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1. Sustainability of culturally important teepee poles on Mescalero Apache Tribal Lands: Characteristics and climate change effects

Author:
Mockta, Tyler K.; Fulé, Peter Z.; Sánchez Meador, Andrew; Padilla, Thora; Kim, Yeon-Su
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2018 v.430 pp. 250-258
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; managers; women; American Indians; models; tribal lands; fuels; climate change; trees; mortality; Pseudotsuga menziesii; case studies; stand basal area; environmental knowledge; climate; forests;     Show all 16 Subjects
Abstract:
... Integrating traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with western science and modeling tools can enhance not only the delivery of culturally important species, but also community support and overall effectiveness of management. This paper presents a case study of co-producing usable science integrating TEK on a culturally important species with a modeling tool, Climate-Forest Vegetation Simulator (C ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2018.08.017

2. Conifer radial growth response to recent seasonal warming and drought from the southwestern USA

Author:
Truettner, Charles; Anderegg, William R.L.; Biondi, Franco; Koch, George W.; Ogle, Kiona; Schwalm, Christopher; Litvak, Marcy E.; Shaw, John D.; Ziaco, Emanuele
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2018 v.418 pp. 55-62
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; Anthropocene epoch; Juniperus osteosperma; Picea engelmannii; Pinus edulis; Pinus engelmannii; Pinus ponderosa; USDA Forest Service; climate change; climatic factors; cold season; conifers; data collection; dendrochronology; drought; drying; ecosystems; forest inventory; growth rings; linear models; monsoon season; rain; risk; snow; summer; temperature; tree mortality; vapor pressure; warm season; winter;     Show all 30 Subjects
Abstract:
... Future droughts are expected to become more severe and frequent under future climate change scenarios, likely causing widespread tree mortality in the western USA. Coping with an uncertain future requires an understanding of long-term ecosystem responses in areas where prolonged drought is projected to increase. Tree-ring records are ideally suited for this task. We developed 24 tree-ring chronolo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.044

3. Microbial and nitrogen pool response to fuel treatments in Pinyon-Juniper woodlands of the southwestern USA

Author:
Overby, Steven T.; Gottfried, Gerald J.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2017 v.406 pp. 138-146
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; equipment; snags; trees; carbon; Ips confusus; plateaus; woodlands; mastication; mineral soils; wildfires; pinyon-juniper; mortality; canopy; shrubs; nitrogen; organic horizons; fuels; shredding; stand basal area; bacteria; fungi;     Show all 22 Subjects
Abstract:
... Wildfire mitigation in Pinyon-Juniper woodlands in the Colorado Plateau region is a management priority. Two wildfire mitigation treatments, mastication and thin-pile-burn, are often chosen based on costs and availability of equipment, yet there are ecological concerns with either treatment. Ecological outcomes from additions of low quality organic residues following mastication can potentially al ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2017.09.035

4. Estimating individual tree mid- and understory rank-size distributions from airborne laser scanning in semi-arid forests

Author:
Swetnam, Tyson L.; Falk, Donald A.; Lynch, Ann M.; Yool, Stephen R.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2014 v.330 pp. 271-282
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; canopy; coniferous forests; forest stands; lasers; models; overstory; probability distribution; remote sensing; stand density; tree trunk; trees; understory;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... Limitations inherent to airborne laser scanning (ALS) technology and the complex sorting and packing relationships of forests complicate accurate remote sensing of mid- and understory trees, especially in denser forest stands. Self-similarities in rank-sized individual tree distributions (ITD), e.g. bole diameter or height, are a well-understood property of natural, non-plantation, forests undergo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2014.07.011

5. Ecological restoration and fine-scale forest structure regulation in southwestern ponderosa pine forests

Author:
Tuten, Matthew C.; Sánchez Meador, Andrew; Fulé, Peter Z.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2015 v.348 pp. 57-67
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; coniferous forests; guidelines; Accipiter gentilis; Pinus ponderosa; forest management; foraging; silviculture; forest ecosystems; ecological restoration; spatial variation; tree and stand measurements; trees; stand basal area; climate;     Show all 15 Subjects
Abstract:
... Fine-scale forest patterns are an important component of forest ecosystem complexity and spatial pattern objectives are an increasingly common component of contemporary silviculture prescriptions in dry fire-adapted forests of North America. Despite their importance, questions remain regarding the assessment of silvicultural treatments designed to meet spatial objectives. We initiated a replicated ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2015.03.032

