Fire in North American Wetland Ecosystems
and Fire-Wildlife Relations:
An Annotated Bibliography
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Report 88(1)
April 1988
This Biological Report fills two important voids in the libraries of many wildlife biologists-an annotated bibliography on fire in North American wetland ecosystems and a subject index of all fire-related literature that has appeared in Wildlife Review.
We at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center have long been concerned about the role of fire in both upland and wetland communities, as fire is an important natural force affecting the nesting and feeding habitat of breeding waterfowl.
The early studies of fire-wildlife interactions conducted at this Center in the 1960's centered on attempts to restore native plant communities and reduce the abundance of Kentucky bluegrass and other introduced grasses in mesic prairies in the hopes that waterfowl nest densities and successs could be increased. Later and ongoing studies have emphasized the frequency and seasonality of prescribed burns needed to maintain these communities.
In the last decade or so, biologists from the Center and other wildlife agencies have become greatly concerned about the adverse effects of cattail and woody plant invasion in prairie wetlands. These plants have greatly reduced the attractiveness of wetlands for breeding waterfowl, while at the same time, they have increased the use of some of these wetlands as roosting sites for migrant blackbirds. Blackbirds sometimes cause serious depredation to sunflowers and certain other crops. Unfortunately, the problem of cattail invasion is especially severe on federally-owned Waterfowl Production Areas where, in most cases, both fire and grazing by livestock have been eliminated.
Clearly, these sites would benefit from more research on the effects of fire and grazing. I hope that this Biological Report will stimulate further research into fire ecology of wetlands in North America so that we may better manage our vital wildlife resources and maintain natural species diversity in these biologically rich ecosystems.
Rey C. Stendell, Director
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Jamestown, North Dakota
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Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Index to Scientific And Common Names Used In This Document
- Fire In Wetland Ecosystems: An Annotated Bibliography
- Tables
- Table 1 -- Common and scientific names of organisms mentioned in the titles or text of the annotated bibliography entires.
- Table 2 -- Frequency distribution of dates of publication of litarture addressing fire-wetlands relationship included in the annotated biblography (n= 319), 1923-1987
- Table 3 -- Study area of 298 publications cited in the annotated bibliography of fire-wild relationships.
- Table 4 -- Geographic distribution of issuing institutions and study areas of 35 theses and dissertations addressing fire-wetlands relationships included in the annotated bibliography.
- Appendix A: The Literature on Fire Indexed in Wildlife Review,
1935-September 1987
- Introduction
- Development of the Bibliography
- The Fire-Wild Literature 1935-April 1987
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Effects of Fire on Soil --- Entries 001-019
- Effects of Fire on Vegetation (part I) --- Entries 020-220
- Effects of Fire on Vegetation (part II)--- Entries 221-427
- Effects of Fire on Marshes and Wetlands --- Entries 428-466
- Effects of Fire on Herpetofauna --- Entries 467-474
- Effects of Fire on Wildlife --- Entries 475-517
- Effects of Fire on Mammals --- Entries 518-650
- Effects of Fire on Birds --- Entries 651-742
- Use of Fire in Habitat Management --- Entries 743-758
- Use of Fire in Refuges, Parks, Wilderness, and Natural Areas --- Entries 759-841
- Controlled/Prescribed Burns --- Entries 842-894
- Wildfire and Wildfire Management --- Entries 895-942
- Appendix B: How to Obtain Articles Cited in This Document
This resource is based on the following source:
Kirby, Ronald E., Stephen J. Lewis, and Terry N. Sexson. 1988. Fire in North American wetland ecosystems and fire-wildlife relations: An annotated bibliography. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Biological Report 88(1):1-146.
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Kirby, Ronald E., Stephen J. Lewis, and Terry N. Sexson. 1988. Fire in North American wetland ecosystems and fire-wildlife relations: An annotated bibliography. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Biological Report 88(1):1-146. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/firewild/index.htm (Version 30SEP2002).
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