Iryna Skulska and co-authors show us how ownership type has been influencing the burned area in Portuguese pine forests over the last 40 years. The authors identify ownership types where forest management and fire hazard prevention clearly need to be improved.

Highlights:

• Community forest areas (aka baldios) have the largest accumulated burned area percentage over the past 40 years;
• Forest ownership type (and management) affects wildfire hazard;
• Portuguese forest authorities should reinforce their role as co-managers in community forests;

This nice piece of work closed the Small-scale Forestry special issue on presentations at the IUFRO Conference held in Vaasa in 2018.

In addition to Iryna Skulska, this study was co-authored by the CEABN InBIO colleagues Inês Marques Duarte and Francisco Castro Rego, as well as Cristina Montiel Molina.

Super congras to everyone!

Find out more:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11842-020-09445-6

Saturday, 23 May 2020