The study of soil, hydrological, erosion and vegetation processes following wildfire in the Colmeal study area, central Portugal

• Author(s): Keizer, J. ; Nunes, J. ; Sande Silva, J. ; Gomes Pereira, L. ; Vieira, D. ; Varela, M. ; Prats, S. ; Pinheiro, J. ; Pereira, V. ; Mendes, H. ; Malvar, M. ; Maia, P. ; Ferreira, R. ; Faria, S. ; Coelho, C. ; Albuquerque, A. ; Abrantes, N. ; Benali, A. ; Santos, A. ; Magalhães, M. ; Ferreira, A. ; Fernandes, I. ; Cambra, S
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/9240
• Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
• Subject(s): Soil processes; Hydrological processes; Erosion processes; Vegetation processes; Wildfire
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English

Description

The EROSFIRE-II project (PTDC/AGR-CFL/70968/2006) has as overall aim to predict soil erosion risk in recently burnt forest areas, including following common post-fire forest management practices. Although the project’s main focus is on onsite erosion processes, also the export of sediments out of small catchments is addressed. To this end, a study area of about 60 ha located near to the village of Colmeal (municipality of Góis, central Portugal) was instrumented extensively following a wildfire during August 2008, and has been monitored intensively afterwards.(...)