Sentence examples for surface fires from inspiring English sources
Second, evidence exists for at least three modes of low-severity surface fires in these woodlands: (1) spreading surface fires, (2) patchy surface fires of small extent, and (3) an absence or near absence of surface fires.
"But those were surface fires, not destroying the forest but just keeping an open setting".
The basic characteristics of full surface fires of large scale floating roof tanks are briefed.
Our study highlights between-species variation in ability to withstand heat from surface fires.
Charcoal morphotypes and the pollen record show the predominance of frequent surface fires, occasionally transitioning to the crown during Pinus sylvestris-Betula boreal forests and less frequent surface fires during the dominance of temperate deciduous forests.
Surface fuels amounts (especially grasses) and continuity, unbroken by trails, roads, etc., were critical in allowing the spread of frequent surface fires.
But environmental researchers have been clamoring for years for satellite researchers to expand monitoring to include areas thinned by logging and surface fires, rather than just areas that have been clear cut.
Third, there are no reliable estimates of mean fire intervals for low-severity surface fires in these woodlands because of methodological problems.
An ecological and management paradigm in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests is that historically recurrent surface fires maintained open forest stands dominated by large, old trees.
Within treatments, fire severity decreased with distance from the treatment boundary, and canopy fires were almost always reduced to surface fires within 70 m of entering the treatment.
