A5067532630- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Landslides and related hazards
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Disaster Management and Resilience
University of Padua
2020-2024
Insects outbreak and wildland fires are among the most relevant natural disturbances affecting forested ecosystems worldwide. Following storm Vaia of 2018, many Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) forests Eastern Italian Alps have been affected by a severe bark beetle (Ips typographus), leading to economic, management social concerns. In this context, interaction between alterations in wildfire behaviour is poorly analysed, especially for forests. This research aimed detect effects...
After large and severe wildfires, the establishment of tree regeneration, particularly for species without specific fire-adaptive traits, can be challenging. Within harsh environments, presence favorable microsites, as those provided by deadwood, enhancing microclimatic conditions, is crucial to re-establishment forest cover thus foster recovery dynamics. Active restoration strategies have an impact on these dynamics, altering or hindering them. The main hypothesis this study that...
Wildland fires and windthrows represent relevant disturbances for forest ecosystems worldwide. In this context, especially Italian catchments, the interaction between changes in wildfire behaviour starting from ALS data processing is scarcely investigated. Therefore, research aims to compute a multi-temporal analysis of forested area (Veneto region, northern Italy), recently affected by renamed Vaia windstorm. The semi-empirical FlamMap model was applied, implemented R mapping spatial...
In a conifer forest in Central Italy burnt by wildfire 2017, shallow sub-surface (topmost 5 cm) soil temperature and moisture (% volumetric water content) were measured during summer 2022. Various distances from downed trees (natural barriers) log erosion barriers (artificial sampled. Additional data on the hour of sampling, characteristics, location collected.
<p>Fuel management is a crucial action to maintain wildland fires under the threshold of manageability; hence, in order allocate resources best way, fuel mapping regarded as necessary tool by land managers. Several studies have used Aerial Laser Scanner (ALS) data estimate forest fuels characteristics at plot level, but few extended such estimates zonal level.</p><p>In context EU Interreg Project CROSSIT SAFER, test possibilities ALS predict...
Among the predominant natural disturbances affecting Mediterranean regions, nowadays forest fires frequently occur in Central and Northern Europe, potentially leading to several issues ecological, geomorphological, economic social terms. In this regard, local authorities are becoming gradually confident with their management even where were historically scarce. context, semi-empirical models particularly useful estimating fire behaviour, order predict key factors related wildfires risk...
The widespread role of fire in shaping ecosystem composition and distribution, as well its evolutionary importance, are nowadays fully recognized by scientists. In contemporary ecosystems, forest fires can induce different kinds effects, depending on species characteristics, with the presence fire-related traits often allowing full ecoystems recovery also after stand replacing or high severity events.By modifying growing space conditions (e.g. exposed bare soil, reduced competition), may...
<p>Wildfires pose a great threat to the wildland-urban interface (WUI), zone of contact between wildland vegetation and human-settled environment. In these areas, high fuel loads often coexist with value assets, which are more exposed ignition than equivalent structures in an urban context. At WUI, wildfires can quickly exhaust resources normally available firefighters, assets do not allow use large-scale, resource-saving techniques common fires...
<p>Forest fires are a natural disturbance largely affected by global changes, especially anthropic pressure. At the same time, forest can be menace to human lives and activities, phenomenon needs control in most critical areas. One of tools available land managers assess fire risk is simulation.</p><p>Forest simulators highlight sectors landscape, but they need several input information, some which not routinely collected. In addition, for...
The cooperation between the civil protection organizations of conterminous administrations is fundamental because natural hazards do not stop at borders. Natural hazards, such as wildland fires, are prominent threats to human lives and activities, they put under stress when occur. These have for long been preparing protocols procedures face these hazards. Nonetheless, this expertise always shared administrations. Bureaucratic barriers, different languages accessibility information can reduce...