Biophysical and spectral responses to various burn treatments in the northern mixed-grass prairie

References

• Boer, M.M., Macfarlane, C., Norris, J., Sadler, R.J., Wallace, J. and Grierson, P.F. Mapping burned areas and burn severity patterns in SW Australian eucalypt forest using remotely-sensed changes in leaf area index. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2008. Vol. 112, No. 12, pp. 4358-4369. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.08.005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bragg, T.B. 1995. The physical environment of the great plains grasslands. In: Joern, A., Keeler, K.H. (Eds.) The changing prairie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 49–81.
   Google Scholar
• Chongo, D., Nagasawa, R., Ahamed, A.O.C. and Perveen, M.F. Fire monitoring in savanna ecosystems using MODIS data: a case study of Kruger National Park, South Africa. Landscape Ecology Engineering. 2007. Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 79-88. doi: 10.1007/s11355-007-0020-5
   Google Scholar
• Chuvieco, E., Cocero, D., Riaño, D., Martin, P., Martinez-Vega, J., De la Riva, J. and Pérez, F. Combining NDVI and surface temperature for the estimation of live fuel moisture content in forest fire danger rating. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2004. Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 322-331. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.01.019
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chuvieco, E., Ventura, G., Martin, M.P. and Gomez, I. Assessment of multitemporal compositing techniques of MODIS and AVHRR images for burned land mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2005. Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 450-462. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.11.006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Csillag, F., Kertész, M., Davidson, A., and Mitchell, S. 2001. On the measurement of diversity-productivity relationships in a northern mixed grass prairie (Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada). Community Ecology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 145–159.
   Google Scholar
• Ditomaso, J.M., Brooks, M.L., Allen, E.B., Minnich, R., Rice, P.M. and Kyser, G.B. Control of Invasive weeds with prescribed burning. Weed Technology. 2006. Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 535-548. doi: 10.1614/WT-05-086R1.1
   Google Scholar
• Engle, D.M. and Bidwell, T.G. The response of central North American prairies to seasonal fire. Journal of Range Management. 2001. Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 2-10. doi: 10.2307/4003519
   Google Scholar
• Epting, J., Verbyl, D. and Sorbel, B. Evaluation of remotely sensed indices for assessing burn severity in interior Alaska using Landsat TM and ETM +. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2005. Vol. 96, No. 3–4, pp. 228-239. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.03.002
   Google Scholar
• Erichsen-Arychuk, C., Bork, E.W. and Bailey, A.W. Northern dry mixed prairie responses to summer wildlife and drought. Journal of Range Management. 2002. Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 164-170. doi: 10.2307/4003352
   Google Scholar
• Escuin, S., Navarro, R. and Fernández, P. Fire severity assessment by using NBR (Normalized Burn Ratio) and NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) derived from LANDSAT TM/ETM images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2008. Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1053-1073. doi: 10.1080/01431160701281072
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fox, D.M., Berolo, W., Carrega, P. and Darboux, F. Mapping erosion risk and selecting sites for simple erosion control measures after a forest fire in Mediterranean France.. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2006. Vol. 31, pp. 606-621. doi: 10.1002/esp.1346
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gartner, F.R., Lindsey, J.R., and White, E.M. 1986. Vegetation responses to spring burning in western South Dakota. In: Clambey G.K. and Pemble R.H. (eds), The prairie: past, present, and future. Proceedings of the Ninth North American Prairie Conference, July 29– August 1, 1986, Moorhead, Minn. Tri-College University Centre for Environmental Studies, North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D., pp. 143–146.
   Google Scholar
• Grant, T.A., Madden, E.M., Shaffer, T.L. and Dockens, J.S. Effects of prescribed fire on vegetation and passerine birds in northern mixed-grass prairie. Journal of Wildlife Management. 2010. Vol. 74, No. 8, pp. 1841-1851. doi: 10.2193/2010-006
   Google Scholar
• He, Y., Guo, X., Wilmshurst, J. and Si, B.C. Studying mixed grassland ecosystems II: optimum pixel size. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 2006. Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 108-115. doi: 10.5589/m06-018
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hough, J. Why burn bush? Social approaches to bush-fire management in West African national parks. Biological Conservation. 1993. Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 23-28. doi: 10.1016/0006-3207(93)90192-4
   Google Scholar
• King, J., Moutsinga, J.B. and Doufoulon, G. Conversion of anthropogenic savannah to production forest through fire-protection of the forest-savannah edge in Gabon, Central Africa. Forest Ecology and Management. 1997. Vol. 94, pp. 233-247. doi: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03925-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kokaly, R.F., Rockwell, B.W., Haire, S.L. and King, T.V.V. Characterization of post-fire surface cover, soils, and burn severity at the Cerro Grande fire, New Mexico, using hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2007. Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 305-325. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.08.006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Launchbaugh, J.L. Effects of early spring burning on yields of native vegetation. Journal of Range Management. 1964. Vol. 17, pp. 5-6. doi: 10.2307/3895539
   Google Scholar
• Launchbaugh, J.L., and Owensby, C.E. 1978. Kansas rangelands-their management based on a half century of research. Kansas Agricultural experiment station bulletin. pp. 622.
