Wood resources have been essential for human welfare throughout history. Also nowadays,
the volume of growing stock (GS) is considered one of the most important forest attributes …

This article examines the main impacts of the illegal logging activities with emphasis on the
most important timber production regions. Although the discussion is focused on the …

Over the last decades, the different issues regarding the expansion of the wildland-urban
interface (WUI)-particularly those related to fires-have spread around the world with …

The assumption that increased wildfire incidence in the Mediterranean Basin during the last
decades is an outcome of changes in land use warrants an objective analysis. In this study …

Large and severe wildfires are now widespread in the Mediterranean Basin. Fire severity is
important to ecosystem properties and processes and to forest management but it has been …

The relative influence of the factors acting on burn probability, namely fuel and weather, is
not well understood, especially in Europe. We use a digital fire atlas (1975–2008) and apply …

Fires are an important land use tool, a growing global hazard, and a factor involved in
landscape processes with feedbacks on land degradation, especially in the Southwestern …

The north-central region of Portugal has undergone significant land cover change since the
early 1900s, with large-scale replacement of natural vegetation types with plantation forests …

In Portugal the natural cycle of fire has been reduced, fires have become recurrent, their
intensity and expansion have increased, and they have taken on catastrophic proportions …

Throughout the years we have seen a new reality in Portugal regarding large forest fires,
since they have become increasingly important. Although large forest fires (LFFs) in Portugal …