Fine-tuning the BFOLDS Fire Regime Module to support the assessment of fire-related functions and services in a changing Mediterranean mountain landscape

Sil, Ângelo; Azevedo, João; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Alonso, Joaquim; Honrado, João P.

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105464

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“…shrublands) and forest areas (e.g. coniferous and/or deciduous species), would be the best option for climate regulation (both in terms of carbon sequestration and avoided economic losses) (Pais et al 2020;Campos et al 2022;Sil et al 2022) (Fig. 3).…”

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Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!

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Int. J. Wildland Fire

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Extreme wildfires are expected to increase in Southern Europe, due to climate change and rural abandonment. Fire management is focused on suppression, which accelerates the transition to more flammable landscapes. Here, we synthesise the knowledge acquired over the 'FirESmart' project (https://firesmartproject.wordpress.com). Our findings show how agroforestry policies could benefit biodiversity while providing further fire suppression opportunities. The EU Green Deal offers an opportunity to incorporate 'fire-smartness' into upcoming agroforestry policies. Still, if these policies fail at reversing rural abandonment, the use of fire could enhance rewilding and tree-planting as 'climate-smart' strategies in the fire-prone mountains of Southern Europe.

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Section: Insights From the Firesmart Project: A Synthesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!

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“…CS is used as a proxy of climate resilience ecosystem services [38,39]. The carbon information was used to estimate CS for all LULC classes, namely farmland (6 classes), agroforestry and forests (11 classes) and semi-natural (grasslands and shrublands).…”

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“…Most studies using NbS for fire regulation and climate services, in Mediterranean regions, focus on land-use, land-cover (LULC) changes as major solutions [5,34,35,37,38]. According to those studies, trade-offs between these ecosystem services are expected since climate services are based on carbon storage increasing with forest and shrubland expansion, which may lead to increased fire risks [5,35,38,39]. However, because of geographic scope's limitations of such studies, fire regimes (FR) related to specific LULC are not sufficiently developed.…”

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“…The associations between landscape composition, diversity and configuration, on the one hand, and FR, on the other, have been explored [6,10]. We assumed CS as a proxy of climate-resilience ecosystem services [39], considering the maximization of carbon storage in the biosphere as a main objective of climate change mitigation [36]. For CS setup, we attributed to each LULC class a figures for three carbon pools, namely the above-and below-ground biomass, and litter.…”

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Estimating the Trade-Offs between Wildfires and Carbon Stocks across Landscape Types to Inform Nature-Based Solutions in Mediterranean Regions

Simões,

Ribeiro,

Santos

2023

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Climate and land-use changes have been contributing to increase the occurrence of extreme wild-fires, shifting fire regimes and driving desertification, particularly in Mediterranean-climate regions. However, few studies have researched the effects of land-use change on fire regimes and carbon storage at the broad national scale. To address this gap, we used spatially explicit data from annual burned areas in mainland Portugal to build a typology of fire regimes based on the accumulated burned area and its temporal concentration (Gini index) between 1984 and 2019, which was combined with 2018 carbon stock data (above- and below-ground), and a landscape typology re-sulting from cluster analysis over land-use composition, diversity and configuration, to explore relationships between landscape types and the two major ecosystem services at stake: wildfire reduction and carbon stock. Cross tabulations, logistic and linear regressions were performed on these data and results revealed a strong relationship between landscapes dominated by maritime pine and eucalypt forest plantations and high-hazardous fire regime but hold the highest carbon stock. Shrubland-mixed landscapes were associated with lower carbon stocks but less hazardous fire regimes. Specialized agricultural landscapes, as well as mixed native forests and mixed agro-forestry landscapes, were the least associated with wildfires. In the case of agricultural landscapes however, this good wildfire performance is achieved at the cost of the poorest carbon stock, de-noting land degradation, whereas native forests and agroforestry landscapes strike the best trade-off between carbon stock and fire regime. Our findings support how nature-based solutions promoting wildfire mitigation and carbon stock ecosystem services may prevent and revert land degradation harming Mediterranean regions.

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“…In this sense, the re regulation capacity (FRC) of ecosystems and landscapes, based on their structure and functioning (e.g., vegetation type, composition, structure, productivity, and spatial con guration) emerges as a useful concept to assess and forecast re regimes, which can bene t human societies by maintaining re impacts under acceptable thresholds for human well-being (Guenni et al 2005; Pettorelli et al 2018;Sil et al 2019b). Assessing changes in FRC through indicators derived from re regime attributes (e.g., burned area and re intensity) provides insights into how re-prone landscapes respond to the ongoing set of global pressures (e.g., climate and land use change) in terms of ecological and socioeconomic effects (Sil et al 2022). Yet, further application and test of this concept is still needed (Depietri and Orenstein 2020).…”

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Will fire-smart landscape management effectively buffer the effects of future climate changes and long-term land abandonment on fire regimes?

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Azevedo,

Fernandes

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Context: Long-term farmland abandonment is increasing fuel hazard in many mountainous landscapes of the Mediterranean Basin. Combined with ongoing climate change, fire activity and fire regimes may change in the future, thus challenging the management of these regions. Objectives: To assess the effects of fire-smart management strategies on landscape dynamics, fire regulation capacity (FRC) and fire regime under long-term land abandonment and climate change scenarios. Methods: We applied the LANDIS-II model to simulate fire-landscape dynamics under climate change (RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios) and long-term farmland abandonment (2020-2050) according to three fire-smart management strategies focused on fire prevention (compared with a business-as-usual (BAU) strategy based on fire suppression) in a fire-prone Mediterranean mountainous landscape of Portugal. Results: Fire and land dynamics increased fire-adapted forests and agroforestry systems and decreased dominance of shrublands and croplands, thereby fostering landscape heterogeneity and fragmentation. FRC decreased over time, particularly under RCP 8.5 and BAU. Fire-smart strategies prevented larger and intense fires compared to BAU, although less effectively under RCP 8.5. Shifts in the historical fire regime are expected in the future (increasing burned area and fire frequency), more markedly under the BAU strategy. Conclusions: Fire-smart strategies performed better than BAU in averting current fire regime intensification. Merging forest- and silvopasture-based strategies is a promising approach in taming the effects of climate and farmland abandonment on fire activity. Our work underlined the importance of decreasing landscape fuel hazard to buffer the impact of global change on fire regimes in the future management of fire-prone Mediterranean mountain landscapes.

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Fine-tuning the BFOLDS Fire Regime Module to support the assessment of fire-related functions and services in a changing Mediterranean mountain landscape

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References 91 publications

Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!

Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!

Estimating the Trade-Offs between Wildfires and Carbon Stocks across Landscape Types to Inform Nature-Based Solutions in Mediterranean Regions

Will fire-smart landscape management effectively buffer the effects of future climate changes and long-term land abandonment on fire regimes?

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