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Ecological impact of fire place use in urban forests and consequences for visitor management [PDF]
, 2008 Urban forests are popular recreation areas in Europe. At the same time, these forests are important habitats for plants and animals and often harbour a high biodiversity.
Hegetschweiler, K. Tessa
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart +57 more
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An Intelligent Wireless System for Field Ecology Monitoring and Forest Fire Warning
Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2018 Based on Internet-of-Things and multi-sensor technology, an intelligent wireless monitoring system was developed to obtain field ecological parameters and provide forest fire warning in real-time.
Yili Zheng +4 more
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A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
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Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems
, 2008 We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by ...
Thomas, I., Enright, N.J.
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Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chemical communication is the oldest and most widespread form of signalling among and within organisms. Among the many compounds involved in such communication, pyrazines – nitrogen‐containing heterocyclic molecules – are especially intriguing due to their widespread occurrence across the tree of life, from bacteria and fungi to insects and ...
Zowi Oudendijk +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2018 Identifying the effects of human‐driven perturbations, such as species introductions or habitat fragmentation, on the ecology and dynamics of infectious disease has become a central focus of disease ecologists.
Andrew J. MacDonald +5 more
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A fire suppression model for forested range of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds of caribou
Rangifer, 1996 A fire suppression model was developed for forested winter range of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq (formerly Kaminuriak) herds of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in north-central Canada.
Donald C. Thomas +1 more
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Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney
, 2013 In early January 1994 wildfires burned areas of bushland in northern Sydney (lat 33° 45’ S, long 151° 05’ E) in coastal south-eastern Australia. This paper reports observations of the fire responses for 828 species of bushland plants – 576 native species
Kubiak, P. J.
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Fire ecology -- Cape fynbos biome
, 2013 CITATION: Van Wilgen, B. W. 2013. Fire management in species-rich Cape fynbos shrublands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11:e35–e44, doi:10.1890/120137.The original publication is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe management of ...
Brian W van Wilgen, Van Wilgen, Brian W.
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