Fire intensity is more easily manipulated than fire frequency, because suppression is expensive and ineffective. However, there are important issues relating fire intensity to impacts on woody vegetation that need to be understood to inform management approaches. Such impacts include the links between ...
ISO Implements Changes in Fire Suppression Ratings: Part 2-How Revisions Affect Fire Department OperationsColletti, Dominic
2015a). In fire-prone urban ecosystems, the removal of large quantities of plant litter from forests by detritivorous invertebrates can decrease fuel loads and fire risk for neighbouring communities (Buckingham et al. 2015). An increase in detritivore species richness significantly enhances the ...
Furthermore, this should reflect the degree to which information security incidents have the potential to affect, financially or non-financially, the entity or the interests of depositors, policyholders, beneficiaries or other customers. To provide clarity to internal and external stakeholders, entities...
“vegetable oils” and processed foods. A table that displays the ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 in various oils can be foundhere. Note that this table does not reveal the amounts of MUFA (mono unsaturated fatty acids) which are arguably “heart healthy”. Nor does it address the important...
According to inventory data, the lower Roanoke River floodplain is one of the five major brownwater ecosystems in the Southeast and contains the largest complete bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem in the mid-Atlantic region. In the floodplain are: Natural levees Swamp sloughs (river "meander" ...
“Shallow versus deep lakes” section), so does the method to define the acceptable threshold loadings. Also, the conventional terminology for these thresholds differs for shallow and deep lakes. Here the term “acceptable loading” is used if the threshold is applicable to both shallow and deep...
The second category of the students’ understandings of SES and wildfire focused on how disturbances from human behaviors and management affect ecological systems. One aspect of this was to describe the negative impact human behaviors can have on forest ecosystems. During the third forest investigation...
Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, 1st ed.; Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2019; pp. 1–192. [Google Scholar] Uys, R.G.; Bond, W.J.; Everson, T.M. The effect of different fire regimes on plant diversity in southern African grasslands. Biol. ...
The spread of mis- and disinformation creates challenges for society, including fordemocracy. Deliberately creating and spreading disinformation has become a key tactic for those who wish to affectelections. Elected officials, political candidates, activists, corporations, and others acting in bad faith ...