Harmonized dataset of surface fuels under Alpine, temperate and Mediterranean conditions in Italy. A synthesis supporting fire management
Davide Ascoli (1), Giorgio Vacchiano (2) , Carla Scarpa (3), Bachisio Arca (3), Anna Barbati (4), Giovanna Battipaglia (5), Mario Elia (6), Assunta Esposito (5), Vittorio Garfì (7), Raffaella Lovreglio (8), Paola Mairota (6), Marco Marchetti (7), Enrico Marchi (9), Simone Meytre (1), Marco Ottaviano (7), Grazia Pellizzaro (3), Rolando Rizzolo (10), Lorenzo Sallustio (7), Michele Salis (3), Costantino Sirca (11-12), Eva Valese (13), Andrea Ventura (3), Valentina Bacciu (12)
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 513-522 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor3587-013
Published: Nov 13, 2020 - Copyright © 2020 SISEF
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Surface biomass characterization plays a key role in wildfire management. It allows classifying vegetation fuels flammability for fire risk analysis, to define silvicultural prescriptions for fire hazard reduction, to plan prescribed burning, or to model fire behavior and its effects, such as greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions. To facilitate fuel classification and analysis of potential fire behavior and effects in Italy, we harmonized 634 measurements of surface wildland fuels from Alpine, temperate and Mediterranean environments. The dataset provides quantitative data for duff, fine dead fuels and downed woody material, live grasses and shrubs fuel components. Surface fuel data were harmonized by subdividing loads (Mg ha-1) to standard size classes for dead (0-6, 6-25 and 25-75 mm) and live (0-6, 6-25 mm) fuels, collecting percent cover and depth/height (cm) of the various fuel components, and classifying observations into 19 fuelbed categories. To ensure comparability with existing vegetation classification systems, we classified each observation according to the European Fuel Map, the Corine Land Cover classes (level IV), the European Forest Types, and the forest categories of the Italian National Forest Inventory. The dataset and a photo description of each fuelbed category are available as Supplementary material. This dataset is the first step to develop several products at the national scale such as: (i) fuel type classification and mapping; (ii) carbon stock and wildfire emission estimates; (iii) calibration of fuel models for the simulation of fire behavior and effects.
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Simone Meytre
Costantino Sirca 0000-0001-7605-5700
Dept. of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, l.go Paolo Braccini 4, Grugliasco, TO (Italy)
Costantino Sirca 0000-0001-7605-5700
Dept. of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Milano, v. Celoria 2, Milano (Italy)
Bachisio Arca 0000-0002-2834-2753
Grazia Pellizzaro 0000-0003-0860-897X
Michele Salis 0000-0002-0499-9726
Andrea Ventura 0000-0003-3120-0390
Institute of Bio-Economy, National Research Council, trav. La Crucca 3, Sassari (Italy)
Dept. for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems, University of Tuscia, v. S. Camillo de Lellis snc, VT (Italy)
Assunta Esposito 0000-0003-2937-7373
Dept. of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, v. Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta (Italy)
Paola Mairota 0000-0002-0989-419X
Dept. of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Bari “A. Moro”, v. Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari (Italy)
Marco Marchetti 0000-0002-5275-5769
Marco Ottaviano 0000-0002-8891-8814
Lorenzo Sallustio 0000-0001-9204-5123
Dept. of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, c.da Fonte Lappone, Pesche, IS (Italy)
Nuoro Forestry School, Dept. of Agriculture, University of Sassari, v. Cristoforo Colombo 1, I-08100 Nuoro (Italy)
Dept. of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, v. S. Bonaventura 13, 50145 Firenze (Italy)
Direzione Protezione Civile e Polizia locale, Regione Veneto, Marghera, VE (Italy)
Valentina Bacciu 0000-0002-2361-1416
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) - IAFES Division, Sassari (Italy)
Independent researcher, Agricultural High School “Duca degli Abruzzi”, v. Merlin 1, Padova (Italy)
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Ascoli D, Vacchiano G, Scarpa C, Arca B, Barbati A, Battipaglia G, Elia M, Esposito A, Garfì V, Lovreglio R, Mairota P, Marchetti M, Marchi E, Meytre S, Ottaviano M, Pellizzaro G, Rizzolo R, Sallustio L, Salis M, Sirca C, Valese E, Ventura A, Bacciu V (2020). Harmonized dataset of surface fuels under Alpine, temperate and Mediterranean conditions in Italy. A synthesis supporting fire management. iForest 13: 513-522. - doi: 10.3832/ifor3587-013
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Francisco Lloret Maya
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Received: Jul 15, 2020
Accepted: Oct 26, 2020
First online: Nov 13, 2020
Publication Date: Dec 31, 2020
Publication Time: 0.60 months
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