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- Title
Estimativa de risco de incêndios florestais em unidades de conservação no bioma caatinga no estado da Paraíba, Brasil.
- Authors
de Sousa SANTOS, William; Carneiro SOUTO, Patrícia; Silva SOUTO, Jacob
- Abstract
The impacts of the frequencies of forest fires have modified the various natural environments protected. With the use of climate data aimed in this study to generate indexes of risks of forest fires in Protected Areas of the Paraíba using the Monte Alegre Formula (MAF). For the calculation of the MAF have been used daily data of rainfall and air humidity in the period from 2008 to 2012, of the municipalities where are located the Protected Areas, whose information has been obtained from the National Institute of Meteorology. The climatic data of rainfall and daily relative humidity of the air of the municipalities were organized in Excel spreadsheets for later calculation of the indexes of risk of forest fires. The calculation of the index was carried out on a monthly basis by the sum of the daily values of each month, with the risk of fire, classified according to the scale of danger in null, small, medium, high and very high. The classes of fire risk is high and very high were those that obtained the highest rates in all the Protected Areas. The months of September and October recorded the highest values for the class very high in all the Protected Areas.
- Publication
Nativa, 2017, Vol 5, Issue 6, p440
- ISSN
2318-7670
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5935/2318-7670.v05n06a10