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Open access to burn severity data: A web-based portal for mainland Portugal
Castro, Pedro; Gonçalves, João; Mota, Diogo; Marcos, Bruno; Alves, Cristiana; Alonso, Joaquim Mamede; Honrado, João P.With the rising frequency and severity of wildfires that cause significant threats to ecosystems, public health and livelihoods, it is essential to have tools for evaluating and monitoring their impacts and the effectiveness of policy initiatives. This paper presents the development and implementation of a new calculation pipeline integrated with a web-based platform designed to provide georeferenced data on th...
Will fire-smart landscape management buffer the effects of climate and land-use...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Azevedo, João; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Honrado, João P.Long-term farmland abandonment has increased fuel build-up in many Euro-Mediterranean mountainous regions. The high fuel hazard in these landscapes, combined with ongoing climate change, is increasing the frequency of extreme wildfires, thus altering contemporary fire regimes. Mitigating the loss of the landscape’s capacity to regulate large and intense fires is crucial to prevent future harmful effects of fire...
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solut...
Lecina-Diaz, Judit; Campos, João C.; Pais, Silvana; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Azevedo, João; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Gonçalves, João FranciscoIncreased large and high-intensity wildfires cause large socioeconomic and ecological impacts, which demand improved landscape management approaches in which both ecological and societal dimensions are integrated. Engaging society in fire management requires a better understanding of stakeholder perceptions of wildfires and landscape management. We analyze stakeholder perceptions about wildfire-landscape intera...
Fine-tuning the BFOLDS fire regime module to support the assessment of fire-rel...
Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Azevedo, João; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Alonso, Joaquim; Honrado, João P.Fire simulation models are useful to advance fire research and improve landscape management. However, a better understanding of these tools is crucial to increase their reliability and expansion into research fields where their application remains limited (e.g., ecosystem services). We evaluated several components of the BFOLDS Fire Regime Module and then tested its ability to simulate fire regime attributes in...
Climate regulation ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation are enhance...
Campos, João C.; Rodrigues, Sara; Sil, Ângelo Filipe; Hermoso, Virgilio; Freitas, Teresa R.; Santos, João A.; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Azevedo, JoãoThe implementation of climate-smart policies to enhance carbon sequestration and reduce emissions is being encouraged worldwide to fight climate change. Afforestation practices and rewilding initiatives are climate-smart examples suggested to tackle these issues. In contrast, fire-smart approaches, by stimulating traditional farmland activities or agroforestry practices, could also assist climate regulation whi...
Climate- and fire-smart landscape scenarios call for redesigning protection reg...
Iglesias, Miguel Cánibe; Hermoso, Virgilio; Campos, João C.; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Freitas, Teresa R.; Honrado, João P.Integrated management of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) in heterogeneous landscapes requires considering the potential trade-offs between conflicting objectives. The UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve zoning scheme is a suitable context to address these trade-offs by considering multiple management zones that aim to minimise conflicts between management objectives. Moreover, in Mediterranean ecosystems, manag...
On the development of a regional climate change adaptation plan: Integrating mo...
Gonçalves, Catarina; Honrado, João P.; Cerejeira, João; Sousa, Rita; Vaz, Ana Sofia; Alves, Manuela; Araújo, Miguel; Carvalho-Santos, CláudiaClimate change is expected to have strong social-ecological implications, with global but especially regional and local challenges. To assess the climatic vulnerability of a given territory, it is necessary to evaluate its exposure to climate change and its adaptive capacity. This study describes the development of an Action Plan for Adapting to Climate Change in the Tâmega and Sousa Region, a mountainous inter...
Effective and cost-efficient monitoring of biological invasions under global ch...
Vicente, Joana R.; Alagador, Diogo; Guerra, Carlos; Alonso, Joaquim M.; Kueffer, Christoph; Vaz, Ana S.; Fernandes, Rui F.; Cabral, João A.Ecological monitoring programmes are designed to detect and measure changes in biodiversity and ecosystems. In the case of biological invasions, they can contribute to anticipating risks and adaptively managing invaders. However, monitoring is often expensive because large amounts of data might be needed to draw inferences. Thus, careful planning is required to ensure that monitoring goals are realistically ach...
Dynamic modelling in research and management of biological invasions
Buchadas, Ana; Vaz, Ana S.; Honrado, João P.; Alagador, Diogo; Bastos, Rita; Cabral, João A.; Santos, Mário; Vicente, Joana R.Invasive species are increasing in number, extent and impact worldwide. Effective invasion management has thus become a core socio-ecological challenge. To tackle this challenge, integrating spatial-temporal dynamics of invasion processes with modelling approaches is a promising approach. The inclusion of dynamic processes in such modelling frameworks (i.e. dynamic or hybrid models, here defined as models that ...
Previsão e Avaliação do Risco Associado às Invasões Biológicas
Vicente, Joana R.; Honrado, João P.; Guerra, Carlos; Gonçalves, João; Vaz, Ana S.; Araújo, Miguel B.; Alagador, DiogoNo mundo global em que vivemos, muitas das espécies de plantas, animais e outros organismos que nos rodeiam são originárias de outros territórios, de onde foram trazidas pelas mais variadas razoes. A essas espécies, “vindas de fora”, chamamos espécies exóticas1 (do grego exotikós, “de fora”). O transporte de organismos vivos e a sua introdução pelas actividades humanas fora da sua área de distribuição natural, ...