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Mapping fire history and quantifying burned area through 35 years of prescribed fire history at an Illinois tallgrass prairie restoration site using GIS.

Published online: 02 Jul 2022

Authors: Rowland-Schaefer, E. G. & Bach, E. M. & Kleiman, B. P. & Jones, H. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Fire was important to pre-colonization prairies. In today's remnant and reconstructed prairies, managers frequently employ prescribed fire, a historic...

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FIRETOOL: an expert system for the use of prescribed fires in Brazilian savannas.

Published online: 10 Aug 1996

Authors: Pivello, V. R. & Norton, G. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A prototype expert system, FIRETOOL, was developed to help decision makers and managers use prescribed burns for the ecological management of Brazilia...

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Informed multi-objective decision-making in environmental management using Pareto optimality.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Kennedy, M. C. & Ford, E. D. & Singleton, P. & Finney, M. & Agee, J. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effective decision-making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods...

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Bush-control studies in the drier areas of Kenya. IV. Effects of controlled burning on secondary thicket in upland Acacia woodland.

Published online: 27 Nov 1967

Authors: Thomas, D. B. & Pratt, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Observations on two burning regimes during a 3-year period in Machakos district (5200 ft. alt., rainfall 25 in./year) showed that these thickets can b...

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Fire prevents woody encroachment only at higher-than-historical frequencies in a South African savanna.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Case, M. F. & Staver, A. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Woody encroachment is a pervasive challenge facing savanna and grassland managers world-wide. Proposed drivers of the phenomenon range from local chan...

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Brush-control studies in the drier areas of Kenya. 4. Effects of controlled burning on secondary thicket in upland Acacia Woodland.

Published online: 05 Mar 1968

Authors: Thomas, D. B. & Pratt, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Two burning regimes (burning each year during 1958-60 and burning in 1958 and 1960 only) were compared for the clearance of thicket in Acacia woodland...

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Silviculture to restore oak woodlands and savannas.

Published online: 25 Sep 2019

Authors: Dey, D. C. & Knapp, B. O. & Stambaugh, M. C.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

We present a perspective on how to approach developing silvicultural prescriptions for restoring oak woodlands and savannas. A large degree of success...

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Genetic erosion and escalating extinction risk in frogs with increasing wildfire frequency.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Potvin, D. A. & Parris, K. M. & Date, K. L. S. & Keely, C. C. & Bray, R. D. & Hale, J. & Hunjan, S. & Austin, J. J. & Melville, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wildfires are increasing in both frequency and intensity in many ecosystems, with climate change models predicting further escalations in fire-prone e...

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Prescribed fire and conifer removal promote positive understorey vegetation responses in oak woodlands.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Livingston, A. C. & Varner, J. M. & Jules, E. S. & Kane, J. M. & Arguello, L. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Fire-prone woodlands and savannas world-wide face management challenges resulting from fire exclusion and subsequent encroachment of fire-sensitive tr...

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Pre-fire grazing and herbicide treatments can affect post-fire vegetation in a Great Basin rangeland.

Published online: 13 Apr 2023

Authors: Gornish, E. S. & Guo, J. S. & Porensky, L. M. & Perryman, B. L. & Leger, E. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Management of wildfire associated with spread of the highly invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is a critical need in the western U.S. ...

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