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It is clear that, in some climates, fires are a natural phenomenon, they have occurred for millennia and plants have revealed the capacity to cope with them (Pausas et al., 2008). It is also known that wildland fires are a global phenomenon occurring in tropical, temperate and boreal regions (González-Pérez et al., 2004; Bowman et al., 2009).Fire regimes are being modified, responding to ongoing global...
The recurrence of forest fires is degrading an important part of the Portuguese natural heritage namely its forest and soils.In this paper we present the case study of Cabeço da Vaca (Cabreira Mountain—northwest Portugal), where in recent decades, particularly in the 70s, there was a significant increase in the number of forest fires and in the areas scorched annually. There is thus a turning point...
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