Addressing the Role of Wildland Fires in Socio-Ecology of Dry Tropical Forests
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 282
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Avenida Julius Nyerere, Street nr. 3453, Maputo, Mozambique
Interests: conservation and forest restoration; fire ecology; evaluation and environmental impact assessments; forest biomass and carbon sequestration; remote sensing
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Interests: forest ecology; biodiversity conservation; forest fire management
Interests: vegetation fires; greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning; land use/cover mapping; remote sensing; field spectroradiometry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tropical dry forests (TDFs) are seasonally dry ecosystems spanning areas of annual mean precipitation between 600 and 1600 mm during 4–7 months of the year. These ecosystems harbor diverse and multi-functional landscapes that are inextricably linked to the lives of millions of people across the globe. Fire has played a role in maintaining TDFs, traditionally used as a management tool by communities. However, in recent decades the frequency and intensity of fires have increased due to a combination of factors such as climate change, deforestation, and ecosystem degradation. Despite their significance, TDF ecosystems have not received adequate research attention, conservation, and/or development interventions compared to humid tropical forests. As a result, in many places they are threatened and or degraded. This research area offers an important contribution to improve the understanding of the fire–ecosystem–people nexus, and to inform tailored and adaptive fire management practices.
The aim of this Special Issue is to compile information on the understanding of the role of fires in the socio-ecology of TDF.
Suggested themes and article types for submissions:
- Historical fire regimes;
- Comparison of fire regimes across TDF worldwide;
- Fire–people–ecology nexus;
- Climate change and fires;
- Fires and ecosystem services.
Dr. Natasha Ribeiro
Dr. Lucy Amissah
Dr. João Neves Silva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- fire regimes
- climate change
- ecosystem services
- traditional knowledge
- fire management
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