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 USING UNPLANNED FIRES TO HELP SUPPRESSING FUTURE LARGE FIRES IN MEDITERRANEAN FORESTS.

In a new article published in PLOS ONE, we assessed changes in fire suppression policies and their impact on fire regimes. Modulating fire suppression efforts in mild weather conditions is an appealing but hotly-debated strategy to use unplanned fires and associated fuel reduction to create opportunities for suppression of large fires in future adverse weather conditions. Using a spatially-explicit fire–succession model developed for Catalonia (Spain), we assessed this opportunistic policy by using two fire suppression strategies that reproduce how firefighters in extreme weather conditions exploit previous fire scars as firefighting opportunities.

Regos A, Aquilué N, Retana J, De Cáceres M, Brotons L (2014) Using Unplanned Fires to Help Suppressing Future Large Fires in Mediterranean Forests. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94906. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094906

Dissemination:

[1]La Razón: http://www.larazon.es/local/cataluna/proponen-dejar-quemar-algunos-incendios-para-reducir-catastrofes-forestales-HH7382687#.Ttt1C12mn1ulBa

[2]CREAF’s Blog: http://blog.creaf.cat/es/noticias/el-fuego-tambien-puede-ser-una-vacuna-contra-los-incendios-forestales-catastroficos-2/

[3]UAB: http://www.uab.cat/web/detalle-noticia/default-1345680342040.html?articleId=1345678366043

[4]Agenciasinc: http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/El-fuego-puede-ser-una-vacuna-contra-los-incendios-forestales-catastroficos

[5]eldia: http://ftp.eldia.es/agencias/7700060-fuego-controlado-puede-servir-vacuna-incendios-forestales-graves

[6]EuropaPress: http://www.europapress.es/epsocial/naturaleza-00323/noticia-fuego-controlado-puede-servir-vacuna-contra-incendios-forestales-graves-20140916120713.html

[6]CadenaSer:http://cadenaser.com/m/emisora/2014/09/18/audios/1410993875_660215.html

[7]ABC: http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20140917/abci-incendios-forestales-solucion-fuego-201409161706.html

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