Topic in Depth - Fire EcologyForest fires have become a regular summertime occurrence in North America, sparking debate about the proper role of fire on the land. The following websites examine fires and fire ecology in different ecosystems, regions, and time periods.
This site features the Fire Ecology Center at Texas Tech University. The Fire Ecology Center focuses on the role of fire in grassland ecosystems and their...
This United States Geological Survey (USGS) website provides information gathered by the Western Ecological Research Center (WERC) about the importance of...
This site, from the USGS-Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, contains "an annotated bibliography on fire in North American wetland ecosystems and a...
Hosted by Yellowstone National Park, this site addresses wildland fires in Yellowstone. The Park website presents brief sections on the fire of 1988, fire...
This site, from the Canadian Forest Service, provides information about forest fires in Canada including weekly fire statistics, fire research, daily fire maps...
Part of a great site on the land use history of the Colorado Plateau from Northern Arizona University, this site offers a brief overview of wildfire history...
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics lists Computational Biology and Genomics, Data Mining, Neuroscience, Materials Science, and Computer Animation and Digital Imaging as the top emerging fields to consider.
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