Burned areas
The role of frugivorous birds and bats in the colonization of cloud forest plant species in burned areas in western Mexico
... The role of frugivorous birds and bats in the colonization of cloud forest plant species in burned areas in western Mexico.— The extension of montane cloud forests in western Mexico is threatened by several ...
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Assigning dates and identifying areas affected by fires in Portugal based on MODIS data
... dating burned areas in Portugal using values of daily reflectance from near-infrared and middle-infrared bands, as obtained from the MODIS ...obtained burned area map and the reference derived from ...
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Oil mixes omega 9, 6 and 3, enriched with seaweed, promoted reduction of thermal burned modulating NFkB and Ki67
... animal) leaving approximately 1 cm intact skin between burned areas. Following one hour of the procedure, the burns injuries were photographed (see macroscopic analysis for details) and the animals received ...
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Hydrological response of a small catchment burned by experimental fire
... The impact of the faster development of soil water re- pellency should not be assessed without considering the ef- fects of its more rapid elimination resulting from the higher effective rainfall after the fire (Stoof et ...
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Effects of climate variability on savannah fire regimes in West Africa
... and burned areas, which could mean that human activities caused the fires, since rainfall amount over the region was the ...Therefore, areas where human activities induced or inhibited fires would ...
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Assessment of the recurrence interval of wildfires in mainland Portugal and the identification of affected LUC patterns
... Pinus pinaster and Eucalyptus globulus presented high PWO, but shrubland stands out for the highest area burned and highest PWO. This fact is explained by the regeneration of this vegetation type in burned ...
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Assessing the predictability of fire occurrence and area burned across phytoclimatic regions in Spain
... In order to obtain robust estimates of model performance, we carried out a leave-one-out cross-validation procedure (LOOCV) to compute the error (Michaelsen, 1987). LOOCV is a resampling technique in which n−1 instances ...
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A Bayesian Modelling of Wildfires in Portugal
... of burned area, more proper sampling distributions and link ...observed burned areas were 0 or 1 being replaced by 10 10 and 1 10 10 , respectively, for simplicity, We intend to include that ...
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Global wildland fire emissions from 1960 to 2000
... and burned areas, which in princi- ple allow for the monitoring of fires on the global scale, have only become available recently and are generally obtained only for the time period after ...
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Fire Takes No Vacation: Impact of Fires on Tourism
... Many Mediterranean-type climates around the world will face increased risks of wildfires as a consequence of climate change. In this study we consider the case of Portugal and estimate the impact of the increasing risk ...
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A comparative study of pentoxifylline effects in adult and aged rats submitted to lung dysfunction by thermal injury
... in burned patients, due to their great capacity in producing inlammatory mediators and radical oxygen ...the burned patients when passing through systemic blood 3 ...
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The effect of ketoconazole on post-burn inflammation, hypermetabolism and clinical outcomes.
... Ketoconazole is an imidazole anti-fungal agent that has been shown to diminish steroid synthesis by blocking P450-dependent enzyme systems [11,12]. It has been shown to be effective in reducing both stimulated and basal ...
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ORIGIN AL RESEAR CH
... Productivity research fellow of Fundação Araucária – Londrina (PR), Brazil. ABSTRACT | This study aimed to analyze the anthropometric characteristics, functional capacity of exercise, and physical activity of children ...
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Floristic composition, environmental variation and species distribution patterns in burned grassland in southern brazil
... of the total species cover, seven were grasses, and among the 30 most dominant species, already accounting for 71.2% of the total species cover, 16 were grasses (note that the total species cover is the cumulative value ...
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Differential Diptera succession patterns onto partially burned and unburned pig carrion in southeastern Brazil
... on burned carcass, the results showed a delay in the rhythm of total decomposition process (from fresh to skeletal stage), and in the consequent insect ...a burned carcass, the PMI will be ...
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Rev. Bras. Cir. Plást. vol.27 número4
... Children aged 5 to 13 years had the greatest extent of body surface area burned, predominantly due to alcohol burns. This is probably because children at this age become increasingly independent and active outside ...
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Diverging responses of tropical Andean biomes under future climate conditions.
... Observations and projections for mountain regions show a strong tendency towards upslope displacement of their biomes under future climate conditions. Because of their climatic and topographic heterogeneity, a more ...
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Main challenges of residential areas
... conclusions on the intrinsic and associated wear, it can indicate the factors to be acted upon, and one can anticipate the development of wear phases and point out to the severity of dysfunctions and their effects on the ...
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MATERIAL AND METHODS Study areas
... A better knowledge on the diet of the estuarine dolphin (including seasonal variations of prey ingested by different populations), the dynamics of prey abundance and distribu- tion and, finally, the influence of the ...
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Green areas in coastal cities
... green areas in Boa Viagem Beach are small patches, and a major area of mangrove- flooded swamp that recedes rapidly at the rear of the ...green areas (Fig. 2). These are the most representative green ...
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