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Michael Visner, Sara Shirowzhan and Chris Pettit
The 2019?2020 bushfire season is estimated to be one of the worst fire seasons on record in Australia, especially in New South Wales (NSW). The devastating fire season ignited a heated public debate on whether prescribed burning is an effective tool for ...
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Torgrim Log, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv Guri Velle and Maria-Monika Metallinou
In recent years, severe and deadly wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have resulted in an increased focus on this particular risk to humans and property, especially in Canada, USA, Australia, and countries in the Mediterranean area. Also, in areas not ...
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Rebecca Mary Bernadette Harris, Tomas Remenyi, Paul Fox-Hughes, Peter Love and Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Changes to the frequency of fire due to management decisions and climate change have the potential to affect the flammability of vegetation, with long-term effects on the vegetation structure and composition. Frequent fire in some vegetation types can le...
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M. Talat Odman, Ran Huang, Aditya A. Pophale, Rushabh D. Sakhpara, Yongtao Hu, Armistead G. Russell and Michael E. Chang
Prescribed burning (PB) is practiced throughout the USA, most extensively in the southeast, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the ecosystem and reducing wildfire risk. However, PB emissions contribute significantly to trace gas and particulate...
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Robert E. Keane
Wildfire in declining whitebark pine forests can be a tool for ecosystem restoration or an ecologically harmful event. This document presents a set of possible wildfire management practices for facilitating the restoration of whitebark pine across its ra...
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Zifei Liu, Yang Liu, James P. Murphy and Ronaldo Maghirang
Prescribed rangeland burning in April is a long-standing practice in the Flint Hills region of eastern Kansas to maintain the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The smoke plumes originating from these fires increases ambient PM2.5 concentrations and...
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Ferhat Kara,Edward F. Loewenstein,Dale G. Brockway
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Aim of study: Uneven-aged (UEA) management systems can achieve multiple-use objectives, however, use of UEA techniques to manage longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) forests are still open to question, because of the species? intolerance of competition....
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Gurbir Singh, Jon E. Schoonover, Kyle S. Monroe, Karl W. J. Williard and Charles M. Ruffner
Prescribed fire has several benefits for managing forest ecosystems including reduction of fuel loading and invasive species and enhanced regeneration of desirable tree species. Along with these benefits there are some limitations like nutrient and sedim...
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Hongmei Zhao, Xuelei Zhang, Shichun Zhang, Weiwei Chen, Daniel Q. Tong and Aijun Xiu
Burning agricultural straw before and/or after harvest is a common farming practice. Regional and extensive agricultural open field straw burning can cause serious air pollution events. This paper looks at the effects of biomass burning emission on regio...
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Domingo M. Molina-Terrén, Adrian Cardil and Leda N. Kobziar
Wildfire presents a challenge to natural resource managers the world over, and the intentional setting of fires can be used to alleviate some of the challenges associated with wildfire management. Prescribed burning can be used prior to wildfires to redu...
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