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Ecophysiological and fuel moisture content data from an experimental drought study on Pinus halepensis Mill. and Quercus ilex L.
No full textCanopy fuel moisture content (CFMC), which represents the water-to-dry mass ratio in leaves and fine twigs within the canopy is a major factor of fire danger across ecosystems worldwide. CFMC is determined by the fuel moisture content of living (LFMC) and dead foliage (DFMC), with their contributions weighted according to the proportion of foliage mortality within the canopy. Understanding how CFMC is affected during extreme drought is essential for effective wildfire planning.
This dataset contains variables measured during a drought experiment conducted on seedlings of two Mediterranean species: Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) and Holm oak (Quercus ilex L.). Throughout the drought experiment and after rewatering, we monitored CFMC, LFMC, the proportion of foliage mortality in the canopy, along with other ecophysiological variables including plant transpiration, soil water content and leaf water potentials.
The dataset comprises two files: 'data_trees' contains recorded values of moisture content and eco-physiological variables for the trees, while 'data_litter' contains recorded values of litter moisture content. Furthermore, the publication includes two text files detailing the variable names and units
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Drought and wildfires in Languedoc-Roussillon in a global change context : a regional modeling approach
No full textLes changements climatiques et socio-économiques dans la région méditerranéenne constituent une menace importante pour les écosystèmes forestiers en affectant leur fonctionnement direct (augmentation de la sècheresse) et le régime des perturbations (incendies). Les interactions entre végétation, sécheresse, régime des feux et activités anthropiques ont été étudiées à l'échelle régionale sur la région Languedoc-Roussillon (LR) à partir des observations durant les dernières décennies (1971-2006) et de scénarios climatiques pour la fin du 21ième siècle (2071-2100). Les résultats montrent que l'évolution récente du climat dans la région LR est caractérisée par une augmentation des conditions de sècheresse présentant une variabilité spatiale importante. Ces tendances climatiques ont entrainé des modifications des caractéristiques de la période de sècheresse des écosystèmes (augmentation de l'intensité, décalage de la saisonnalité). Malgré cette augmentation des conditions favorables à l'occurrence et au développement des incendies, un nouvelle politique de suppression des incendies initié en 1987 a entrainé une diminution du nombre de départs de feux et des surfaces brulées. Cette politique a également modifié les facteurs explicatifs du développement des feux qui, auparavant majoritairement contrôlés par l'état hydrique de la végétation, sont désormais déterminés par la cooccurrence de la sècheresse et d'épisodes venteux. D'autre part, nos résultats ont pu quantifier la contribution relative des caractéristiques spatiales des activités humaines (densité des infrastructures, interface habitat forêt), de la végétation (composition, continuité) et des conditions météorologiques sur la distribution spatiale des incendies. Ainsi, les prédictions de l'évolution du régime des feux sur le siècle prochain sont fortement dépendantes des futures trajectoires de l'activité anthropique, des stratégies d'occupation du territoire mais également de l'incertitude liée à la régionalisation des modèles climatiques.Climate and socio-economic changes in the Mediterranean region are expected to affect the functioning of forested ecosystems (increased drought) and the disturbance regime (wildfire). The interactions between vegetation, drought, fire regime and human activities were studied at regional scale in the Languedoc-Roussillon region (LR; Southern France) from observations over recent decades (1971-2006) and climate scenarios for the end of the 21st century (2071-2100). Recent climate changes in the LR region are characterized by an increase in drought conditions with a high spatial variability. These climate changes modified the features of the major drought period in forested ecosystems (increasing intensity, shifting seasonality). However, despite this increase in fire prone conditions, a new policy of fire suppression started in 1987 led to a decrease in the number of fire starts and burnt areas in LR region. This policy also changed the relative contribution of factors explaining fire spread, which previously mainly controlled by the water status of vegetation, are now determined by the co-occurrence of drought and windy events. Furthermore, our results could quantify the relative contribution of the spatial patterns of human activities (infrastructure density, forest habitat interface), vegetation (composition, fuel continuity) and weather on the regional distribution of fires. Thus, predictions on the future fire regime in the region should be mainly controlled by changes in human activities and settlements, as well as climate forecasts and their related uncertainty in downscaling methods, which have a significant impact on predictions of drought of forested ecosystems
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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