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Only in the post-fire City did Wren and his colleagues produce a series of miniature essays in confined architecture.
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The basic layout remains, but the couple's post-fire adjustments include an arty limestone-and-granite wall in the main dining room, frosted-glass panels to set off the atrium seating and a hearth that's open on two sides, ready for a cold snap.
Tom Sietsema on Equinox and 701: New chapters for two downtown mainstays Tom Sietsema 2010
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A post-fire power interruption caused a series of cascading power failures that affected many of the plane ' s systems, including autothrottle, computer flight-deck displays and electronic flight controls.
Boeing 787 Is Set Back as Blaze Forces Fix Peter Sanders 2010
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A piece of wire or small bolt could also be the culprit, she said, but Boeing engineers were unable to find the offending piece of debris post-fire.
Boeing to Redesign Parts of Dreamliner Electrical System Peter Sanders 2010
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A single land cover class (e.g., forest) could have many different land uses, e.g., a park reserve, a communal woodlot, and area of regrowth post-fire, orchards or agroforestry.
Protected areas 2009
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Although fire has been a natural feature of the ecology of these plant communities, a reduction in the ratio of older plant communities with high lichen biomass to post-fire early succession stages can be detrimental to caribou and reindeer that feed on the lichens in winter.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic 2009
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The non-combustion post-fire release of carbon dioxide (CO2) has the potential to affect global levels of atmospheric CO2 over the short term, representing another mechanism by which the boreal forest can play a significant role in the global carbon cycle.
Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic 2009
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The shrubs that are characteristic of the post-fire vegetation are also favored by recent climate warming, and provide suitable forage for moose.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic 2009
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Fire in the boreal forest sustains a set of species in early post-fire communities that are distinct from later successional species.
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However, as in the warmer Lahontan Basin to the west, lightning fires are common and a post-fire monoculture of cheatgrass tends to replace the native grasses and shrubs.
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