By Emilio Chuvieco (auth.), Emilio Chuvieco (eds.)
Wildland fires have gotten some of the most severe environmental elements affecting quite a lot of ecosystems all over the world. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including additionally South-Africa, California, components of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena each summer time, following the seasonal drought. because of adjustments in conventional land use practices, and the effect of modern weather warming, fires have extra unfavourable affects within the final years, threatening lives, socio-economic and ecological values. The e-book describes the ecological context of fires within the Mediterranean ecosystems, and gives tips on how to notice fireplace risk stipulations and hearth affects utilizing Earth statement and Geographic details approach technologies.
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