The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil after the Amazon and is the savanna with the highest biodiversity in the world. Serra Tombador Natural Reserve (STNR) is the largest private reserve located in Goiás State, and the fourth largest in the Cerrado biome. The present study aimed to map the burnt areas and to describe the spatial patterns of fire recurrence and its interactions with ...

UNLABELLED In Mediterranean regions, fires threaten terrestrial tortoises. Nevertheless, varying proportions of adults survive fire; these surviving individuals can play a central role for population recovery. The regions devastated by fire often include important habitat of Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni hermanni), so assessing the ability of survivors to persist is essential for conser...

More than 72,000 hectares of western Tasmania were burnt in 2016 due to bushfires. Bushfires in Tasmania has high social, economical, and environmental impacts. The remote delineation of these bushfires has paramount importance for decision-making authorities to help people in emergencies and planning. Considering the fact that delineation uncertainty from Earth Observation [EO] data is inevita...

The efficacy of ethanedinitrile (EDN, syn. cyanogen, EDN Fumigas®) for the control of burnt pine longhorn beetle (Arhopalus ferus (Mulsant)) adults was tested using a range of ethanedinitrile concentrations. The LD 99 for adults after a 3 h exposure at 15°C was 12.6 g/m. The results demonstrate that ethanedinitrile is a potential phytosanitary alternative to methyl bromide for disinfesting burn...

As you read this, 35 million humans in various parts of the world are fleeing from war. Their daily lives are severely affected by the psychological consequences of traumatic stress. Today’s military actions no longer resemble those of wars long ago, in which one country’s army fought the governmental forces of another. In today’s wars, more than 80% of casualties are civilians. A civilian’s ho...

ackground: DNA profiling plays a vital role in the identification of dead bodies during mass disasters. Severe fragmentation, decomposition, burning and intermixing of the remains can occur in the mass disasters. DNA analysis faces many challenges especially when the dead bodies are completely decomposed or burnt. This report presents the identification of 32 completely burnt individuals includ...

CHUN-TA LI, CHENG-CHI LEE, CHI-YAO WENG AND CHUN-I FAN Department of Information Management Tainan University of Technology Tainan City, 710 Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] Department of Library and Information Science Fu Jen Catholic University New Taipei City, 242 Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] Department of Photonics and Communication Engineering Asia University Taichung City, 41...

This study deals with the fire-adapted behaviour of three Australian fly species on freshly burnt areas in Western Australia. The smoke fly, Microsania australis Collart (Platypezidae), swarms in smoke plumes. Our field studies present new notes about the ecology of Microsania, especially with respect to its ecological niche. Additionally, Hypocerides nearcticus Borgmeier (Phoridae) aggregated ...

Alpine grazing reduces blazing’ is a widely and strongly held view concerning the effects of livestock grazing on fuels, and therefore fire behaviour and impact, in Australia’s high country landscapes. As a test of this hypothesis, we examined the patterns of burning across the alpine (treeless) landscapes of the Bogong High Plains in Victoria, following the extensive fires of January 2003. Dat...