Forests and Fire

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Carey, H., M.Schumann. 2003. Modifying wildfire behavior—the effectiveness of fuel treatments. Santa Fe, NM: National Community Forestry Center.

Keiter, R.B., 2006. The law of fire: reshaping public land policy in an era of ecology and litigation. Environmental Law. 36:301-384.

Reilly, M.J., M.C. Wimberly, C.L. Newell. 2006. Wildfire effects on plant species richness at multiple spatial scales in forest communities of the southern Appalachians. Journal of Ecology, 94:118-130.

Guyette, R.P., D.C. Dey, M.C. Stambaugh, R.M. Muzika. 2006. Fire scars reveal variability and dynamics of eastern fire regimes. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference. November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 304 p.

Rhodes, J.J., W.L. Baker. 2008. Fire probability, fuel treatment effectiveness and ecological tradeoffs in western U.S. public forests. The Open Forest Science Journal, I:1-7

Fraver, S. B. Palik, J.B. Bradford, D. Shinneman. 2011. Effects of blowdown, salvage logging, and wildfire on regeneration and fuel characteristics in Minnesota’s forests. Final Report: Joint Fire Science Program Project 08-1-5-04.

Matlack, G.R. 2012. Reassessment of the use of fire as a management tool in deciduous forests of eastern North America. Conservation Biology. 27,5:916-926.

Kelly, L.T., A.F. Bennet, M.F. Clarke, M.A. Mccarthy. 2014. Optimal fire histories for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology. 0:1-9.

Calkin, D.E., J.D. Cohen, M.A. Finney, M.P. Thompson. 2014. How risk management can prevent future wildfire disasters in the wildland-urban interface. PNAS 111, 2:746-751.

 Odion, D.C., et all. 2014. Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of western North America. PLOS One. 9-2:1-14.

 Wagner, S.A., J.M. Fraterrigo. 2015. Positive feedbacks between fire and non-native grass invasion in temperate deciduous forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 354:170-176.

 Bond, M.L., R.B. Siegel, R.L. Hutto, V.A. Saab, S.A. Shunk. 2012. A new forest fire paradigm: the need for high-severity fires. The Wildlife Professional: Winter 2012:46-49.

 Arthur, M.A., H.D. Alexander, D.C. Dey, C.J. Schweitzer, D.L. Loftis. 2012. Refining the oak-fire hypothesis for management of oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States. Journal of Forestry, 257-266.

Abrams, M. D., J. Gelroth, D. Sampson, L.C. Hulbert, T.C. Swetnam, E.S. Menges. 1985. Fire history of oak gallery forests in a northeast Kansas tallgrass prairie. The American Midland Naturalist 188-191.

Abrams, M.D. 1992. Fire and the development of oak forests. Bioscience, 42,5:346-353.

Campbell, J. L., M. E. Harmon, S. R. Mitchell. 2011. Can fuel-reduction treatments really increase forest carbon storage in the western US by reducing future fire emissions? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Marannon-Jimenez, S. J. Castro, E. Fernandez-Ondono, R. Zamora. 2013. Charred wood remaining after a wildfire as a reservoir of macro- and micronutrients in a Mediterranean pine forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire

 Vose, J.M., W.T. Swank. 1993. Site preparation burning to improve southern Appalachian pine-hardwood stands: aboveground biomass, forest floor mass, and nitrogen and carbon pools. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 23:2255-2262

 Shumway, D.L., M.D. Abrams, C.M. Ruffner. 2001. A 400-year history of fire and oak recruitment in an old-growth oak forest in western Maryland, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 31-8:1437-1443.

 Guyette, R.P., R.M. Muzika, D.C. Dey. 2002. Dynamics of an Anthropogenic Fire Regime. Ecosystems, 5-5:472-486.

 Lafon, C.W., J.D. Waldron, D.M. Cairns, M.D. Tchakerian, R.N. Coulson, K.D. Klepzip. 2007. Modeling the effects of fire on the long-term dynamics and restoration of yellow pine and oak forests in the southern Appalachian mountains. Restoration Ecology, 15-3:400-411.

Martin, K.L., D.M. Hix, P.C. Goebel. 2011. Coupling of vegatation layers and environmental influences in a mature, second-growth Central Hardwood forest landscape. Forest Ecology and Management, 261:720-729.

Delcourt, H.R., P.A. Delcourt. 1997. Pre-columbian native American use of fire on southern Appalachian landscapes. Conservation Biology, 11-4:1010-1014.

 Naficy, C., A. Sala, E.G. Keeling, J. Graham, T.H. DeLuca. 2010. Interactive effects of historical logging and fire exclusion on ponderosa pine forest structure in the northern Rockies. Ecological Applications, 20(7):1851-1864.