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Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
Research and Publications Database
The NRFSN research and publications database leads users to regionally relevant fire science. There are more than 3,600 documents, which have been carefully categorized by the NRFSN to highlight topics and ecosystems important in the Northern Rockies Region. Categorized resources include records from the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES), and Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).
Note: Additional Northern Rockies fire research is available from our Webinar & Video Archive.
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Setting suitable conservation targets is an important part of ecological fire planning. Growth-stage optimisation (GSO) determines the relative proportions of post-fire growth stages (categorical representations of time since fire) that maximise species diversity, and is a useful method for determining such targets. Optimisation...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article The 2010 Church’s Park Fire burned beetle-killed lodgepole pine stands in Colorado, including recently salvage-logged areas, creating a fortuitous opportunity to compare the effects of salvage logging, wildfire and the combination of logging followed by wildfire. Here, we examine tree regeneration, surface fuels, understory plants,...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Seed mixes used for post-fire seeding in the Great Basin are often selected based on short-term rehabilitation objectives, such as ability to rapidly establish and suppress invasive exotic annuals that drive altered fire-regimes via fine build-up (e.g. cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum L.), but longer-term considerations are also...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Technical Report or White Paper Models based on functional traits have limited power in predicting how animal populations respond to disturbance because they do not capture the range of demographic and biological factors that drive population dynamics, including variation in trophic interactions. I tested the hypothesis that successional changes in vegetation...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Following wildfire, mountainous areas of the western United States are susceptible to debris flow during intense rainfall. Convective storms that can generate debris flows in recently burned areas may occur during or immediately after the wildfire, leaving insufficient time for development and implementation of risk mitigation...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article New fire disturbance regimes under accelerating global environmental change can have unprecedented consequences for ecosystem resilience, lessening ecosystem natural regeneration. In the Mediterranean Basin, firedependent obligate seeder forests that are prone to increasingly frequent stand-replacing fires and then salvaged logged...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Wildfire increases the likelihood of runoff, erosion, and downstream sedimentation in many of the watersheds that supply water for Colorado’s Front Range communities. The objectives of this study were to: (1) identify rainfall intensity thresholds for a post-fire runoff or sediment delivery response at plots (≤0.06 ha), hillslopes (...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Forest wildfires consume fuel and are followed by post-fire fuel accumulation. This study examines post-fire surface fuel dynamics over 9 years across a wide range of conditions characteristic of California fires in dry conifer and hardwood forests. We estimated post-fire surface fuel loadings (Mg ha−1) from 191 repeatedly measured...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Climate change indirectly affects forest ecosystems through changes in the frequency, size, and/or severity of wildfires. In addition to its direct effects prior to fire, climate also influences immediate postfire recruitment, with consequences for future vegetation structure and fire activity. A major uncertainty, therefore, is if...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Forested watersheds supply drinking water for millions of people in the United States. The increased frequency and severity of wildfires during recent decades have elevated public concern regarding source water protection. Large, high-severity wildfires alter the physical and biological conditions that determine how watersheds...
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Technical Report or White Paper Pages
These resources are compiled in partnership with the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES), and Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).
Joint Fire Science Program
The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program (FireScience.gov).
