Then a bird comes darting by in the pre-dawn light. You can tell it is a duck. My fellow hunter, who has been here before and knows what he is doing, fires and downs a wood duck. Melly, the guide’s sweet black labrador retriever, dives from her perch and retrieves the duck. Th...
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In Northwest Argentina, timber extraction and man-caused fires threaten the sustainability of Southern Andean Yungas forests. In this region, we evaluated, in relation to a reference unburned forest, the effects of close and distant fire-disturbed patches on bird assemblages, exploring also ...
v. fired, fir·ing, fires v.tr. 1. a. To cause to burn; ignite or set fire to: fired the enemy's encampment. b. To illuminate or cause to resemble fire, as in color: The morning sun fired the tops of the trees. 2. a. To start (a fuel-burning engine or a vehicle wi...
Acoustic monitoring of birds is also helpful for other conservation activities, such as measuring forest restoration7, and studying the impact of wild fires8. With the increasing volume of available audio recordings and the development of machine learning algorithms, autonomous classification of animal ...
In: Smith JK (ed) Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on fauna (General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 1). US Department of Agriculture, Ogden, pp 35–42 Hutto RL (1995) Composition of bird communities following stand-replacement fires in northern Rocky Mountain (USA) conifer ...
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, ...
The mosaic structure of the forest-steppes is resulted from abiotic conditions, as well as the presence of herbivores and natural fires. The components of forest-steppes contribute differently to the overall conservation value of the whole landscapes due to the mosaic character. Forest patches can ...
We provide an examination of incorporating lag effects of wildfires on different metrics of bird migration to account for potential impacts of fires on birds before migration and banding. Additionally, we assess the usefulness of different proxies of body condition in highly stressed land birds and ...
Fires didn't stop. Every eight hours, the belly of the furnaces would be opened to drain the molten iron from the bottom and the slag from the top as more coke, ore, and limestone were poured. It was a constant rumble of production. "If there's soot on the windows, there's food ...