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Fire Science

This research program focuses on many aspects of both controlled or "prescribed" fire, and impacts of wildfires. Research projects include ecological studies of fire impacts on plants and animals, fire history research, threatened and endangered species responses, invasive species responses, fire behavior modeling, and remote sensing research of fire scar detection and fire recovery mapping.

Research

Burning and the reduction of Cornus sericea in sedge meadows in southern Wisconsin (Dr. Beth Middleton) Effects of Fire on Wintering Birds in the Chihuahuan Desert: Landscape-scale Approaches (Dr. Wylie Barrow) Fire Modeling for Fire Management (Dr. Jacoby Carter) Fire Effects and History of Southeastern Coastal Plain Ecosystems (Dr. Thomas W. Doyle) Fire in Grasslands, Relation of Fire to Invasive Plants (Dr. James B. Grace) Fire Scar Detection and Fire Recovery Monitoring with Satellite Data (Dr. Elijah Ramsey)

See also Fact Sheet "Fire Ecology in the Southeastern United States"

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