Modelling Relative Fire Sensitivity for Geodiversity Elements
Fire,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
8(3), P. 101 - 101
Published: Feb. 28, 2025
The
integration
of
geodiversity
elements
and
contexts
into
fire
management
frameworks
remains
limited
due
to
a
lack
actionable
tools
for
assessing
geosite
sensitivity.
This
study
addresses
this
gap
by
developing
testing
mechanistic
model
evaluate
soil
lithological
sensitivity,
using
database
Tasmanian
geosites
at
various
temperature
thresholds.
Initial
results
indicate
the
utility
approach
distinguish
between
sensitive
robust
geosites,
providing
simple
delineation
relative
sensitivities
in
situ
elements.
A
subsequent
iterative
applied
modelled
outputs
an
existing
database,
giving
coarse
indicators
sites
with
propensity
be
modified
fire.
With
static
inventory,
allows
decision-makers
develop
new
risk
parameters
burns
wildfires.
Geographically
complex
environments
have
led
misalignments
boundaries
broader
processes,
data
inaccessibility
remote
or
offshore
sites,
as
both
destructive
formative
agent;
these
must
all
resolved.
Future
work
should
consider
necessity
incorporating
values,
recovery
trajectories,
hydrological
processes
sensitivity
assessments.
concludes
recommendations
refining
enhance
its
managers,
ultimately
contributing
strategies
geoconservation
planning.
Language: Английский
Assessment of forest fires impacts on geoheritage: A study in the Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark, Portugal
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(4), P. 580 - 605
Published: Nov. 23, 2024
Language: Английский
First-year post-fire alterations of Scots pine forest: composition, relationships, ecological consequences
Landscape Ecology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
40(1)
Published: Dec. 30, 2024
Forest
fires
are
key
ecological
factors
affecting
pine
forests
globally.
Understanding
impacts
of
varying
fire
intensities
on
forest
ecosystem
components
is
crucial
for
predicting
recovery
and
informing
management.
This
study
aimed
to
assess
effects
different
surface
structural
forests,
including
tree
canopy,
herbaceous
layer,
soil
horizons,
identify
relationships
between
intensity
parameters.
The
examined
three
areas
with
(severe,
moderate,
mild)
1
year
after
a
in
Ukraine's
Volyn-Polissia
region,
using
vegetation
surveys,
analyses,
statistical
methods.
Fire
significantly
influenced
mortality
the
vitality
structure
Pinus
sylvestris
stands.
Scorch
height
correlated
strongly
stem
diameter
mild
moderate
zones
(P
<
0.0001).
Herbaceous
layer
composition
showed
significant
variations
all
life-form
traits
across
intensities.
Species
diversity,
dominance,
evenness
indices
varied
intensity,
as
did
species
distribution
by
strategies.
Soil
physicochemical
properties,
density,
ash
content,
moisture
capacity,
pH,
also
changed.
Correlations
were
found
condition
index
P.
well
cover
dominance/evenness
P2O5
content
layers.
Weaker
associations
identified
diversity
density/hygroscopic
moisture.
was
conducted
over
1-year
period
following
event,
focusing
short-term
responses
properties.
Surface
alter
multiple
components.
Severely
damaged
may
require
restoration
efforts,
active
interventions
such
artificial
reforestation
or
other
measures
accelerate
processes.
Moderately
mildly
affected
zones,
hand,
show
potential
natural
self-regulation.
These
findings
have
important
implications
post-fire
management
Language: Английский