20790nam a2200181 4500001000700000100004100007101000800048200010400056210010900160215002800269330850400297330850408801330312517305606005020430606001920480606003620499710007320535383852 a20060721d1994 y0pory50 ba aeng aProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Forest Fire Researchfed. Domingos Xavier Viegas aCoimbracDomingos Xavier Viegasd1994 (Coimbra : Comissão de Coordenação da Região Centro, 1994) a3 vol. (1346 p.)d24 cm aVol. I - Invited lectures, papers and posters of Section A (General and institutional aspects), Section B (Fire behaviour).Vol. II - Section C (Fire prevention), Section D (Fire effects).[Vol. III] - Basic data.Invited Lectures. Fire research and the global village (M.G. Weber – Canada). Coordination between researchers and managers to improve forest fire management (R. Vélez - Spain). Some thoughts from a study of fires in buildings (P. Thomas - United Kingdom). Guidelines for investigation and documentation of wildfire behavior, with particular reference to exotic pine plantations (M.E. Alexander – Canada. Plant and fire variability relationships more specifically in the medlterranean basin (L. Trabaud – France). Concepts and first results of regional- and global vegetation fire research campaigns (J.G. Goldammer – Germany). Fire in the mediterranean region: implications of land-use changes in a global change context (J.M. Moreno – Spain). Some ecological research perspectives on the disastrous Sydney fires of January 1994 (A.M. Gill and P.H.R. Moore - Australia).SECTION A - GENERAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS - PAPERS:Forest fire prevention through prescribed burning: an international cooperative project carried out in the European S.T.E.P. Program (J.A Vega, J.C. Valette, F.C. Rego, C. Hernando, D. Gillon, J.M.P. Ventura, S. Bara, V. Gomendy, H. Botelho, M. Guijarro, C. Haussard, L.S. Ruas, P. Cuiñas, J. Marechal, J.M.C. Mendes-Lopes, R. Díez, P. Fernandes, M.T. Fonturbel, J.A. Santos, M.J. Rozados and M.C. Beloso - Spain, France, Portugal). Wildfires and reforestation in common lands in Northwestern Spain: or the struggle for local control of natural resources. (D.M. Molina – Spain). FMIS: Fire Management Information System (J.L. Wybo and F. Guarniéri – France). A preparedness planning frame for forest fire prevention (G. Eftichidis, G. Xanthopoulos and V. Varela) – Greece. Design and implementation of a user interface for a forest fire management information system. (V. Varela, G. Eftichidis and M. Margaritis – Greece). Using induction for developing expert system modules of forest fire management information systems (G. Eftichidis, V. Varela and G. Xanthopoulos – Greece). Weather forecasts for forest fires: the economic impact (B. Sol - France). Development of a decision support system for water bomber dispatching in Greece (G. Xanthopoulos – Greece). Deplyment of fire prevention equipment: theory and experience-future computerisation. The example of the Bouches-du-Rhône (J.-C. Drouet – France). Fire protection planning in forest ecosystems and G.I.S. (J.M.R. Blanco – Spain). Forest fires in Chile (H. Haltenhoff – Chile). Forest fire suppression efficiency in Brazil (R.V. Soares and G.S. Lima – Brasil).SECTION A - GENERAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS - POSTERS:A research program on socioeconomic causes of forest fires: a tool for prevention (R. Vélez – Spain). A help- to-decide scale model . (L. Naville, P. Poulard and C. Picard – France). Helicopter fire fighting and vigilance (F.S. Passos – Portugal). SECTION B - FIRE BEHAVIOUR - PAPERS:Forest fire propagation modeling: a new methodology using cellular automata and geographic information systems (P.P. Gonçalves and P.M. Diogo - Portugal). A strategy to model the average fireline movement of a light to medium intensity surface forest fire (J.C.S. André and D.X. Viegas – Portugal). Combustion experiments on randomly distributed combustible and non combustible elements and directed percolation (J.A.M.S. Duarte, J. Nahmias and H. Téphany – Portugal, France). Partial clearance of ground considered as a critical