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Duff mound consumption and cambium injury for centuries-old western larch from prescribed burning in western Montana
Western larch is one of the most fire-adapted conifers in western North America. Its historical perpetuation depended upon regular fire disturbances, which creates open stand conditions and mineral seedbeds. A stand of 200- to 500-year-old larch in…
Author(s): Michael G. Harrington
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Wilderness shapes contemporary fire size distributions across landscapes of the western United States
In many U.S. federally designated wilderness areas, wildfires are likely to burn of their own accord due to favorable management policies and remote location. Previous research suggested that limitations on fire size can result from the evolution of…
Author(s): Sandra L. Haire, Kevin McGarigal, Carol Miller
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Historical fire regimes, reconstructed from land-survey data, led to complexity and fluctuation in sagebrush landscapes
Sagebrush landscapes provide habitat for Sage-Grouse and other sagebrush obligates, yet historical fire regimes and the structure of historical sagebrush landscapes are poorly known, hampering ecological restoration and management. To remedy this,…
Author(s): Beth E. Bukowski, William L. Baker
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Aboriginal precedent for active management of sagebrush-perennial grass communities in the Great Basin
Until recently, most contemporary ecologists have ignored or diminished anecdotal historical accounts and anthropologists' reports about aboriginal fire in the Great Basin. Literature review shows that Indians practiced regular use of fire for…
Author(s): Kent J. McAdoo, Brad W. Schultz, Sherman R. Swanson
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Health, reproduction, and fuels in whitebark pine in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area in central Idaho (Project INT-F-05-02)
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) is in serious decline across its range, largely due to the combined effects of Cronartium ribicola J. C. Fisch (an introduced fungal pathogen that causes white pine blister rust), replacement by late…
Author(s): Lauren Fins, Ben Hoppus
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Landscape-scale eco-evolutionary dynamics: selection by seed predators and fire determine a major reproductive strategy
Recent work in model systems has demonstrated significant effects of rapid evolutionary change on ecological processes (eco-evolutionary dynamics). Fewer studies have addressed whether eco-evolutionary dynamics structure natural ecosystems. We…
Author(s): Matt V. Talluto, Craig W. Benkman
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Postfire changes in forest carbon storage over a 300‐year chronosequence of Pinus contorta‐dominated forests
A warming climate may increase the frequency and severity of stand-replacing wildfires, reducing carbon (C) storage in forest ecosystems. Understanding the variability of postfire C cycling on heterogeneous landscapes is critical for predicting…
Author(s): Daniel M. Kashian, William H. Romme, Daniel B. Tinker, Monica G. Turner, Michael G. Ryan
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Fire regimes of quaking aspen in the mountain west
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is the most widespread tree species in North America, and it is found throughout much of the Mountain West (MW) across a broad range of bioclimatic regions. Aspen typically regenerates asexually and…
Author(s): Douglas J. Shinneman, William L. Baker, Paul C. Rogers, Dominik Kulakowski
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Climate and vegetation change during the late-glacial/early Holocene transition inferred from multiple proxy records from Blacktail Pond, Yellowstone National Park, USA
A series of environmental changes from late-glacial ice recession through the early Holocene are revealed in a 7000-yr-long record of pollen, charcoal, geochemistry, and stable isotopes from Blacktail Pond, a closed-basin lake in Yellowstone…
Author(s): Teresa R. Krause, Cathy L. Whitlock
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