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10 p, 1.2 MB Using unplanned fires to help supressing future large fires in Mediterranean forests / Regos Sanz, Adrián (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Retana Alumbreros, Javier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia) ; Aquilué, Núria (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Cáceres Ainsa, Miquel de (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Brotons, Lluís (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Despite the huge resources invested in fire suppression, the impact of wildfires has considerably increased across the Mediterranean region since the second half of the 20th century. Modulating fire suppression efforts in mild weather conditions is an appealing but hotly-debated strategy to use unplanned fires and associated fuel reduction to create opportunities for suppression of large fires in future adverse weather conditions. [...]
2014 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0094906
PloS one, Vol. 9, Issue 4 (April 2014) , p. e94906  

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172 p, 4.4 MB Global change and the uncertain future of biodiversity in Mediterranean-type ecosystems : insights from a strategic foresight process / Regos Sanz, Adrián ; Brotons, Lluís, dir. (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Retana Alumbreros, Javier, dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia) ; Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals
La conservación requiere una previsión estratégica que permita abordar con eficacia los retos actuales que plantea el cambio global. La cuenca Mediterránea ha sido identificada como área prioritaria para la conservación, particularmente vulnerable al efecto combinado del cambio climático, el cambio de los usos del suelo y el régimen de perturbaciones por incendios forestales. [...]
Conservation needs strategic foresight leading to effectively address the ongoing challenges posed by global change. Mediterranean Basin has been identified as priority area for conservation, particularly vulnerable to the combined effects of climate change, land-use change and fire disturbance regime. [...]

[Bellaterra] : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015  

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