Here we study the short-term effect of wildfires and prescribed fires on regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services. Wildfires occurrence have a detrimental effect on all ecosystem services, except Pest and Diseases Control and Knowledge Systems. On the other hand, prescribed fires use ...
" said Daniels. "[And] to restore that ecosystem and to restore the habitat that is being degraded and lost through that fire-suppression effect."
The Woodbury Fire is located to the East of Phoenix. This map shows the progression of the Woodbury Fire throughout its lifespan. The fire seemed to have started closer to Phoenix (Southwest) but shifted Northeast. The shift happened due to the wind and its effect on the fire. The Woodbur...
To analyze the effect of smoke on the concentration of suspended sediment in the lake, we analyzed the concentration of particulate carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), and the C:N ratio in the composition of seston. We measured seston composition at 3 discrete depths in the epilimnion (0, 3 an...
To assess the effect of fire suppression on patterns of fire severity, for each fire we calculated the proportion that burned at high severity (CBI values ≥ 2.25; sensu Parks & Abatzoglou53) and the weighted mean fire severity. For each simulation we calculated the required change in me...
The study plots are represented by forest-tundra ecosystem, sublayered by stratified parent material, namely, sand sublayered by silty textured permafrost grounds (on the depth of 1.7 m, morphologically measured). The objects of investigation for comparison fire effect are two soils pits (2 ...
to the ecosystem. Finally, future research should further enhance the extent to which wildfires pose risks to human well-being and health, such as the effects of forest fires on neighboring crops and haze on the human respiratory tract and on children and pregnant women. In conclusion, although...
Besides, post-fire ecosystem and hydrology changes also had ecological effects with long-term impacts on ecosystem recovery and fire risk31, impacting resource quality, availability, and productivity26,31. Vegetation productivity declined below −1.5 σ over more than 30% of the natural areas and ...
Mount Kenya is one such ecosystem that experiences annual fires; however, there is limited information on the level of knowledge or preparedness of the local community towards wildfires and fire management across the entire ecosystem. Here, we used questionnaires and interviews to randomly and ...
public wilderness and other congressionally protected areas such as national parks and designated reserves are set aside and managed for natural processes8. Other federal forest lands are managed for multiple ecosystem services. Federal managers rely on a variety of tools, from mechanized treatments and...