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| Harr, Ryan N.; Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Iowa State University; ryan.harr@dnr.iowa.gov; Wright Morton, Lois; Iowa State University; lwmorton@iastate.edu; Rusk, Shannon R.; Iowa State University; rusk@iastate.edu; Engle, David M.; Oklahoma State University; david.engle@okstate.edu; Miller, James R.; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; jrmillr@illinios.edu; Debinski, Diane; Iowa State University; debinski@iastate.edu. |
| Ecologists recognize that fire and herbivory are essential to maintaining habitat quality in grassland ecosystems. Prescribed fire and grazing are typically used on public reserves to increase biodiversity, improve grassland productivity, and control encroachment of woody plants. However, these tools, particularly prescribed fire, have not been widely adopted by private landowners. Fire suppression and prescribed fire are strategies that present competing risks to owners who make management decisions. We explore landowner perceptions of risk associated with (1) eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) encroachment, and (2) the use of prescribed fire to control woody species in the Grand River Grasslands of Iowa and Missouri, USA. We found that although... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Concept mapping; Eastern redcedar; Fire suppression; Grassland management; Landowner perception; Prescribed fire; Private landowners; Risk perception; Tallgrass prairie. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Lepofsky, Dana; Simon Fraser University; dlepofsk@sfu.ca; Heyerdahl, Emily K; USDA Forest Service; eheyerdahl@fs.fed.us; Lertzman, Ken; Simon Fraser University; lertzman@sfu.ca; Mierendorf, Bob; North Cascades National Park Service Complex; Bob_Mierendorf@nps.gov. |
| The recent encroachment of woody species threatening many western North American meadows has been attributed to diverse factors. We used a suite of methods in Chittenden Meadow, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, to identify the human, ecological, and physical factors responsible for its historical dynamics and current encroachment by woody vegetation. We evaluated three hypotheses about the origin and processes maintaining the meadow: the meadow is (1) of recent human origin; (2) of ancient human origin, maintained by aboriginal burning; and (3) of ancient non-human origin, not maintained by aboriginal burning. Our data supported the idea that the meadow had ancient non-human origins and its recent history and current status have resulted from... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Anthropogenic influence; Archaeology; British Columbia; Cascade Range; Chittenden Meadow; Climate change; Dendrochronology; Fire suppression; Historical dynamics; Meadows; Ponderosa pine; Tree encroachment. |
| Ano: 2003 |
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| Pinheiro,Marcelo H.O.; Azevedo,Thiago S. de; Monteiro,Reinaldo. |
| The analysis of the influence of edaphic finer textures, as a facilitating factor for the expansion of forest formations in the absence of fire, was possible thanks to rare characteristics found in a savanna fragment located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The total suppression of fire for over four decades, and the occurrence of two savanna physiognomies, cerrado sensu stricto and cerradão, allowed the conduction of this study based on the hypothesis that cerradão, a physiognomy of forest aspect consisting of fire-sensitive tree and shrubs species, is favored by fire absence and higher soil hydric retention capacity. Edaphic samples were collected from a regular grid of 200 m² for the production of isopletic maps of the distribution of clay, fine sand,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cerrado; Fire suppression; Geostatistics; Savanna dynamics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652010000200014 |
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