-naped crane (Grus vipio) is a globally threatened species. It is very important to analyze its nest site selection in circumstances where there are multiple disturbances, and also helpful to accumulate valuable information about this threatened species and supply scientific suggestions... Author(s): Quintanilla, Veronica Title: Fuel Loads, Prescribed Fire and Fire Effects in Longleaf Ecosystems: Analysis of Fuel Consumption and Mortality. A Case Study in the Calloway Forest Preserve, NC. Source: M. S. Thesis, North Carolina State University, 132 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel ecology Abstract: Land managers involved in longleaf restoration are increasingly using fire as management tool to restore and maintain this highly diverse and endangered fire dependent ecosystem. However, to achieve restoration goals it is necessary to better understand the... FRI Access Number: 101909

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Radford, Ian. J., Alan N. Andersen, Gordon Graham, Clay Trauernicht Title: The Fire Refuge Value of Patches of a Fire-Sensitive Tree in Fire-prone Savannas: Callitris intratropica in Northern Australia Source: Biotropica 45(5): Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Patches of fire-sensitive vegetation often occur within fire-prone tropical savannas, and are indicative of localized areas where fire regimes are less severe. These may act as important fire refugia for fire-sensitive biota. The fire-sensitive tree Callitris intratropica occurs in small patches throughout the fire-prone ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102048 Author(s): Radford, Ian J., Lesley A. Gibson, Ben Corey, Karin Carnes, Richard Fairman Title: Influence of Fire Mosaics, Habitat Characteristics and Cattle Disturbance on Mammals in Fire-Prone Savanna Landscapes of the Northern Kimberley Source: PLoS ONE 10(6): e0130721. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130721 Year: 2015 Keywords: wildlife grazing agriculture Abstract: Patch mosaic burning, in which fire is used to produce a mosaic of habitat patches representative of a range of fire histories (?pyrodiversity?), has been widely advocated to promote greater biodiversity. However, the details of desired fire mosaics for prescribed burning programs are often unspecified. Threatened small to medium... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101854 Author(s): Rashid, Md. Mamunur Title: Simulation of extreme rainfall from CMIP5 in the Onkaparinga catchment using a generalized linear model Source: 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, Australia; 12/2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: modeling hydrology Abstract: Due to the changes in global climate, the intensity, frequency and magnitude of heavy rainfall events are changing and this has been documented in many recent studies. Increasing trends in extreme rainfall directly affects infrastructure, agriculture as well as public and ecosystem health. ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102217 127

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Raynor, Edward J., Anthony Joern, John M. Briggs Title: Fine-scale foraging behavior of bison in nutritionally heterogeneous grasslands in response to fire and drought Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife ecology Abstract: Foraging behavior of native grazers in fire dependent landscapes is an integral component of the fire-grazing interaction. The behavioral mechanism behind the attraction of grazers to recently burned areas requires understanding at each of three spatial scales ... Author(s): Raybuck, Amy L.; Moorman, Christopher E.; Fritts, Sarah R.; Greenberg, Cathryn H.; Deperno, Christopher S.; Simon, Dean M.; Warburton, Gordon S. Title: Do silvicultural practices to restore oaks affect salamanders in the short term? Source: Wildlife Biology 21(4): 186-194 Year: 2015 Keywords: wildlife amphibians salamanders Abstract: Salamanders are an important ecological component of eastern hardwood forests and may be affected by natural or silvicultural disturbances that alter habitat structure and associated microclimate. From May to August in 2008 (pretreatment) and 2011 (post-treatment), we evaluated the response of salamanders to three silvicultural practices designed to promote oak regeneration - prescribed fire Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101842 Author(s): Regensburg, T., O. Gonzalez-Pelayo, M. Martins Title: The role of vegetation patches and antecedent soil moisture conditions in runoff and erosion connectivity in a 4-times burnt pine stand. Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-870, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soil moisture Abstract: As part of the EU-FP7 project CASCADE, which addresses tipping-points in land degradation of Mediterranean ecosystems, the degradation drivers of repeated wildfires and post-fire drought spell are being studied in maritime pine stands in north-central Portugal. ... FRI Access Number: 101903 128

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Reidsma, Femke, Eduard Pop, Tony Reimann Title: Fire-Cracked Rock and Palaeolithic Cooking Source: Archaeology in Transition, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory indigenous FRI Access Number: 102071 Author(s): Ribeiro, Leandro C, Eduardo R M Barbosa, Frank Van Langevelde, Fabian Borghetti Title: The importance of seed mass for the tolerance to heat shocks of savanna and forest tree species Source: Journal of Vegetation Science, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: seed regeneration ecology Abstract: Does seed mass influence the tolerance of seeds to the effects of heating in fires? Is the tolerance to heat shocks during fire events dependent mostly on seed mass itself or to other traits linked to the species ecological origin, e.g. non-fire-prone (forest) and fire-prone ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102122 Author(s): Ricci. Karen A, Anne R Griffin, Kevin C Heslin, Derrick Kranke, Aram Dobalian Title: Evacuate or Shelter-in-place? The Role of Corporate Memory and Political Environment in Hospital-evacuation Decision Making Source: Prehospital and disaster medicine: The official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine in association with the Acute Care Foundation DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X15000229 Year: 2015 Keywords: evacuation interface Abstract: Hospital-evacuation decisions are rarely straightforward in protracted advancewarning events. Previous work provides little insight into the decision-making process around evacuation. This study was conducted to identify factors that most heavily influenced the decisions to evacuate ...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Richardson, Curtis J., Hongjun Wang, Mengchi Ho, Bill. Cooper, Jeffrey Chanton, Neal Flanagan Title: Phenolic Compounds and Black Carbon Feedback Controls on Peat Decomposition and Carbon Accumulation in Southeastern Peatlands Source: The Sixth International Workshop on Soil and Sedimentary Organic Matter Stabilization and Destabilization (SOM6), Kiawah Island, SC; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: carbon peat soils Abstract: Earth System Models (ESMs) predict increased frequency of extreme wet and dry periods in the subtropics and tropics over the next century, resulting in uncertain carbon (C) budgets and greenhouse gases (GHG) fluxes. Globally, approximately 1/3 of peat stores are found in subtropical ... Author(s): Risberg, Lotta, Anders Granstrom Title: Exploiting a window in time. Fate of recruiting populations of two rare firedependent Geranium species after forest fire Source: Plant Ecology 215(6): 613-624 Year: 2014 Keywords: rare endangered ecology Abstract: Fire ephemerals are few in the boreal forest despite a long history of recurrent fires, which suggests such a life-history pose problems here. We analysed the fate of recruiting populations of two rare and fire-dependent annual Geranium species at burnt forest sites in South-eastern Sweden, to extract ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102197 Author(s): Risberg, L. and A. Granstrom Title: The effect of timing of forest fire on phenology and seed production in the firedependent herbs Geranium bohemicum and G. lanuginosum in Sweden. Source: For Ecol Manage 257: 1725-1731 Year: 2009 Keywords: rare endangered sweden ecology Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Risberg, L. and A. Granstrom Title: Seed dynamics of two firedependent Geranium species in the boreal forest of southeastern Sweden Source: Botany 90: 794-805 Year: 2012 130

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: rare endangered sweden ecology Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Risberg, Lotta Title: Ecology of the fire-dependent forest herbs Geranium bohemicum and G. lanuginosum in Sweden Source: Ph. D. Dissertation, Umea, Sveriges lantbruksuniv., Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880 Year: 2015 Keywords: rare endangered sweden ecology Abstract: Geranium bohemicum and G. lanuginosum are the only plant species in Sweden considered fire-dependent, because of their heat-triggered germination. Both are today threatened due to effective fire suppression. An aim with this study was to elucidate their population ecology. These plants have either a summer... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102198 Author(s): Ritchie, Martin Warren, Carl N. Skinner Title: Interdisciplinary Research on the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest Source: USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges, Research for the Long Term, Edited by Deborah C. Hayes, Susan L. Stout, Ralph H. Crawfortd, Anne P Hoover, 08/2014: chapter 6: pages 129-146 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest is a 4,000 ha, pine-dominated tract in northeastern California, in the Lassen National Forest. Between 1934 and 1960, research at Blacks Mountain focused on various methods of harvest and bark ... Author(s): Rizzolo, Rolando Title: Developing fuel models for northeastern Italian forests and evaluating their skills in simulating real fire behaviour Source: II international conference on fire behavior and risk, Alghero (Italy); 05/2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fuel modeling behavior Abstract: Standard fire behavior fuel models are often utilized in fire simulators (e.g., FARSITE, BehavePlus) in many parts of the world. Commonly used fire behavior fuel models were initially developed for use in the United States by Anderson (1982) and 131

