Paulo M. Fernandes

Research interests

Publications

• State of Wildfires 2023–2024

  Earth system science data · 2024 · 10.5194/essd-16-3601-2024

• Assessing changes in global fire regimes

  Fire Ecology · 2024 · 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

• Assessing changes in global fire regimes

  Fire Ecology · 2024 · 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

• Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2022 · 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160320

• Climate change impact on future wildfire danger and activity in southern Europe: a review

  Annals of Forest Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-020-00933-5

• Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

  Environmental Research Letters · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab541e

• Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts

  Fire · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010009

• Portugal and Chile: Longing for sustainable forestry while rising from the ashes

  Environmental Science & Policy · 2017 · 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.11.006

• Portugal and Chile: Longing for sustainable forestry while rising from the ashes

  Environmental Science & Policy · 2017 · 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.11.006

• Assessing the effect of a fuel break network to reduce burnt area and wildfire risk transmission

  International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2016 · 10.1071/wf15146

• Bottom-Up Variables Govern Large-Fire Size in Portugal

  Ecosystems · 2016 · 10.1007/s10021-016-0010-2

• The role of fire in UK peatland and moorland management: the need for informed, unbiased debate

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2016 · 10.1098/rstb.2015.0342

• Bottom-Up Variables Govern Large-Fire Size in Portugal

  Ecosystems · 2016 · 10.1007/s10021-016-0010-2

• The role of fire in UK peatland and moorland management: the need for informed, unbiased debate

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2016 · 10.1098/rstb.2015.0342

• Assessing the effect of a fuel break network to reduce burnt area and wildfire risk transmission

  International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2016 · 10.1071/wf15146

• Empirical Support for the Use of Prescribed Burning as a Fuel Treatment

  Current Forestry Reports · 2015 · 10.1007/s40725-015-0010-z

• Empirical Support for the Use of Prescribed Burning as a Fuel Treatment

  Current Forestry Reports · 2015 · 10.1007/s40725-015-0010-z

• A generic, empirical-based model for predicting rate of fire spread in shrublands

  International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2015 · 10.1071/wf14130

• The dynamics and drivers of fuel and fire in the Portuguese public forest

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2014 · 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.07.049

• The dynamics and drivers of fuel and fire in the Portuguese public forest

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2014 · 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.07.049

• Prescribed burning in southern Europe: developing fire management in a dynamic landscape

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2013 · 10.1890/120298

• Plant flammability experiments offer limited insight into vegetation–fire dynamics interactions

  New Phytologist · 2012 · 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04065.x

• Fire-smart management of forest landscapes in the Mediterranean basin under global change

  Landscape and Urban Planning · 2012 · 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.10.014

• Post-fire tree mortality in mixed forests of central Portugal

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2010 · 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.07.010

• Towards Integrated Fire Management. Outcomes of the European Project Fire Paradox

  Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2010

• Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

  Ecological Modelling · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.09.040

• Towards Integrated Fire Management. Outcomes of the European Project Fire Paradox

  Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2010

• Fire‐related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

  Ecology · 2009 · 10.1890/08-1309.1

• Combining forest structure data and fuel modelling to classify fire hazard in Portugal

  Annals of Forest Science · 2009 · 10.1051/forest/2009013

• Fire resistance of European pines

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2008 · 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.032

• The fire ecology and management of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2007 · 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.01.010

• A review of prescribed burning effectiveness in fire hazard reduction

  International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1071/wf02042

• Fire spread prediction in shrub fuels in Portugal

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2001 · 10.1016/s0378-1127(00)00363-7

Current projects

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