Longer-term post fire vegetation dynamics and predicted invasive species habitat suitability: Presentation PDF

Presented at the Mojave Desert Fire Science and Management Workshop. Barstow, CA 2014.
This presentation explains the use and implication of utilizing modeling tools to predict invasive species distribution after a fire. 
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Prehistoric and historic fire in the Mojave Desert: Presentation PDF

Presented at the Mojave Desert Fire Science and Management Workshop. Barstow, CA 2014.

Conclusions from this presentation include statements about the prehistoric, historic, and current characteristics in the Mojave desert area. For example, high elevation and riparian vegetation types contain many species that evolved with fire, whereas lower elevation vegetation is characterized by species that evolved with very little fire.

Presenter: Matthew Brooks

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Precipitation Regime Classification for the Mojave Desert:Presentation PDF

The goals of this project were to provide a more detailed representation of the rainfall patterns in the Mojave and to compare the current precipitation regime and patterns with both historic patterns and predicted future patterns.

Presenter: Jerry Tagestad et al.
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Modeling Probability of Ignition & Fire Severity Across The Mojave Ecoregion: Presentation PDF

Presented at the Mojave Desert Fire Science and Management Workshop. Barstow, CA 2014.
This presentation discusses the process of model development to map the ignition probability and fire severity. 
Presenter: Emma Underwood et al.
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Fire In The Mojave Ecoregion: Past, Present, And A Little Bit Into The Future: Presentation PDF

This presentation discusses findings from two large scale integrated projects. The overarching goals of these projects were to use models and create tools about resource issues such as non-native species, postfire vegetation, ignition likelihood and fire severity.
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Effectiveness of post-fire aerial seedings in the Northeastern Mojave Desert: Presentation PDF

This presentation was given at the Mojave Desert Fire Science and Management Workshop. Barstow, CA 2014.

Results from multiple studies on seeding in the Mojave Desert are presented in this presentation. 

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A Decision Framework for Fire as a Restoration Tool: Research Brief

This journal article provides a decision framework that integrates fire regime components, plant growth form, and survival attributes to predict how plants will respond to fires and how fires can be prescribed to enhance the likelihood of obtaining desired plant responses. 
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Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants: USGS Research Brief

Presented here is scientific information regarding wildland fire and nonnative invasive plant species, identifies the nonnative invasive species currently of greatest concern in major bioregions of the United States, and describes emerging fire-invasive issues in each bioregion and throughout the nation. 
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Using Fire for Invasive Plant Control in Wildlands: USGS Research Brief

This brief summarizes the current state of knowledge on the use of fire as a tool to manage invasive plants in wildlands. The authors of two publications discuss risks and challenges of conducting prescribed burns, types of systems and circumstances in which burning may be effective for the management of invasive plants, complexities of fire and plant community interactions, impacts of prescribed burning on the broader plant community and the soil, and comprehensive monitoring plans.

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Invasive Plants and Fire in the Deserts of North America: USGS Research Brief

In a recent publication by USGS scientists, Drs. Matthew L. Brooks and David A. Pyke discussed these interrelationships, and concluded that the management of fire and invasive plants must be closely integrated for each to be managed effectively.
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Fire Temperature Patterns and Effects on Annual Plants in the Mojave Desert: USGS Research Brief

In a recent issue of the journal Ecological Applications, USGS scientist Dr. Matthew Brooks reports new information on temperature patterns during experimental fires, and the effects of these variable fire temperatures on annual plants in the Mojave Desert.
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Fire Management and Invasive Plants: A Handbook for Land Managers: USGS Research Brief

USGS research botanist Matt Brooks and National Wildlife Refuges invasive species coordinator Michael Lusk have compiled a handbook titled Fire Management and Invasive Plants, with support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Refuge System, USGS and the Joint Fire Science Program.
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Effects of Fire and Invasive Plants on Desert Soils: Research Brief

Fire  and  invasive  species  may  cause  changes  in   biological,  chemical,  and  physical properties of   desert  soils.  Although  soil  may  recover  from  the   impacts  of  fire  during  succession,  these  changes   are  permanent  under  persistent invasive  species.
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Effect of leaf beetle herbivory on the fire behavior of invasive tamarisk: USGS Research Brief

Invasions of nonnative Tamarix spp. into desert riparian ecosystems in the southwestern U.S. and its replacement of native vegetation raises questions about potential shifts in fuel characteristics and fire behavior.
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Alien Plants and Fire in Desert Tortoise Habitat: USGS Research Brief

Alien plants and fire have recently been recognized as significant land management problems in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, especially as they relate to management of the federally threatened desert tortoise.

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