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Pyrostories
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Ágoas, Frederico; Abranches Portela, Joana; Sousa, Joana; Carmo, MiguelUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; This paper examines Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative. These texts include descriptions of various occurrences and uses of fire and their intertwined social and ecological effects. They shed light on the origins, actors, practices, and impacts of fire, and they reveal past perceptions of fire, namely the role fire played in social pr...
Changes in the Seasonality of Fire Activity and Fire Weather in Portugal
Silva, Pedro; Carmo, Miguel; Rio, João; Novo, IldaUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020; The length of the fire season has not garnered much attention within the broad field of meteorological research on fire regime change. Fire weather research on the Iberian Peninsula is no exception in this case; there is no solid understanding on fire season lengthening in Portugal, although recent decades do suggest ongoing transitions. Based on a complete record of fire occurr...
The literary arsonist
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Ágoas, Frederico; Portela, Joana; Sousa, Joana; Carmo, MiguelUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020; Fires in rural landscapes were imagined and represented in Portuguese literature from the early 20th century to the present. We analysed a set of 55 excerpts from 43 published texts produced by 29 writers. These excerpts, which we call pyrostories, convey a literary and historical perspective of how and why those fires occur and their impacts as socioecological drivers. Arsonist...
The climatology of extreme wildfires in Portugal, 1980-2018
Carmo, Miguel; Ferreira, João P.; Mendes, Manuel T.; Silva, Álvaro; Silva, Pedro Cristiano; Alves, Daniela; Reis, Luís Carlos Duarte; Novo, IldaUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020 GFC/0109/2017; Available research has extensively examined the spatiotemporal patterns of fire-weather regime in Portugal, but a comprehensive climatology of extreme wildfires is still under development. This study calls for different strategies and scales of analysis aiming to describe the relationships between medium and low troposphere weather conditions and severe fire behavi...
Evolution of the annual cycle of Burned Area in Portugal from 1980 to 2018
Silva, Pedro; Carmo, Miguel; Rio, João; Novo, IldaUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020; The lengthening of the fire season in Portugal has been understudied, although there is evidence of changes in recent decades. In this brief study, we focused on the annual cycles of fire activity and related meteorological fire danger, thus bypassing the problem of subjective definition of what should mark the beginning and end of the fire season. Based on the daily time series...
Typical Weather Conditions of Large Wildfires in Portugal (1980–2018)
Novo, Ilda; Silva, Álvaro M.; Alves, Daniela; Ferreira, João; Rio, João; Reis, Luís; Mendes, Manuel; Carmo, Miguel; Silva, Pedro; Viegas, XavierUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020
Agricultural Expansion, Soil Degradation, and Fertilization in Portugal, 1873-1960
Carmo, Miguel; Domingos, TiagoUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020; This research explains what happened to agricultural soil fertility during the "Campanha do Trigo" (Wheat Campaign) in Portugal, which began in 1929. It is commonly understood that the excessive expansion of wheat crops during the fascist "Estado Novo" (New State) regime led to the degradation of soils in the southern half of Portugal. This relationship, however, has never been ...
Recensão crítica de HENRIQUES, Isabel Castro (2020)
Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, JoanaUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020
African knowledge transfers in Early Modern Portugal
Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana; Varela, Pedro; Ventura, Ricardo; Bivar, ManuelUIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020; Le origini della coltivazione del riso ai margini dei fiumi Sado e Tago e le relative trasformazioni agroecologiche e tecnologiche non sono state ancora oggetto di studio. Conosciamo molto poco della dinamica delle “frontiere d’acqua” dolce e salata in quei fiumi, vale a dire la conversione delle paludi in risaie o saline, o il ruolo delle persone di colore provenienti dall’Afri...
Rationale and design of long-term outcomes and vascular evaluation after succes...
Martins, Jose D.; Zachariah, Justin; Tierney, Elif Seda Selamet; Truong, Uyen; Morris, Shaine A.; Kutty, Shelby; De Ferranti, Sarah D.; Rhodes, JonathanBackground: Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) can be treated using surgery, balloon angioplasty, or stent implantation. Although short-term results are excellent with all three treatment modalities, long-term cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality remain high, likely due to persistently abnormal vascular function. The effects of treatment modality on long-term vascular function remain uncharacterized. The goa...