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First Approximations of Prescribed Fire Risks Relative to Other Management Techniques Used on Private Lands. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Fire is widely recognized as a critical ecological and evolutionary driver that needs to be at the forefront of land management actions if conservation targets are to be met. However, the prevailing view is that prescribed fire is riskier than other land
Dirac Twidwell, Carissa L Wonkka, Michael T Sindelar, John R Weir   +3 more
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Exploratory study into a safety format for composite columns exposed to fire [PDF]

, 2019
Current performance based structural fire engineering approaches evaluate structural behaviour under prescribed fire scenarios. The mechanical properties of the materials, the load conditions and geometric parameters are all however fraught with ...
Elhami Khorasani, Negar, Gernay, Thomas, Hopkin, Danny, Van Coile, Ruben   +3 more
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Forest Fires and Adaptation Options in Europe [PDF]

, 2013
This paper presents a quantitative assessment of adaptation options in the context of forest fires in Europe under projected climate change. A standalone fire model (SFM) based on a state-of-the-art large-scale forest fire modelling algorithm is used to ...
CAMIA Andrea, DOSIO Alessandro, DURRANT Tracy, KHABAROV Nikolay, KRASOVSKII Andrey, MIGLIAVACCA M., OBERSTEINER Michael, SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ Jesus, SWART Rob   +8 more
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

Simulating Grassland Prescribed Fires Using Experimental Approaches [PDF]

Fire Ecology, 2015
AbstractSmall-scale fire approaches, like burn boxes, burn tables, and propane burners, are often used to facilitate experimental control over fire and allow greater replication. We compared characteristics of grassland prescribed fires to three experimental approaches to determine if these approaches simulate prescribed fires.
Katherine C. Kral, Ryan F. Limb, Torre J. Hovick, Devan A. McGranahan, Aaron L. Field, Peter L. O’Brien   +5 more
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Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering both whether the animal's nervous system could support sentience and whether their behaviour indicates sentience.
Alexandra K. Schnell, Heather Browning, Andrew Crump, Charlotte C. Burn, Jonathan Birch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

We’re Not Doing Enough Prescribed Fire in the Western United States to Mitigate Wildfire Risk

Fire, 2019
Prescribed fire is one of the most widely advocated management practices for reducing wildfire hazard and has a long and rich tradition rooted in indigenous and local ecological knowledge. The scientific literature has repeatedly reported that prescribed
Crystal A. Kolden
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Investigating the relationship between stakeholder opinion about wildfire management and landscape context using GIS [PDF]

, 2006
Colorado residents living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) were asked about their perception of wildfire risk and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for three fire management procedures: fuel reduction by thinning, fire suppression and prescribed fires.
Kaval, Pamela, Loomis, John, Theobald, Dave   +2 more
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The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep–wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned
Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S. Killen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying carbon and species dynamics under different fire regimes in a southeastern U.S. pineland

Ecosphere, 2019
Forests have a prominent role in carbon sequestration and storage. Climate change and anthropogenic forcing have altered the dominant characteristics of some forested ecosystems through changes to their disturbance regimes, particularly fire.
Steven A. Flanagan, Smriti Bhotika, Christie Hawley, Gregory Starr, Susanne Wiesner, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, Scott Goodrick, Mac A. Callaham Jr., Robert M. Scheller, Kier D. Klepzig, R. Scott Taylor, E. Louise Loudermilk   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source