A5031375928- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Landslides and related hazards
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Media Studies and Communication
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
2015-2025
University of California, Davis
2023-2025
Universitat de Lleida
2022-2024
Technology Centre Prague
2022-2023
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
2015-2021
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2014-2019
ABSTRACT Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss fragmentation (hereafter ‘fragmentation’) altered fire regimes are important biodiversity, but interactions have been systematically evaluated across the globe. In this comprehensive synthesis, including 162 papers which provided 274 cases, we offer a framework for understanding how interacts with fragmentation. Fire three main...
Abstract Background ‘Megafire’ is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term’s meaning remains ambiguous. Approach We sought resolve ambiguity surrounding ‘megafire’ by conducting a structured review use and definition term several languages peer‐reviewed scientific literature. collated definitions descriptions megafire identified criteria frequently invoked define megafire. recorded size location megafires...
Fire regimes are shifting worldwide because of global changes. The relative contribution climate, topography and vegetation greatly determines spatial temporal variations in fire regimes, but the interplay these factors is not yet well understood. We introduce here a novel classification fires according to dominant spread pattern, an approach considered operational firefighting, help understand regional-scale variability regimes. Here, we studied whether fuel variables allowed prediction...
Abstract Climate change projections over the Mediterranean basin point toward an increase in frequency and intensity of extreme events that will directly impact ecosystems resilience. In this study, we evaluated future trends soil loss forestland Catalonia (NE Spain) due to fires vegetation dynamics, considering potential impacts co‐occurring fire rainfall events, assessing how suppression can contribute erosion mitigation. The process‐based MEDFIRE model was used simulate changes climate...
Climate regulation strategies based on forest restoration could pose an increase in fire risk, especially under drier and warmer conditions over large regions of Europe, impacting climate, the environment human health. Climate-smarter options, such as wetlands or recovery grassland, that provide similar benefits for climate but also develop less flammable landscape is a more suitable option these Europe elsewhere facing challenges.
Increased large and high-intensity wildfires cause socioeconomic ecological impacts, which demand improved landscape management approaches in both societal dimensions are integrated. Engaging society fire requires a better understanding of stakeholder perceptions management. We analyze about wildfire-landscape interactions abandoned rural landscapes southern Europe, how the land should be managed to reduce wildfire hazard ensure long-term supply ecosystem services these fire-prone regions....
Periodical outbreaks of Thaumetopoea pityocampa feeding on pine needles may pose a threat to Mediterranean coniferous forests by causing severe tree defoliation, growth reduction, and eventually mortality. To cost–effectively monitor the temporal spatial damages in pine–oak mixed stands using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) for multispectral imagery, we aimed at developing simple thresholding classification tool forest practitioners as an alternative method complex classifiers such Random...
Decisions on landscape management are often dictated by government officials based their own understandings of how should be used and managed, but rarely considering local peoples' the they inhabit. We use data collected through free listings, field transects, interviews to describe an Amazonian group hunter-horticulturalists, Tsimane', classify perceive importance different elements across ecological, socioeconomic, spiritual dimensions. The Tsimane' recognize nine folk ecotopes (i.e.,...
ABSTRACT Aim The term ‘megafire’ is increasingly used to describe large fires worldwide. We proposed a size‐based definition of megafire—fires exceeding 10,000 ha arising from single or multiple related ignition events. A recent perspective in Global Ecology and Biogeography argues against megafire suggest that the too emotive for scientific use. highlight many terms originate common terms. These are often defined once they enter lexicon, enhancing both understanding public communication....
Making agricultural production compatible with the conservation of biological diversity is a priority in areas which human–wildlife conflicts arise. The threatened Western Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) feeds on rice, inducing crop damage and leading to decreases rice production. Due protection status, economic compensation policies have been put place compensate farmers for these damages, thus requiring an accurate, quantitative, cost-effective evaluation losses over large territories. We...
<p>Mapping fire severity is determinant to understand landscape evolution after a wildfire and provides useful information for decision making during post management. Quantitative mapping from relative changes in Normalized Burn Ratio index (RdNBR) not actually being incorporated into processes, more the categorization levels (high, moderate low). However, most common methodologies based on definition of RdNBR thresholds field are always possible due lack data or because published...
Recent studies have explored the use of simple correlative models to project changes in future burnt areas (BAs) around globe. However, estimates fire danger suffer from critical shortcoming that feedbacks on climate change effects vegetation are not explicitly included purely approaches causing potential major unknown biases BA projections. In a recent application this approach led by Marco Turco and co-workers journal Nature Communications (doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06358-z), model was used...
The usual approaches to describing and understanding ecological processes in a landscape use patch-mosaic models based on traditional metrics. However, they do not consider that many of these cannot be observed without considering the multiple interactions between different land-use patches landscape. objective this research was provide synthetic overview graph metrics characterize landscapes analyze meaning propose relevant selection explaining biodiversity patterns processes. First, we...