The fire ecology and management of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

PM Fernandes, E Rigolot - Forest Ecology and Management, 2007 - Elsevier
Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) is an important conifer from the western Mediterranean
Basin. Fire is the most significant threat to maritime pine plantations but also a disturbance …

Forest fire management to avoid unintended consequences: A case study of Portugal using system dynamics

RD Collins, R de Neufville, J Claro, T Oliveira… - Journal of environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Forest fires are a serious management challenge in many regions, complicating the
appropriate allocation to suppression and prevention efforts. Using a System Dynamics (SD) …

Land use and topography influences on wildfire occurrence in northern Portugal

M Carmo, F Moreira, P Casimiro, P Vaz - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2011 - Elsevier
Understanding the spatial patterns of wildfire ignition and spread has important implications
for landscape planning for reducing fire hazard. In this paper we characterise the patterns of …

Effectiveness of forest residue mulching in reducing post-fire runoff and erosion in a pine and a eucalypt plantation in north-central Portugal

SA Prats, LH MacDonald, M Monteiro, AJD Ferreira… - Geoderma, 2012 - Elsevier
Fire-enhanced runoff generation and erosion are an important concern in recently burnt
areas worldwide but their mitigation has received little public and scientific attention in …

Forest fires in Portugal: dynamics, causes and policies

P Mateus, PM Fernandes - Forest context and policies in Portugal: present …, 2014 - Springer
With a mean annual fire incidence of 3% of its forest and wildland surface Portugal is the
European country most affected by wildfire. Forest fires dynamics in Portugal in the last four …

Characterization of wildfires in Portugal

S Marques, JG Borges, J Garcia-Gonzalo… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Forest fires severity has increased in Portugal in the last decades. Climate change scenarios
suggest the reinforcement of this severity. Forest ecosystem managers and policy-makers …

Iberian atmospheric dynamics and large forest fires in mainland Portugal

F Ferreira-Leite, N Ganho, A Bento-Gonçalves… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2017 - Elsevier
In Portugal the natural cycle of fire has been reduced, fires have become recurrent, their
intensity and expansion have increased, and they have taken on catastrophic proportions …

Assessment and validation of wildfire susceptibility and hazard in Portugal

JC Verde, JL Zêzere - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2010 - nhess.copernicus.org
A comprehensive methodology to assess forest fire susceptibility, that uses variables of
strong spatial correlation, is presented and applied for the Portuguese mainland. Our study …

Polyacrylamide application versus forest residue mulching for reducing post-fire runoff and soil erosion

SA Prats, MA dos Santos Martins, MC Malvar… - Science of the total …, 2014 - Elsevier
For several years now, forest fires have been known to increase overland flow and soil
erosion. However, mitigation of these effects has been little studied, especially outside the …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of optical and SAR data for burned area mapping in Mediterranean Regions

D Stroppiana, R Azar, F Calò, A Pepe, P Imperatore… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to investigate how optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data
can be combined in an integrated multi-source framework to identify burned areas at the …