scholarly journals How can the risks associated with climate change help shape Lord Howe Island fire management planning

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Beltran
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Lord Howe Island

scholarly journals Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avery P. Hill ◽  
Christopher B. Field
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Range Shifts ◽  
Inventory Analysis ◽  
Plant Populations ◽  
Wildfire Occurrence ◽  
Western Us ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Climate Space

AbstractDue to climate change, plant populations experience environmental conditions to which they are not adapted. Our understanding of the next century’s vegetation geography depends on the distance, direction, and rate at which plant distributions shift in response to a changing climate. In this study we test the sensitivity of tree range shifts (measured as the difference between seedling and mature tree ranges in climate space) to wildfire occurrence, using 74,069 Forest Inventory Analysis plots across nine states in the western United States. Wildfire significantly increased the seedling-only range displacement for 2 of the 8 tree species in which seedling-only plots were displaced from tree-plus-seedling plots in the same direction with and without recent fire. The direction of climatic displacement was consistent with that expected for warmer and drier conditions. The greater seedling-only range displacement observed across burned plots suggests that fire can accelerate climate-related range shifts and that fire and fire management will play a role in the rate of vegetation redistribution in response to climate change.

Will climate change overwhelm fire management capacity?

2010 ◽  
Vol 221 (9) ◽  
pp. 1301-1309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Podur ◽  
Michael Wotton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Management Capacity

scholarly journals Perceptions of forest experts on climate change and fire management in European Mediterranean forests

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Raftoyannis ◽  
S Nocentini ◽  
E Marchi ◽  
R Calama Sainz ◽  
C Garcia Guemes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Mediterranean Forests

scholarly journals LIFE+ TRUST project: tool to assist the implementation of the Framework Directive 2000/60/CE, methodology and results

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Marsala
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Balance Model ◽  
Aquifer Recharge ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Change Effect ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Climate Change Effect ◽  
Water Management Planning

The TRUST project is funded by the European Commission’s by the Life+ Programme. The aim of the TRUST project is the identification of the adaption and mitigation measures to counteract the impacts of climate change on the groundwater of the Upper Plain in the Veneto and Friuli region in North-Eastern Italy. The TRUST project aims at implementing a water balance modelling tool to support institutions in formulating sustainable water management planning policies and best practices. This paper reviews the development and application of the tools for the groundwater balance model that simulate the groundwater deficit. Projections on the water deficit as a function of Climate Change have used future precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns derived from climate simulations (SRES-IPCC scenarios A1B and A2) of the Mediterranean region for the 20th and 21st centuries. Model outputs showed that a significant part of future water deficit might be recovered with Managed Aquifer Recharge that will permit the groundwater management preventing the climate change effect.

Ignition and fire spread thresholds in gorse (Ulex europaeus)

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. J. Anderson ◽  
Wendy R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Moisture Content ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Spread ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Fuel Layer ◽  
Major Variable

Field experiments were carried out in stands of gorse (Ulex europaeus L.) in New Zealand to determine the conditions under which fires would both ignite and spread. Research and operational experience in shrub fuels suggest that there is a clear difference between conditions that support ignition only (fuel ignites but does not spread beyond a single bush or clump) and conditions that are conducive to fire spread (fuel ignites and develops into a spreading fire). It is important for fire management agencies to be equipped with knowledge of these thresholds, because the different conditions require different levels of preparedness and response. Results indicate that the major variable influencing both fire ignition and fire spread development in gorse is the moisture content of the elevated dead fine fuel layer. Fires were observed to spread successfully in this elevated fuel layer only, independently of the surface fuels and the near-surface fuels. Elevated dead fuels failed to ignite at a moisture content of greater than 36%, and ignition only resulted in a spreading fire at moisture contents below 19%. The results correlate well with field observations and fire practitioners’ experience in these fuels, and provide reliable guidelines for fire management planning.

scholarly journals Utilization of geoinformation tools for the development of forest fire hazard mapping system: example of Pekan fire, Malaysia

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mahmud ◽  
Iwan Setiawan ◽  
Shattri Mansor ◽  
Abdul Shariff ◽  
Biswajeet Pradhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Hazard Mapping ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Mapping System ◽  
Full Complement ◽  
Forest Fire Hazard ◽  
User Friendly

AbstractA study in modeling fire hazard assessment will be essential in establishing an effective forest fire management system especially in controlling and preventing peat fire. In this paper, we have used geographic information system (GIS), in combination with other geoinformation technologies such as remote sensing and computer modeling, for all aspects of wild land fire management. Identifying areas that have a high probability of burning is an important component of fire management planning. The development of spatially explicit GIS models has greatly facilitated this process by allowing managers to map and analyze variables contributing to fire occurrence across large, unique geographic units. Using the model and its associated software engine, the fire hazard map was produced. Extensive avenue programming scripts were written to provide additional capabilities in the development of these interfaces to meet the full complement of operational software considering various users requirements. The system developed not only possesses user friendly step by step operations to deliver the fire vulnerability mapping but also allows authorized users to edit, add or modify parameters whenever necessary. Results from the model can support fire hazard mapping in the forest and enhance alert system function by simulating and visualizing forest fire and helps for contingency planning.

scholarly journals A decision support system for management planning of Eucalyptus plantations facing climate change

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Garcia-Gonzalo ◽  
J. G. Borges ◽  
J. H. N. Palma ◽  
A. Zubizarreta-Gerendiain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Eucalyptus Plantations
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