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Paulo Fernandes
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fire behaviour | fire ecology | fire management
Associate Professor at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro,
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Incêndios aumentaram nas áreas protegidas. Cientistas pedem melhor gestão do risco www.publico.pt/2025/06/30/a...
Incêndios aumentaram nas áreas protegidas. Cientistas pedem melhor gestão do risco
As áreas altamente protegidas precisam de ter formas mais activas de protecção contra incêndios, salienta estudo em que participam investigadores da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Out today: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
April 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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#FIRE-ADAPT project new paper
Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes - Communications Earth & Environment
Integrated Fire Management can be used as a valuable adaptation and mitigation strategy combining fire prevention, response, and recovery across different ecological, socio-economic, and cultural cont...
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March 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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The Hollywood Reporter asked for 700 words for a special section on the fires they have just published. Something looking at the fire itself.So I repurposed some sentences on 'fire as biology' and gave the notion a long leash. Alas, the title is *not* mine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...
What Fire Wants: Understanding the Enemy
What long has been considered merely a chemical reaction perhaps is best compared to another all-too-familiar scourge — a virus.
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January 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads
Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
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January 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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New paper out: a review of the last 20 yrs or so of experimental field quantification of #firebehaviour characteristics
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Global Synthesis of Quantification of Fire Behaviour Characteristics in Forests and Shrublands: Recent Progress - Current Forestry Reports
Purpose of Review The behaviour of wildland fires, namely their free spreading nature, destructive energy fluxes and hazardous environment, make it a phenomenon difficult to study. Field experimental ...
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January 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Extreme #wildfire behaviour: The 90th percentile of #firebehaviour metrics by broad fuel type placed on the fire characteristics chart of the USDA Forest Service. Data from the worldwide BONFIRE database.
December 20, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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New paper out, by an interdisciplinary team and based on a stakeholders' participatory approach
www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF24042
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios
Background Recent policy instruments for integrated landscape management in Portugal provide an opportunity to develop strategies that optimise the implementation of global policies at a local scale.A...
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December 18, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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New paper alert: using #LiDAR to estimate #canopy #fuel characteristics
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Unlocking the potential of Airborne LiDAR for direct assessment of fuel bulk density and load distributions for wildfire hazard mapping
Large-scale mapping of fuel load and fuel vertical distribution is essential for assessing fire danger, setting strategic goals and actions, and deter…
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December 12, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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Will be talking about #fuel & extreme #firebehaviour at the next NERO webinar
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NERO Network Café December– Understanding Fuel Characteristics and Their Role in Fire Behaviour – NERO
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December 6, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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For anyone interested in cultural burning, Indigenous knowledge, and prescribed fire, looks like you can watch this free on local PBS or their app tomorrow. #fireismedicine
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FireLighters - SandeZeig.Com
Firelighters Fire is medicine Premiere Dates November 16thPremiere at Arcata Theatre Lounge1036 G Street, Arcata CA 95521Doors @ 5pmMovie @ 5:30pm Buy Tickets November 18thBroadcastPBS WORLD / 8pm EST...
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November 18, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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November 15, 2024 at 8:52 PM