Search Results - "BEVERLY, JENNIFER L."

Classification of forest fuels in selected fire-prone ecosystems of Alberta, Canada—implications for crown fire behaviour prediction and fuel management by Phelps, Nathan, Beverly, Jennifer L.

“…Key message We used clustering to construct fuel classes from fuel inventory data based on three stand attributes relevant to crown fire behaviour: surface…”
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The Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP): data description and reference tables by Phelps, Nathan, Cameron, Hilary, Forbes, Air M., Schiks, Tom, Schroeder, Dave, Beverly, Jennifer L.

“…Key message This document describes a dataset obtained from a field sampling program conducted in Alberta, Canada. Field data were used to describe the…”
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Optimizing fuel treatments for community wildfire mitigation planning by Karimi, Nima, Mahler, Patrick, Beverly, Jennifer L.

“…Fuel management is undertaken to mitigate the adverse consequences of wildfire. Finite mitigation budgets demand selective prioritization of forest stands for…”
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A simple metric of landscape fire exposure by Beverly, Jennifer L., McLoughlin, Neal, Chapman, Elizabeth

“…Context Proximity of landcover elements to each other will enable or constrain fire spread. Assessments of potential fire propagation across landscapes…”
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Assessing directional vulnerability to wildfire by Beverly, Jennifer L., Forbes, Air M.

“…Wildfires spread along trajectories set by a coincident wind direction. Despite the highly directional nature of wildfire threats to public safety, landscape…”
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Wildfire evacuations in Canada 1980–2007 by Beverly, Jennifer L., Bothwell, Peter

“…Evacuations represent an integral aspect of protecting public safety in locations where intense, fast-spreading forest fires co-occur with human populations…”
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Estimating canopy fuel load with hemispherical photographs: A rapid method for opportunistic fuel documentation with smartphones by Cameron, Hilary A., Díaz, Gastón M., Beverly, Jennifer L.

“…Canopy fuel load (CFL) affects wildfire intensity and is a critical input for fire behaviour models; however, measuring CFL in the field is time‐consuming and…”
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Stand-Level Fuel Reduction Treatments and Fire Behaviour in Canadian Boreal Conifer Forests by Beverly, Jennifer L., Leverkus, Sonja E. R., Cameron, Hilary, Schroeder, Dave

“…Stand-level fuel reduction treatments in the Canadian boreal zone are used predominantly in community protection settings to alter the natural structure of…”
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Modeling fire susceptibility in west central Alberta, Canada by Beverly, Jennifer L., Herd, Emily P.K., Conner, J.C. Ross

“…Strategic modification of forest vegetation has become increasingly popular as one of the few preemptive activities that land managers can undertake to reduce…”
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Characterizing extreme fire and weather events in the Boreal Shield ecozone of Ontario by Beverly, Jennifer L., Martell, David L.

“…Fire frequency is the most commonly used measure to characterize fire regimes for comparisons across geographical areas or time periods. Within the boreal…”
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Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada – Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning: Reply to Parisien et al by Beverly, Jennifer L., McLoughlin, Neal

“…•Commentary by Parisien et al. was self-contradictory.•Parsien et al. commentary contained multiple mischaracterizations of our work.•Results of our study…”
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Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada – Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning by Beverly, Jennifer L., McLoughlin, Neal

“…•Burn probability estimated with Monte Carlo simulation aligned poorly with wildfire.•Classification method altered appearance and interpretation of burn…”
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Modeling Prescribed Surface-Fire Regimes for Pinus strobus Conservation by BEVERLY, JENNIFER L., MARTELL, DAVID L.

“…We developed a simple model of Pinus strobus L. stand dynamics to compare the impacts of different temporal arrangements of surface fires designed to reflect…”
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Directional analysis of community wildfire evacuation capabilities by Kim, Amy M., Beverly, Jennifer L., Al Zahid, Abdullah

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Modelling fire perimeter formation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains by Macauley, Kiera A.P., McLoughlin, Neal, Beverly, Jennifer L.

“…•Vegetation strongly influenced fire cessation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.•Weather, topography, and anthropogenic factors were less influential.•Distance…”
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Estimating boreal forest ground cover vegetation composition from nadir photographs using deep convolutional neural networks by Cameron, Hilary A., Panda, Pranoy, Barczyk, Martin, Beverly, Jennifer L.

“…Ground cover and surface vegetation information are key inputs to wildfire propagation models and are important indicators of ecosystem health. Often these…”
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Management and history of fire in Wabakimi Provincial Park, northwestern Ontario by Beverly, Jennifer L

“…Ontario's Wabakimi Provincial Park was recently expanded to protect a portion of naturally functioning boreal forest. A fire management strategy reflecting the…”
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