   Google Scholar
• Neufeld, T. 2008. Grasslands National Park of Canada Fire Management Plan, January 2008. Resource Conservation Grasslands National Park of Canada. pp. 1–53.
   Google Scholar
• Petropoulos, G.P., Kontoes, C. and Keramitsoglou, I. Burnt area delineation from a uni-temporal perspective based on Landsat TM imagery classification using support vector machines. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 2011. Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 70-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2010.06.008
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Redmann, R.E., Romo, J.T. and Pylypec, B. Impacts of burning on primary productivity of Festuca and Stipa-Agropyron grasslands in central Saskatchewan. American Midland Naturalist. 1993. Vol. 130, No. 2, pp. 262-273. doi: 10.2307/2426126
   Google Scholar
• Rouse, J.W., Haas, R.H., Schell, J.A., Deering, D.W., and Haarlan, J.C. 1974. Monitoring the vernal advancement of retrogradation of natural vegetation. Greenbelt, Md., USA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), Type III, Final report. pp. 371.
   Google Scholar
• Shay, J., Kunec, D. and Dyck, B. Short-term effects of fire frequency on vegetation composition and biomass in mixed prairie in south-western Manitoba. Plant Ecology. 2001. Vol. 155, No. 2, pp. 157-167. doi: 10.1023/A:1013266700912
   Google Scholar
• Smith, A.M.S., Wooster, M.J., Drake, N.A., Dipotso, F.M., Falkowski, M.J. and Hudak, A.T. Testing the potential of multi-spectral remote sensing for retrospectively estimating fire severity in African Savannahs. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2005. Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 92-155. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.04.014
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Steuter, A.A. C3/C4 production shift on seasonal burns- northern mixed prairie. Journal of Range Management. 1987. Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 27-31. doi: 10.2307/3899356
   Google Scholar
• Stow, D., Petersen, A., Rogan, J. and Franklin, J. Mapping burn severity of Mediterranean-Type vegetation using satellite multispectral data. GIScience and Remote Sensing. 2007. Vol. 44, pp. 1-23. doi: 10.2747/158-1603.44.1.1
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stroppiana, D., Pinnock, S., Pereora, J.M.C. and Grégoire, J.M. Radiometric analysis of SPOT-VEGETATION images for burn area detection in Northern Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2002. Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 21-37. doi: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)0021-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Trigg, S. and Flasse, S. An evaluation of different bi-spectral spaces for discriminating burned shrub-savannah. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2001. Vol. 13, No. 13, pp. 2641-2647. doi: 10.1080/01431160110053185
   Google Scholar
• Van Wagtendonk, J.W., Root, R.R. and Key, C.H. Comparison of AVIRIS and Landsat ETM + detection capabilities for burn severity. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2004. Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 397-408. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.12.015.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Veraverbeke, S., Gitas, I., Katagis, T., Polychronaki, A., Somers, B. and Goossens, R. Assessing post-fire vegetation recover using red-near infrared vegetation indices: accounting for background and vegetation variability. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 2012. Vol. 68, pp. 28-39. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.12.007
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vermeire, L.T., Crowder, J.L. and Wester, D.B. Plant community and soil environment response to summer fire in the northern Great Plains. Rangeland Ecology Management. 2011. Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 37-46. doi: 10.2111/REM-D-10-00049.1
   Google Scholar
• Vermeire, L.T., Wester, D.B., Mitchell, R.B. and Fyhlendorf, S.D. Fire and grazing effects on wind erosion, soil water content, and soil temperature. Journal of Environment Quality. 2005. Vol. 34, pp. 1559-1565. doi: 10.2134/jeq2005.0006
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yang, X., Guo, X. and Fizsimmons, M. Assessing light to moderate grazing effects on grassland production using satellite imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2012. Vol. 33, No. 16, pp. 5087-5104. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2012.657372
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• White, J.D., Ryan, K.C., Key, C.H. and Running, S.W. Remote sensing of forest fire severity and vegetation recovery. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 1996. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 125-136. doi: 10.1071/WF9960125
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Willms, W.D., Mcginn, S.M. and Dormaar, J.F. Influence of litter on herbage production in the mixed prairie. Journal of Range Mange. 1993. Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 320-324.
   Google Scholar
• Zhang, C., Guo, X., Wilmshurst, J. and Crump, S. Monitoring northern mixed prairie health using broadband satellite imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2008. Vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 2257-2271. doi: 10.1080/01431160701408378
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar