An empirical assessment of the potential of post-fire recovery of tree-forest communities in Mediterranean environments

Abstract

The accumulation of fuel and the homogenization of the landscape in Mediterranean forests are leading to an increasingly hazardous behavior of wildfires, fostering larger, more intense, severe, and frequent wildfires. The onset of climate change is intensifying this behavior, fostering the occurrence of extreme forest fires threatening the persistence of forest communities.

Marcos Rodrigues

Professor of Geographic Information Science

My research interests include forest fires, spatial analysis and forestry.