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Influence of fire frequency on Colophospermum mopane and Combretum apiculatum woodland structure and composition in northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We investigated the long-term effects of fire frequency on Colophospermum mopane and Combretum apiculatum woodland structure and composition in northern Gonarezhou National Park (GNP), Zimbabwe.
Kativu, S.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Prescribed fire in Mediterranean pinus pinaster management

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Prescribed fire treatments strategically allocated in time and space play a key role in forest management to reduce extend and severity of forest fires.
Juan Ramón Molina   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Prescribed Fire Smoke: A Review of Composition, Measurement Methods, and Analysis

open access: yesFire
Prescribed fire has become an increasingly important strategy for removing biomass from forests and mitigating the risk of severe wildfire. When considering where and to what extent prescribed fire should be applied, land resource managers must consider ...
Kayode I. Fesomade, Robert A. Walker
doaj   +1 more source

NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prescribed fire ignited by boat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Prescribed fire ignited by ...
Imperial NWR
core  

Fire regimes approaching historic norms reduce wildfire‐facilitated conversion from forest to non‐forest

open access: yesEcosphere, 2018
Extensive high‐severity wildfires have driven major losses of ponderosa pine and mixed‐conifer forests in the southwestern United States, in some settings catalyzing enduring conversions to non‐forested vegetation types.
Ryan B. Walker   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increasing Pace and Scale of Prescribed Fire via Catastrophe Funds for Liability Relief

open access: yesFire, 2021
Increased prescribed burning is needed to provide a diversity of public benefits, including wildfire hazard reduction, improved forest resilience, and biodiversity conservation.
J. Morgan Varner   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bat response to differing fire severity in mixed-conifer forest California, USA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Wildlife response to natural disturbances such as fire is of conservation concern to managers, policy makers, and scientists, yet information is scant beyond a few well-studied groups (e.g., birds, small mammals).
Buchalski, M.R.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

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