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Edge effects of wildfire and riparian buffers along boreal forest streams.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Braithwaite, N. T. & Mallik, A. U.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Clearcutting and wildfire are the two major edge-creating disturbances in boreal forests. While clearcutting retains at least a 30 m buffer, wildfires...

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Burning for conservation values: should the goal be to mimic a natural fire regime?

Published online: 15 Apr 2015

Authors: Hermann, S. M. & Kush, J. S. & Gilbert, J. C. & Barlow, R. J.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Managers are often asked to include conservation values in forest management plans. In the upland coastal plain of the southeastern United States, fir...

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Divergent fire management leads to multiple beneficial outcomes for butterfly conservation in a production mosaic.

Published online: 25 Aug 2020

Authors: Gaigher, R. & Samways, M. J. & Samways, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Fire is an intrinsic component of many natural ecosystems. In human-modified landscapes that occur in fire-driven ecosystems, it can be difficult to m...

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Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii, 2016.

Published online: 02 Jan 2019

Authors: Potter, K. M.

Content type: Bulletin article

This paper presents analyses of fire occurrence data, collected nationally each day by satellite, that map and quantify where fire occurrences were co...

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Wildland Fire in the Appalachians: Discussions Among Managers and Scientists, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, 8-10 October 2013.

Published online: 04 Feb 2015

Authors: Waldrop, T. A.

Content type: Bulletin; Conference proceedings

These proceedings contain papers presented at the 'Wildland Fire in the Appalachians: Discussions Among Managers and Scientists', held in Roanoke, Vir...

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Informed multi-objective decision-making in environmental management using Pareto optimality.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Kennedy, M. C. & Ford, E. D. & Singleton, P. & Finney, M. & Agee, J. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effective decision-making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods...

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Fuel, fire and cattle in African highlands: traditional management maintains a mosaic heathland landscape.

Published online: 08 Oct 2014

Authors: Johansson, M. U. & Granström, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Shrubland ecosystems are often inherently flammable due to a canopy structure favourable for fire propagation. At the same time, the fuel bed is not s...

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Barriers to tree seedling emergence on human-induced grasslands in Sri Lanka.

Published online: 10 Mar 2010

Authors: Gunaratne, A. M. T. A. & Gunatilleke, C. V. S. & Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. & Weerasinghe, H. M. S. P. M. & Burslem, D. F. R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Colonization by woody plants is often very slow or absent on grasslands occupying degraded land in the tropics. Seed dispersal limitation is widely re...

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Forest change on a steep mountain gradient after extended fire exclusion: San Francisco Peaks, Arizona, USA.

Published online: 02 Nov 2005

Authors: Cocke, A. E. & Fulé, P. Z. & Crouse, J. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

More than a century of forest management, including fire exclusion, livestock grazing and tree harvesting, may have affected forest structure and comp...

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Oak regeneration ecology and dynamics.

Published online: 04 Feb 2015

Authors: Dey, D. C.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The regeneration potential of oak following a disturbance or harvest that initiates stand regeneration is determined largely by the size structure of ...

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