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2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
11994
World Ranking
3268
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18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Paulo M. Fernandes is affiliated with the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the subfields of global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their academic work extensively covers topics related to fire effects on ecosystems, landslides and related hazards, fire dynamics and safety research, rangeland and wildlife management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, flood risk assessment and management, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Paulo M. Fernandes include:

  • Climate change impact on future wildfire danger and activity in southern Europe: a review, 2020, Annals of Forest Science
  • Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • State of Wildfires 2023-2024, 2024, Earth system science data
  • Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia, 2020, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Assessing changes in global fire regimes, 2024, Fire Ecology

Frequently collaborating with Paulo M. Fernandes are the following co-authors:

  • José M. C. Pereira
  • João P. Honrado
  • Francisco Rego
  • Chad M. Hoffman
  • João A. Santos

Paulo M. Fernandes has a consistent publication record in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • Fire
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • A review of prescribed burning effectiveness in fire hazard reduction

    Paulo M. Fernandes;Hermínio S. Botelho

  • Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

    Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl;Paulo M. Fernandes;Teresa F. Fonseca;François Gillet;François Gillet

  • Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

    Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Davide Ascoli;Hugh Safford;Mark A Adams

  • Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts

    Fantina Tedim;Vittorio Leone;Malik Amraoui;Christophe Bouillon

  • Prescribed burning in southern Europe: developing fire management in a dynamic landscape

    Paulo M Fernandes;Paulo M Fernandes;G Matt Davies;Davide Ascoli;Cristina Fernández

  • Climate change impact on future wildfire danger and activity in southern Europe: a review

    Jean-luc Dupuy;Hélène Fargeon;Nicolas Martin-StPaul;François Pimont

  • The fire ecology and management of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

    Paulo M. Fernandes;Eric Rigolot

  • Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

    S. Paula;M. Arianoutsou;D. Kazanis;Ç Tavsanoglu

  • Fire-smart management of forest landscapes in the Mediterranean basin under global change

    Paulo M. Fernandes

  • Fire resistance of European pines

    Paulo M. Fernandes;José A. Vega;Enrique Jiménez;Eric Rigolot

  • Fire spread prediction in shrub fuels in Portugal

    Paulo A. Martins Fernandes

  • Combining forest structure data and fuel modelling to classify fire hazard in Portugal

    Paulo M. Fernandes

  • A generic, empirical-based model for predicting rate of fire spread in shrublands

    Wendy R. Anderson;Miguel G. Cruz;Paulo M. Fernandes;Lachlan McCaw

  • Post-fire tree mortality in mixed forests of central Portugal

    F.X. Catry;F. Rego;F. Moreira;P.M. Fernandes

  • Plant flammability experiments offer limited insight into vegetation–fire dynamics interactions

    Paulo M. Fernandes;Miguel G. Cruz

  • The dynamics and drivers of fuel and fire in the Portuguese public forest

    Paulo M. Fernandes;Carlos Loureiro;Nuno Guiomar;Gianni B. Pezzatti

  • Bottom-Up Variables Govern Large-Fire Size in Portugal

    Paulo M. Fernandes;Tiago Monteiro-Henriques;Nuno Guiomar;Carlos Loureiro

  • Portugal and Chile: Longing for sustainable forestry while rising from the ashes

    Susana Gómez-González;Fernando Ojeda;Paulo Alexandre Martins Fernandes

  • Assessing the effect of a fuel break network to reduce burnt area and wildfire risk transmission

    Tiago M. Oliveira;Ana M. G. Barros;Alan A. Ager;Paulo M. Fernandes

  • Potential for CO2 emissions mitigation in Europe through prescribed burning in the context of the Kyoto Protocol

    Caroline Narayan;Paulo M. Fernandes;Jo van Brusselen;Andreas Schuck

  • Analysis of the prescribed burning practice in the pine forest of northwestern Portugal

    P. Fernandes;H. Botelho

  • Fire behaviour and severity in a maritime pine stand under differing fuel conditions

    Paulo A.M. Fernandes;Carlos A. Loureiro;Hermínio S. Botelho

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Rego
Francisco Rego University of Lisbon
Francisco Moreira
Francisco Moreira University of Porto
José M. C. Pereira
José M. C. Pereira University of Lisbon
Miguel G. Cruz
Miguel G. Cruz Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
José A. Vega
José A. Vega Xunta de Galicia
Rob H. Marrs
Rob H. Marrs University of Liverpool
Juli G. Pausas
Juli G. Pausas University of Valencia
Alan Gray
Alan Gray University of Edinburgh
Stefan H. Doerr
Stefan H. Doerr Swansea University
João A. C. Santos
João A. C. Santos Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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