Sentences with phrase «vegetation fires in»

Murdiyarso, D., L. Lebel, A.N. Gintings, S.M.H. Tampubolon, A. Heil, and M. Wasson, 2004: Policy responses to complex environmental problems: Insights from a science - policy activity on transboundary haze from vegetation fires in Southeast Asia.

During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.

Not exact matches

Nearly a decade after being logged, vegetation in forested areas severely burned by California's Cone Fire in 2002 was relatively similar to areas untouched by logging equipment.

En route we encounter several large swaths of vegetation smoldering in prescribed burns — fires set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to clear undergrowth or control insect pests.

Pixel by pixel analysis of vegetation changes from week to week to give an early warning for the outbreaks of drought, hazardous fire conditions, or even when malaria may break out in Sub-Saharan Africa.

«We looked at the correlations between the Palmer Drought Severity Index - which summarizes moisture characteristics in soil and vegetation - and acres burned, or fire frequency.

«The lower capacity of floodplain forests to recover suggests that these areas can be trapped by recurrent fires in an open vegetation state more easily than the uplands,» says Milena Holmgren of Wageningen University & Research and a coauthor of the study.

And even if the flames do approach, the waste is stored in an area cleared of vegetation and protected by fire teams, officials said.

«There are real questions about whether we are beginning to see a shift in vegetation types driven by fire activity fueled by fire suppression and climate change.»

«You are probably getting a vegetation change due to that first fire that's going to cause more high - severity fires in the future and potentially the emergence of non-forest that could last for a long time.»

The amount of groundwater present is a good indicator of fire risk, said Morton, because the signal persists longer and holds the «memory» of water in the soil that is the main source of moisture for trees and vegetation.

Using 24 five - acre plots in northern California, researchers reduced vegetation by 95 percent with either prescribed fire or mastication in three different seasons (winter, fall and spring).

«Biochar is found in soils around the world as a result of vegetation fires and historic soil management practices,» reports the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), a trade group representing the world's burgeoning biochar industry.

The more arid the vegetation — or fuels in the scientific literature — the more area burned and the more severe the fires tend to be.

Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history across an elevational gradient in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada.

Postglacial fire, climate, and vegetation history along an environmental gradient in the northern Rocky Mountains.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Interestingly they only do this when the fire has been particularly intense, leaving no pockets of unburnt vegetation behind for native animals to hide in.

A dynamic habitat map was created so that fire and vegetation attributes at any location or point in time could be determined.

Set in a breathtaking tropical landscape, the latest racing title from Evolution Studios sets out to rectify several glaring problems from the original Motorstorm, as well as refine the racing style that has defined this series so well.Though some may view this title as an expansion rather than a full - fledged sequel, the inclusion of water, fire and vegetation within Pacific Rift's environments adds another layer of depth to the gameplay.

In another interesting segment, CBS News reported on how scientists are developing ways to fight fires before they start by analyzing the moisture content in the vegetation and predicting where fires could starIn another interesting segment, CBS News reported on how scientists are developing ways to fight fires before they start by analyzing the moisture content in the vegetation and predicting where fires could starin the vegetation and predicting where fires could start.

A scientifically - informed cooperative strategy for managing vegetation fires with the climate in mind might help defuse tensions between rich and poor nations tussling over provisions in the draft climate agreement on climate aid and emissions cuts.

It is well known that the majority of carbon stored in vegetation mostly returns to the atmosphere through the processes of decay, fire, and / or slow oxidation.

Livestock grazing and fire suppression effects, for example, have arguably had minimal effects on changes in vegetation and fuel dynamics in many shrublands (e.g., southern California chaparral) or in higher elevation spruce - fir forests.

His team also found significant increases in temperature and wind speeds that lengthen fire seasons on all continents except Australia, and in most vegetation types except boreal forests.

I have a strong understanding of government administration, legislative review, analysis and inquiries generated through involvement in or management of the Australian Regional Forest Agreement process, Parliamentary and Government inquiries, Coronial inquiries and public submissions on water pricing, access and use rights and native vegetation legislation in Australia and fire and natural resources laws, regulations and policies in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa and Malaysia.

As Arctic and sub-Arctic regions warm more than the global average, the increase in temperature could lead to more regular fire damage to vegetation and soils and carbon release.

