<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cassagne, Nathalie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pimont, Francois</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dupuy, Jean-Luc</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Linn, Rodman R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mårell, Anders</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oliveri, Chloé</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rigolot, Eric</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Using a fire propagation model to assess the efficiency of prescribed burning in reducing the fire hazard</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecological Modelling</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fire behaviour</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FIRETEC</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fuel dynamics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean fuel complexes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Prescribed burning</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380011000615</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">222</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1502 - 1514</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We examined how ﬁre hazard was affected by prescribed burning and fuel recovery over the ﬁrst six years following treatment. Eight common Mediterranean fuel complexes managed by means of prescribed burning in limestone Provence (South-Eastern France) were studied, illustrating forest and woodland, garrigue and grassland situations. The coupled atmosphere-wildﬁre behaviour model FIRETEC was used to simulate ﬁre behaviour (ROS, intensity) in these complex vegetations. The temporal threshold related to the effectiveness of prescribed burning in reducing the ﬁre hazard was assessed from derivated fuel dynamics after treatment. The study showed that prescribed burning treatment was effective for the ﬁrst two years in most of the Mediterranean plant communities analysed. Thereafter, all forests and shrublands were highly combustible with a ﬁre line intensity of more than 5000 kW/m except for pine stands with or without oak (medium intensity of 2000 kW m−1 3 years after treatment). Low ﬁre line intensity (900 kW m−1 ) was obtained for grassland which was entirely treatment-independent since the resprouter hemicryptophyte, Brachypodium retusum, is highly resilient to ﬁre. Fire behaviour was greatly affected by fuel load accumulation of Quercus ilex in woodland, and by standing necromass of Rosmarinus ofﬁcinalis in treated garrigue. Pure pine stands with shrub strata similar to garrigue showed a lower ﬁre intensity due to wind speed decrease at ground level under tree canopy, underlining the advantage of maintaining a proportion of canopy cover in strategic fuel-break zones</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></issue></record></records></xml>