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 more recently by Scott and Burgan (2005). The use of these fuel models outside their original area requires local validation to ensure they are representative ... FRI Access Number: 102187 Author(s): Robson, Brittany E., Margaret E. Collinson, Walter Riegel, Volker Wilde, Andrew C. Scott, Richard D. Pancost Title: Early Paleogene wildfires in peat-forming environments at Schoningen, Germany Source: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Available online 19 July 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Wildfire activity in early Paleogene greenhouse conditions can be used as an analogue to gauge the effect of future warming trends on wildfire in the current climate system. Inertinite (fossil charcoal in coal) from 11 autochthonous early Paleogene lignite seams from the Schoningen mine (Germany) was quantified using ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Robinson, Mark Title: Bushfires, 2003 - a rural GP's perspective Source: Australian Family Physician 31(12) Year: 2003 Keywords: management australia Author(s): Robler, Ronny, Robert Noll, Dagmar Dietrich, Volker Annacker, Mathias Merbitz Title: Taphonomic features of fossilised wood and their ambiguous interpretation Source: 23rd International Workshop on Plant Taphonomy, Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The pathways to form fossilised wood are diverse. Especially volcanic-affected ecosystems and their deposits provide not only excellently preserved petrified wood, but also some of the most detailed insights into ancient biotas in general. Related fossil forests offer a broad range of preservational ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101959

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Robakowski, Piotr, Piotr Balicki, Maciejtukaszewski and Marek Szczerba Title: Early growth of Scots pine, European larch and common oak at the young age on post-fire area located in the Stawa Slaska Forest District (SW Poland) Source: Ecological Questions 20: 53-61 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology poland Abstract: The long-term forecasts predict that global warming will increase frequency and area of forest fires. Apart from economic losses resulting from a reduction of wood volume and annual increments of trees, the post-fire areas requiring the reforestation are enlarging considerably... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101981 Author(s): Robinson, T. R., E. Ruckman, K. G. Lyons Title: Comparison of Seed Heat Sensitivity among Native Species and KR Bluestem: Implications for Invasive Species Management and Restoration using Prescribed Fire Source: 94th ESA Annual Convention 2009; 08/2009 Year: 2009 Keywords: regeneration prescribed burning seeds Abstract: The timing of prescribed burns is critical to the development of effective invasive species management programs. The widespread introduction of KR Bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum), an invasive, non-indigenous, C4 grass, threatens the biodiversity of grasslands and rights-of-ways of the Edwards Plateau, TX, U.S.A. To date, approaches to control the species have included dormant-... Author(s): Rodrigues, Marcos, Juan de la Riva Title: Assessing the effect on fire risk modeling of the uncertainty in the location and cause of forest fires Source: 7th International Conference of Forest Fire Research; 11/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: risk Abstract: Wildfire risk assessments in Spain usually make little or no reference to the uncertainty of the results due to ignition data quality, or the implications that this potential uncertainty may have on wildfire management decisions. In Spain the autonomous regions have historically Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102058

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Rosenblum, A. Title: Altered Fire Regimes and the Persistence of Quaking Aspen in the Rocky Mountains: A Literature Review Source: Open Journal of Forestry Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The persistence of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is of significant importance to land managers in the Rocky Mountain region. Fire suppression in the past century has been implicated as a mechanism influencing aspen population dynamics, as aspen are ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102112 Author(s): Rumpel, C. and C. NAISSE. Title: Chemical, physical and biological stability of pyrogenic organic matter in soil Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Ruprecht, E., A. Fenesi, E. I. Fodor, T. Kuhn, J. Tokolyi Title: Shape determines fire tolerance of seeds in temperate grasslands that are not prone to fire Source: Perspectives in Plant Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology seeds Abstract: Prescribed burning is an important tool for nature conservation in many parts of the world. It is now also being increasingly proposed as an alternative to traditional management in temperate grasslands that are not naturally fire-prone. For effective ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102133 Author(s): Russell-Smith, JEREMY, PAUL G. RYAN, DAVID KLESSA, GORDON WAIGHT, ROBERT HARWOOD Title: Fire regimes, fire-sensitive vegetation and fire management of the sandstone Arnhem Plateau, monsoonal northern Australia Source: Journal of Applied Ecology 35(6): 829 - 846 134

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2008 Keywords: history ecology australia Abstract: A fire history (1980 to the present) developed for Kakadu National Park, derived mostly from manual interpretation of LANDSAT MultiSpectral Scanner (MSS) imagery, was used as the temporal basis for undertaking rapid assessment of the effects of fire regimes on floristically diverse ... Author(s): Ryu, Gye, Sun, Byung, Doo Lee, Myoung, Soo Won, Kyong Kim Title: Development of Crown Fire Propagation Probability Equation Using Logistic Regression Model Source: Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies 17(1): 1-12 Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior crowning Abstract: Crown fire, the main propagation type of large forest fire, has caused extreme damage with the fast spread rate and the high flame intensity. In this paper, we developed the probability equation to predict the crown fires using the spatial features of topography, fuel and weather in damaged ... Author(s): Salis, Michele, Alan A. Ager, Bachisio Arca, Mark A. Finney, Fermin Alcasena, Valentina Bacciu, Pierpaolo Duce, Olga Munoz Lozano, Donatella Spano Title: Analyzing wildfire exposure on Sardinia, Italy Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-11596 Year: 2014 Keywords: statistics Abstract: We used simulation modeling based on the minimum travel time algorithm (MTT) to analyze wildfire exposure of key ecological, social and economic features on Sardinia, Italy. Sardinia is the second largest island of the Mediterranean Basin, and in the last fifty years experienced large and ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102094 Author(s): Sala, Osvaldo E., Fernando T. Maestre Title: Grass-woodland transitions: determinants and consequences for ecosystem functioning and provisioning of services Source: Journal of Ecology 102(6): Year: 2014 Keywords: encroachment Abstract: A large fraction of grasslands world-wide is undergoing a rapid shift from herbaceous to woody-plant dominance, while in other parts of the world, the opposite 135

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 transition from woodland to grassland is the dominant phenomenon. These shifts have received increasing attention in the ecological literature .... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102033 Author(s): San-Miguel-Ayanz, Jesus, Marcos Rodrigues, Sandra Santos de Oliveira, Claudia Kemper Pacheco, Francisco Moreira, Beatriz Duguy, Andrea Camia Title: Land cover change and fire regime in the European Mediterranean region Source: Chapter 2, in: Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests, 2012 edited by Moreira F., Arianoutsou M., Corona P. De las Heleras J., 02/2012: chapter Land cover change and fire regime in the European Mediterranean region: pages 21-43; Springer., ISBN: 978-94-007-2208-8 Year: 2012 Keywords: restoration FRI Access Number: 102162 Author(s): Santin, Cristina, Stefan H. Doerr, Xose L. Otero, Chris J. Chafer Title: Quantity, composition and water contamination potential of ash produced under different wildfire severities Source: Environmental Research 142: 297-308 Year: 2015 Keywords: severity Abstract: Wildfires frequently threaten water quality through the transfer of eroded ash and soil into rivers and reservoirs. The ability to anticipate risks for water resources from wildfires is fundamental for implementing effective fire preparedness plans and post-fire mitigation measures. Here we present a new approach that allows ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102167 Author(s): Santin, Cristina, Stefan H. Doerr, Evan S. Kane, Caroline A. Masiello, Mikael Ohlson, Jose Maria de la Rosa, Caroline M. Preston, Thorsten Dittmar Title: Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires Source: Draft manuscript, 47 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: charcoal carbon paleohistory Abstract: The production of pyrogenic carbon (PyC; a continuum of organic carbon (C) ranging from partially charred biomass and charcoal to soot) is a widely acknowledged C sink, with the latest estimates indicating that ~50% of the PyC produced by vegetation fires potentially sequester ...C 136

