Effectiveness in Mitigating Forest Fire Ignition Sources: A Statistical Study Based on Fire Occurrence Data in China. Although natural ignition sources contain two items, i.e., lightning and spontaneous combustion of humic substances, the respective category was omitted from the table, so...
Regions like California and parts of the Pacific Northwest face the greatest threats, with entire communities situated in areas highly susceptible to fire. This growing threat has forced insurers and policymakers to focus on mitigating risks, spurring efforts to better understand how to minimize ...
3e). This indicates that the positive effect of protection in mitigating forest degradation goes beyond the three habitat quality variables we have considered, perhaps reflecting reductions of other pressures such as hunting, selective logging, or invasive species33,34. Stronger evidence for the ...
In forests with a concentrated wildland urban interface, fuel treatments may be vital for ensuring human welfare and enhancing forest integrity in a fire-prone future. Introduction Fuel-reduction (i.e., forest thinning) treatments are used extensively throughout the western US and worldwide to ...
From the three different cover treatments, straw and wood mulches were significantly more effective in mitigating erosion than hydromulch. In addition, the effectiveness of both straw and wood mulches depended on their application rates. Straw mulching was less effective at rates below than above 200...
Due to environmental-friendliness and high selectivity, allelochemicals have put forward a promising option for inhibiting cyanobacterial overgrowth and therefore mitigating blooms in a short term. This study overviewed the algicidal effects of four types of allelochemicals, i.e., polyphenolics, nitrogen-...
We found that the majority of parks are successful at stopping land clearing, and to a lesser degree effective at mitigating logging, hunting, fire, and grazing. Park effectiveness correlates with basic management activities such as enforcement, boundary demarcation, and direct compensation to local ...
The 2019–2020 Black Summer fires in eastern Australia raised questions about the effectiveness of prescribed burning in mitigating risk under unprecedented fire conditions. We performed a simulation experiment to test the effects of different rates of prescribed burning treatment on risks posed by ...
fire dangerforest firespruningsilviculturethinningwildfiresIn the current paper, an attempt is being made to present and assess the effectiveness of traditional silvicultural treatments in mitigating wildfire initiation and spread, in a typical Mediterranean forest which is located in Vartholomio, southern...
Parts of several trees' crown of the fuelbreak burned because of the crown fire spread. But the fire has not passed the fuelbreak and no spotting fire happened. The fire experiment result indicates that the fuelbreak has effects on mitigating fire intensity and stop fire spread in some ...