Author: Domingo Miguel MolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Effects of Prescribed Burning on Vegetation and Soil Water Processes in Mixed-conifer Forest Stands at Boggs Mountain State Forest, California
Author: Domingo Miguel MolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Effects of Prescribed Fire on Understory Vegetation in Mixed-conifer Forests of the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
Author: Karen WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prescribed burning
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Prescribed Fire Effects on Physical and Hydrological Properties of Mixed-conifer Forest Floor and Soil
Author: James K. AgeeEffects of Fire on Soil
Author: The Effects of Fire and Fuels Reduction Treatments on Fire Hazard and Soil Carbon Respiration in a Sierra Nevada Pine Plantation
Author: Leda Nikola KobziarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"Throughout fire-adapted forests of the western US, and in the Sierra Nevada of California specifically, wildfire suppression has produced forest structures conducive to more severe, costly, and ecologically deleterious fires. Recent legislation has identified the necessity of management practices that manipulate forests towards less fire-hazardous structures. In the approximately 30 year old pine plantations of the Stanislaus National Forest, extensive fuels reduction procedures are being implemented. This dissertation addresses whether silvicultural and burning treatments are effective at reducing the intensity and severity of potential fire behavior, and how, along with wildfire, these treatments impact the evolution of carbon dioxide from the soil to the atmosphere. The first chapter addresses the relationships between soil respiration, tree injury, and forest floor characteristics in high and low severity wildfire burn sites in a salvage-logged mixed-conifer forest. The results indicate that fire severity influences soil CO2 efflux and should be considered in ecosystem carbon modeling. In the next chapter, fire models suggest that mechanical shredding of understory vegetation (mastication) is detrimental, and prescribed fire most effective in reducing potential fire behavior and severity in pine plantations. The third chapter documents the impact of alternative fuels treatments on soil carbon respiration patterns in the pine plantations, and shows that mastication produces short-term reductions in respiration rates and soil moisture. The final chapter further examines the relationships of fire-induced tree injuries, forest floor structure, and environmental factors to soil respiration response to fuels treatments. Each chapter is written as an independent manuscript; they collectively serve to expand the limited understanding of the effectiveness and ecological consequences of fire and fuels treatments in coniferous forests."--Abstract
American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Multiresource Effects of a Stand-Replacement Prescribed Fire in the Pinus contorta-Abies lasiocarpa Vegetation Zone of Central Washington
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142896102X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Author: Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Vegetation Management
Author: Harold BiswellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520219457
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle. This comprehensive study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new foreword by James Agee, this book places Biswell's study—and his legacy—in the context of recent developments in the field.