phenomenon for fire spread - threshold dependancy with wind (J. Nahmias, H. Tephany, J.A.M.S. Duarte and S. Letaconnoux - France, Portugal). Expert knowledges and wind modelling (F. Guarniéri – France). Analysis of a group of models of fire spread through a solid porous fuel bed (J.C.S. André and D.X. Viegas - Portugal). Small-scale experiments and computing methodology (L. Naville, J.C. Malet, P. Gubenatis, P. Poulard and C. Picard - France). A fire spread algorithm depending on the direction of RM (E. Margaritis, G. Eftichidis and V. Varela – Greece). A bibliographic revision on prediction tools for phenomena occurring inside a fire front (G.C. Vaz, J.C.S. André and D.X. Viegas - Portugal). Numerical simulation of the wind field and fire propagation in mountain canyons (A.M.G. Lopes, A.C.M. Sousa and D.X. Viegas - Portugal, Canada). On the evolution of a linear fire front in a slope (D.X. Viegas, V. Varela and C.P. Borges – Portugal). Influence of slop and fuel load on fire behaviour in pine needles fuel beds (J.-C. Valette, M. Guijarro, J. Marechal and J.-L. Dupuy - France, Spain). Influence of slope and fuel moisture content on fuel load thresholds (J. Marechal and J-L. Dupuy – France). Empirical field studies for fire behaviour predictions (N.P. Cheney - Australia). Temperature-time curves in forest fire (J.M.P. Ventura, J.M C. Mendes-Lopes, F.C. Rego and H.S. Botelho – Portugal.Prescribed fire behavior and fuel consumption in Northern Portugal and Galiza maritime pine stands (H. Botelho, J.A. Vega, P. Fernandes and F.C. Rego - Portugal, Spain). A prognostic meteorological model applied to the study of forest fires (A.I. Miranda and C. Borrego – Portugal). Plumes above line fires in a cross wind (G.N. Mercer and R.O. Weber – Australia). Biomass and aerial structure characteristics of some Mediterranean shrub species (F.C. Rego, J.P. Pereira, P. Fernandes and A. F. Almeida – Portugal). Combined use of geographic information systems and meteorological modelling in support of fire prevention analysis (C. Cartalis, V. Varela, G. Eftihidis, D.N. Asimakopoulos and H. Feidas – Greece). Fuel modelling: a new approach (I. Lagarde – France). Role of phenology and moisture content in the exothermicity of pinus halepensis needles (M.L. Bernard and N. Nimour – France). Modeling technique for radiative ignition of cellulosic solids (X. Cheng and Z. Zhu - China). Seasonal variation of fire sensitiveness of forest fuels and statistics of mediterranean forest fires (M.L. Bemard, F. Battelli and N. Nimour - France). A non-destructive method to estimate shrubland biomass and combustibility (M. Etienne and C. Legrand – France). Methodology for measuring ignition-point temperatures of plant species (A.P. Dimitrakopoulos - Greece). Calorific values of mediterranean maquis and garrique species (A.P. Dimitrakopoulos - Greece). Importance and caracteristics of heathland fires in Brittany (France) (F. Forgeard - France). Experimental study on the propagation of burnings within 2 types of atlantic heathland litters (Brittany - France) (C. Hely and F. Forgeard - France). The influence of wood structure to the speed of its ignition and the fire performance (A. Osvald, D. Chovanec and Roman Réh - Slovak Republic). Using a new fire tunnel to appreciate retardant efficiency (C. Picard - France). SECTION B - FIRE BEHAVIOUR - POSTERS:Field tests of fire spread on shrub vegetation in a slope (D.X. Viegas, M.T. Viegas, and V. Varela - Portugal). Categorization of the parameters and systems that influence weather patterns and atmospheric stability conditions in a forested area (C. Cartalis; D.N. Asimakopoulos and H. Feidas – Greece). Flammability parameters and calorific values of erica arborea and arbutus unedo (C.H. Lara, C. Moro and J.