Fire Regimes, Landscape Dynamics, and Landscape Management

Rego, Francisco; Morgan, Penelope; Fernandes, Paulo; Hoffman, Chad

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69815-7_12

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“…La integración de las diferentes fuentes de información subrayó la alta incidencia de incendios forestales en el ejido Mecayapan e indicó que existen deficiencias desde el punto de vista del concepto de manejo del fuego integral (Castro et al 2021), a pesar de la buena coordinación y organización con respecto al combate que reportaron los entrevistados. Si bien la mayor parte ocurrió en zonas de áreas de cultivo y pastizales, fue considerable la suma de áreas quemada de 633,5 ha en vegetación natural; además, una buena parte de esta vegetación quemada se encontró dentro de la Reserva de la Biosfera Los Tuxtlas.…”

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“…Forma parte de la dinámica natural de muchos tipos de bosques, pero a la vez representa una amenaza en vegetación no adaptada al fuego o cuando se alteran los regímenes naturales, a causa de la acción del ser humano (Rodríguez 2014, Kelly et al 2020. Por lo tanto, para salvaguardar una conservación óptima de las áreas forestales, procesos ecológicos y además, modos de vida es de suma importan-cia realizar actividades encaminadas al manejo integral del fuego (Castro et al 2021). Esto debe estar sustentado en un análisis que incluya información disponible acerca de la incidencia de los incendios forestales.…”

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Monitoreo de incendios forestales a escala local: estudio de caso del ejido Mecayapan, México

Neger,

García-López,

Manzo-Delgado

et al. 2023

Bosque (Valdivia)

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Studies regarding the monitoring of forest fires generally have been based on either field records or data from satellite analysis. However, both have had limitations, such as the inaccuracy of field data and clouds, that hamper remote sensing. The objective of the present paper was to identify burnt areas of tropical rainforest, pine, and oak forest in the Mecayapan ejido, Mexico, in the years 2016 to 2020, utilizing and combining all available sources of information. This included, interviews with the actors involved in fire management and requesting the data they collect in the field. Later, thermal hotspots were consulted, and an index (Burnt Area Index for MODIS) was applied to detect burnt areas in satellite images. Then, the data of the different sources were integrated into a geographic information system, visualized in maps, and organized in tables, to permit their comparison and integration. The study shows that the combination of diverse sources is of great utility, as they allow for a more complete vision of the total burnt surface and the ecosystems affected by wildfires. Based on this result, it was recommended to establish collaboration networks for fire monitoring, which include governmental and community-based actors involved in integrated fire management, along with the entities specialized in satellite analysis.

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Monitoreo de incendios forestales a escala local: estudio de caso del ejido Mecayapan, México

Neger,

García-López,

Manzo-Delgado

et al. 2023

Bosque (Valdivia)

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“…Fire regimes have been changing in the last decades in many regions of the world, with temperate zones presenting a tendency toward larger burned areas and increasing negative impacts due to changes in climate and changes in land use that have modified forest structure and composition, including invasion by alien species (Castro Rego et al 2021). In Mediterranean Europe in particular, and despite a decreasing trend in the annual burned area (Turco et al 2016), extreme wildfire events with large burned area and increasing socioeconomic and ecological impacts have become more frequent during the last decades (Tedim et al 2015; Doerr & Santín 2016; Fernandez‐Anez et al 2021) due to a complex interaction of increasing temperatures and dryness, and land abandonment and fire suppression policies that led to increased fuel load and connectivity (Fernandes 2013; Moreira et al 2020).…”

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Public funding constrains effective postfire emergency restoration in Portugal

Lopes

Fernandes

Rego

et al. 2022

Restoration Ecology

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In the last decades, fire regimes in Europe have changed toward an increased occurrence of extreme fire events with large burned areas and associated impacts. Portugal is one of the countries most affected by wildfires, with extraordinary negative impacts. Postfire emergency stabilization is an important restoration practice to mitigate fire impacts in the short term. The present study aims to improve understanding of how public funding processes affect the efficiency of postfire emergency stabilization in Portugal. We analyzed the process of public funding for postfire emergency stabilization in 2009–2018 using data from public reports assessing the needs for interventions (147), open calls resulting from those reports (12), and implementation projects subsidized by the calls (517). Our results show that available funding through calls for postfire emergency stabilization responded to the needs assessed by previous reports, but there was no available funding (reports and calls) for many (37%) of the large burned areas (>1,000 ha) in 2009–2018. Furthermore, the effectiveness of public funding for postfire emergency stabilization in Portugal is limited by the financial model, lack of eligibility of relevant treatments, the constant change of calls criteria, and slow decision‐making and execution that exceeds the optimal timeframe. As a consequence, implementation of postfire emergency stabilization within an optimal timeframe is halted by insufficient financial capacity of private beneficiaries. We discuss effective funding mechanisms from other countries and suggest improvements for the funding process in Portugal.

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