Essays about: "Post-fire management"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Post-fire management.

  1. 1. To clear-cut or not to clear-cut; Cost-benefit analyses of post-fire management approaches in the Ljusdal fire-complex

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)

    Author : Bella Blomqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Clear-cut forestry; Continous cover forestry; Nature reserve; Cost-benefit analysis; Wildfires; Sweden; Ljusdal; Post-fire management; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Wildfires causes natural disturbances to ecosystems which can have potentially damaging results for ecosystem services and economic income from timber production. The post-fire management approach can be essential for the environmental work regarding the recovery of ecosystems and maintaining ecosystem services. READ MORE

  3. 2. Effects of fuel and weather conditions on forest fire behaviour in Southern Sweden in oak dominated forests

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : Olga Teresa Wepryk; [2023]
    Keywords : forest fire; forest fuel; fire weather; ignition experiments; prescribed burning;

    Abstract : Fire activity is influenced by weather and climate, fuels, ignition agents, and human activities. Fire suppression policy in Sweden resulted in a gradual decrease in the annually burnt areas, changes in fuel loads and a decline in species diversity. READ MORE

  4. 3. Influence of forest mires on wildfire : a landscape analysis of the 2014 Västmanland forest fire

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Andreas Souropetsis; [2022]
    Keywords : Forest fire; Mires fuel composition; Aerial photo interpretation;

    Abstract : Forest fire is a major natural disturbance that influence forest ecosystem structure and composition at both the stand and landscape level. In boreal Fennoscandia fire frequency has been very low over the last c.150 years due to effective fire suppression, although occasionally high-intensity fires escape initial attack and grow big. READ MORE

  5. 4. Post-fire forest management methods in Sweden: Societal perception and biological aspects

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Examensarbeten i biologi

    Author : Julia Redegren Gomes; [2022]
    Keywords : Biology and Life Sciences;

    Abstract : With an increasing global temperature, at rates twice as fast as the global average in the northern boreal forests, an increasing wildfire frequency is to be expected. Previous studies have shown that forest areas in Eurasia with high risk of wildfires today are expected to more than double in size in the following 30 years. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mosippans (Pulsatilla vernalis L.) reaktion på brandstörning : en populationsstudie på en av Sveriges rikaste mosippslokaler

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Julia Nygårdh; [2022]
    Keywords : Pulsatilla vernalis; Mosippa; naturvård; naturvårdsbränning; Spring Pasque Flower; prescribed burning; nature conservation; nature conservation actions;

    Abstract : Spring Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla vernalis (L.) Mill, is a perennial plant which grows in open and sandy pine forests. It is considered sensitive to competition and in need of repeated disturbances. In Sweden P. READ MORE