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Developing a prescription for brush control in the Chaco region, effects of combined treatments on the canopy of three native shrub species
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-07)
Shrub encroachment is frequent in grazing lands in the Chaco region, Argentina. Fire is used by cattlemen to reduce the dominance of the shrub stands, improve forage standing biomass and quality, and enhance grazing ...
Proposta de melhoria de um sistema de combate e prevenção de incêndios veículares com ativação automatizada
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáPonta GrossaBrasilDepartamento Acadêmico de MecânicaEngenharia MecânicaUTFPR, 2018-06-28)
The automobile has great importancy as a consumer good, whether as an emotional or finantial factor for its owner. It is given big importance from the society in general to the research of means to avoid temporary or ...
Comparação das medidas de segurança contra incêndio exigidas para uma edificação com boate e agência bancária segundo a CPI (2001) e o CSCIP (2015)
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáCampo MouraoBrasilEngenharia CivilUTFPR, 2016-02-29)
The fire control by humans has provided a notable progress to its kind. The problem consists when this element is used without any precaution, which can make things out of control, resulting in critical damage. Therefore, ...
From forest to shrubland: Structural responses to different fire histories in Prosopis flexuosa woodland from the Central Monte (Argentina)
(Elsevier, 2014-06)
We estimate post-fire population trajectories, and to analyze the effect of fire recurrence on the post-fire recovery in seven different fire histories in the Central Monte. The structure of stems showed that unburned ...
FIRE USE IN CERRADO COUNTRY PROPERTIES IN CAVALCANTE, GOUso do fogo em propriedades rurais do cerrado em Cavalcante, GO.
(Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2007)
CO2 and CO emission rates from three forest fire controlled experiments in Western Amazonia
(2016-06-01)
Forests represent an important role in the control of atmospheric emissions through carbon capture. However, in forest fires, the carbon stored during photosynthesis is released into the atmosphere. The carbon quantification, ...
Dimensional stability, fire performance and decay resistance in wood impregnated with Alkylalkoxysilanes
(World Scientific, 2013-11)
The wood, very heterogeneous and complex material, changes its volume by water absorption or desorption causing swelling or shrinkage and also it can be degraded both by action of microorganisms and fire; the above-mentioned ...
Ecological and climatic controls of modern wildfire activity patterns across southwestern South America
(Ecological Society of America, 2012-11-16)
Understanding how patterns of wildfire activity across biomes are shaped by heterogeneity in biomass resources to burn and atmospheric conditions conducive to burning is a high research priority in the context of global ...
Techniques for effective and efficient fire detection from social media images
(Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication - INSTICCScience and Technology Press - SciTePressBarcelona, 2015-04)
Social media could provide valuable information to support decision making in crisis management, such as in accidents, explosions and fires. However, much of the data from social media are images, which are uploaded in a ...
Modulation of Fire Regimes by Vegetation and Site Type in Southwestern Patagonia Since 13 ka
(Frontiers Media SA, 2018-04)
The degree to which vegetation and site type have influenced fire regimes through the Holocene has not been investigated in detail in the temperate ecosystems of southern Patagonia. Here we present a first attempt using a ...