Photo 1. Edges across Canada: Fire edge in Québec (A), clearcut Alberta (B), and lakeshore (C). quality is poor because images are from scanned slides of photos taken over 20 years ago. credit: Karen A. Harper. 2. the tropics: Edge cerrado forest next to a road agricultural field Brazil (A) riparian edges bordering stream Belize (B). 3. Forest Nova Scotia, Lakeshore spruce fire bog (C), old gro...

Information is lacking on ecosystem effects of understory burning in mesic mixed-oak (Quercus spp.) forests of the southern Appalachians. Native Americans used periodic fires in these forests for driving game and opening the forest. In April 1998, we conducted a lowto moderate-intensity fire in a cove–hardwood forest in the Nantahala National Forest, western North Carolina. In March 1998, befor...

The pace of environmental and socioeconomic change over the past 100 years has been rapid. Changes in fire regimes, climate, and land use have shaped the structure and function of most forest ecosystems, including oak (Quercus spp. L.) forests in the eastern United States. New stressors such as air pollution and invasive species have contributed to and interacted with climate and fire to alter ...

Southern Appalachian forests are undergoing considerable change due to altered disturbance regimes. For example, fire exclusion has had a major impact on the structure and function of pine-hardwood ecosystems. Recently, fire has been prescribed for a variety of applications: 1) stand-replacement in the form of a mimicked wildfire, 2) site-preparation as part of a fell-and-burn prescription, and...

Fire was arguably the most important forest and rangeland disturbance process in the Inland Northwest United States for millennia. Prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition, fire regimes ranged from high severity with return intervals of one to five centuries, to low severity with fire-free periods lasting three decades or less. Indoamerican burning contributed to the fire ecology of grasslands a...

Abstract The article challenges the assumption that land tenure is contingent on acquiring a title. It argues for Indigenous peoples may be delineated, occupied, utilised, and collectively owned through concept of territoriality. Through combined ‘anarchist anthropology’ political ecology provides ethnographic evidence from among Tau-Buhid as case in point to show their everyday relationship wi...

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