Sentences with phrase «fire ecologist»
A fire ecologist is a scientist who studies the effects of wildfires on ecosystems and works to understand how fire can be managed to benefit both ecosystems and people. Full definition
Penelope Morgan, a professor and fire ecologist at the University of Idaho, said there «is no doubt» changes in climate are contributing to an uptick in fires, especially across the West.
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As Ryan Haugo, a senior fire ecologist with the Nature Conservancy, explained, «It was a traumatizing fire season.»
«The norm is shifting,» says lead author W. Matt Jolly, a Forest Service fire ecologist.
The combination of dead trees and burning forests will release more carbon, contributing to warming in a feedback loop that adds to global carbon accumulations, said Jolly, the Forest Service research fire ecologist.
Bart co-wrote the paper with Bren professor Naomi Tague and fire ecologist Max Moritz, an associate at UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Everybody is trying to try to do things before the wildfire comes,» said Jose «Pepe» Iñiguez, a landscape fire ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station.
But fire ecologists still «estimated that approximately 3 to 6 times more area must be burned to restore historical fire regimes.»
But by 1996 fire ecologist Thomas Swetnam echoed the growing consensus against fire suppression.
This could culminate in a feedback loop that adds to global carbon accumulations, said Matt Jolly, a Forest Service researcher and fire ecologist whose study was published in Nature Communications.
Matt Jolly, a Forest Service research fire ecologist and the study's lead author, attributed the changes in fire behavior to human - caused changes in climate.
«Fuels are drier when temperatures go up,» said Peter Fulé, a fire ecologist at Northern Arizona University.
As any fire ecologist will tell you, different ecosystems have different relationships with fire, and what is a severe fire for one ecosystem isn't severe for another but you get the idea.)
However, one caveat of the new paper is that it does not consider whether wildfires have become more severe over the past few decades, says Prof David Bowman, a fire ecologist from the University of Tasmania, who was not involved in the study.
«The 2015 season here in Alaska is day by day progressing to be a truly outstanding fire year relative to our rather brief historical record of annual area burned (1950 is as far back as I feel provides rather accurate numbers),» Scott Rupp, a fire ecologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said in an email.
-- Mark Cochrane, a fire ecologist at South Dakota State University [9]