Publications on fire ecology research

Davies, G.M., Hamilton, A., Smith, A., & Legg, C.J. (2008 In press) Estimating heathland fuel load and structure using visual obstruction: the ‘FuelRule’ technique. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17, 380-389. (DOI: 10.1071/WF07021)

Davies, G.M., Legg, C.J. (2008 In press). The effect of traditional management burning on lichen diversity. Applied Vegetation Science. (doi: 10.3170/2008-7-18566)

Kitchen, K., Marno, P., Legg, C., Bruce, M. & Davies, G.M. (2006). Developing a Fire Danger Rating System for the United Kingdom (Abstract). Forest Ecology & Management 234 Supplement 1: S21. Full paper published in V International Conference on Forest Fire Research (ed. D.X. Viegas). ADAI, University of Coimbra, Portugal. 14 pp.

Davies, G.M., Legg, C.J., Smith, A. & MacDonald, A. (2006). Developing shrub fire behaviour models in an oceanic climate: Burning in the British Uplands (Abstract). Forest Ecology & Management 234 Supplement 1: S107. Full paper published in V International Conference on Forest Fire Research (ed. D.X. Viegas). ADAI, University of Coimbra, Portugal. 15 pp.

Davies, G. M., MacDonald, A., Legg, C. J. & Smith, A. (2004). Developing predictive systems for Scottish fire regimes. In: Terrestrial Environmental Change in the Highlands and Islands: From Mountain Summits to Coasts. Conference Guide and Abstracts; Inverness, 26-28 March 2004. p. 65. UHI Millenium Institute, Inverness.

Legg, C. J. (2004). New thinking on fire ecology? Guest editorial in Looking to the Hills. Newsletter of the Upland Lead Co-ordination Network. JNCC, Peterborough.

Hamilton, A., Legg, C. J. & Li, Z. (1997). Blanket mire research in north-west Scotland: A view from the front. In: Blanket Mire Degradation: Causes, Consequences and Challenges (Eds. Tallis, J. H., Meade, R. and Hulme, P. D.), Proc. Mires Research Group Conference, University of Manchester, 9-11 April 1997. Pp 47-53. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.

Hancock, M. H., Egan, S., Summers, R. W., Cowie, N., Amphlett, A., Rao, S., and Hamilton, A. (in press) The effect of experimental prescribed fire on the establishment of Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris seedlings on Heather Calluna vulgaris moorland. Forest Ecology and Mangement.

Legg, C. J., Maltby, E. & Proctor, M. C. F. (1992). The ecology of severe moorland fire on the North York Moors: seed distribution and seedling establishment of Calluna vulgaris. Journal of Ecology 80, 737-752.

Maltby, E., Legg, C. J. & Proctor, M. C. F. (1990). The ecology of severe moorland fires on the North York Moors. Effects of the 1976 fires, and subsequent surface and vegetation development. Journal of Ecology 78, 490-518.

Mallik, A. U., Hobbs, R. J. & Legg, C. J. (1984). Seed dynamics in Calluna - Arctostaphylos heath in north eastern Scotland. Journal of Ecology 72, 855-871.

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