The list of areas of additional analysis included in the BLM is long, including — but not limited to: special status wildlife and vegetation species; cultural resources; geology and soils; hazards and hazardous materials; paleontological resources; recreation; socioeconomics and environmental justice; visual resources; and wildland fire ecology.

Deforestation, fires and grazing have destroyed the vegetation in 95 percent of the Mediterranean Basin.

Globally, peatlands store about 30 % of the world's soil carbon in only 3 % of its land area, but this carbon is vulnerable to the fast burn of fires, and may be released in the form of carbon dioxide if the water balance and natural vegetation are altered.

Using pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records to identify the distribution and composition of tropical vegetation and fire patterns over the past 11,000 years, Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, found evidence of widespread fire use for land - clearing by pre-Colombian populations in Latin America.

In addition, vegetation better used for grazing instead fuels the fires of the charcoal kilns.

The change happens as more vegetation grows in the warming Arctic, and forests struggle to survive against fire and insect infestations in warmer and drier conditions.

(08/13/2012) Clearing forests and other vegetation with fire in Southeast Asia can kill, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.

c) Michael - Shawn Fletcher, Patricio Iván Moreno: Vegetation, climate and fire regime changes in the Andean region of southern Chile (38 ° S) covaried with centennial - scale climate anomalies in the tropical Pacific over the last 1500 years Quaternary Science Reviews, (16 July 2012) Volume 4, Pages 46 — 56.

The fires, which have increased 350 % over the same period in 2009, have devastated large areas of some Cerrado national parks, threaten to cause large scale changes to vegetation cover and are being reflected in a marked rise in respiratory complaints in the human population.

Charcoal in northcentral Alaskan lake sediments: relationships to fire and Late - Quaternary vegetation history

Most studies focussing on the historical role of fire in vegetation development have used indirect fire evidence based on pollen - slide and thin - section methods applied predominantly to lake sediments (Cwynar 1978; Swain 1978, 1980; Terasmae & Weeks 1979; Green 1982; Patterson et al. 1987; Clark 1988; MacDonald et al. 1991; Clark & Royall 1996; Carcaillet et al. 2001; Asselin & Payette 2005a).

Change of fire frequency in the Eastern Canadian boreal forests during the Holocene: does vegetation composition or climate trigger the fire regime?

Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, fire conditions will become even more persistent in areas already at risk, and will spread to new regions as warming drives vegetation patterns and land - use changes.

Interaction of fire, climate and vegetation change at a large landscape scale in the Big Woods of Minnesota, USA

Once I was asked to evaluate the stats used in a project that compared two maps (one a fire history map and the other a current vegetation map).

Reconstructed mass balance yielded accumulation and ablation each of ~ 3 km3 / yr, with glacial movement near the equilibrium line altitude dominated by basal sliding.Pollen and charcoal records from three lakes in northern Yellowstone provide information on the postglacial vegetation and fire history.

Similar connections between fire, vegetation and climate are known for other large ecotones like the prairie - forest border in Central North America (Grimm 1983, 1984; Umbanhowar 2004).

Carbon residence time depends on the turnover rates of plant parts and the mortality rates of individuals, processes modeled using baseline rates, climate sensitivities (including fire), and competitively induced mortality, and are affected indirectly through shifts in vegetation composition, although not all these processes are treated in all models (SI Text).

With respect to why there was a significant increase in tree density over the past several decades, Dolanc offers that the changes in the density and composition of lower - elevation forests are consistent with fire suppression; but that the density increases in high - elevation vegetation types (subalpine forests generally don't burn) are «more likely to be caused by changing climate.»

(Right) Letters indicate relevant processes for residence time and NPP behavior included in each model: D, dynamic vegetation; F, fire; N, N cycle; P, permafrost; V, vapor pressure deficit affects stomatal conductance; S, temperature affects senescence; and M, temperature affects mortality.

But there's also the minor matter of people building homes in wildfire - susceptible forests, overgrown with vegetation due to decades of fire suppression.

Recent research into boreal forests in Canada found that fires can transform the forest from a weak carbon sink to a weak carbon source by altering the balance of vegetation present.

Extensive forest fires in 1936 increased their preferred vegetation and feasting on young vegetation in a regenerating forest, the population rebounded until it peaked, followed by increasing winter starvation.