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- Title
Avaliação de espécies arbóreas para composição de cortinas de segurança contra incêndios florestais.
- Authors
KOVALSYKI, Bruna; JUNIOR, Luiz Donizeti CASIMIRO; ASSUNÇÃO, Rafaela; TRAVENISK, Raquel Costa Chiao; França TETTO, Alexandre; Carlos BATISTA, Antonio
- Abstract
Green firebreaks are vegetation stripes with a lower combustibility than that of the main crop and are intended to prevent or restrict the spread of fire. The present study aimed to evaluate the potential of the following tree species to compose firebreaks: Magnolia grandiflora L., Michelia champaca L., Viburnum odoratissimum Ker Gawl., Casearia sylvestris Swartz and Bougainvillea glabra Choisy. The species were analyzed according to their moisture content, flame height, fire spread rate, amount of fuel consumed in controlled burns, and fire intensity. There were ten repetitions per species and the burns were done at the wildfire laboratory, from the forest sciences department, of Universidade Federal do Paraná, on experimental plots of 1 m2, with 1 kg of thin fuel load, kiln-dried at 75 °C for 48 hours. The most notable species from the analyses were B. glabra and C. sylvestris, which indicated low combustibility, showing potential to compose green firebreaks and prevent forest fires.
- Publication
Nativa, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
2318-7670
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31413/nativa.v7i2.6270