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101904 Author(s): Santin, C., S. H. Doerr, X. L. Otero, C. J. Chafer Title: Temporal evolution of wildfire ash and its implications for water pollution Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-9742, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils water quality Abstract: ... The effects of wildfire ash on the post-fire landscape are many and very diverse. It is a source of nutrients and can, therefore, help the recovery of vegetation after fire. Furthermore, in its initial state, the ash layer on the ground ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101896 Author(s): Sanabria, L. A., Cechet R. P. and Li J. Title: Mapping of Australian Fire Weather Potential: Observational and modelling studies Source: 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, Australia, 1-6 December 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: remote sensing weather Abstract: Indicators of fire weather potential are used by fire management agencies to assess fire weather danger in order to issue public warnings, ban the lighting of open fires, and also boost procedures to mitigate the consequences of a bushfire if such an event occurs... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102234 Author(s): Sanabria, L. A., Qin X., Li J., R. P. Cechet, Lucas C. Title: Spatial Interpolation of McArthur's Forest Fire Danger Index accross Australia: Observational study Source: Environmental Modelling and Software 50(1): 37-60 Year: 2013 Keywords: danger Abstract: Fire danger indices are used by fire management agencies to assess fire weather conditions and issue public warnings. The most widely used fire danger indices in Australia are the McArthur Fire Forest Danger Index and the Grassland Fire Danger Index. These indices are calculated at weather ... Contact Author: [email protected] 137

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 102235 Author(s): Santin, C., S. H. DOERR and A. MERINO. Title: What is the difference between pyrogenic carbon of natural and artificial sources? A case study from a pine forest Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Saraiva, Ernandes, Ronaldo V Soares, Antonio C Batista, Horacio Tertuliano, Ana Maria Gomes Title: Weather Radar: An Efficient Tool For Forest Fire Detection Source: 15th International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection. AUBE '14, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: detectin Abstract: The efficiency on forest fire control is directly related to the quickness on detection and localization, which significantly can minimize the potential of damages. The current technology used in the manufacture of weather radars has opened new opportunities for research, making it possible to detect small signals, not necessarily used in the daily rain observations. The objective of this research is to use ... FRI Access Number: 102170 Author(s): Sass, O. and S. KLOSS. Title: Observations on wildfire black carbon in shallow soils of the northern Alps Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Saunders, Rolando O., Darryn W. Waugh Title: Variability and potential sources of summer PM2.5 in the Northeastern United States Source: Atmospheric Environment, Available online 11 July 2015 138

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: The variability of ground-level concentrations of fine suspended particulate matter (PM2.5) in the Northeastern United States is examined using observed PM2.5 from multiple data networks together with output from the Modern-Era Retrospective ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102184 Author(s): Schafer, JENNIFER L. AND MICHELLE C. MACK Title: EFFECTS OF TIME-SINCE-FIRE ON SOIL NUTRIENT DYNAMICS IN FLORIDA SCRUBBY FLATWOODS Source: Florida Scientist 76(3-4): 417-435 Year: 2013 Keywords: soils Abstract: Differences in the volatilization temperatures and sources of inputs of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) suggest that fire will decrease N relative to P over the short term and that N will increase relative to P over the long term after fire. In Florida scrubby flatwoods? a pyrogenic ecosystem that occurs on sandy nutrient-poor soils-we tested the hypotheses... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102229 Author(s): Schittek, Karsten Title: Cushion peatlands in the high Andes of northwestern Argentina as archives for palaeoenvironmental research Source: Dissertationes Botanicae Band 412, 176 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: peat paleohistory Abstract: High-Andean cushion peatlands contain valuable climate information for palaeoenvironmental research. They respond very sensitively to environmental changes and therefore are ideal to apply methods such as geochemical, macrofossil and statistical evaluations in order to ... Author(s): Schertzer, E., A. C Staver, S. A. Levin Title: Implications of the spatial dynamics of fire spread for the bistability of savanna and forest Source: Journal of Mathematical Biology 70(1-2): Year: 2014 Keywords: behavior 139

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: The role of fire in expanding the global distribution of savanna is well recognized. Empirical observations and modeling suggest that fire spread has a threshold response to fuel-layer continuity, which sets up a positive feedback that maintains savanna-forest bistability... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102224 Author(s): Schedlbauer, J. L. Title: Serpentine ecosystem responses to varying water availability and prescribed fire in the US Mid-Atlantic region Source: Ecosphere, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils prescribed burning Abstract: Grasslands growing atop serpentine bedrock are subject to edaphic stresses and, as a result, are low productivity ecosystems. Nutrient limitations are so severe in some serpentine grasslands that plant growth is unaffected by increased water availability. However, little is ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101979 Author(s): Schafer, Jennifer L., Michelle C. Mack Title: Effects of fire on nutrient availability and limitation in Florida scrub Source: 95th ESA Annual Convention 2010; 08/2010 Year: 2010 Keywords: soils Abstract: Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are essential plant nutrients that limit productivity in most, if not all, terrestrial ecosystems. Due to fundamental differences in the biogeochemistry of N and P, fire has the potential to alter the relative availability of N versus P both immediately following fire and over inter-fire cycles. We investigated the short- and long-term effects of fire on soil and plant ... Author(s): Senici, Dominic, Han H. Chen, Yves Bergeron, Adam A. Ali Title: Long-term fire and vegetation interactions at local and sub-regional scales in the central boreal forest Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Fire history reconstructions based on charcoal preserved in lake sediments have been used to improve our understanding of Holocene fire regimes in many boreal forest regions. Sedimentary charcoal, plant macroremains and pollen from six lakes... Author(s): Seo, Junsang, Myeongsu Kang, Cheol Hong Kim, Jong-Myon Kim Title: An optimal many-core model-based supercomputing for accelerating videoequipped fire detection Source: The Journal of Supercomputing 71(6): 2275-2308 Year: 2015 Keywords: detection Abstract: Automatic fire detection has become more and more appealing because of the increasing use of video capabilities in surveillance systems used for early detection of fire. However, its high computational complexities limit its use in real-time applications. To meet the real-time processing of today's fire ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Shao-Lin Lee, Charles Alexander. Garris Title: Formation of multiple fire whirls Source: Symposium (International) on Combustion 12/1969; 12(1): 265-273 Year: 1969 Keywords: whirl behavior Abstract: Multiple fire whirls were formed from a controlled propane gas line fire placed between two parallel moving screens which impart a controlled shear to the ambient air. It was found that the line fire, breaks up into approximately equally spaced fire whirls after the attainment of certain ... Author(s): Shindler, B., C. Olsen, S. McCaffrey, B. McFarlane, A. Christianson, T. McGee, A. Curtis, and E. Sharp. 2014. Title: Trust: A Planning Guide for Wildfire Agencies and Practitioners-An International Collaboration Drawing on Research and Management Experience in Australia, Canada, and the United States Source: A Joint Fire Science Program Research Publication. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 28 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: sociology management FRI Access Number: 101950

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Short, Lauren Elizabeth Title: The Role of Large Woody Debris in Inhibiting the Dispersion of a Post-Fire Sediment Pulse Source: M. S. Thesis, San Jose State University, 141 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: erosion sediment Abstract: To further the understanding of how rivers process an instantaneous increase in sediment supply, a study was conducted on a gravel bed channel affected by post-fire debris flows. Sleeping Child Creek (SCC), a tributary to the Bitterroot River, is located... FRI Access Number: 102282 Author(s): Short, L. E., E. J. Gabet, D. F. Hoffman Title: The role of large woody debris in modulating the dispersal of a post-fire sediment pulse Source: Geomorphology 246: 351-358 Year: 2015 Abstract: In 2001, a series of post-fire debris flows brought~ 30,000 m 3 of sediment, deposited as fans, to the narrow valley floor of Sleeping Child Creek in western Montana (USA). In 2005, pebble-counts and surveys of the channel in proximity to six of the debris ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Shryock, D. F., T. C. Esque, F. C. Chen Title: Topography and climate are more important drivers of long-term, post-fire vegetation assembly than time-since-fire in the Sonoran Desert, US Source: Journal of Vegetation Science, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: We measured perennial vegetation in a chronosequence of 13 fires (8-33 yr TSF) spanning a broad regional gradient. The relative influence of environmental filters (topography and climate) and TSF were compared as predictors of long-term, post-fire ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102149 Author(s): Shtober-Zisu, N., N. Tessler, A. Tsatskin, N. Greenbaum Title: Accelerated weathering of carbonate rocks following the 2010 forest wildfire on Mt. Carmel, Israel Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-15040, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 142

