Historical fire records at the two ends of Iberian Central Mountain SystemEstrela massif and Ayllón massif

  1. Catalina Romão Sequeira
  2. Cristina Montiel-Molina
  3. Francisco Castro Rego
Revista:
Investigaciones Geográficas (España)

ISSN: 0213-4691 1989-9890

Año de publicación: 2019

Número: 72

Páginas: 31-52

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.14198/INGEO2019.72.02 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Investigaciones Geográficas (España)

Resumen

The Iberian Peninsula has a long history of fire, as the Central Mountain System, from the Estrela massif in Portugal to the Ayllón massif in Spain, is a major fire-prone area. Despite being part of the same natural region, there are different environmental, political and socio-economic contexts at either end, which might have led to distinct human causes of wildfires and associated fire regimes. The hypothesis for this research lies in the historical long-term relationship between wildfire risks and fire use practices within a context of landscape dynamics. In addition to conducting an analysis of the statistical period, a spatial and temporal multiscale approach was taken by reconstructing the historical record of prestatistical fires and land management history at both ends of the Central Mountain System. The main result is the different structural causes of wildland fires at either end of the Central Mountain System, with human factors being more important than environmental factors in determining the fire regimes in both contexts. The study shows that the development of the fire regime was non-linear in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to broader local human context factors which led to a shift in fire-use practices.

Información de financiación

This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiviness [National Project I+D+i FIRESCAPE CSO2013-44144-P]; and the Ministry of Science and Innovation [grant number FPI BES-2014-068696]. It was developed as part of a PhD in Geography in the Research Group on Forest Geography, Policy and Socioeconomics at the Complutense University of Madrid.

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