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Is fire always the “bad guy”?
(2020-07-01)
Much distortion about the real role of fire in different ecosystems exists, mostly because fire events attract media attention, usually focusing on the negative aspects of fire. In the perception of the general public, ...
Management impacts on fire occurrence: A comparison of fire regimes of African and South American tropical savannas in different protected areas
(2018-07-15)
Humans can alter fire dynamics in grassland systems by changing fire frequency, fire seasonality and fuel conditions. These changes have effects on vegetation structure and recovery, species composition, and ecosystem ...
From ashes to understanding: Opinion papers on fire and a call for papers for a Special Issue in Flora
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-07-01)
In the recent past, wildfires have received much attention both by science and by the media, especially in relation to deforestation, degradation and climate change and when affecting fire-sensitive ecosystems. On the other ...
Drivers of wildland fire behaviour variation across the Earth
(Univ Coimbra, 2018-01-01)
Fire behaviour characteristics define the impacts on society and the environment. While wildland fire science has expanded to include the analysis of fire activity and effects across the globe, an understanding of global ...
Fire frequency affects fire behavior in open savannas of the Cerrado
(2021-02-15)
Fire is an environmental factor that helps in shaping plant communities by influencing their structure and function. Frequency is an important component of the fire regime. In tropical savannas, fire frequency is high, ...
How do the wets burn? Fire behavior and intensity in wet grasslands in the Brazilian savanna
(2017-03-01)
Although wetlands are commonly managed with fire by local communities and managers in tropical savannas, little is known about fire behavior in these ecosystems. We measured fire intensity and temperature in 13 experimental ...
Cell2Fire: A cell-based forest fire growth model to support strategic landscape management planning
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
Cell2Fire is a new cell-based wildland fire growth simulator designed to integrate
data-driven landscape management planning models. The fire environment is modeled
by partitioning the landscape into cells characterized ...
Generating Stochastic Ellipsoidal Forest and Wildland Fire Scar Scenarios for Strategic Forest Management Planning under Uncertainty
(Society of American Foresters, 2014)
Explicit consideration of the possibility of wildfires enhances strategic planning for landscape management; however, incorporating the stochastic processes that govern
fire occurrence and spread in optimization models ...
The year 2017: Megafires and management in the cerrado
(2018-12-01)
The year 2017 was a megafire year, when huge areas burned on different continents. In Brazil, a great extension of the Cerrado burned, raising once more the discussion about the “zero-fire” policy. Indeed, most protected ...
Fire Regimes, Fire Ecology, and Fire Management in Mexico
(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2008)