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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational Sensemaking Theory Perspective of Developing AI‐Driven Strategies for Sustainability Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation potential of prescribed fire for maintaining habitats and populations of an endangered rattlesnake Sistrurus c. catenatus

Endangered Species Research, 2013
Many endangered species rely on early successional habitats to complete parts of their life cycles. We examined whether prescribed fire can be used to aid in conservation of the endangered eastern massasauga rattlesnake Sistrurus catenatus catenatus Raf.
M Dovcˇiak, PA Osborne, DA Patrick, JP Gibbs   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long‐term benefits of burns for large mammal habitat undermined by large, severe fires in the American West

Ecography, EarlyView.
Escalating wildfire frequency and severity are altering wildland habitats worldwide. Yet investigations into fire impacts on wildlife habitat rarely extend to the macroecological scales relevant to species conservation and global change processes. We evaluate the effects of wildfire on habitat quality and selection by large mammals spanning three ...
Kirby L. Mills, Martin Leclerc, Mark A. Ditmer, Zachary L. Steel, David C. Stoner, Joseph O. Sexton, Panshi Wang, Kent R. Hersey, Darren DeBloois, Cody A. Schroeder, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Julie K. Young, Alyson M. Andreasen, Kathleen M. Longshore, Patrick J. Jackson, Derek B. Hall, Kristin Engebretsen, Neil H. Carter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of vagus nerve stimulator during transition to adulthood in patients with treatment‐resistant epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To evaluate the efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) as an adjunctive treatment in pediatric patients with treatment‐resistant epilepsy during the transition to adolescence. Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study of 30 children (ages 2–18 years) with medication‐resistant epilepsy who underwent VNS implantation between
Jonadab dos Santos Silva, Shaylla Villas Boas, Henrique Januzzelli Pires do Prado, Daniela Fontes Bezerra, Isabella D’Andrea Meira   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landowners' perceptions of risk in grassland management: woody plant encroachment and prescribed fire

Ecology and Society, 2014
Ecologists recognize that fire and herbivory are essential to maintaining habitat quality in grassland ecosystems. Prescribed fire and grazing are typically used on public reserves to increase biodiversity, improve grassland productivity, and control ...
Ryan N. Harr, Lois Wright Morton, Shannon R. Rusk, David M. Engle, James R. Miller, Diane Debinski   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Short-Term Effects of a Wildfire on the Endangered Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti in an Arid Shrub-Steppe of Central Spain [PDF]

, 2013
In Europe, Dupont’s Lark Chersophilus duponti is a threatened open-habitat bird. Prescribed burning has sometimes been proposed for its conservation, but without evidence of its effectiveness.
Garza, Vicente, Justribó, Jorge H., López Iborra, Germán M., Noguerales, Víctor, Pérez-Granados, Cristian, Serrano Davies, Eva, Suárez, Francisco   +6 more
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Epilepsy syndromes classification

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Epilepsy syndromes are distinct electroclinical entities which have been recently defined by the International League Against Epilepsy Nosology and Definitions Task Force. Each syndrome is associated with “a characteristic cluster of clinical and EEG features, often supported by specific etiologic findings”.
Elaine C. Wirrell, Nicola Specchio, Rima Nabbout, Phillip L. Pearl, Kate Riney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ECONOMICALLY OPTIMAL WILDFIRE INTERVENTION REGIMES [PDF]

Wildfires in the United States result in total damages and costs that are likely to exceed billions of dollars annually. Land managers and policy makers propose higher rates of prescribed burning and other kinds of vegetation management to reduce amounts
Abt, Karen L., Butry, David T., Holmes, Thomas P., Mercer, D. Evan, Prestemon, Jeffrey P., Pye, John M.   +5 more
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Changes in soil chemical properties after prescribed fire in a mountain area covered by shrubs [PDF]

, 2015
Currently, forest fires are a serious problem in the Mediterranean ecosystems. The abandonment of the rural areas has led to the accumulation of biomass fuel. One of the techniques applied in the management of vegetation in forest areas is the prescribed
Figueiredo, Tomás de, Fonseca, Felícia, Nogueira, Clotilde   +2 more
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