A5042553028- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Landslides and related hazards
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Plant responses to water stress
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Forest ecology and management
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Real Academia Española
2024
University of Castilla-La Mancha
2014-2023
Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training
2018
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1990-2014
San Diego State University
1991-2014
Fundación General
2011-2014
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Toledo
2011
Generalitat Valenciana
2006
Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública
2006
Universitat Politècnica de València
2005
Abstract During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of megafires in Mediterranean-type regions (MCRs). Here, we argue that current wildfire management policies MCRs are destined fail. Focused on fire suppression, these largely ignore ongoing warming landscape-scale buildup fuels. The result is a ‘firefighting trap’ contributes fuel accumulation precluding suppression under extreme weather, resulting more severe larger fires. We believe ‘business as...
Plant trait information is essential for understanding plant evolution, vegetation dynamics, and responses to disturbance management. Furthermore, in Mediterranean ecosystems, changes fire regime may be more relevant than direct climatic conditions, making the knowledge of fire‐related traits especially important. Thus purpose this data set was compile most updated comprehensive on vascular species Basin, that is, related persistence regeneration after fire. Data were collected from an...
The study reported here investigates the effects of fire intensity and combustion products (ash char) on shrub herbaceous seedling emergence in field a mixed southern California chaparral, which was dominated by facultative seeder, Adenostoma fasciculatum, an obligate Ceanothus greggii. Fire were studied two winter burns, one as manipulated adding brush to experimental plots increase intensity. very sensitive increasing intensity, with decreasing production increased. This detected within...
Climate has a strong influence on fire activity, varying across time and space. We analyzed the relationships between fire–weather conditions during main season antecedent water-balance fires in two Mediterranean-type regions with contrasted management histories: five southern countries of European Union (EUMED)(all fires); Pacific western coast USA (California Oregon, PWUSA)(national forest fires). Total number (≥1 ha), large (≥100 ha) area burned were related to mean seasonal weather index...
A fuel-type map of a predominantly shrub-land area in central Portugal was generated for fire research experimental site, by combining airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), simultaneous color infrared ortho imaging. Since the vegetation canopy ground are too close together to be easily discerned LiDAR pulses, standard methods processing data did not provide an accurate estimate shrub height. It demonstrated that process generate digital model (DGM) sometimes contained height values...
Abstract. Understanding how fire weather danger indices changed in the past and such changes affected forest activity is important a changing climate. We used Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI), calculated from two reanalysis data sets, ERA-40 ERA Interim, to examine temporal variation of Europe 1960–2012. Additionally, we national statistics Greece, Spain Finland relationship between fires. There no obvious trend for time period covered by (1960–1999), whereas 1980–2012 mean FWI shows an...
The use of spatially explicit fire spread models to assess propagation and behaviour has several applications for management research. We used the FARSITE simulator predict a set wildfires that occurred along an east–west gradient Euro-Mediterranean countries. main purpose this work was evaluate overall accuracy quantify effects standard vs custom fuel on simulation performance. also analysed different slope classes predictions. To run simulations, input layers describing each study area...
A comparative study of lightning-, and people-caused fires is presented for peninsular Spain, the period 1974-1994. Based on records fire reports, yearly trends started by two causes were compared. Fire reports assign each to one 10 × km grid-cell within country. This information, together with data cause date fire, elevation, size type vegetation burned, meteorological conditions at time initiation, was incorporated a raster-based geographic information system further analysis mapping....
Abstract Fire may affect soil nutrient status by direct addition of nutrients and indirectly altering the environment. The objective this study was to examine how fire severity, ash deposition, clipping posttreatment status. There were eight experimental treatments designed increasing (nutrient) independent competition for per se, untreated controls. severity affected both quality quantity ash. Increasing increased concentrations Mg K decreased NH 4 ‐N NO 3 in As increased, there an recovery...