Technical information on the use of agroforestry to prevent forest fires
| Main Authors: | Mosquera-Losada MR, Arias-Martínez D, Ferreiro-Domínguez N, Rodríguez-Rigueiro FJ, Santiago-Freijanes JJ, Rigueiro-Rodríguez A |
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| Format: | info publication-other eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2019
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3562243 |
Daftar Isi:
- Forest fires are one of the most important hazards of forestlands in Galicia and North of Portugal. The main reason of these areas is the high potential that forest understory has to grow during the spring period that allows vegetation to be accumulated year after year, that could be subsequently fired when high temperature, low air humidity and high wind speed increases the risk of fires. Approximately every ten years large fires take place and affect thousands of hectares that happen in a very short period of time (some days) and that may cause tens of died people like in Portugal last summer 2017. The reduction of the vegetation that acts as a fuel is one of the main forms to reduce the forest fire risk. Clearing of forests can be carried out through the use of machinery, but it is costly as these areas are associated to high steeps and trees are too dense and not homogeneously distributed. Agroforestry is one of the main solutions to reduce the fire risk in these areas, as the understory that otherwise is a waste is used as a valuable resource for animal production.