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Grazing in California's Mediterranean Multi-Firescapes

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
The California landscape is layered and multifunctional, both historically and spatially. Currently, wildfire size, frequency, and intensity are without precedent, at great cost to human health, property, and lives.
Lynn Huntsinger, Sheila Barry, Sheila Barry   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Where to prescribe burn: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning close to houses [PDF]

International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2019
Prescribed burning is used in Australia as a tool to manage fire risk and protect assets. A key challenge is deciding how to arrange the burns to generate the highest benefits to society. Studies have shown that prescribed burning in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) can reduce the risk of house loss due to wildfires, but the costs and benefits of ...
Veronique Florec, Michael Burton, David Pannell, Joel Kelso, George Milne   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Characterization of Phenolic Compounds in Pinus laricio Needles and Their Responses to Prescribed Burnings

Molecules, 2007
Fire is a dominant ecological factor in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Management strategies include prescribed (controlled) burning, which has been used in the management of several species, such as Pinus nigra ssp laricio var. Corsicana, a pine endemic
Lila Ferrat, Catherine Fernandez, Stéphane Greff, Vanina Pasqualini, Magali Cannac Cannac   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Practitioner perceptions of wildland fire management across South Europe and Latin America [PDF]

, 2016
Wildfire presents a challenge to natural resource managers the world over, and the intentional setting of fires can be used to alleviate some of the challenges associated with wildfire management.
Cardil Forradellas, Adrián, Kobziar, L. N., Molina Terrén, Domingo   +2 more
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Impact of prescribed burning on blanket peat hydrology [PDF]

, 2015
Fire is known to impact soil properties and hydrological flowpaths. However, the impact of prescribed vegetation burning on blanket peatland hydrology is poorly understood. We studied ten blanket peat headwater catchments. Five were subject to prescribed
Acreman, Ballard, Benscoter, Beven, Blundell, Bond-Lamberty, Brian Irvine, Brown, Brown, Catherine Wearing, Cawson, Clay, Clymo, Davies, Evans, Evans, Freckleton, Gao, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Holden, Ingram, Joseph Holden, Kerrylyn Johnston, Kettridge, Kettridge, Lane, Lee E. Brown, Lindsay, Lukenbach, Martin, Neris, Pierson, Post, Price, Price, Ramchunder, Rawes, Robichaud, Rodwell, Sheila M. Palmer, Simmons, Smith, Thompson, Thompson, Turetsky, Verble, Ward, Worrall, Worrall, Yallop, Yibarbuk, Yu   +61 more
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Fungal diversity and community composition responses to the reintroduction of fire in a non-managed Mediterranean shrubland ecosystem

Forest Ecosystems, 2023
Background: More than a decade of fire suppression has changed the structure of fire-adapted shrubland ecosystems in Spain's National Parks, which are now at extreme risk of uncontrolled wildfires. Prescribed burning can mitigate the risk of wildfires by
Juncal Espinosa, Tatek Dejene, Mercedes Guijarro, Xim Cerdá, Javier Madrigal, Pablo Martín-Pinto   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative Assessment of the Effect of Agency-Led Prescribed Burns and Cultural Burns on Soil Properties in Southeastern Australia

Fire
Fire management techniques play a critical role in mitigating the impact of bushfires on communities and ecosystems. In Australia, government agencies implement hazard reduction burn programs, while Indigenous communities have used fire for ecosystem ...
Murramarang Country, Jessica Davis, Jack Simmons, Shane Snelson, Victor Channell, Katharine Haynes, Nicholas Deutscher, Leanne Brook, Anthony Dosseto   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of peatland burning in Scotland during 1985–2022 using Landsat imagery

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023
In the Scottish uplands, prescribed burning of moorland vegetation is widely practised either to boost gamebird numbers for recreational shooting or to improve livestock grazing.
B. D. Spracklen, D. V. Spracklen
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fire effects on gambel oak in southwestern ponderosa pine-oak forests [PDF]

, 2008
Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) is ecologically and aesthetically valuable in southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests. Fire effects on Gambel oak are important because fire may be used in pine-oak forests to manage oak directly or to ...
Abella, Scott R., Fule, Peter Z.
core   +2 more sources