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Paulo Fernandes

@paulomfernandes.bsky.social

fire behaviour | fire ecology | fire management Associate Professor at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro,

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment@natrevearthenviron.nature.com · 5mo ago

New online! Wildfires in 2025

Wildfires in 2025

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 01 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00793-zGlobally, fires in 2025 burned the second-lowest area on record since 2002 and emitted the third-lowest CO2 total. Yet, a third successive year of extreme wildfire emissions prevailed in Canada, and catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, South Korea and Europe killed over 90 people and forced over 300,000 evacuations.

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Steve Pyne@sjpyne.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Hollywood Reporter asked for 700 words for a special section on the fires they have just published. Something looking at the fire itself.So I repurposed some sentences on 'fire as biology' and gave the notion a long leash. Alas, the title is *not* mine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...

What Fire Wants: Understanding the Enemy

What long has been considered merely a chemical reaction perhaps is best compared to another all-too-familiar scourge — a virus.

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Paulo Fernandes@paulomfernandes.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out: a review of the last 20 yrs or so of experimental field quantification of #firebehaviour characteristics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Global Synthesis of Quantification of Fire Behaviour Characteristics in Forests and Shrublands: Recent Progress - Current Forestry Reports

Purpose of Review The behaviour of wildland fires, namely their free spreading nature, destructive energy fluxes and hazardous environment, make it a phenomenon difficult to study. Field experimental ...

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Paulo Fernandes@paulomfernandes.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out, by an interdisciplinary team and based on a stakeholders' participatory approach www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF24042

An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios

Background Recent policy instruments for integrated landscape management in Portugal provide an opportunity to develop strategies that optimise the implementation of global policies at a local scale.A...

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