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: soils geology Abstract: Massive destruction of carbonate rocks occurred on the slopes of Mt. Carmel, during the severe forest fire in 2010. ... The fire affected six carbonate units -- various types of chalk, limestone, and dolomite ... FRI Access Number: 101902 Author(s): Siewert, Jacob, Sara C. Hotchkiss, Michael A. Tweiten, Elizabeth A. Lynch, Randy Calcote Title: Sensitivity of fire regimes to landscape context and climatic variation over the past 13,000 years in northwestern Wisconsin Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: climate paleohistory Abstract: This research compares fire records from two sites with vegetation and lakelevel history of the surrounding landscape. The study focuses on Warner and Ferry lakes, both located in the Northwest Wisconsin sand plain. At both sites soils are xeric with low cation exchange ... Author(s): Silva, Joaquim S., Filipe X. Catry, Francisco Moreira, Miguel N. Bugalho Title: The effects of deer exclusion on the development of a Mediterranean plant community affected by a wildfire Source: Restoration Ecology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: wildlife deer Abstract: Despite the resilience of Mediterranean ecosystems to fire, the ecological restoration of burned plant communities can be hindered by ungulate herbivores, particularly in areas with high population densities. This study compares the postfire development of a shrub community with and without deer, after a wildfire occurred.. Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102025 Author(s): Simon, Gregory L. Title: Vulnerability-in-Production: A Spatial History of Nature, Affluence, and Fire in Oakland, California Source: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(6) 2014, pp. 1199-1221 Year: 2014 Keywords: oakland hills tunnel fire fatalities 143

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Vulnerability-in-production is offered as a theoretical construct to highlight two interrelated aspects of vulnerability: a processwhere landscapes are altered and developed in amanner that retains their productivity for property owners and other stakeholders and a recursive and relational process that is always in production and inscribed unevenly over time and space. The 1991 Oakland... FRI Access Number: 102056 Author(s): Skinner, Carl N., Jack H. Burk, Michael G. Barbour, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino, Scott L. Stephens Title: Influences of climate on fire regimes in montane forests of north-western Mexico Source: Journal of Biogeography 35(8): 1436-1451 Year: 2008 Keywords: ecology climate Abstract: To identify the influence of interannual and interdecadal climate variation on the occurrence and extent of fires in montane conifer forests of north-western Mexico. Location This study was conducted in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.)- dominated mixed-conifer forests in the central and northern plateau of the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico. Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102231 Author(s): Slaughter, Bradford, Phyllis J. Higman Title: VEGETATION SURVEYS OF THE OSCEOLA-MISSAUKEE GRASSLANDS STATE GAME AREA, OSCEOLA AND MISSAUKEE COUNTIES, MICHIGAN Source: MICHIGAN NATURAL FEATURES INVENTORY, PO BOX 13036, LANSING, MI 489013036, Report No. 2014-15, 61 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: In 2013, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD) contracted with Michigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI) to conduct an inventory of the vegetation and plant communities at the Osceola-Missaukee Grasslands State Game Area (OMG). This project was envisioned as the first component of a long-term plan to implement and monitor habitat management activities at the ... FRI Access Number: 102106 Author(s): Smith, D. Max, Deborah M. Finch, David A. Lytle, David M. Merritt Title: Fire, flood, and climate change: modeling cottonwood populations in western riparian forests Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 144

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2014 Keywords: hydrology Abstract: Along lowland streams in the western United States, reproduction of cottonwood trees (Populus spp.) is dependent on floods that provide substrate for germination space and moisture for seedling survival. The Middle Rio Grande in central New Mexico is heavily... Author(s): Sorensen, J. H. Title: When shall we leave? Factors affecting the timing of evacuation departures Source: International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 9(2): 153-165 Year: 1991 Keywords: interface evacuation FRI Access Number: 102174 Author(s): Sorensen, John H, Barry L Shumpert, Barbara M Vogt Title: Planning for protective action decision making: Evacuate or shelter-in-place Source: Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL/TM-2002/144, 41 pages Year: 2004 Keywords: planning interface evacuation Abstract: Protecting the public from an airborne hazardous chemical release requires that appropriate protective actions be selected quickly. When deciding whether to recommend evacuation or shelter-in-place, decision makers must weigh the interaction of numerous factors that characterize the release, the meteorological conditions, and the populations that may be affected. This article examines the components... FRI Access Number: 102175 Author(s): Sorensen, John H, Barry L Shumpert, Barbara M Vogt Title: Planning for protective action decision making: Evacuate or shelter-in-place Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials 109(1-3): 1-11 Year: 2004 Keywords: planning interface evacuation Abstract: Protecting the public from an airborne hazardous chemical release requires that appropriate protective actions be selected quickly. When deciding whether to recommend evacuation or shelter-in-place, decision makers must weigh the interaction of numerous factors that characterize the release, the meteorological conditions, and the populations that may be affected. This article examines the components...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Spada, M., O. Jorba, C. Perez Garcia-Pando, K. Tsigaridis, Joana Soares, Vincenzo Obiso, Zavisa Janjic and Jose M. Baldasano Title: Global aerosol modeling with the online NMMB/BSC Chemical Transport Model: sensitivity to fire injection height prescription and secondary organic aerosol schemes Source: GU General Assembly Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: We develop and evaluate a fully online-coupled model simulating the life-cycle of the most relevant global aerosols (ie mineral dust, sea-salt, black carbon, primary and secondary organic aerosols, and sulfate) and their feedbacks upon atmospheric chemistry ... FRI Access Number: 101875 Author(s): Spano, D., z A. Camia, z V. Bacciu, z F. Masala, z B. Duguy, z R. Trigo, z P. Sousa, z A. Venalainen, z F. Mouillot, z T. Curt, z J. M. Moreno, z G. Zavala, z I. R. Urbieta, z N. Koutsias and F. Xystrakis Title: Recent trends in forest fires in Mediterranean areas and associated changes in fire regimes Source: in: Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world, edited by Jose M. Moreno Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Understanding fire regimes is very important to assess the ecological effects of forest fires and project them under future scenarios. FUME project characterised fire regimes at different sp... FRI Access Number: 102003 Author(s): Spencer, Wayne D., Heather L. Romsos, Rebecca Degagne, Tim Sheehan, Dominique Bachelet Title: A strategy and decision-support framework for conserving an isolated fisher (Pekania pennanti) population during an era of change Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife ecology Abstract: The southernmost population of fisher (Pekania pennanti), isolated in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, has been the subject of intensive research and conservation planning due to small size, diverse threats, and controversy concerning forest management actions ... 146

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Spence, John, David Langor, Vincent Del Bel Belluz Title: Response of ground-beetle (Carabidae) assemblages to harvest and wildfire in lodgepole pine forests of western Alberta, Canada Source: Poster, International Union of Forest Research Organization, Salt Lake City, Utah; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: insects Abstract: Carabidae assemblages which occupy forests regenerating from harvest activity have been observed to differ between stands of various age class. These differences have been attributed to the species? habitat preferences which have been categorized as generalist... FRI Access Number: 102105 Author(s): Steinitz, Ofe, D. Shohami, R. Ben-Shlomo, R. Nathan Title: Genetic Consequences of Fire to Natural Populations Source: Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 58(2): 205-220 Year: 2014 Keywords: genetics Abstract: Fire plays an important role in many ecosystems worldwide. The implications of fire on population and community dynamics in natural ecosystems have been studied extensively. Nevertheless, the impact of fire on genetic diversity, a crucial component of biodiversity, remains largely ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102098 Author(s): Stephens, Scott L., Seth W. Bigelow, Ryan D. Burnett, Brandon M. Collins, Claire V. Gallagher, John Keane, Douglas A. Kelt, Malcolm P. North, Lance Jay Roberts, Peter A. Stine, Dirk H. Van Vuren Title: California Spotted Owl, Songbird, and Small Mammal Responses to Landscape Fuel Treatments Source: BioScience 64(10): 893-906 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife birds rare endangered Abstract: A principal challenge of federal forest management has been maintaining and improving habitat for sensitive species in forests adapted to frequent, low- to moderateintensity fire regimes that have become increasingly vulnerable to uncharacteristically severe wildfires. To enhance forest r... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101954 147

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Sterkenburg, Erica, Adam Bahr, Mikael Brandstrom Durling, Karina E. Clemmensen, Bjorn D. Lindahl Title: Changes in fungal communities along a boreal forest soil fertility gradient Source: New Phytologist, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: fungi soils Abstract: Boreal forests harbour diverse fungal communities with decisive roles in decomposition and plant nutrition. Although changes in boreal plant communities along gradients in soil acidity and nitrogen (N) availability are well described, less is known about how fungal taxonomic and functional groups... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102255 Author(s): Steen, David A., Lora L. Smith, L. M. Conner, Andrea R. Litt, Louis .rovencher, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott Pokswinski, Craig Guyer Title: Bird assemblage response to restoration of fire-suppressed longleaf pine sandhills Source: Ecological Applications 23(1): 148-58 Year: 2013 Keywords: wildlife birds exclusion Abstract: Measuring the effects of ecological restoration on wildlife assemblages requires study on broad temporal and spatial scales. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests are imperiled due to fire suppression and subsequent invasion by hardwood trees. We employed a landscape... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102227 Author(s): Stockdale, Christopher Title: Fire Regimes of Western Boreal Canada Source: Technical report, unknown source, 55 pages Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology canada Abstract: This literature review is designed to be a discussion document for the LANDWEB Project workshop, being held February 19-20, 2014 in Edmonton Alberta. It is not intended to be an exhaustive literature review with every paper related to fire regimes covered, however this is acomprehensive review of the vast majority of... FRI Access Number: 101960