-C. Valette - Spain, France). Numerical simulation of forest fire propagation in complex terrain (D. Tryfonopoulos, C. Papadopoulos, D. Croba and D. Laias – Greece). Cardin 3.0 a model for forest fire spread and fire fighting simulation (D. Caballero, J. Martinez-Millan, J. Martos and S. Vignote – Spain). Temporal simulation of meteorological parameters at mountainous forested sites (C. Cartalis, D.N. Asimakopoulos and H. Feidas – Greece).SECTION C - FIRE PREVENTION - PAPERS:Wildland fire cycles and history in central southern France (L. Trabaud – France). Spatial analysis of large-fire probabilities (A.J. Simard – Canada). Data for fire assessment from forest multipurpose inventory (M. Marchetti and G. Lozupone – Italy). The canadian forest fire severity information system (B.S. Lee and A. Jeffrey – Canada). Comparative study of various methods of fire danger evaluation in Southern Europe (D.X. Viegas, B. Sol, G. Bovio, A. Nosenzo and A. Ferreira - Portugal, France, Italy). aEstablishing rules of instantaneous identification of weather types, for a forest fires decision support system (P. Carrega - France). Large-scale circulation patterns associated with monthly area burned by wildfires in continental Portugal (J.M.C. Pereira, C.C. DaCamara and M.L. Lisboa – Portugal) Flammability parameters and soil water reserve to improve the forecast of the meteorological forest fire danger index (J.-C. Valette, B. Sol and C. Moro - France). Fire regime and the abundance of jack pine (M.D. Flannigan and B.M. Wotton - Canada). A satellite index of forest fire occurrence risk in Summer in the mediterranean area (V. Prosper-Laget, A. Douguedroit and J.P. Guinot - France). Spatially distributed estimation of forest fire ignition probabilities (M.J.P. Vasconcelos, L. Cadete, M.S. Caetano and J.M.C. Pereira - Portugal). Spatial pattern of lightning and human caused fires in Spain (A. Vásquez and J.M. Moreno – Spain). A statistical analysis of wildfire size data (M. Neves, J.M.C. Pereira and R.M. Natário - Portugal). High versus low resolution satellite images to estimate burned areas in large forest fires (M.P. Martín, O. Viedma and E. Chuvieco - Spain). An assessment of the potential of NOAA/AVHRR HRPT imagery for burned area mapping in Portugal (J.M.C. Pereira, L. Cadete and M.J.P. Vasconcelos – Portugal). Using spectral mixture analysis for fire severity mapping (M.S. Caetano, L.A.K. Mertes and J.M.C. Pereira - Portugal). Fire danger estimation using AVHRR images in the prairie provinces of Canada (L. Domínguez, B.S. Lee, E. Chuvieco and J. Cihlar - Spain, Canada). A local risk map for the council of Poiares central Portugal: comparison of GIS and field work methods (F.J. Salas, M.T. Viegas, I.A. Kyun, E. Chuvieco and D.X. Viegas - Portugal, Spain). The prescribed burning debate in temperate Australian forests: towards a resolution (A.M. Gill and R.A. Bradstock - Australia). Combining techniques of fuel reduction for fuel-break maintenance in the French Mediterranean region (M. Etienne, I. Mas and R. Rigolot - France). Managing forest fire fuels in the urban interface (K.D. Kalabokidis and P.N. Omi - Greece, USA).SECTION C - FIRE PREVENTION - POSTERS:Fire danger zonning using multivariate analysis (G. Bovio and A. Camia - Italy). Comparison between methods of forecasting danger of forest fires (G. Bovio and A. Nosenzo - Italy). Objective method for the daily prediction of the number of forest fires (E.L.G. Diez, L.R. Soriano, F. De Pablo and A.G. Diez - Spain). Emergent properties in a large-fire severity index (A.J. Simard - Canada). Automatic system for forest fire detection in Campania – Italy (F. Fuschetti – Italy). Results with a multi-spectral autonomous wildfire detection system (J.S. de Vries and R.A.W. Kemp – Netherlands). SECTION D - FIRE EFFECTS - PAPERS:Prescribed burning and disk trenching effects on early plantation performance in eastern Ontario, Canada (M.g. Weber, R.S. McAlpine, B.M. Wotton, J.G. Donnelly and M.W. Hobbs - Canada). On the use of water containers for the evaluation of the heat release of a spreading fire (D.X. Viegas, A.R. Figueiredo, S. Costa and C.M. Borges - Portugal). On the soil thermal effect under surface fire conditions (L.A. Oliveira, D.X. Viegas, V. Varela and A.M. Raimundo - Portugal). Numerical study of the effect of intensity of the wildfire on the aerosol and electric charge emission (S.I. Kolev, J. Armada, J. Salgado, M.I. Gonzalez and M.I.P. Andrade - Spain). Effects