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Does Environment Filtering or Seed Limitation Determine Post-fire Forest Recovery Patterns in Boreal Larch Forests? [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Wildfire is a primary natural disturbance in boreal forests, and post-fire vegetation recovery rate influences carbon, water, and energy exchange between the land and atmosphere in the region.
Wen H. Cai +6 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Typhoons strongly impact the structure and functioning of the forests, especially in the coastal areas in which typhoon-induced flooding imposes additional stress on the ecosystem via physical destruction and rising soil salinity.
Reza Rezaei, Saman Ghaffarian
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Ecosphere, 2021 The Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) and Akekee (Loxops caeruleirostris) are two honeycreepers endemic to Kauai, Hawaii, that were listed as federally endangered in 2010. Both species are rare, little‐studied, and occur in a remote, roadless area. We analyzed
Geoffrey A. Fricker +5 more
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Knowledge Management Practices and Ecological Restoration of the Tropical Dry Forest in Colombia
Land, 2022 Ecological restoration is considered a nature-based solution to reduce ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, and combat climate change. In this sense, the objective of this study was to identify the knowledge management practices that are present in ...
Francisco Torres-Romero +1 more
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Mapping deforestation and recovery of tropical montane forests of East Africa
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Deforestation poses a major threat to the tropical montane forest ecosystems of East Africa. Montane forests provide key and unique ecological and socio-economic benefits to the local communities and host diverse flora and fauna.
Sadadi Ojoatre +7 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Understanding accurate and continuous forest dynamics is of key importance for forest protection and management in the Greater Khingan Mountains (GKM). There has been a lack of finely captured and long-term information on forest disturbance and recovery ...
Huixin Ren +6 more
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Forest restoration activities with the indigenous community in Maranhão
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020 This study presents the activities related to the forest fire prevention process and the implementation of agroforestry systems in Indigenous Lands where there is the work of the Prevfogo indigenous brigades.
Ana Rosa Marques +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 The spatial distribution and dynamic changes of the forests in Primorsky Krai, Russia, are of great significance for regional ecological security and sustainable economic and societal development.
Yang Hu, Yunfeng Hu
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Effects of Post-Fire Management on a Mediterranean Small Mammal Community
Fire, 2023 Wildfires simplify ecosystems, modifying the ecological niches of the fauna living in the recently burned areas. Small mammals respond rapidly to changes in habitat structure and composition after fire, but the effects of fire can be ameliorated by some ...
Ignasi Torre +2 more
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Analyzing Gradual Vegetation Changes in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region Using Landsat Data
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 Oil sand mining in northern Alberta/Canada in the Athabasca region is a major intrusion into the otherwise pristine natural environment. The various types of oil sands mining, transport, and processing are causing large-scale discharge of pollutants ...
Moritz Lucas +2 more
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