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Vegetation response to western juniper slash treatments.

The expansion of piñon-juniper woodlands the past 100 years in the western United States has resulted in large scale efforts to kill trees and recover sagebrush steppe rangelands. It is important to evaluate vegetation recovery following woodland control to develop best management practices. In this study, we compared two fuel reduction treatments and a cut-and-leave (CUT) treatment used to con...

Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn in Brazil

S. Vosti (UC Davis), C. L. Carpentier (CCE, CEC), J. Witcover (UC Davis), J. Carvalho dos Santos (Embrapa-Acre), E. Muñoz Braz (Embrapa-Acre), J. Ferreira Valentim (Embrapa-Acre), S. J. de Magalhães de Oliveira (Embrapa-Rondônia), C. Palm (TSBF), F. de Souza Moreira (Universidade Federal de Lavras), A. Cattaneo (USDA), A. Gillison (CBM, CIFOR), A. Mansur Mendes (Embrapa-Rondônia), V. Rodrigues ...

Slash and Char

The existence of an anthropogenic and carbon (C) enriched dark soil in different parts of the world and especially in Amazonia (Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) or Terra Preta de Índio) proves that the predominant Ferralsols and Acrisols can be transformed into fertile soils. Charcoal formation and deposition in soils seems to be a promising option to transfer an easily decomposable biomass into ref...

The multivariate slash and skew-slash student t distributions

In this article, we introduce the multivariate slash and skew-slash t distributions which provide alternative choices in simulating and fitting skewed and heavy tailed data. We study their relationships with other distributions and give the densities, stochastic representations, moments, marginal distributions, distributions of linear combinations and characteristic functions of the random vect...