Fire suppression and ecosystem carbon storage
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...In these instances, consumer control, rather than resource competition, determines tree cover [ 33 ]....
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...In reality, both sites burnt at intervals of 2–5 yr (San Jose et al., 1998; Tilman et al., 2000)....
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...Many biotic and abiotic factors determine SOC storag...
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...At Cedar Creek, for instance, the diversity of prairies and savannas is determined to a great extent by the diversity of forbs....
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...Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-5210...
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...In addition, in a review of the history of fire at Cedar Creek, Tilman et al. (2000) found evidence for annual to biennial burn frequency....
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...1) may be contributing to the apparently high current rate of C storage in North American ecosystems (e.g., Birdsey et al. 1993, Turner et al. 1995, Fan et al. 1998)....
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...Thus, accumulation of woody biomass caused by fire suppression in the United States may help explain the apparent functioning of North America as a carbon sink (Birdsey et al. 1993, Fan et al. 1998)....
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...For instance, Kurz and Apps (1999) found that a marked increase in fire during the 1980s caused a reduction in C storage in Canadian forests....
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...This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant 9411972 and by the Andrew Mellon Foundation....
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...Other work shows that fire suppression can cause soil C to increase (Liski et al. 1998, Slaughter et al. 1998, Kurz and Apps 1999)....
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...…1900s fire frequency has increased in parts of the world, especially the tropics, because of the use of fire as a landclearing mechanism (e.g., Sanford et al. 1985, Andreae 1991, Goldammer 1991), and has decreased in other regions, such as the United States, because of active fire suppression (Fig....
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...2680 Key words: carbon storage; fire suppression; missing carbon; oak savanna....
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...Fire suppression could both decrease the rate of release of CO2 caused by burning and increase C storage in woody biomass, soils, and other compartments in savannas, woodlands, and grasslands being invaded by trees....
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...Sensitivity of terrestrial carbon storage to CO2-induced climate change: comparison of four scenarios based on general circulation models....
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...Atmospheric CO2 is currently accumulating at ;3.2 3 1015 g C/yr (Schimel 1995)....
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...1) may be contributing to the apparently high current rate of C storage in North American ecosystems (e.g., Birdsey et al. 1993, Turner et al. 1995, Fan et al. 1998)....
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