[PDF] Top 20 Land cover fire proneness in Europe

... panded in all European regions and has gained ...(Forest Europe, 2011) except in southern European countries, where fires burnt large areas every year (Schmuck et ...region cover about 80 ... See full document

... powers in Europe and in the world, has one of the highest GHG emissions due to the heavy ...leader in environmental policies to combat climate change (“Germany’s Climate Action Programme 2030 ... See full document

... weekly fire cycles in the anthromes that accounf for a small percentage of global active fires ...action. In Wildlands there is a much larger proportion of lightning-caused ignitions than in ... See full document

... dominate land use and cover over the years from 1987 to 2003, the decrease in grass cover during study period could be due to the increase of bush land, expansion of cultivation and ... See full document

... results in local ecological, economic and social impacts but also has large-scale implications for global ...climate, land use and vegetation ...change in Central America, such as El Salvador, lack ... See full document

... of fire drivers in the past decades in the western Mediterranean Basin [18], analysis of a longer time series would help characterize the significance of land cover as fire ... See full document

... roles in the ecosystem’s re- sponse to increased deposition of atmospheric ...nitrogen. In field experiments 1–1000 kgN ha −1 is added one-two times per ...increase in nitrogen deposition from ... See full document

... gains in terms of land expectation value from 15% (with λ = 1%) up to 30% (λ = ...increases in fire hazard should unambiguously shorten optimal ...however, fire hazard can influence the ... See full document

... 1970s. In particular, urban sprawl in the most densely populated areas is creating the most challenging territories at risk, namely wildland–urban interfaces ...consisting in the substitution of ... See full document

... on land resources is expected to increase as global population continues to climb and the world be- comes more affluent, swelling the demand for ...rise in demand for biofuels increases competition with ... See full document

... valid in some cases this assumption does not hold up to reality due to an uneven probability distribution ...pixel in coarser resolution data may be flagged even though the area proportion that corresponds ... See full document

... of Land Cover Change at the Country Level Our results show that during the last decade, land change in Colombia has been characterized by an unexpected net gain in woody cover, ... See full document

... findings in this research support the evidence of a recent study that found that the rapid land use changes in Zanzibar have imposed an intensive degradation on the ecosystems of Zanzibar ...planning ... See full document

... help in the identification and delimitation of anthropic and natural features in the Amazon- Cerrado transition region once the classes of soil use and cover have distinctive albedo values that ... See full document

... ever, in the period defined when the last three sub-periods are merged to define 1969– 2011 then FWI of both datasets, ERA 40 and ERA Interim, as modified for ... See full document

... failure in juvenile tree regeneration due to livestock browsing, and poorly understood diseases (Carvalho ...indicated in 1870 as threat- ening the montado continue to pose a threat ...factors in the ... See full document

... Multiple land use and land cover (LUC) datasets are available for the analysis of LUC changes (LUCC) in distinct ...used in the LUCC assessment, and (2) different criteria used for ... See full document

... of land use and land cover changes especially on urban ...changes in built up areas between the study ...agricultural land had been converted in to built up areas regardless of ... See full document

... relevant land use and land cover changes (LUCC) in recent ...existing land use and land cover (LUC) datasets and the production of new datasets have allowed us to better ... See full document

... classification in synergy with automatic extraction of training samples from an old map, it also aimed to use singular and BAP composites (see Figure ...4.1). In this context, after a prelim- inary ... See full document