6. Effects of tree cutting and fire on understory vegetation in mixed conifer forests

Author:
Abella, Scott R.; Springer, Judith D.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2015 v.335 pp. 281-299
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; drought; trees; fire regime; systematic review; plant damage; insects; coniferous forests; prescribed burning; ecological invasion; forest fires; introduced plants; models; cutting; herbivores; biodiversity; biomass; slash; understory; canopy; Epilobium; indigenous species; stand basal area; overstory; British Columbia;     Show all 25 Subjects
Abstract:
... Mixed conifer forests of western North America are challenging for fire management, as historical fire regimes were highly variable in severity, timing, and spatial extent. Complex fire histories combined with site factors and other disturbances, such insect outbreaks, led to great variation in understory plant communities, and management activities influence future dynamics of both overstory and ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2014.09.009

7. A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area

Author:
Holden, Zachary A.; Morgan, Penelope; Evans, Jeffrey S.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2009 v.258 no.11 pp. 2399
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; fire severity; wildfires; remote sensing; topography; environmental factors; solar radiation; altitude; aspect; slope; spatial data; prediction; models; fire ecology; Gila National Forest;     Show all 15 Subjects
Abstract:
... We describe and then model satellite-inferred severe (stand-replacing) fire occurrence relative to topography (elevation, aspect, slope, solar radiation, Heat Load Index, wetness and measures of topographic ruggedness) using data from 114 fires>40ha in area that occurred between 1984 and 2004 in the Gila Wilderness and surrounding Gila National Forest. Severe fire occurred more frequently at highe ...
Handle:
10113/35130
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2009.08.017

8. Wildlife responses to thinning and burning treatments in southwestern conifer forests: A meta-analysis

Author:
Kalies, E.L.; Chambers, C.L.; Covington, W.W.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2010 v.259 no.3 pp. 333-342
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; coniferous forests; forest thinning; prescribed burning; wildlife; fire hazard reduction; wildfires; wild birds; small mammals; clearcutting; meta-analysis; Pinus ponderosa; forest trees; tree and stand measurements;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... After a century of fire suppression, conifer forests in the western United States have dramatically departed from conditions that existed prior to Euro-American settlement, with heavy fuel loads and an increased incidence of wildfire. To reduce this threat and improve overall forest health, land managers are designing landscape-scale treatments that strategically locate thinning and burning treatm ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.024

9. Effects of fire severity and pre-fire stand treatment on plant community recovery after a large wildfire

Author:
Kuenzi, Amanda M.; Fulé, Peter Z.; Sieg, Carolyn Hull
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2008 v.255 no.3-4 pp. 855-865
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; wildfires; plant communities; fire behavior; forest trees; species diversity; introduced species; vegetation cover; prescribed burning; forest thinning; indicator species; Triticum aestivum; grasses; understory; plant response; ecological succession; colonizing ability;     Show all 17 Subjects
Abstract:
... The Rodeo-Chediski fire burned approximately 189,650ha in east-central Arizona from June 18 to July 7, 2002, 113,700ha of it on White Mountain Apache tribal land. In 2004 and 2005, we measured plant canopy cover and richness in areas of high and low burn severity in each of two treatments: (1) cutting and prescribed burning, or (2) untreated, in the 11 years prior to the wildfire. Total understory ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2007.10.001

10. Understory vegetation response after 30 years of interval prescribed burning in two ponderosa pine sites in northern Arizona, USA

Author:
Scudieri, Catherine A.; Sieg, Carolyn Hull; Haase, Sally M.; Thode, Andrea E.; Sackett, Stephen S.
Source:
Forest ecology and management 2010 v.260 no.12 pp. 2134
ISSN:
0378-1127
Subject:
Southwestern United States,   etc   ; coniferous forests; understory; botanical composition; prescribed burning; fires; frequency; Pinus ponderosa; canopy; vegetation cover; grasses; Elymus elymoides; plant communities; fuel loading; fuels (fire ecology); forest litter; overstory; forest trees; temperate forests; fire regime; fire ecology; stand density; vegetation structure; seasonal variation; community ecology; community structure; precipitation; fire severity; forest thinning; Arizona;     Show all 30 Subjects
Abstract:
... Southwestern USA ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa C. Lawson var. scopulorum Engelm.) forests evolved with frequent surface fires and have changed dramatically over the last century. Overstory tree density has sharply increased while abundance of understory vegetation has declined primarily due to the near cessation of fires. We examined effects of varying prescribed fire-return intervals (1, 2, 4, ...
Handle:
10113/46560
DOI:
10.1016/j.foreco.2010.09.005