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Stockwell, C. E., R. J. Yokelson, S. M. Kreidenweis, A. L. Robinson, P. J. DeMott, R. C. Sullivan, J. Reardon, K. C. Ryan, D. W. T. Griffith, L. Stevens Title: Trace gas emissions from combustion of peat, crop residue, biofuels, grasses, and other fuels: configuration and FTIR component of the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4) Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14: 9727-9754 Year: 2014 Keywords: smoke Abstract: During the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4, OctoberNovember 2012) a large variety of regionally and globally significant biomass fuels was burned at the US Forest Service Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. The particle emissions... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102227 Author(s): Stretton, Leonard Title: Royal Commission on bushfires, 16 May 1939, Minutes of evidence Source: Unpublished manuscript, 40 pages Year: 1939 Keywords: investigation conflagration australia FRI Access Number: 102178 Author(s): Stretton, Leonard Title: Report of the Royal Commission to inquire into the place of origin and the causes of the fires which commenced at Yallourn on the 14th day of February 1944 Source: Melbourne, Government Printer Year: 1945 Keywords: investigation conflagration australia Author(s): Stuart, Jason M. Title: Biogeochemical Alteration of Particulate Pyrogenic Organic Carbon (pyC) Source: M. S. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 69 pages Year: 2015 Keywords: carbon Author(s): Surfleet, Christopher G., Brian Dietterick, Arne Skaugset Title: Change detection of storm runoff and sediment yield using hydrologic models following wildfire in a coastal redwood forest, California Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44(6): 572-581 149

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Year: 2014 Keywords: erosion hydrology Abstract: This study attempted to detect changes in stormflow volumes, peakflows, and sediment loads using hydrologic models within the context of an uncertainty assessment following wildfire. In 2009, after 8 years of study, the Lockheed Fire burned the treatment and control watersheds of a paired ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Swetnam, Thomas W. Title: Do Humans Make Southwestern Forests Less Vulnerable to Fire and Climate Changes? Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015 Annual Meeting; 02/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: climate Abstract: Forests and communities are now extremely vulnerable to large, severe fires during droughts as a consequence of fire exclusion and other land use practices. The extent to which this vulnerability is influenced by climate and land-use remains unclear. Multi-century case studies ... Author(s): Swim, Shannon L., Roger F. Walker,Dale W. Johnson, Robert M. Fecko and Watkins W. Miller Title: Evaluation of Mechanized Thinning and Prescribed Fire Effects on Long-Term Fuels Accumulations in Uneven-Aged Jeffrey Pine Source: Journal of Sustainable Forestry 33(8): 827-859 Year: 2014 Keywords: silviculture prescribed burning Abstract: Forest thinnings implemented through cut-to-length and whole-tree harvesting followed by underburning were evaluated for their effects on long-term downed and dead fuels accumulations in pure, uneven-aged Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.) accompanied by isolated California... Author(s): Tabacaru, C. A., S. M. McPike, N. Erbilgin Title: Fire-mediated interactions between a tree-killing bark beetle and its competitors Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: insects ecology Abstract: In forest ecosystems, biotic interactions such as competition or predation may be mediated by abiotic disturbances such as fire. Bark and ambrosia beetles are 150

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 important biotic factors regulating forest ecosystems, especially tree-killing species that can reach ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102196 Author(s): Tang, W., A. F. Arellano, A. Raman Title: A Comparative Analysis on the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Fire Characteristics in the Amazon and Equatorial Southern Africa Using Observations from Space Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-637, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: Tropical forest fires significantly impact atmospheric composition and regional and global climate. In particular, fires in Equatorial Southern Africa (ESA) and Amazon comprise the two largest contributors to fire emissions of chemically and radiativelyactive ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101831 Author(s): Tao Song, Baoping Tang, Minghang Zhao, Lei Deng Title: An accurate 3-D fire location method based on sub-pixel edge detection and nonparametric stereo matching Source: Measurement 50: 160-171 Year: 2014 Keywords: detection remote sensing Abstract: Fire disasters will cause severe damage to human properties and bring terrible mental and physical injury if they cannot be detected and extinguished in time. As traditional fire detectors, usually acting as alarms, fail to automatically locate fires and extinguish fires, fire detection and location based on binocular stereo vision has attracted much attention recently. But current three-dimensional (3-D) location methods ... Author(s): Tao Sun, Linghan Zhang, Wangli Chen, Xianxiu Tang, Qianqing Qin Title: Mountains Forest Fire Spread Simulator Based on Geo-Cellular Automaton Combined With Wang Zhengfei Velocity Model Source: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 6(4): 1971-1987 Year: 2013 Keywords: modeling physics 151

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a more practical mountain fire spread model for fire behavior prediction and management in Southwest forest area of China. These areas are covered mainly with spatial heterogeneous flammable forest and are characterized by undulating terrain ... Author(s): Tavsanoglu, C., S. S. Catav, B. Ozudogru Title: Fire-related germination and early seedling growth in 21 herbaceous species in Central Anatolian steppe Source: Journal of Arid Environments, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Abstract: The role of fire in shaping plant traits in crown fire ecosystems is well understood, but little attention has been given to surface fire ecosystems. We studied the effect of fire- related cues (heat shock and smoke) on the germination and early seedling growth of 21 ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102226 Author(s): Tepley, Alan J., Thomas T. Veblen Title: Three-hundred-year spatial reconstruction of fire patterns and fire effects in mixedconifer/aspen forests of the San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: history Abstract: Understanding historical fire regimes is fundamental to understanding the factors guiding heterogeneity in forest structure within stands and across landscapes. Although mixed-conifer forests are extensive in western North America and commonly noted for their fine-grained mosaics of varying stand structure and species composition, the role of fire in generating and maintaining ... Author(s): Terren, Domingo Miguel Molina, Adrian Cardil, Leda N. Kozbiar Title: CHALLENGES AND TRENDS IN FIRE USE AND TRAINING IN SOUTH EUROPE AND LATINAMERICA Source: II International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk, Alghero, Italia 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: Training Abstract: Wildfire presents a challenge to natural resources managers the world over, and the intentional setting of fires ("prescribed" burning) can be used to alleviate some of the challenges associated with wildfire management. Prescribed burning can be used 152

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 prior to wildfires, to reduce fuel loads and promote ecological integrity in fire-adapted systems, or counter fires can help firefighters control the direction, extent.... FRI Access Number: 102187 Author(s): Thierry, A., C. Estop-Aragones, J. Fisher, I. Hartley, Julian Murton, Gareth Phoenix, Lorna Street and Mathew Williams Title: The effect of vegetation type and fire on permafrost thaw: An empirical test of a process based model Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-6736, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology modeling Abstract: As conditions become more favourable for plant growth in the high latitudes, most models predict that these areas will take up more carbon during the 21st century. However, vast stores of carbon are frozen in boreal and arctic permafrost, and warming may result in ... FRI Access Number: 101869 Author(s): Tihay, V., A. Simeoni, P.A. Santoni, J.P. Garo and J.P. Vantelon Title: Experimental study of laminar flames obtained by the homogenization of three forest fuels Source: International Journal of Thermal Sciences 48(3): 488-501 Year: 2008 Keywords: behavior physics Abstract: This work aims to improve the understanding of the parameters involved in the burning of vegetative fuels. As the role of the surface-to-volume ratio is already known, we focused on the influence of other parameters. Three Mediterranean species (Pinus pinaster, Erica arborea and Cistus monspeliensis) were crushed in order to decrease the surface-to-volume ratio effects. The burning of these fuel samples produces unsteady, axisymmetric, non-premixed, laminar flames... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102145 Author(s): Tobia, M., R. Tartaglia, A. Giampaoli, R. Perruzza, G. Farina Title: Fire risk analysis with a performance-based fire safety engineering approach and FDS models for underground facilities in Gran Sasso National Laboratories Source: RISK ANALYSIS 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: risk 153

