A5018160448- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Landslides and related hazards
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Fire Detection and Safety Systems
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Spacecraft Design and Technology
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
2016-2025
Norwegian Institute for Water Research
2024
National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge
2019-2024
Forest Research
2024
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
2023
Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e Recursos Naturais
2021-2023
Universidade do Porto
2023
University of Lisbon
2012-2022
Weatherford College
2022
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2022
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...
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these with significant social impacts, but no agreement upon terminology describe them. The concept of extreme wildfire event (EWE) has emerged bring coherence on this kind events. It increasingly used, as synonym other terms related high intensity size, its...
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...
Abstract Background The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, management, climate change will affect fire behavior, representing a key knowledge gap sustainable management. We used expert assessment combine opinions about past future regimes from 99 researchers. asked quantitative qualitative assessments of the...
Abstract. Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally, with significant impacts on society environment. However, our understanding global distribution extreme fires remains skewed, primarily influenced by media coverage regionalised research efforts. This inaugural State Wildfires report systematically analyses fire activity worldwide, identifying events from March 2023–February 2024 season. We assess causes, predictability, attribution these...
A shrubland fire behaviour dataset was assembled using data from experimental studies in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and South Africa. The covers a wide range of heathlands species associations vegetation structures. Three models for rate spread are developed 2-m wind speed, reduction factor, elevated dead fuel moisture content either height (with or without live content) bulk density. tested against independent prescribed fires wildfires found to predict within acceptable limits (mean...
Flammability is the general ability of vegetation (fuel) to burn (Gill & Zylstra, 2005). The concept flammability can be narrowed down distinct aspects combustion as gauged by a number metrics (White Zipperer, 2010). In this respect, Anderson (1970) proposed consist ignitibility (ease ignition), sustainability (how well will proceed) and combustibility (velocity or intensity combustion), Martin et al. (1994) further added consumability, amount combusted fuel. experimentally assessed burning...
Wildfires pose complex challenges to policymakers and fire agencies. Fuel break networks area-wide fuel treatments are risk-management options reduce losses from large fires. Two management scenarios covering 3% of the fire-prone Algarve region Portugal differing in intensity treatment 120-m wide breaks were examined compared with no-treatment option. We used minimum travel time algorithm simulate growth 150 000 fires under weather conditions historically associated passive effects on burn...
Abstract Large fires account for a disproportionally high percentage of area burned with potentially severe environmental and socioeconomic impacts. This study characterizes extremely large (ELFs; 2500–24,843 ha) in Portugal (1998–2013) the concomitant fuel weather conditions, analyzing response ELF size to their variation. less shrubland‐grassland (33% total area) than forest (59% total), latter primarily composed by pine pine‐eucalypt. High hazard was norm, as indicated median values 0.98...