Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern
Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use …

Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate–weather,
fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of …

Mediterranean landscapes are in a state of flux due to the impacts of changing land‐use
patterns and climate. Fuel–weather interactions determine that large, severe wildfires are …

The prevailing paradigm in the western US is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in
historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from …

Modified, more severe fire regimes are develo** in the Mediterranean basin as a result of
changes in land use and climate. Current fire management privileges fire suppression and …

The current wildfire policies in European Union countries have not solved the wildfire
problem and probably will not be effective in the future, as all the initiatives focus on …

Forest fires (term used in Europe to designate the unwanted fires burning forests and wild
lands) constitute a serious problem for Europe. Frequently, Thought of almost exclusively as …

Despite their ecological, economic and social importance, grasslands in areas with
Mediterranean climates continue to receive limited scientific, political and media attention …

Fine dead fuel load is one of the most significant components of wildfires without which
ignition would fail. Several studies have previously investigated 1-h fuel load using standard …

Key message Fuel moisture and chemical content affecting live plant flammability can be
measured through laboratory and field techniques, or remotely assessed. Standardization of …