| Landscape - wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management. | |
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PMID: 21741757 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use changes in the last decades have increased fire risk and danger. In this paper we review the available scientific knowledge on the relationships between landscape and wildfires in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on its application for defining landscape management guidelines and policies that could be adopted in order to promote landscapes with lower fire hazard. The main findings are that (1) socio-economic drivers have favoured land cover changes contributing to increasing fire hazard in the last decades, (2) large wildfires are becoming more frequent, (3) increased fire frequency is promoting homogeneous landscapes covered by fire-prone shrublands; (4) landscape planning to reduce fuel loads may be successful only if fire weather conditions are not extreme. The challenges to address these problems and the policy and landscape management responses that should be adopted are discussed, along with major knowledge gaps. |
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Francisco Moreira; Olga Viedma; Margarita Arianoutsou; Thomas Curt; Nikos Koutsias; Eric Rigolot; Anna Barbati; Piermaria Corona; Pedro Vaz; Gavriil Xanthopoulos; Florent Mouillot; Ertugrul Bilgili |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-7-7 |
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Title: Journal of environmental management Volume: - ISSN: 1095-8630 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jul |
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Created Date: 2011-7-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0401664 Medline TA: J Environ Manage Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Centro de Ecologia Aplicada "Prof. Baeta Neves", Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal. |
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