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Future area burned in Canada by FLANNIGAN, M. D, LOGAN, K. A, AMIRO, B. D, SKINNER, W. R, STOCKS, B. J

“…Historical relationships between weather, the Canadian fire weather index (FWI) system components and area burned in Canadian ecozones were analysed on a…”
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Large forest fires in Canada, 1959–1997 by Stocks, B. J., Mason, J. A., Todd, J. B., Bosch, E. M., Wotton, B. M., Amiro, B. D., Flannigan, M. D., Hirsch, K. G., Logan, K. A., Martell, D. L., Skinner, W. R.

“…A Large Fire Database (LFDB), which includes information on fire location, start date, final size, cause, and suppression action, has been developed for all…”
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The role of fire in the boreal carbon budget by Harden, J. W., Trumbore, S. E., Stocks, B. J., Hirsch, A., Gower, S. T., O'neill, K. P., Kasischke, E. S.

“…Summary To reconcile observations of decomposition rates, carbon inventories, and net primary production (NPP), we estimated long‐term averages for C exchange…”
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Climate change and forest fires by Flannigan, M.D, Stocks, B.J, Wotton, B.M

“…This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on forest fires and describes how this, in turn, will impact on the forests of the United States. In…”
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Climate change and forest fire potential in Russian and Canadian boreal forests by Stocks, B.J. (Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (Canada).), Fosberg, M.A, Lynham, T.J, Mearns, L, Wotton, B.M, Yang, Q, Jin, J.Z, Lawrence, K, Hartley, G.R, Mason, J.A, McKenney, D.W

“…In this study outputs from four current General Circulation Models (GCMs) were used to project forest fire danger levels in Canada and Russia under a warmer…”
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A 500 hPa synoptic wildland fire climatology for large Canadian forest fires, 1959-1996 by SKINNER, W. R, FLANNIGAN, M. D, STOCKS, B. J, MARTELL, D. L, WOTTON, B. M, TODD, J. B, MASON, J. A, LOGAN, K. A, BOSCH, E. M

“…In Canada, the average annual area of burned forest has increased from around 1 million ha in the 1970's to over 2.5 million ha in the 1990's. A previous study…”
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Information systems in support of wildland fire management decision making in Canada by Lee, B.S, Alexander, M.E, Hawkes, B.C, Lynham, T.J, Stocks, B.J, Englefield, P

“…This paper provides an overview of four national forest fire management information systems currently used in Canada. The Canadian forest fire danger rating…”
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Fire, global warming, and the carbon balance of boreal forests by Kasischke, Eric S., Christensen, N. L., Stocks, Brian J.

“…Fire strongly influences carbon cycling and storage in boreal forests. In the near-term, if global warming occurs, the frequency and intensity of fires in…”
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Moss and soil contributions to the annual net carbon flux of a maturing boreal forest by Harden, J. W., O'Neill, K. P., Trumbore, S. E., Veldhuis, H., Stocks, B. J.

“…We used input and decomposition data from 14C studies of soils to determine rates of vertical accumulation of moss combined with carbon storage inventories on…”
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The association between circulation anomalies in the mid-troposphere and area burned by wildland fire in Canada by SKINNER, W. R, STOCKS, B. J, MARTELL, D. L, BONSAL, B, SHABBAR, A

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Seasonal distribution of African savanna fires by Cahoon, Donald R., Jr, Stocks, Brian J., Levine, Joel S., Cofer, Wesley R., III, O'Neill, Katherine P.

“…The temporal and spatial distribution of savanna fires over the entire African continent, as determined from nighttime satellite imagery, is described. It is…”
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The potential of SPOT-Vegetation data for fire scar detection in boreal forests by Eastwood, J. A., Plummer, S. E., Wyatt, B. K., Stocks, B. J.

“…Boreal forests cover 10% of the land surface and experience wide ranges of temperature and precipitation. In many parts of the boreal zone, fire drives…”
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Climate Change and Forest Disturbances by Dale, Virginia H., Joyce, Linda A., McNulty, Steve, Neilson, Ronald P., Ayres, Matthew P., Flannigan, Michael D., Hanson, Paul J., Irland, Lloyd C., Lugo, Ariel E., Peterson, Chris J., Simberloff, Daniel, Swanson, Frederick J., Stocks, Brian J., Wotton, B. Michael

“…Studies of the effects of climate change on forests have focused on the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture changes and to disperse, but…”
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Forest Fires and Climate Change in the 21ST Century by Flannigan, M. D, Amiro, B. D, Logan, K. A, Stocks, B. J, Wotton, B. M

“…Fire is the major stand-renewing disturbance in the circumboreal forest. Weather and climate are the most important factors influencing fire activity and these…”
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Soil surface CO2 flux increases with successional time in a fire scar chronosequence of Canadian boreal jack pine forest by J. Curry, J. Studens, T. J. Lynham, G. N. Mottram, G. Hartley, M. J. Wooster, H. Balzter, J. D. Kaduk, D. R. Smith, B. J. Stocks

“…To fully understand the carbon (C) cycle impacts of forest fires, both C emissions during the fire and post-disturbance fluxes need to be considered. The…”
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Determining effects of area burned and fire severity on carbon cycling and emissions in Siberia by Conard, Susan G, Sukhinin, Anatoly I, Stocks, Brian J, Cahoon, Donald R

“…The Russian boreal forest contains about 25% of the global terrestrial biomass, and even a higher percentage of the carbon stored in litter and soils. Fire…”
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Postfire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations by Hicke, Jeffrey A., Asner, Gregory P., Kasischke, Eric S., French, Nancy H. F., Randerson, James T., James Collatz, G., Stocks, Brian J., Tucker, Compton J., Los, Sietse O., Field, Christopher B.

“…Fire is a major disturbance in the boreal forest, and has been shown to release significant amounts of carbon (C) to the atmosphere through combustion…”
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Perspectives on carbon emissions from Canadian forest fires by Amiro, B D, Flannigan, M D, Stocks, B J, Wotton, B M

“…Canadian forest fires release about 27 Mt of carbon annually as a result of direct combustion. An additional amount is lost through the decomposition of…”
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Crown fire emissions of CO2, CO, H2, CH4, and TNMHC from a dense Jack pine boreal forest fire by Cofer III, W. R., Winstead, E. L., Stocks, B. J., Goldammer, J. G., Cahoon, D. R.

“…Samples of high‐intensity crown fire smoke were collected using a helicopter during the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment near Fort Providence,…”
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New estimates of nitrous oxide emissions from biomass burning by Cofer, W. R., III, Levine, J. S., Winstead, E. L., Stocks, B. J.

“…The recent discovery of an artifact producing increased levels of N2O in combustion gas samples collected and stored in grab bottles before chemical analysis…”
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