Fire suppression and ecosystem carbon storage
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...Key words: afterlife effects; aphid herbivory; Corythuca arcuata; decomposition; fire; lace bug herbivory; Hoplochaithropsus quercicola; lignin; nitrogen cycling; oak savanna; phenolics; Quercus macrocarpa....
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...Fires can cause major disturbances to ecosystem-level processes through predictable changes in abiotic and biotic environments (Kozlowski and Ahlgren 1974, Boehner 1982, Tilman et al. 2000, Wan et al. 2001)....
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...Besides these fire-related land-management practices, the growing human population and the consequent expansion of the rural–urban interface clearly imply that anthro- pogenic fires of intentional or accidental origin are unlikely to decrease (Tilman et al. 2000; CarmonaMoreno et al. 2005)....
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...prevention or reduction of disturbances may lead to higher average, long-term ecosystem carbon storage [58]....
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...This intervention had negative impacts on the protected areas ecosystems (Tilman et al. 2000, MarsdenSmedley and Kirkpatrick, 2000, Bond and Kelley 2005)....
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...…biomass creates ;20–25% of annual anthropogenic CO2 (Andreae 1991, Schimel 1995), modifications of fire frequency may significantly change regional and global C budgets (e.g., Fahenstock and Agee 1983, Andreae 1991, Stocks 1991, Dixon and Krankina 1993, Dixon et al. 1994, Sohngen and Haynes 1997)....
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...This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant 9411972 and by the Andrew Mellon Foundation....
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...Our work supports the proposal that increased fire suppression and decreased anthropogenic burning of vegetation could significantly influence global carbon dynamics (Dixon et al. 1994, Sampson and Clark 1995, Sohngen and Haynes 1997, San Jose et al. 1998)....
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...Dixon et al. (1994) calculated that fire management in Russia could lead to long-term C storage of 0.6 3 1015 g C/yr....
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...2680 Key words: carbon storage; fire suppression; missing carbon; oak savanna....
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...San Jose et al. (1998) calculated that fire suppression, by causing the transformation of the 2.8 3 107 ha Venezuelan Orinoco Llanos from grassland to semideciduous forest, could lead to a C sink of 0.08 3 1015 g C/yr....
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...Atmospheric CO2 is currently accumulating at ;3.2 3 1015 g C/yr (Schimel 1995)....
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...Dixon et al. (1994) calculated that fire management in Russia could lead to long-term C storage of 0.6 3 1015 g C/yr....
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...Because the burning of ecosystem biomass creates ;20–25% of annual anthropogenic CO2 (Andreae 1991, Schimel 1995), modifications of fire frequency may significantly change regional and global C budgets (e.g., Fahenstock and Agee 1983, Andreae 1991, Stocks 1991, Dixon and Krankina 1993, Dixon et al.…...
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...This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant 9411972 and by the Andrew Mellon Foundation....
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...Moreover, the immense global extent of tropical savanna and woodland, 2.45 3 109 ha (Schlesinger 1997), suggests that even moderate fire suppression in this ecosystem type could provide a globally significant C sink....
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...Houghton et al. (1999) estimated various sources of C storage in the United States....
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...Because fire suppression might lead to a period of C accumulation (Houghton et al. 1999), current fire suppression in the United States (Fig....
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...This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant 9411972 and by the Andrew Mellon Foundation....
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...2680 Key words: carbon storage; fire suppression; missing carbon; oak savanna....
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