Search Results - "Meyer, C. P"
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Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change
Published in Nature communications (26-11-2021)“…Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate…”
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Managing fire regimes in north Australian savannas: applying Aboriginal approaches to contemporary global problems
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-08-2013)“…Savannas constitute the most fire-prone biome on Earth and annual emissions from savanna-burning activities are a globally important source of greenhouse-gas…”
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Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (01-08-2008)“…Hotspots of high species diversity are a prominent feature of modern global biodiversity patterns. Fossil and molecular evidence is starting to reveal the…”
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Fire in the Air: Biomass Burning Impacts in a Changing Climate
Published in Critical reviews in environmental science and technology (01-01-2013)“…Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's…”
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Impact of biomass burning sources on seasonal aerosol air quality
Published in Atmospheric environment (1994) (01-03-2013)“…In the Huon Valley, Tasmania, current public perception is that smoke from regeneration burning is the principal cause of pollution events in autumn. These…”
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The Australian terrestrial carbon budget
Published in Biogeosciences (07-02-2013)“…This paper reports a study of the full carbon (C-CO2) budget of the Australian continent, focussing on 1990–2011 in the context of estimates over two…”
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A data - Model fusion methodology for mapping bushfire fuels for smoke emissions forecasting in forested landscapes of south-eastern Australia
Published in Journal of environmental management (15-09-2018)“…The increasing regional and global impact of wildfires on the environment, and particularly on the human population, is becoming a focus of the research…”
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Exposure to bushfire smoke during prescribed burns and wildfires: Firefighters’ exposure risks and options
Published in Environment international (01-02-2011)“…Firefighters are exposed to known health-damaging air pollutants present in bushfire smoke and poorly managed exposure can result in serious health issues. A…”
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Atmospheric mercury emissions in Australia from anthropogenic, natural and recycled sources
Published in Atmospheric environment (1994) (01-12-2012)“…The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has begun a process of developing a legally binding instrument to manage emissions of mercury from…”
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Greenhouse gas emissions from laboratory-scale fires in wildland fuels depend on fire spread mode and phase of combustion
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (13-05-2015)“…Free-burning experimental fires were conducted in a wind tunnel to explore the role of ignition type and thus fire spread mode on the resulting emissions…”
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Emission factors for PCDD/PCDF and dl-PCB from open burning of biomass
Published in Environment international (2012)“…The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes in its aims the minimisation of unintentional releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins…”
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Soil-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange in Semiarid and Arid Zones
Published in Journal of environmental quality (01-03-2008)“…A review is presented on trace gas exchange of CH4, CO, N2O, and NOx arising from agriculture and natural sources in the world's semiarid and arid zones due to…”
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Direct measurements of the seasonality of emission factors from savanna fires in northern Australia
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (27-10-2012)“…Current good practice guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories requires that seasonal variation in emission factors from savanna fires be considered…”
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Author Correction: Incorrect interpretation of carbon mass balance biases global vegetation fire emission estimates
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Biomass burning emissions of trace gases and particles in marine air at Cape Grim, Tasmania
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (07-12-2015)“…Biomass burning (BB) plumes were measured at the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station during the 2006 Precursors to Particles campaign, when emissions from…”
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Impact of smoke from biomass burning on air quality in rural communities in southern Australia
Published in Atmospheric environment (1994) (01-08-2011)“…In rural towns of southern Australia, smoke from biomass burning such as prescribed burning of forests, wildfires and stubble burning is often claimed to be…”
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Moorea BIOCODE barcode library as a tool for understanding predator–prey interactions: insights into the diet of common predatory coral reef fishes
Published in Coral reefs (01-06-2012)“…Identifying species involved in consumer–resource interactions is one of the main limitations in the construction of food webs. DNA barcoding of prey items in…”
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New emission factors for Australian vegetation fires measured using open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy – Part 2: Australian tropical savanna fires
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (29-10-2014)“…Savanna fires contribute approximately 40–50% of total global annual biomass burning carbon emissions. Recent comparisons of emission factors from different…”
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Soil-atmosphere exchange of CH₄, CO, N₂O and NOx and the effects of land-use change in the semiarid Mallee system in Southeastern Australia
Published in Global change biology (01-09-2010)“…The semiarid and arid zones cover a quarter of the global land area and support one-fifth of the world's human population. A significant fraction of the global…”
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Formation of artefacts while sampling emissions of PCDD/PCDF from open burning of biomass
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-07-2012)“…► We test formation of artefacts while sampling PCDD/PCDF emissions from open burning. ► We found that TEQ of emissions rises with increases in sampler hood…”
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