Supervisory Soil Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station located at the Station's Research Work Unit at Tempe, in cooperation with Arizona State University. Headquarters is in Fort Collins, in cooperation with Colorado State University. Abstract: Mediterranean ecosystems can be harvested, undergo type conversion, or be burned. Both wildfires and prescr...

Neary, Daniel G. ; Ryan, Kevin C. ; DeBano, Leonard F., eds. 2005. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soi ls and water. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol.4. Ogden , UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 250 p. This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on...

C R E I G H T O N M . L I T T O N *, J A M E S W. R A I C H w and M I C H A E L G . R YA N z§ *Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1910 East-West Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822, USA, wDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 253 Bessey Hall, Ames, IA 50011, USA, zUSDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research...

1. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. In the last 20 years, there has been a significant, progressive decline in the prevalence of smoking in both genders, worldwide(1) and in Brazil,(2) where that decline has been more pronounced. From 1980 to 2012, the worldwide prevalence declined from 41.2% to 31.1% in men...

1. Laboratório do Sono, Disciplina de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. Sleep medicine is a relatively new discipline that has begun to consolidate as an important area of activity for pulmonologists, in Brazil as well as in the rest of the world. The JBP has been a part of this transformation, as e...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and compare the main determinants of overall inequality and wealth-related inequality in under-5 mortality in 13 African countries. METHODS Data from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 2007-2010 in African countries were used. The study assessed the contribution of determinants to (1) overall inequality in under-5 mortality measured by the Gini index and (2) ...