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Johansson, Maria U; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Maria.Johansson@slu.se; Fetene, Masresha; Department of Biology, Addis Ababa University; mfetene@bio.aau.edu; Malmer, Anders; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Anders.Malmer@slu.se. |
Fire has long been a principal tool for manipulating ecosystems, notably for pastoralist cultures, but in modern times, fire use has often been a source of conflicts with state bureaucracies. Despite this, traditional fire management practices have rarely been examined from a perspective of fire behavior and fire effects, which hampers dialogue on management options. In order to analyze the rationale for fire use, its practical handling, and ecological effects in high-elevation ericaceous heathlands in Ethiopia, we used three different information sources: interviews with pastoralists, field observations of fires, and analysis of vegetation age structure at the landscape level. The interviews revealed three primary reasons for burning: increasing the... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Anthropogenic fire; Erica arborea; Erica trimera; Fire behavior; Fire ecology; Forage shrub systems; Pastoralist land use; Traditional ecological knowledge. |
Ano: 2012 |
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Castillo,Miguel E; Rodriguez y Silva,Francisco. |
A study of response times for the arrival of terrestrial forest fire fighting resources was undertaken. The advantage of the method proposed here is that it may be exactly replicated in different countries and under different environmental conditions, budgets and infrastructures for wildfire combat. This is an international-level support offering better reference material for optimizing terrestrial resources. In the combat of forest fires, fire fighting resource response times are of particular importance when evaluating fire advance speed and fire damage potential against time. Due to the importance of speed in fire containment and the economic consequences of a fire, a fire combat response time curve was constructed using fire fighting operation data... |
Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Extinction times; Forest fire; Fire combat; Fire behavior. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-16202015000100010 |
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