Firefighters' personal exposure to gaseous PAHs during controlled forest fires: A case study with estimation of respiratory health risks and in vitro toxicity

J Teixeira, MJ Bessa, C Delerue-Matos… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Firefighters are daily exposed to adverse health-hazardous pollutants. Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs), well known endocrine disruptors with carcinogenic, mutagenic, and …

Burn intensity drives the alteration of phenolic lignin to (Poly) aromatic hydrocarbons as revealed by pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS)

H Chen, JJ Wang, PJ Ku, MTK Tsui… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-intensity wildfires alter the chemical composition of organic matter, which is expected
to be distinctly different from low-intensity prescribed fires. Herein, we used pyrolysis gas …

Identification of antimicrobial metabolites produced by a potential biocontrol Actinomycete strain A217

H He, X Hao, W Zhou, N Shi, J Feng… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims To extract and identify the metabolites of strain A217 as well as its antifungal spectrum
and control effect on various plant pathogens. Methods and Results Strain A217 was …

Prescribed fire effects on water quality and freshwater ecosystems in moist-temperate eastern North America

GE Hahn, TA Coates, RE Latham, H Majidzadeh - Natural areas journal, 2019 - BioOne
Forests of the eastern United States provide numerous ecosystem services, including water
filtration. Forest management activities of eastern forests often include prescribed fire to …

Mineral soil chemical properties as influenced by long-term use of prescribed fire with differing frequencies in a southeastern Coastal Plain pine forest

TA Coates, DL Hagan, WM Aust, A Johnson, JC Keen… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Recent studies suggest increased fire frequency may impair soil chemistry, but few studies
have examined long-term effects of repeated, frequent prescribed fires on forest soil …

Soil microbial diversity, biomass, and activity in two pine plantations of Southern Italy treated with prescribed burning

E Giuditta, R Marzaioli, A Esposito, D Ascoli, A Stinca… - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Microbial diversity plays a crucial role in ecosystem processes, including organic matter
decomposition and nutrient cycling. This research explores the effect of prescribed burning …

Effect of prescribed fires on the export of dissolved organic matter, precursors of disinfection by-products, and water treatability

H Uzun, W Zhang, CI Olivares, CU Erdem, TA Coates… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we report for the first time the effect of prescribed fires on the export of dissolved
organic matter (DOM) and precursors of disinfectant by-products (DBPs) from periodically …

Integration of an automated identification-quantification pipeline and statistical techniques for pyrolysis GC/MS tracking of the molecular fingerprints of natural organic …

H Chen, GD Blosser, H Majidzadeh, X Liu… - Journal of Analytical and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry is a potent tool for studying the molecular
fingerprints of natural organic matter (NOM). With advances in analytical techniques, a …

Corrigendum to: Long-term watershed management is an effective strategy to reduce organic matter export and disinfection by-product precursors in source water

H Majidzadeh, H Chen, TA Coates… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Watershed management practices such as prescribed fire, harvesting and understory
mastication can alter the chemical composition and thickness of forest detritus, thus affecting …

Soil chemistry following single-entry, dormant season prescribed fires in the Ridge and Valley Province of Virginia, USA

GE Hahn, TA Coates, WM Aust - … in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, mineral soil (0–10 cm depth) chemistry [pH, calcium (Ca), carbon (C),
magnesium (Mg), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K)] was measured pre–and post …