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Human-induced fire regime shifts during 19th century industrialization: A robust fire regime reconstruction using northern Polish lake sediments.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Fire regime shifts are driven by climate and natural vegetation changes, but can be strongly affected by human land management. Yet, it is poorly known how humans have influenced fire regimes prior to active wildfire suppression. Among the last 250 years,
Elisabeth Dietze, Dariusz Brykała, Laura T Schreuder, Krzysztof Jażdżewski, Olivier Blarquez, Achim Brauer, Michael Dietze, Milena Obremska, Florian Ott, Anna Pieńczewska, Stefan Schouten, Ellen C Hopmans, Michał Słowiński   +12 more
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cedar Façade Flame Spread With Respect to Sidewall

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing energy conservation and carbon neutrality efforts, façade systems incorporating wooden materials have attracted increasing attention, which in turn raises concerns about their combustibility. This study presents a combined experimental and numerical investigation of flame spread along cedar façades.
Xukun Sun, Hideki Yoshioka, Takafumi Noguchi, Yuhei Nishio, Manabu Kanematsu, Biao Zhou, Mingwei Xu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

U.S. federal fire and forest policy: emphasizing resilience in dry forests

Ecosphere, 2016
Current U.S. forest fire policy emphasizes short‐term outcomes versus long‐term goals. This perspective drives managers to focus on the protection of high‐valued resources, whether ecosystem‐based or developed infrastructure, at the expense of forest ...
Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Eric Biber, Peter Z. Fulé   +3 more
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Enabling pastoralist management of rangelands to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Rangelands cover 54% of the global terrestrial area and are threatened by land conversion and degradation, which erodes their global value and weakens the livelihoods of pastoralists who manage them. Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a framework for sustainable rangelands management, but countries ...
Mounir Louhaichi, Jonathan Davies, Pedro Maria Herrera Calvo, Bora Masumbuko, Hanspeter Liniger, Rima Mekdaschi Studer, Nicole Harari, Maryam Niamir‐Fuller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu, Zicao Peng, Chong Sun, Haitao Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Napabucasin transforms liver microenvironment and boosts immunotherapy efficacy by converting potential metastases into “hot” tumors

Interdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.
Napabucasin reduces liver metastases by reprogramming the hepatic microenvironment. It induces hepatocyte secretion of CCL21 via c‐Fos activation, recruiting lymphocytes and converting “cold” metastases into immunologically “hot” tumors. This effect is liver‐specific and independent of cancer cells.
Qiongqiong Wang, Jiaqi Zhou, Hang Qiao, Yifan Jia, Ling Ye, Zeli Li, Jiahe Ouyang, Haoxian Zhou, Kangxin Zeng, Xuemeng Wang, Yixian Wang, Yang Zhang, Yupeng Zhang, Yizhou Cai, Yutao Hu, Minzhe Zhang, Wenwei Xu, Zhenzhen Wu, Xiaofang Qiu, Li Lin   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

The interaction between temperature and rainfall determines the probability of tropical forest fire occurrence in Hainan Island

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Severe forest fires have erupted in numerous tropical regions globally, threatening carbon storage in tropical ecosystems, the survival of plant species, and human health.
Xiaohua Chen, Xiaohua Chen, Qingqing Yang, Qingqing Yang, Zongzhu Chen, Jinrui Lei, Tingtian Wu, Yuanling Li, Xiaoyan Pan   +8 more
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Potential climate change impacts on fire intensity and key wildfire suppression thresholds in Canada

Environmental Research Letters, 2017
Much research has been carried out on the potential impacts of climate change on forest fire activity in the boreal forest. Indeed, there is a general consensus that, while change will vary regionally across the vast extent of the boreal, in general the ...
B M Wotton, M D Flannigan, G A Marshall
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The politics of impact: How political ideology shapes perceptions of the environmental impact of individual actions

Journal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although consumers who engage in the same sustainable behaviors objectively have the same environmental impact, this research finds that people's perceptions of that impact are subjective and systematically shaped by political ideology. Seven studies demonstrate that conservatives tend to perceive their sustainable actions to have less of a ...
Aylin Cakanlar, Katherine White, Remi Trudel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest fire in Thailand: Spatio-temporal distribution and future risk assessment

Natural Hazards Research
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of forest fires and future predictions is very important for management strategies. To identify the present status of forest fires in the Kingdom of Thailand and their risk in the future, ten-year forest fire
Nazimur Rahman Talukdar, Firoz Ahmad, Laxmi Goparaju, Parthankar Choudhury, Abdul Qayum, Javed Rizvi   +5 more
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