This lecture-based module is designed to introduce the ecological role of wildfire to students in a broad range of disciplines. It is intended for use in courses such as Environmental Science, General Biology and...

This resource is among the recent postings at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC) Website. The article, by Diane L. Larson, Wesley E. Newton, et al., was initially published in the International Journal...

This outline of a presentation on extinction reviews the various catastrophic events that could lead to extinction and lists the five great mass extinctions. Climate change is identified as the linking factor and...

This United States Geological Survey (USGS) website provides information gathered by the Western Ecological Research Center (WERC) about the importance of wildfires to ecosystem processes in the Pacific Southwest....

Hosted by Yellowstone National Park, this site addresses wildland fires in Yellowstone. The Park website presents brief sections on the fire of 1988, fire ecology, effects, facts, monitoring, prescribed fire,...