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Project ID: 03-3-3-13

Year: 2003

Date Started: 08/20/2003

Date Completed: 11/17/2006

Title: Assessment of Top Down and Bottom Up Controls on Fire Regimes and Vegetation Abundance and Distribution Patterns in the Southwestern Texas Borderlands: A Hierarchical Approach

Project Proposal Abstract: Managers of National Parks and other protected areas require reference conditions on vegetation patterns that are sustainable under regional disturbance regimes. In southwestern Texas and adjacent borderlands, interactions among climate, fire, and vegetation composition and structure must be understood in order to assist management decisions about the use of fire to maintain or restore sustainable vegetation patterns. We propose to investigate top down (climate) and bottom up (species composition, topography, environment, and human activity) controls on fire regimes in Big Bend National Park, the Davis Mountains, and the Maderas del Carmens Protected Area. Local-, landscape-, and regional-scale fire and vegetation dynamics will be derived from data on historical climates, fire regimes, forest structure, and species composition. This information will be used to implement fire and vegetation management practices and to predict effects of recent changes in climate and fire on ecosystem structure and function.

Principal Investigator: Ann Camp

Agency/Organization: Yale University

Branch or Dept: Forestry & Environmental Studies

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Helen Mills	Yale University	Forestry & Environmental Studies
Federal Cooperator	Richard G. Gatewood	NPS-National Park Service	Big Bend National Park

Project Locations

Consortium

Southwest

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	7474	Refereed Publication	Variability in Needle Morphology and Water Status of Pinus cemhroides Across an Elevational Gradient in the Davis Mountains of West Texas USA
	8055	Refereed Publication	Fire Regimes of the Pinon-Juniper Woodlands of Big Bend National Park and the Davis Mountains, West Texas, USA
	7477	Refereed Publication	A Hierarchical Approach for Scaling Forest Inventory and Fuels Data from Local to Landcape Scales in Davis Mountains, Texas
	7475	Refereed Publication	Vegetation-Environment Relations of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas
	7476	Refereed Publication	Drought Response of Two Mexican Oak Species, Quercus laceyi and Q. sideroxyla (Fagaceae), in Relation to Elevational Position

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