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: The aim of this work is the application of a performance-based approach in the field of the Fire Safety Engineering within the Gran Sasso National Laboratories (LNGS), one of the structures owned and managed by the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). CFD (Computational ... Author(s): Toulouse, T., L. Rossi, T. Celik, M. Akhloufi Title: Automatic fire pixel detection using image processing: A comparative analysis of rule-based and machine learning-based methods Source: Signal, Image and Video Processing, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: This paper presents a comparative analysis of state-of-the art image processingbased fire color detection rules and methods in the context of geometrical characteristics measurement of wildland fires. Two new rules and two new detection methods using an ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102301 Author(s): Treurnicht, Martina, Joern Pagel, Henning Nottebrock, Karen Esler, Anne-Lise Schutte-Vlok, Frank Schurr Title: Environmental drivers of range-wide variation in the demography of serotinous South African Proteaceae Source: Fynbos Forum 2014, Knysna, South Africa; 08/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Climate and fire affect reproduction and mortality of plants. An understanding of these environmental drivers is essential in predicting how global change will alter the abundance and geographical distribution of species. Here we study how reproduction and mortality varies across ... Author(s): Tsibart, A., T. Koshovskii, N. Gamova, R. Kovach Title: Fire effects on peat and organo-mineral soils of Meshchera plain Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-1028, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: peat soils Abstract: The fire effects the soil properties depend on soil type and on their vulnerability to fires. The most of available data is devoted to changes in organo-mineral soils. But the 154

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 peat fires can cause deeper changes in soil profiles, especially in case of drained peat soils. ... FRI Access Number: 101877 Author(s): Turco, Marco, Maria-Carmen Llasat, Jost von Hardenberg, Antonello Provenzale Title: Climate change impacts on wildfires in a Mediterranean environment Source: Climatic Change 125(3-4): 1-12 Year: 2014 Keywords: climate Abstract: We analyse the observed climate-driven changes in summer wildfires and their future evolution in a typical Mediterranean environment (NE Spain). By analysing observed climate and fire data from 1970 to 2007, we estimate the response of fire number (NF) and burned area (BA) to climate ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101946 Author(s): Twumasi, Peter, Marian Asantewah Nkansah, Benard Fei-Baffoe, Michael K. Yeboah, Emmanuel O.K. Addo, Ivy Adom-Appau Title: Managing fire outbreaks in Ghana Source: (book) onesal multimedia Ltd, Accra, Ghana Year: 2013 Keywords: management africa Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Twumasi, Peter, Marian Asantewah Nkansah, Benard Fei-Baffoe, Michael K. Yeboah, Emmanuel O.K. Addo, Ivy Adom-Appau Title: Bush fires and management Source: pages 47-60, in: Managing fire outbreaks in Ghana, onesal multimedia Ltd, Accra, Ghana Year: 2013 Keywords: management africa Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Undaharta, Ni Kadek Erosi and Sutomo Title: Difference in Plant Species Diversity in Burnt and Un Burnt Sites After 1994 Forest Fire on Mount Pohen Batukaru Nature Reerve Bali Source: Journal of Environment and Earth Science 4(10): 59-63 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology 155

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Pohen Mountain had undergone a forest fire in 1994 where it has caused as many as 30.4 ha of forest were burnt and destroyed. Method used for sampling purposes, chose two sites namely burnt and un burnt. Plant abundance was then recorded in each plot. Species diversity can be inferred by calculating Shannon -Wiener (H') diversity ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102057 Author(s): Unzue-Belmonte, D., J. Schaller, F. Vandevenne, L. Barao Title: Fire effects on silica fractionation Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-3067, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: geology soils Abstract: Fire events are expected to increase due to climate change, both in number and intensity Effects range from changes in soil biogeochemistry up to the whole ecosystem functioning and morphology. While N, P and C cycling have received quite some attention, ... FRI Access Number: 101828 Author(s): Urban, Michael A., David M. Nelson, Alayne Street-Perrott, Dirk Verschuren, Feng Sheng Hu Title: A late-Quaternary perspective on atmospheric p CO 2, climate, and fire as drivers of C 4 -grass abundance Source: Ecology 96(3): 642-653 Year: 2015 Keywords: climate grasslands Abstract: Various environmental factors, including atmospheric CO2 (pCO(2)), regional climate, and fire, have been invoked as primary drivers of long-term variation in C-4 grass abundance. Evaluating these hypotheses has been difficult because available paleorecords often lack information... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101997 Author(s): Utkin, Andrei B., Fernando Piedade, Vasco Beixiga, Pedro Mota, Pedro Lousa Title: Scalable lidar technique for fire detection Source: Second International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics. volume 9286, 92860D, August, 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: detection remote sensing 156

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Lidar (light detection and ranging) presents better sensitivity than fire surveillance based on imaging. However, the price of conventional lidar equipment is often too high as compared to passive fire detection instruments. We describe possibilities to downscale the technology. First, a conventional lidar... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102140 Author(s): van der Merwe, Martijn, James P. Minas, Melih Ozlen, John W. Hearne Title: A mixed integer programming approach for asset protection during escaped wildfires Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45: 444-451 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling escape Abstract: Incident Management Teams (IMTs) are responsible for managing the response to wildfires. One of the IMT's objectives is the protection of assets and infrastructure. In this paper we develop a mathematical model to assist IMTs in assigning resources to asset protection activities during wildfires... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102082 Author(s): Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella and Kasia Gabrys Title: Fire on the horizon: contemporary Aboriginal burning issues in the Tanami Desert, central Australia Source: Geojournal 74(5): 465-476 Year: 2009 Keywords: indigenous australia Abstract: ...was conducted on aboriginal perceptions of fire and its management in the southern tanami desert of central australia. the tanami was chosen due to...paper argues that warlpiri perceptions of fire management, needs and skills must be incorporated in a regional fire management strategy if the cycle of wildfire that follows above average... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Valko, O., B. Deak, P. Torok, B. Tothmeresz Title: Prescribed fire as an alternative measure in European grassland conservation Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-9407, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning 157

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: There are contrasting opinions on the perspectives of prescribed burning management in European grasslands. One hand, prescribed burning can be effectively used with relatively low implementation costs for the management of open landscapes, ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101897 Author(s): Veira, A., S. Kloster, S. Wilkenskjeld and S. Remy Title: Fire emission heights in the climate system - Part 1: Global plume height patterns simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2 Source: Atmos. Chem. Phys. 15: 7155-7171 Year: 2015 Keywords: smoke Abstract: We use the global circulation model ECHAM6 ex- tended by the aerosol module HAM2 to simulate global pat- terns in wildfire emission heights. Prescribed plume heights in ECHAM6 are replaced by an implementation of a simple, semi-empirical plume height parametrization. I ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101852 Author(s): Velle, Liv G, Vigdis Vandvik Title: Succession after prescribed burning in coastal Calluna heathlands along a 340-km latitudinal gradient Source: Journal of Vegetation Science 25(2): Year: 2013 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The coastal heathlands of northwest Europe are classified as highly endangered and a habitat of high conservation importance throughout their geographic range. Previous research into heathland vegetation dynamics has typically been carried out within single sites or regions, ... Contact Author:([email protected] FRI Access Number: 102263 Author(s): Velle. Liv Guri, Liv Sigrid Nilsen, Ann Norderhaug, Vigdis Vandvik Title: Does prescribed burning result in biotic homogenisation of coastal heathlands? Source: Global Change Biology 20(5): Year: 2013 Keywords: prescribed burning Abstract: Biotic homogenisation due to replacement of native biodiversity by widespread generalist species has been demonstrated in a number of ecosystems and taxonomic 158

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 groups world-wide, causing growing conservation concern. Human disturbance is a key driver of biotic homogenisation... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102264 Author(s): Verheijen, F., M. MARTINS and J. KEIZER. Title: Biochar and soil hydrology under Mediterranean conditions Source: in: Impact of natural and anthropogenic pyrogenic carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems, edited by Jose maria de la rosa and heike Knicker, IRNAS?CSIC, Reina Mercedes Av, 10. 41012, Seville, Spain, 65 pages Year: 2013 Keywords: carbon ecology FRI Access Number: 102300 Author(s): Vincent, Grace Title: Sleep quantity and quality during planned burn operations Source: Sleep DownUnder 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: health firefighters prescribed burning Abstract: Planned burning is an important part of Australia's bushfire management designed to maintain biodiversity and to reduce the risk posed by bushfires to people and property. During planned burn operations firefighters regularly work day or night shifts of 10-12 hours over ... FRI Access Number: 102103 Author(s): Vinod, P. G., Ajin R. S., Mathew K. Jacob, A. R. R. Menon Title: FOREST FIRE RISK ANALYSIS USING GEOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A STUDY OF PEPPARA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA Source: 2nd Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference 2014 (DRVC2014) 24-26 April 2014 Dept of Geology, Uni Kerala, Trivandrum, India, Trivandrum; 04/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing tropics Abstract: Forest fire is a common problem in the Western Ghats regions of Kerala. Therefore forest fire risk analysis is necessary for forest management. The present study area is also prone to forest fires. The present study deals with the identification of fire risk zones in ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102041 159

