1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698846103321

Titolo

Social science to improve fuels management [[electronic resource] ] : a synthesis of research on collaboration / / [Victoria Sturtevant ... and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

St. Paul, MN : , : USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, , 2005

Descrizione fisica

84 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

General technical report NC ; ; 257

Altri autori (Persone)

SturtevantVictoria Elmore <1950->

Soggetti

Wildfires - Prevention and control - Social aspects - United States

Fuel reduction (Wildfire prevention) - Social aspects - United States

Forestry and community - United States

Cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 18, 2009).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-84).

Sommario/riassunto

"A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on collaboration research, and offers knowledge and tools to improve collaboration in the planning and implementation of wildland fire and fuels management projects. It covers a variety of topics including benefits of collaboration, stages of collaboration, challenges to collaboration, and keys to successful collaboration."--P. [85].



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789740003321

Autore

Olsen Jerry

Titolo

Australian high country owls [[electronic resource] /] / Jerry Olsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., 2011

ISBN

0-643-10411-9

1-283-35511-6

9786613355119

0-643-10410-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

598.97

598.970994

Soggetti

Owls - Australia

Mountain animals - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; What is an owl?; What is a Ninox?; What is a Southern Boobook?; Studying owls; David Fleay; Surveying owls; Finding owls; Trapping and handling owls; Telemetry; Diet and hunting - medium-sized owls; Spotted Owls; Boobook summer diet; Boobook prey size; Northern Hawk-Owls and Long-eared Owls; Winter Boobook diet; Great Horned Owls and versatility; Great Grey Owls and wing formulae; Powerful Owl diet; Forest owl diets; Powerful Owls and dimorphism; Breeding; Southern Boobook calls; Borders; Duetting and duelling; Weather and calling

A lover's trianglePre-breeding behaviour; Colour plates; Nests and breeding habitat; Timing of breeding; Pair behaviour - incubation; Pair behaviour - prey deliveries; Fledging age; Female desertion; Fledgling behaviour; Snowy Owls; David Lack's theory of limiting factors; Tawny Owls in Kielder Forest; Duelling and nest failures; Conservation; Spotted Owls; Athene and Burrowing Owls; Little Owls; Conserving Australian owls; Conservation techniques; Wallacea; Wallacea; Sumba Barn Owls; Sumba Boobook; New species; Eviction; Appendix A: Australian owls

Appendix B: Rehabilitating injured and orphaned owlsReferences; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Descriptions, anecdotes and conservation issues referring to Australia's major owl species.