[APWG] NEWS: Invasive Plants Encourage Wildfires
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Sep 16 08:55:50 CDT 2011
http://www.newswise.com/articles/invasive-plants-encourage-wildfires-with-negative-human-and-ecological-consequences
Invasive Plants Encourage Wildfires, with Negative Human and Ecological
Consequences
Released: 9/15/2011 2:30 PM EDT
Source: Allen Press Publishing Services
Newswise -- The past decade has seen 77,951 fires burn about 6.7 million
acres in the United States. One condition that facilitates the spread of
wildfires is invasive plant species. Nonnative weeds can modify the
vegetation of a landscape and provide a source of fuel that did not
previously exist.
See the link above for the full article text. Full text of the Fire and
Invasive Plants Special Feature, "Economic and Social Impacts of Wildfires
and Invasive Plants in American Deserts: Lessons From the Great Basin,"
Rangeland Ecology & Management, Vol. 64, No. 5, September 2011, is
available at http://www.srmjournals.org/toc/rama/64/5
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