scholarly journals Subsidence Hazard in Limestone Cavities: The Case of “Grutas da Moeda” (Fátima, Central Portugal)

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Isabel Duarte ◽  
António Pinho ◽  
Luís Lopes ◽  
Ricardo Sábio ◽  
Micael Jorge
Keyword(s):  
Central Portugal

scholarly journals Understanding the Impact of Different Landscape-Level Fuel Management Strategies on Wildfire Hazard in Central Portugal

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 522
Author(s):  
Akli Benali ◽  
Ana C. L. Sá ◽  
João Pinho ◽  
Paulo M. Fernandes ◽  
José M. C. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Fire Season ◽  
Burned Area ◽  
Treatment Area ◽  
Fuel Treatment ◽  
The North ◽  
Wildfire Hazard ◽  
Central Portugal ◽  
The Impact

The extreme 2017 fire season in Portugal led to widespread recognition of the need for a paradigm shift in forest and wildfire management. We focused our study on Alvares, a parish in central Portugal located in a fire-prone area, which had 60% of its area burned in 2017. We evaluated how different fuel treatment strategies may reduce wildfire hazard in Alvares through (i) a fuel break network with different extents corresponding to different levels of priority and (ii) random fuel treatments resulting from a potential increase in stand-level management intensity. To assess this, we developed a stochastic wildfire simulation system (FUNC-SIM) that integrates uncertainties in fuel distribution over the landscape. If the landscape remains unchanged, Alvares will have large burn probabilities in the north, northeast and center-east areas of the parish that are very often associated with high fireline intensities. The different fuel treatment scenarios decreased burned area between 12.1–31.2%, resulting from 1–4.6% increases in the annual treatment area and reduced the likelihood of wildfires larger than 5000 ha by 10–40%. On average, simulated burned area decreased 0.22% per each ha treated, and cost-effectiveness decreased with increasing area treated. Overall, both fuel treatment strategies effectively reduced wildfire hazard and should be part of a larger, holistic and integrated plan to reduce the vulnerability of the Alvares parish to wildfires.

Temporal and spatial dynamics of arthropod groups in terrestrial subsurface habitats in central Portugal

Zoology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 125931
Author(s):  
R.P. Eusébio ◽  
H. Enghoff ◽  
A. Solodovnikov ◽  
A. Michelsen ◽  
P. Barranco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Central Portugal ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Terrestrial Subsurface

Defining the dynamics of groundwater in Serra da Estrela Mountain area, central Portugal: an isotopic and hydrogeochemical approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula M. Carreira ◽  
José M. Marques ◽  
Jorge Espinha Marques ◽  
Helder I. Chaminé ◽  
Paulo E. Fonseca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Area ◽  
Central Portugal ◽  
Serra Da Estrela

scholarly journals The genesis of I- and S-type granitoid rocks of the Early Ordovician Oledo pluton, Central Iberian Zone (central Portugal)

Lithos ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 111 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 168-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.M.H.R. Antunes ◽  
A.M.R. Neiva ◽  
M.M.V.G. Silva ◽  
F. Corfu
Keyword(s):  
Central Iberian Zone ◽  
Early Ordovician ◽  
Central Portugal ◽  
Granitoid Rocks

Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) as a tool to study the (paleo)ecology of coccolithophores from coastal-neritic settings off central Portugal

2015 ◽  
Vol 319 ◽  
pp. 134-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catarina Guerreiro ◽  
Mário Cachão ◽  
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn ◽  
Anabela Oliveira ◽  
Aurora Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Compositional Data ◽  
Compositional Data Analysis ◽  
Central Portugal

scholarly journals Fire severity as a key factor in post-fire regeneration of Pinus pinaster (Ait.) in Central Portugal

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Maia ◽  
Juli G. Pausas ◽  
Ana Vasques ◽  
Jan Jacob Keizer
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Pinaster ◽  
Fire Severity ◽  
Pinus Pinaster Ait ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Central Portugal
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