of fire injury on the physiology and growth of two pine species (E. Rigolot, M. Ducrey, F. Duhoux, R. Huc and K.C. Ryan - France, USA). Relationships between bark char height and some fire behavior variables in a pine plantation prescribed burning (A.C. Batista and R.V. Soares - Brazil). Assessment of the ecological equilibrium in a neotropical savanna excluded from fire as a driving force (J.J. San Jose, M.R. Fariñas and R. Montes - Venezuela). Development of plant communities six years after wildfire at Serra dos Candeeiros (central Portugal) (M.D. Espírito-Santo, F.C. Rego and J.C. Costa - Portugal). The ecological role of fire in aleppo pine forests: overview of recent research (A. Saracino and V. Leone - Italy). Persistence of plant populations in landscapes subjected to recurrent fire: simulation of effects of fires of varied frequency and size (R.A. Bradstock, M. Bedward and J.A. Scott - Australia). Landscape dynamics in Attica, Greece, during the 20th century (P. Kassapidis and M. Arianoutsou - Greece). Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of species diversity in a mediterranean ecosystem following fire (P. Kutiel - Israel). Vegetation cover evolution in experimental plots after controlled burning (J. Pereiras and M. Casal - Spain). Demographic patterns and productivity of post-fire regeneration in Portuguese mediterranean maquis (A.S. Clemente, F.C. Rego and O.A. Correia - Portugal). Comparative study of post-fire successional development in two communities with different maturity stage in quercus pyrenalca climax (L. Calvo, R. Tárrega and E. Luis - Spain). Evolutionary pyroecology and pyrogeography of the natural regeneration of scotch pine (S.N. Sannikov - Russian Federation). First stages of post-fire regeneration in pinus radiata plantations (E. Marcos, L. Valbuena, E. Luis-Calabuig and R. Tárrega - Spain). Vegetation structure in a post-fire successional gradient of pinus halepensis forests (D. Kazanis and m. Arianoutsou - Greece). Legumes in the fire-prone mediterranean environment (M. Arianoutsou and C.A. Thanos - Greece). Reproductive biology of four co-occurring leguminous species in a burned aleppo pine forest one year after fire (J. Kokkoris and m. Arianoutsou - Greece). Reproductive behaviour of quercus robur related to the size and damage state of the seed (O. Reyes and M. Casal - Spain). Fire severity and forestry management effects on the postfire vegetation recovery of a pinus pinaster woodland (B. Pérez and J.M. Moreno - Spain). The effect of thinning-out on the survival and development of pinus and cistus seedlings after fire on Mt. Carmel, Israel (G. Ne'eman - Israel). Aspects of the reproductive biology of fire following species of leguminosae in a pinus halepensis mill. forest (S. Papavassiliou, M. Arianoutsou and C.A. Thanos - Greece). Postfire regeneration of hardseeded plants: ecophysiology of seed germination (M.A. Doussi and C.A. Thanos - Greece). The soil seed bank and its role in the recovery of a burnt shrubland (L. Valbuena and L. Trabaud - Spain, France). The role of soil seed bank in the early stages of plant recovery after fire meditterranean ecosystems (SE Spain) (P. Ferrandis, J.M. Herranz, J.J. Martínez-Sánchez and J. Heras - Spain). Seedlings recovery of two cistus species after experimental disturbances (E. Luis-Calabuig, R. Tárrega, I. Alonso - Spain). The role of soil seedbanks in maintaining plant communities in fire-prone habitats (T.D. Auld - Australia). Aleppo pine (pinus halepensis) postfire regeneration: the role of canopy and soil seed banks - E.N. Daskalakou and C.A. Thanos - Greece). Impact of slash burning on nutrients in industrial plantations: a conceptual model for the Tsitsikamma, South Africa (C. de Ronde - South Africa). Nitrogen dynamics under aryophyte communities in soils damaged by fire of mediterranean ecosystems (SE Spain) (J. Heras, J.J. Martínez, J.M. Herranz and P. Ferrandis - Spain). Impact of forest fire on nutrient levels in soil and solutes transported by overland flow, Northern Portugal (A.D. Thomas - United Kingdom). Temporal and spatial variations in