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Long-term impact of prescribed fire on soil chemical properties in a wildland-urban interface. Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
(2019-11-01)
Wildfires are common in wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs), where they represent a severe threat to inhabited urban settlements endangering both infrastructure and human life. Given these hazards, it is critical that forest ...
Flammability of Patagonian invaders and natives: When exotic plant species affect live fine fuel ignitability in wildland-urban interfaces
(Elsevier Science, 2019-09)
The increasing influx of people moving to woodland environments in order to access social and natural amenities is generating conflicts which are becoming ever more intense and complex. Urban-forest interface issues are ...
Wildfires in Chile: A review
(Elsevier, 2016)
This paper reviews the literature examining the wildfire phenomenon in Chile. Since ancient times, Chile's wildfires have shaped the country's landscape, but today, as in many other parts of the world, the fire regime - ...
From leaves to landscape: A multiscale approach to assess fire hazard in wildland-urban interface areas
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2016-12)
The overlapping zone between urbanization and wildland vegetation, known as the wildland urban interface (WUI), is often at high risk of wildfire. Human activities increase the likelihood of wildfires, which can have ...
Demography and socioeconomic vulnerability influence fire occurrence in Bariloche (Argentina)
(Elsevier Science, 2013-02)
Despite the enormous impact of fires on human welfare, few studies evaluated the influence of demographic and socioeconomic conditions on the occurrence of vegetation fires. We used quantile regression to estimate the ...
Modeling the ignition risk: analysis before and after megafire on Maule Region, Chile
(MDPI, 2022)
Wildland fires are a phenomenon of broad interest due to their relationship with climate change. The impacts of climate change are related to a greater frequency and intensity of wildland fires. In this context, megafires ...
Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires
(IOP Publishing Ltdcustserv@iop.org, 2020)