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Vivian, L., M. doherty and G. Cary Title: Classifying the fire response traits of plants: is a species-level classification adequate? Source: Bushfire CRC, Program B1.2 Managing bushfire risk in a changing world, 1 page Year: 2008 Keywords: ecology australia FRI Access Number: 102207 Author(s): Wagner, S. A., J. M. Fraterrigo Title: Positive feedbacks between fire and non-native grass invasion in temperate deciduous forests Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Non-native grass invasions have the potential to change natural and prescribed fire regimes by altering fuels, which in turn may promote further invasion. We examined if invasion by Microstegium vimineum, a non-native annual grass, resulted in a positive ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101940 Author(s): Walter, C ., S R Freitas, I Kraut, D Rieger, H Vogel, B Vogel Title: Influence of 2010 Canadian forest fires on cloud formation on the regional scale Source: AGU, San Francisco; 12/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: weather clouds Abstract: A significant fraction of the global aerosol load originates from biomass burning. In this study we quantify the influence of this aerosol type on cloud formation in case of the 2010 Canadian forest fires using the regional modelling system COSMO-ART. Therefore, the ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101951 Author(s): Walker, Joan, Benjamin O. Knapp, Susan Cohen Title: Longleaf pine establishment affects site restoration potential through changes in vegetation, fuels, and fire behavior Source: 97th ESA Annual Convention 2012; 08/2012 Year: 2012 Keywords: behavior 160

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Longleaf pine once dominated large areas of the southeastern US including a broad spectrum of sites from extremely xeric to poorly drained. Most of this firedependent system has been lost to development, and the remaining areas are much altered. Restoring ... Author(s): Watts, Laura M., Shawn W. Laffan Title: Effectiveness of the BFAST algorithm for detecting vegetation response patterns in a semi-arid region Source: Remote Sensing of Environment 154: 234-245 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology Abstract: The effective use of satellite image time series for examining vegetation response patterns across regional extents requires a method which accounts for variation at the seasonal scale while simultaneously detecting abrupt changes in any long term trends. The Breaks for Additive Seasonal and Trend (BFAST) ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Wauters, Nina, Wouter Dekoninck, Henri W. Herrera, Fournier Denis Title: Distribution, behavioral dominance and potential impacts on endemic fauna of tropical fire ant Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in the Galapagos archipelago Source: The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 90(4): 205-220 Year: 2014 Keywords: wildlife insects ants Abstract: Tropical fire ant (TFA), Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804), is considered as one of the most serious threats to the terrestrial fauna of Galapagos, yet little is known about its distribution and impact in the archipelago. We reviewed literature, studied museum specimens and sampled over 62... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102092 Author(s): Wenliang Liu, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Litao Wang Title: An android intelligent mobile terminal application: field data survey system for forest fires Source: Natural Hazards 73(3): 1483-1497 Year: 2014 Keywords: communication equipment Abstract: In order to meet the requirements of data collection in field survey of forest fires, this paper designed and realized a data collection system for forest fire field survey 161

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 based on mobile smart phones with Android system. This android intelligent mobile terminal application contains three main data collection ... Author(s): White, C. R. Title: HUMAN IMPACTS ON FIRE IN DE SOTO NATIONAL FOREST, MISSISSIPPI, USA Source: Unknown source Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology Abstract: Fire is a common occurrence in the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests of the Southeast United States. Prescribed fire is used to manage these threatened ecosystems, but information regarding historical fire activity is unknown. My goals were to determine ... Author(s): Wijesooriya, S. M., G. A. D. Perera Title: Impacts of fire on plant species composition in grasslands at Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka Source: Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress 2014, Postgraduate Institiute of Science, Peradeniya; 10/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology grasslands Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Willis, Kate, stacey ostermann-kelm, thomas w Gillespie Title: Spaceborne remote sensing of the world's protected areas Source: Progress in Physical Geography 39(3): 1-7 Year: 2014 Keywords: remote sensing Abstract: There has been a rapid evolution of satellites, sensors, and techniques to measure, monitor, and manage terrestrial protected areas. There are over 100,000 protected areas around the world and most lack important information on the status and trends of natural resource issues. ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101952 Author(s): Winkler, Rita; Spittlehouse, Dave; Boon, Sarah; Zimonick, Barbara Title: Forest disturbance effects on snow and water yield in interior British Columbia Source: Hydrology Research 46(4): 521-532 Year: 2015 Keywords: ecology hydrology 162

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: Long-term studies at Mayson Lake (ML) and Upper Penticton Creek (UPC) in British Columbia's southern interior quantify snow-dominated hydrologic response to natural disturbances and logging. Following natural disturbance at ML, changes in snow accumulation related directly to mountain pine beetle attack were measurable by the fifth year following attack, when canopy transmittance had increased 24% due to needlefall. In year 1, April 1 snow water... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102047 Author(s): Wolfe, Brett T., Gabriel E. Saldana, Skip J. Van Bloem Title: Fire resistance in a Caribbean dry forest: inferences from bark thickness allometry Source: Journal of Tropical Ecology 30(2): 133-142 Year: 2014 Keywords: resistance damage Abstract: Trees' resistance to fire-induced mortality increases with bark thickness, which varies widely among species and generally increases with stem diameter. Because dry forests are more fire-prone than wetter forests, bark may be thicker in these forests. However, where disturbances such as hurricanes ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101953 Author(s): Won, Myoungsoo, Kyongha Kim, Sangwoo Lee Title: Analysis of Burn Severity in Large-fire Area Using SPOT5 Images and Field Survey Data Source: Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 16(2): 114-124 Year: 2014 Keywords: severity remote sensing Abstract: For classifying fire damaged areas and analyzing burn severity of two large-fire areas damaged over 100 ha in 2011, three methods were employed utilized supervised classification, unsupervised classification and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102010 Author(s): Wondzell, Steven M. and John G. King Title: Post-Fire Erosional Processes in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regions Source: Forest Ecology and Management, available online Year: n. d. Keywords: erosion 163

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Abstract: The objective of this paper is to provide a general overview of the influence of wildland fires on the erosional processes common to the forested landscapes of the western United States. Wildfire can accelerate erosion rates because vegetation is an important factor controlling erosion. There can be great local and regional differences, however, in the relative importance of different erosional processes because of differences in prevailing climate... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102289 Author(s): Wyrwoll, Karl-Heinz, Michael Notaro Title: Aboriginal landscape burning and its impact on the summer monsoon of northern Australia Source: Australian Archaeology 79: 105-119 Year: 2014 Keywords: indigenous australia Abstract: The question of the impact of Aboriginal burning practices on vegetation in Australia has long been a concern of palaeoenvironmental and related archaeological studies and is embedded in wider discussions of human impacts on the environment. But, despite the large... Author(s): Xiaorui Tian, Lifu Shu, Mingyu Wang, Fengjun Zhao, Liguang Chen Title: The fire Danger and Fire Regime for the Daxing-anling Region for 1987- 2010 Source: Procedia Engineering 62: 1023-1031 Year: 2013 Keywords: danger china Abstract: Fire is a major disturbance factor in boreal forest ecosystems. Research on fire regimes is important for understanding fire disturbance and for taking a scientific approach to fire management in the Daxing-anling region. Fire scars in Daxing-anling were extracted from NOAA/MODIS satellite remote sensing data . Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102223 Author(s): Xian Liu, CR Chen, WJ Wang, JM Hughes, Lewis Tom Title: Long-term prescribed burning does not affect the abundance of denitrifier communities in a wet sclerophyll forest of Australia Source: Proceedings of the 5th Joint Australian and New Zealand Soil Science Conference: Soil solutions for diverse landscapes. Hobart. (Eds LL Burkitt and LA Sparrow). (Australian Society of Soil Science Inc.); 12/2012 Year: 2012 164

