Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas
Wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula were large and frequent in the second half of the 20th century. Land use and land cover (LULC) also changed greatly. Our aim was to understand the relationship between LULC and fire in the western and eastern ends of the Iberian Central Mountain System. We compared...
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| author | Catarina Romão Sequeira Francisco Castro Rego Cristina Montiel-Molina Penelope Morgan |
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| description | Wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula were large and frequent in the second half of the 20th century. Land use and land cover (LULC) also changed greatly. Our aim was to understand the relationship between LULC and fire in the western and eastern ends of the Iberian Central Mountain System. We compared two case study landscapes, the Estrela massif and the Ayllón massif, which are biophysically similar but with different social-ecological contexts. In both, fires were in general more likely in shrublands and pastures than in forests. Shrublands replaced forests after fires. Contrasting LULC in the two massifs, particularly pastures, likely explained the differences in fire occurrence, and reflected different regional land use policies and history. Fire here is a social-ecological system, influenced by specific LULC and with implications from landscape to regional scales. Understanding how LULC changes interact with fire is powerful for improving landscape and regional planning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22330eb8fa3d4ecb9fffff2fd7d02e152022-12-22T02:17:08ZengMDPI AGFire2571-62552019-08-01234510.3390/fire2030045fire2030045Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain AreasCatarina Romão Sequeira0Francisco Castro Rego1Cristina Montiel-Molina2Penelope Morgan3Department of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainCentro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof. Baeta Neves, University of Lisbon, 1649-004 Lisboa, PortugalDepartment of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainDepartment of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USAWildfires in the Iberian Peninsula were large and frequent in the second half of the 20th century. Land use and land cover (LULC) also changed greatly. Our aim was to understand the relationship between LULC and fire in the western and eastern ends of the Iberian Central Mountain System. We compared two case study landscapes, the Estrela massif and the Ayllón massif, which are biophysically similar but with different social-ecological contexts. In both, fires were in general more likely in shrublands and pastures than in forests. Shrublands replaced forests after fires. Contrasting LULC in the two massifs, particularly pastures, likely explained the differences in fire occurrence, and reflected different regional land use policies and history. Fire here is a social-ecological system, influenced by specific LULC and with implications from landscape to regional scales. Understanding how LULC changes interact with fire is powerful for improving landscape and regional planning.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/2/3/45Ayllón massifEstrela massiffireIberian Peninsulalandscape dynamicslandscape scalerural mountain areaswildfires |
| spellingShingle | Catarina Romão Sequeira Francisco Castro Rego Cristina Montiel-Molina Penelope Morgan Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas Fire Ayllón massif Estrela massif fire Iberian Peninsula landscape dynamics landscape scale rural mountain areas wildfires |
| title | Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas |
| title_full | Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas |
| title_fullStr | Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas |
| title_short | Half-Century Changes in LULC and Fire in Two Iberian Inner Mountain Areas |
| title_sort | half century changes in lulc and fire in two iberian inner mountain areas |
| topic | Ayllón massif Estrela massif fire Iberian Peninsula landscape dynamics landscape scale rural mountain areas wildfires |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/2/3/45 |
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