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  2. Fire adaptations - Wikipedia

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    Such adaptations include physical protection against heat, increased growth after a fire event, and flammable materials that encourage fire and may eliminate competition. For example, plants of the genus Eucalyptus contain flammable oils that encourage fire and hard sclerophyll leaves to resist heat and drought, ensuring their dominance over ...

  3. Free Download Manager - Wikipedia

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    Free Download Manager is proprietary software, but was free and open-source software between versions 2.5 [6] and 3.9.7. Starting with version 3.0.852 (15 April 2010), the source code was made available in the project's Subversion repository instead of being included with the binary package.

  4. Comparison of download managers - Wikipedia

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    This comparison contains download managers, and also file sharing applications that can be used as download managers (using the http, https and ftp-protocol). For pure file sharing applications see the Comparison of file sharing applications .

  5. Fire ecology - Wikipedia

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    Plants have evolved many adaptations to cope with fire. Of these adaptations, one of the best-known is likely pyriscence, where maturation and release of seeds is triggered, in whole or in part, by fire or smoke; this behaviour is often erroneously called serotiny, although this term truly denotes the much broader category of seed release ...

  6. Pyrogenic flowering - Wikipedia

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    Fire exclusion has resulted in a declining reproductive output, and thus population size, of some species of pyrogenic plants. [3] Additionally, evidence suggests that fires that occur outside of normal seasonal burn times (typically summer months) can have negative repercussions on pyrogenic flowering plants, including lower flowering and seed production when compared to fire-exposed plants ...

  7. Fire-adapted communities - Wikipedia

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    Fire Adapted Communities logo. A fire-adapted community is defined by the United States Forest Service as "a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive protection actions and enables the community to safely accept fire as a part of the ...

  8. Control of fire by early humans - Wikipedia

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    The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans. Fire provided a source of warmth and lighting , protection from predators (especially at night), a way to create more advanced hunting tools, and a method for cooking food.

  9. Download manager - Wikipedia

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    For example, the download page for Free Download Manager was hacked and used to spread malware on Linux devices from 2020 to 2022. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Other download managers have been noted to contain advertisements, be identified as malware by antivirus software , or attempt to install unwanted software during installation.