Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on flora

By James K. Brown, J. Smith. 2000

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____________________________________ Brown, James K.; Smith, Jane Kapler, eds. 2000. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on flora. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 2. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 257 p. This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire regime classification, autecological effects of fire, fire regime characteristics and postfire plant community developments in ecosystems throughout the United States and Canada, global climate change, ecological principles of fire regimes, and practical considerations for managing fire in an ecosytem context.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait‐based approach (2020, background): “It is common practice to rank species along a continuum from “fire tolerant” to “fire intolerant” (e.g., Brown & Smith, 2000; Safford & Stevens, 2017), but species rankings are often based on a qualitative understanding of the natural history of species rather than a quantitative assessment of…”
Fire and amphibians in North America (2003, background): “However, mortality of amphibians during prescribed and wildland fires is thought to occur rarely and be of relatively minor importance to most populations (Lyon et al., 1978; Means and Campbell, 1981; Russell et al., 1999; Smith, 2000).”
Multiple successional pathways and precocity in forest development: can some forests be born complex? (2012, background): “Growth of this cohort leads to canopy closure, arguably the most dramatic developmental episode in the life of a stand (Smith 2000; Franklin et al. 2002).”
Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change (2016, background): “Deep roots are protected from lethal temperatures (Brown and Smith 2000) and smaller or finer roots, usually located in the organic horizon, are more sensitive to heat damage.”
Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soils and water (2005, methodology): “The classification system used by Brown (2000) found in the Effects of Fire on Flora volume (Brown and Smith 2000) is also based on fire modal severity, emphasizes fire effects, but does not use frequency.”
Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function (2014, background): “Fire regime, the long-term presence of fire in an ecosystem, is mainly characterized by fire frequency (or fire return interval) and fire severity and can be classified as understory, stand-replacement, or mixed (Brown and Smith, 2000).”
Fire in the Earth System (2009, background): “Fire suppression, and indeed controlled burning to some extent, may have a deleterious impact on biodiversity (Gill et al., 1999; Brown and Smith, 2000; Granström, 2001; Tilman and Lehman, 2001; Hutto, 2008).”
A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure (2010, neutral): “8) consistent with fire effects literature (Ryan and Reinhardt, 1988; Miller, 2000).”