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Enlace: http://www.ucm.es/info/lucifer/index.htm
Descripción: U. Complutense de Madrid.
Objective 1: To determine how land use changes have altered the structure of the landscape, this is, the type, shape, size and spatial arrangement of patches, in the last 2-4 decades in fire prone areas of all the Mediterranean countries of the EU, how much of such changes have been produced by fire, what role have the mentioned landscape changes played in pro-moting the fire disturbance, and, based on past landscape reconstruction and fire incidence, model future landscape dynamics.
Objective 2: To asses whether fires induce a further homogenization of the burned area by evaluat-ing the changes in patchiness (i.e., heterogeneity) created by the fire, particularly in prefire homoge-neous areas, in relation to the burning conditions, and by determining whether convergent postfire dynamics occur in prefire heterogeneous landscapes due to different land use history. Objective 3: To measure postfire flows of soil, water and nutrients from a burned landscape (watershed) and from the patches of the system, and relate these to the characteristics, and their spa-tial variability, of factors (soil quality, etc.) potentially affecting such flows. Objective 4: To establish the role of patch size (size of fire, different burned areas within a fire) on postfire plant and animal dynamics in various ecosystems across de Mediterranean re-gion (West to East). Plant species as well as some important animal will be studied. To asses the basis for species change and potential colonization by new species. Evaluate similar role of patch size on rare and en-demic plant species, and, in addition, analyze the fire ecology of selected groups of rare/endemic spe-cies to further understand their sensitivity to the changes in the landscape induced by fire.
Palabras clave: UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE,FUEGO,ECOLOGIA DEL FUEGO,
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