A5061876599- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Texas Water Development Board
2012
Abstract Fire exclusion and mismanaged grazing are globally important drivers of environmental change in mesic C 4 grasslands savannas. Although interest is growing prescribed fire for grassland restoration, we have little long‐term experimental evidence the influence burn season on recovery herbaceous plant communities, encroachment by trees shrubs, invasion exotic grasses. We conducted a experiment (seven burns between 2001 2019) historically fire‐excluded overgrazed central Texas. Sites...
Foliar live fuel moisture (LFM)—the weight of water in living plant foliage expressed as a percentage dry weight—typically affects fire behavior wildland fuels. In juniper communities, LFM is important for planning prescribed burns and wildfire response but can be time consuming to obtain regularly. Also, there has been little analysis the ways which varies seasonally or affected by weather conditions, soil moisture, other variables such drought index. Using an eight-year dataset Ashe...
Organizations and governments at all levels have set goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions begun to work toward achieving these in an effort mitigate global climate change. The City Austin, Travis County, Texas, has goal reducing 20% below 1990 by year 2010. City's Carbon Dioxide Reduction Strategy, drafted 1997, identified aggressive strategies GHG emissions; however, carbon sequestration natural systems was not considered as option. I conducted a literature review...