runoff and erosion in burnt soils (M. Sala, M. Soler and M. Pradas - Spain). The effect of fire-induced surface heterogeneity on rainfall-runoff-erosion relationships (P. Kutiel, H. Lavee, M. Segev and Y. Benyamini - Israel). Spatial variability of infiltration rates after a forest fire in a mediterranean area (M. Pradas and M. Sala - Spain). Erosion as a consequence of rains immediately following a forest fire (X.U. Cartañá and M.S. Sanjaume - Spain). Impact of fire-induced hydrophobicity and post-fire forest litter on overland flow in Northern and Central Portugal (R.P.D. Walsh, D. Boakes, C.O.A. Coelho, A.J.B. Gonçalves, R.A. Shakesby and A.D. Thomas - United Kingdom, Portugal). Limiting soil loss after forest fire in Portugal: the influence of different post-fire timber clearance practices (R.A. Shakesby, D.J. Boakes, C.O.A. Coelho, A.J.B. aGonçalves and R.P.D. Walsh - United Kingdom, Portugal). Changes in the rodent community in a pine woodland recovering from fire: the response to different management regimes (A. Haim, I. Izhaki and A. Golan - Israel). The effects of post-fire management on bird community succession in an east-mediterranean natural pine forest on Mount Carmel, Israel (I. Izhaki and M. Adar - Israel). Radioactive forest fires (S.I. Dusha-Gudym - Russian Federation).SECTION D - FIRE EFFECTS - POSTERS:Reproductive effort and resprouting of erica australis subsp. Aragonensis along a soil fertility gradient (A. Cruz, A. Velasco and J.M. Moreno - Spain). Biometric relationships and lignotuber carbohydrate accumulation patterns in erica australis subsp. Aragonensis along a soil fertility gradient (A. Cruz, P. Cubas and J.M. Moreno - Spain). Postfire soil nutrient dynamics of pine woodlands and shrublands in Sierra de Gredos (J.R. Quintana, A.M. Faraco, A.M. Moreno, J. González and J.M. Moreno - Spain). Separation using asimetric gauss curves of overlap peak in thermograms of soil (J. Salgado, M.I. González, V. Alonso, M. López, M.I.P. Andrade and T. Carballas - Spain). Thermographic investigation on temperature conductance of scots pine (pinus sylvestris l) tree bark (B. Ubysz - Poland). Early stages of plant succession after fire in fagus sylvatica l. and pinus sylvestris l. burnt forests of Tejera Negra Natural Park (Guadalajara, Spain) (J.M. Herranz, J.J. Martínez-Sánchez, P. Ferrandis and J. Heras - Spain). The importance of leguminosae in the early stages of plant succession after fire in SE Spain (J.J. Martínez-Sánchez, J.M. Herranz, J. Heras and P. Ferrandis - Spain). Fire severity pattern in relation to prefire vegetation in a cytisus shrubland (B. Pérez and J.M. Moreno - Spain). Vegetation recovery in a pinus pinaster woodland in Central Portugal in relation to fire severity and post-fire timber management (M.T. Viegas, B. Pérez, D.X.Viegas and J.M. Moreno (Portugal, Spain). Measurement of specific heat by differential scanning calorimetry in soils, affected by wildfire (M.I. González, V Alonso, J. Salgado, S.I. Kolev, M.I.P. Andrade and M. Carballas - Spain). Recent changes in forested landscapes of Sierra de Gredos, Spain (A. Vázquez, J.M.. Moreno and F.W. Davis - Spain, USA). Effects of fire on ectomycorrhizal fungi in mediterranean areas (P. Torres, M. Honrubia and P. Pérez - Spain). A comparative study of the seed bank of two different areas (burnt and control) in "Monte el Viejo" Palencia (NW Spain) (L. Calvo, B. Herrero and F. Bravo - Spain). Fire effects on some physical and chemical parameters: their temporal evolution and spatial differences (A. Lussi - Spain). Postfire effects on soil quality and nutrient losses (V. Andreu, J.L. Rubio, J. Forteza and R. Cerni - Spain). Geoecological methodology for measuring runoff and soil erosion on burnt areas in mediterranean countries (K. Schrader - Switzerland). Post-fire recolonization by coleoptera in quercus pyrenaica ecosystems (J.A. Garcia-Villanueva, V. Ena, R. Tárrega and G. Mediavilla - Spain). aCOLÓQUIOS, CONFERÊNCIAS, CONGRESSOS, ETC. aFOGO FLORESTAL aPREVENÇÃO DE FOGO FLORESTAL aINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOREST FIRE RESEARCHd2ndeCoimbraf1994