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: genetics prescribed burning Abstract: A 35 year old repeated prescribed burning trial, with three treatments (no burning as control, 2 yearly burning and 4 yearly burning), was selected to explore how prescribed burning affects the N2O flux, key soil properties (inorganic N, dissolved organic C and N, pH), N-associated functional ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102252 Author(s): Xian Liu, C. R. Chen, W. J. Wang, J. M. Hughes, T. Lewis d, E. Q. Hou, Jupei Shen Title: Soil environmental factors rather than denitrification gene abundance control N2O fluxes in a wet sclerophyll forest with different burning frequency Source: Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57: 292-300 Year: 2013 Keywords: soils prescribed burning frequency Abstract: Production of nitrous oxide (N2O) by anaerobic denitrification is one of the most important processes in the global nitrogen (N) cycle and has attracted recent attention due to its significant impacts on climatic change. Fire is a key driver of many ecosystem processes, however, how ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102253 Author(s): Yan Ding, Kaelin M. Cawley, Catia Nunes da Cunha, Rudolf Jaffe Title: Environmental dynamics of dissolved black carbon in wetlands Source: Biogeochemistry 119(1-3): Year: 2014 Keywords: carbon Abstract: Wetlands are ecosystems commonly characterized by elevated levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and although they cover a surface area less than 2% worldwide, they are an important carbon source representing an estimated 15% of global annual DOC flux to the oceans... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102096 Author(s): Yaroshenko, Alexey, Ilona Zhuravleva Title: Fire return intervals in world northern forests Source: map, Moscow: Greenpeace Russia, 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: frequency russia canada Abstract: Map of estimated fire return intervals in forests north from the 40-th latitude 165

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 FRI Access Number: 101931 Author(s): Yospin, Gabriel I., Samuel W. Wood, Andres Holz, M. J. S. Bowman, Robert E. Keane, Cathy Whitlock Title: Modeling vegetation mosaics in sub-alpine Tasmania under various fire regimes Source: Model. Earth Syst. Environ. 1: 16 Year: 2015 Keywords: modeling ecology Abstract: Western Tasmania, Australia contains some of the highest levels of biological endemism of any temperate region in the world, including vegetation types that are conservation priorities: fire-sensitive rainforest dominated by endemic conifer species in the genus ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102182 Author(s): Yospin, Gabriel I., Robert E. Keane, Cathy Whitlock Title: Simulations of historic and future vegetation and fire dynamics in sub-alpine Tasmania, Australia, using FireBGCv2: Insights from aligning simulation results with historical proxy records Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: modeling ecology Abstract: Anthropogenic global change raises three major research questions about the influences of climate change and human land use and management on vegetation and fire regimes: (1) How have humans and climate influenced historic fire regimes? (2) ... Author(s): Young, Adam M., Philip E. Higuera, Paul A. Duffy, Feng Sheng Hu Title: Fire regime responses to climate and vegetation in Alaskan boreal-forest and tundra ecosystems: Using the historic record to predict the 21st century Source: 98th ESA Annual Convention 2013 Year: 2013 Keywords: climate Abstract: Understanding how climate and vegetation influence fire regimes is crucial for interpreting ecological feedbacks and predicting future changes. Such knowledge is particularly relevant in boreal forest and tundra ecosystems, where increased fire activity ...

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Young, Derek J. N., Lauren M. Porensky, Stephen Fick, Kristina M. Wolf, Laura V. Morales, Kurt J. Vaughn, Mila Dunbar-Irwin, Truman P. Young Title: Burning reveals cryptic diversity and promotes coexistence of native species in a restored California prairie Source: 99th ESA Annual Convention 2014; 08/2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: ecology grasslands Abstract: Grassland and prairie restoration projects in California often result in long-term establishment of only a few native plant species, even when they begin with a diverse palette of species... FRI Access Number: 102075 Author(s): Yuan, C., Z. Liu, Y. Zhang Title: UAV-based forest fire detection and tracking using image processing techniques Source: in: 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) Year: 2015 Keywords: detection remote sensing Abstract: In this paper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based forest fire detection and tracking method is proposed. Firstly, a brief illustration of UAV-based forest fire detection and tracking system is presented. Then, a set of forest fire detection and tracking algorithms ... Author(s): Yuzhe Wang, Zhihong Xu, Junqiang Zheng, Kadum M. Abdullah, Qixing Zhou Title: k 15N of soil nitrogen pools and their dynamics under decomposing leaf litters in a suburban native forest subject to repeated prescribed burning in southeast Queensland, Australia Source: Journal of Soils and Sediments 15(5): 1063-1074 Year: 2015 Keywords: prescribed burning soils nutrients Abstract: Global environmental changes could affect forest productivity and thus organic matter input to soil via litterfall. We conducted a 9-month litter decomposition experiment to examine the effect of litter removal and addition on soil nitrogen (N) dynamics in a subtropical eucalypt forest subject to prescribed burning. Materials and methods Two litter treatments were applied: Addition of double litter ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102251

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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Zahradnicek, Pavel, Miroslav Trnka, Rudolf Brazdil, Martin MoZny, Petr Stepanek, Petr Hlavinka, Zdenek Zalud, Antonin Maly, Daniela Semeradova, Petr Dobrovolny, Martin Dubrovsky and Ladislava Reznickova Title: The extreme drought episode of August 2011?May 2012 in the Czech Republic Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, available online 2014 Year: 2014 Keywords: drought behavior Abstract: The weather conditions from August 2011 to May 2012 produced an extreme drought in the eastern Czech Republic (Moravia), whereas the patterns were nearly normal in its western region (Bohemia). The Southern and Central Moravia regions, which represent the most important agricultural areas, were most affected... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101937 Author(s): Zeigler, Kate E., Andrew B. Heckert, and Spencer G. Lucas Title: Taphonomic analysis of a fire-related Upper Triassic vertebrate fossil assemblage from north-central New Mexico Source: pp. 341-354 in: Geology of the Chama Basin, Lucas, Spencer G.; Zeigler, Kate E.; Lueth, Virgil W.; Owen, Donald E.; [eds.], New Mexico Geological Society 56th Annual Fall Field Conference Guidebook, 456 p. Year: 2005 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: The Snyder quarry is an Upper Triassic bonebed located in north-central New Mexico. The locality is stratigraphically high in the Petrified Forest Formation of the Chinle Group, and tetrapod biostratigraphy places it in the Revueltian land-vertebrate faunachron (mid-Norian in age: 210-215 Ma).... FRI Access Number: 102204 Author(s): Zhang, C., M. McKinney, G. Lasslop, S. Kreidenweis Title: Possible Influences of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Global Fire Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-14502-1, 2015, EGU General Assembly 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: paleohistory Abstract: Possible influences of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on global wildfire are investigated. Glob fire potential and activities are measured by the Nesterov Index (NI), fire danger index (FDI), fire number (FN), and burned area (BA) from the output of a process- ... FRI Access Number: 101829 168

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Author(s): Zhi-guo Wu, Guo-juan Liu, Ming-jia Wang, Suo-jian Wang Title: The technology of forest fire detection based on infrared image Source: ISPDI 2013 - Fifth International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging Year: 2013 Keywords: detection remote sensing Abstract: According to infrared imaging features of forest fire, we use image processing technology which is conducive to early detection and prevention of forest fires. We use image processing technology based on infrared imaging features of forest fire which is conducive to early detection and prevention... Author(s): Zhiyong Wang, Sisi Zlatanova, Aitor Moreno, Peter van Oosterom, Carlos Toro Title: A data model for route planning in case of forest fires Source: Computers and Geosciences 68 Year: 2014 Keywords: planning Abstract: The ability to guide relief vehicles to safety and quickly pass through environments affected by fires is critical in fighting forest fires. In this paper, we focus on route determination in the case of forest fires, and propose a data model that supports finding paths among moving obstacles. This data model captures ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 102148 Author(s): Zhou, K., N. Liu, X. Yuan Title: Effect of Wind on Fire Whirl Over a Line Fire Source: Fire Technology, available online 2015 Year: 2015 Keywords: weather wind behavior Abstract: Fire whirls are often reported to occur in wildland and urban fires due to the effect of ambient wind. This paper presents an experimental study on the fire whirls over a line fire with cross wind, focusing on the occurrence frequency of fire whirls. The experimental ... Contact Author: [email protected] Author(s): Zihe Gao, Jie Ji, Huaxian Wan, Kaiyuan Li, Jinhua Sun Title: An investigation of the detailed flame shape and flame length under the ceiling of a channel Source: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35(3): Year: 2014 169

Current Titles in Wildland Fire, August, 2015 Keywords: behavior Abstract: This paper presents an experimental investigation on the flame shape and length under the ceiling of a channel, and altogether 48 experiments with four experimental setups were performed. The experimental setups include fires in the open space, flush with a wall without ceiling, at the longitudinal ... Contact Author: [email protected] FRI Access Number: 101957

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