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An operational approach to high resolution agro-ecological zoning in West-Africa
Le Page, Y.; Vasconcelos, Maria; Palminha, A.; Melo, I.Q.; Pereira, J.M.C.The objective of this work is to develop a simple methodology for high resolution crop suitability analysis under current and future climate, easily applicable and useful in Least Developed Countries. The approach addresses both regional planning in the context of climate change projections and pre-emptive short-term rural extension interventions based on same-year agricultural season forecasts, while implement...
HESFIRE: a global fire model to explore the role of anthropogenic and weather d...
Le Page, Y.; Morton, D.; Bond-Lamberty, B.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Hurtt, G.Vegetation fires are a major driver of ecosystem dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions. Anticipating potential changes in fire activity and their impacts relies first on a realistic model of fire activity (e.g., fire incidence and interannual variability) and second on a model accounting for fire impacts (e.g., mortality and emissions). In this paper, we focus on our understanding of fire activity and describe ...
Global fire activity patterns (1996-2006) and climatic influence: an analysis u...
Le Page, Y.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Trigo, R.; Camara, C.; Oom, D.; Mota, B.Vegetation fires have been acknowledged as an environmental process of global scale, which affects the chemical composition of the troposphere, and has profound ecological and climatic impacts. However, considerable uncertainty remains, especially concerning intra and inter-annual variability of fire incidence. The main goals of our globalscale study were to characterise spatial-temporal patterns of fire activi...