PUBLICATIONS
Newest Publications
 National Database for Calculating Fuel Available to Wildfires
A short paper published in EOS describes how the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) can be used to estimate emissions from wildfires in real time at subcontinental scales and in a spatially consistent manner. Written by FERA's Don McKenzie and Roger Ottmar, along with Nancy French from Michigan Tech, it includes discussion about the availablity of this data in the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System.
Responding to Climate Change in National Forests: A Guidebook for Developing Adaptation Options
Science-based principles, processes, and tools to assist national forests with developing options to adapt management of lands in anticipation of a changing climate. It recommends specific steps to use in developing these options and including it in the planning process.
FERA's David L. Peterson developed the guidelines along with counterparts from the Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and Rocky Mountain Research Stations, with input from university scientists and national forest resource managers.
U.S. National Forests Adapt to Climate Change Through Science-Management Partnerships
Examples of science-management partnerships developed on the Olympic Peninsula (Washington) and Tahoe National Forest (California) are used to show ways of planning for anticipated effects of climate change on natural resources on public lands. Published in the journal Climatic Change, FERA's Dave Peterson worked with close collaborators Jeremy Littell, Connie Millar, and Kathy O'Halloran to establish these collaborations.
Forest Regeneration and Biomass Production After Slash and Burn in a Seasonally Dry Forest in the Southern Brazilian Amazon
In an effort to project biomass accumulation in dry Brazilian forests after slash-and-burn activities, fire researchers returned to a site studied 7 years ago to remeasure biomass. Results indicate that the time needed for this forest to return to prefire aboveground biomass ranged from 20 to 30 years. Considering these results, the maintenance of regenerating secondary forests in the Amazon would be a significant contribution to understanding carbon sinks, restoration of burnt areas, soil and watershed protection, minimizing biodiversity losses, and perhaps mitigating climatic change effects in the region.
This paper, in the journal Forest Ecology and Management, was written by FERA's Dr. Ernesto Alvarado and his fire research coauthors Marcus d'Oliveira, Jose Carlos Santos, and Joao Carvalho, Jr. The FERA team and Brazilian researchers continue to maintain a long-standing partnership conducting fire and carbon research.
Landscape Ecology of Fire
FERA’s Don McKenzie, along with colleagues Carol Miller and Don Falk, edited this new work and wrote several of the 12 chapters. The book is part of the prestigious Springer Ecological Studies series. The four parts of the book explore concepts and theory in the landscape ecology of fire, fire climatology and broad-scale controls on fire regimes, landscape fire dynamics and interactions with other disturbances and other ecological processes, and landscape fire management and policy in the context of climate and land-use change.
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PRODUCTS
Fuel Characteristic Classification
System (FCCS)
Maps
GIS Layers for Mapping Fuelbeds
Consume
3.0
Digital
Photo Series
Fire Emission Production System
(FEPS)
Handpile Calculator
Photo
Series
FIREHouse
Software Tutorials
for FCCS, Consume 3.0, the Natural Fuels Photo Series, and
FEPS
IN PRESS
Littell, Jeremy S.; McKenzie, Donald.; Kerns, Becky K.; Cushman, Samuel; Shaw, Charles G. In press. Managing uncertainty in climate-driven ecological models to inform adaptation to climage change. Ecosphere.
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Fire
and Environmental Research Applications Team
