About FEIS
FEIS provides up-to-date information about fire effects on plants,
lichens, and animals. It was developed at the United States Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory
in Missoula, Montana.
The FEIS database contains literature reviews, taken from current
English-language literature of about 900 plant species, 7 lichen
species, about 100 wildlife species, 17 Research Project Summaries,
and 16 Kuchler plant communities of North
America. The emphasis of each review and summary is fire and how
it affects species. Background information on taxonomy, distribution,
basic biology, and ecology of each species is also included. Reviews
are thoroughly documented, and each contains a complete bibliography.
Managers from several land management agencies (United States Department
of Agriculture, Forest Service, and United States Department of Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife
Service, and National Park Service) choose the species included in the database. Those agencies funded the original work
and continue to support maintenance and updating of the database.
FEIS staff accessions current English-language literature for FEIS
literature reviews by searching scientific abstracts, literature
databases, and tables of content from refereed scientific journals and government
publication lists. Minor revisions are sometimes made to species
reviews, so a few bibliographic references may postdate the time a
species review was originally written. FEIS reviews are fully
updated when complete revisions are funded. Complete revisions
involve searching for and accessioning new literature on the species
and revising species reviews to include any new information on fire
and other topics covered in FEIS reviews.
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