The land morphology concept and mapping method and its application to mainland Portugal

Cunha, Natália S.; Magalhães, Manuela R.; Domingos, Tiago; Abreu, Maria Manuela; Withing, Kai

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.03.018

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“…iv) Ridges are based on the river basins limit using drainage dimension and streams length criteria (Silva et al, 2013). v) Hilltops are upper areas of the drainage basin, de ned as at or convex areas with slope < 5% (Cunha et al, 2018). These areas vary in width due to erosion processes.…”

Section: Firelan Network Componentsmentioning

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FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

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Pena

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This paper explores the role of landscape planning as a tool for rural fire prevention. It presents a methodology for a fire resilient and sustainable landscape model (FIRELAN) that articulates the ecological and cultural components in a suitable and multifunction land-use plan. FIRELAN is a conceptual and ecologically based model that recognizes river basin’ land morphology, microclimate, and species combustibility as the fundamental factors that determine fire behavior and landscape resilience, along with the ecological network (EN) for achieving ecological sustainability of the landscape. The model is constituted by the FIRELAN Network and the Complementary Areas. This network ensures the effectiveness of discontinuities in the landscape with less combustible land-uses. It also functions as a fire-retardant technique and protection of wildland-urban interface (WUI). This model is applied to municipalities from Portugal's center region, a simplified landscape severely damaged by recurrent rural fires. The results show that land-use and tree species composition should change drastically, whereas about 72% of the case study needs transformation actions. This requires a significant increase of native or archaeophytes species, agricultural areas, landscape discontinuities and the restoration of biodiversity in Natura 2000 areas. The EN components are 79% of the FIRELAN N area, whose implementation ensures soil and water conservation, biodiversity, and habitats. This paper contributes to the discussion of the Portuguese rural fires planning framework, highlighting the role of this model implementation towards a new landscape by giving explicit indications of adequate land-uses in rural areas. The FIRELAN model can be replicated in any situation.

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FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

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“…An analysis considering the patch size by forest type and the land morphology was performed. Different forest types in relation to the land morphology (percentage in relation to each forest type) (collected data using [74] 7 shows the relation between each forest type and its location in land morphology, using categories defined by [75]: valley bottoms, hillslopes and large hilltops. The location of the forest in the Portuguese landscape not always fulfills the best soil and water conservation goals.…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Forest Condition In Portugal: Analysis Andmentioning

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Spatial and Temporal Variability Regarding Forest: From Tree to the Landscape

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2020

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Spatial and temporal variability in forest has become a topic attracting great attention regarding the role of the forest ecosystems in biogeochemical cycles, climate change and biological diversity and in human society. Advances in the natural sciences have brought insights into and a better understanding about the patterns and processes at different spatial and temporal scales. At the same time, this supports a better management of the forest ecosystems and landscapes. Variability from the tree level to the landscape is addressed. Tree characteristics and functions, forest stand dynamics and ecological succession to forest landscape ecology are put together, considering their interrelations and dependencies. Managing forest stands and variability at different scales is described and discussed, including the scope of sustainability. An evaluation of forest and landscape characteristics in Portugal is performed with propositions considering these different elements.

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“…This method evaluated several ecological criteria simultaneously: soil ecological value [47], land morphology [76], and slope; and assigned weight factors to each criterion, and to each class in each criterion (Table 5). The basis for the Land-Use Potential Plan was agro-edaphic suitability.…”

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“…In our climate, there are unique characteristics associated with rice cultivation, namely the need for flooding the crop for much of its life cycle. Therefore, the distribution area of this crop was restricted to the areas classified as wet system in the National Ecological Network [76]. If the existing cultivars were incompatible with the soil depth and climatic conditions of the site, the program considered zero output.…”

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Mapping the Lisbon Potential Foodshed in Ribatejo e Oeste: A Suitability and Yield Model for Assessing the Potential for Localized Food Production

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Abstract:Research on food planning has been recently proposed in North American and European planning to account for how cities might change their food provision to respond to the rising demands for a more sustainable and ethical food system. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the agro-ecological potential of the Lisbon city region, Ribatejo e Oeste, to increase its Regional Food Self-Reliance (RFSR), through adopting demand restraint and food system relocalization approaches to food system sustainability. Three new diet scenarios were considered: meat-based, plant-based and strict vegetarian, defined in accordance with healthy dietary patterns. We used agro-climatic and agro-edaphic agricultural suitability models to evaluate the agro-ecological potential for RFSR, and proposed the use of Foodshed Landscape Plans within a landscape planning methodology. Results showed the extent of local food production that could improve food self-reliance, with 72%, 76%, 84% of total food needs in the meat-based, plant-based, and strict vegetarian scenarios, respectively. Thus, food system transformation by means of relocalization, is therefore ecologically feasible and would ensure the sustainable use of the ecological basis of food security. Additionally, a dietary transition would imply significant land sparing, which strengthens the demand restraint perspective for a transition to food system sustainability.

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The land morphology concept and mapping method and its application to mainland Portugal

Cited by 18 publications

References 38 publications

FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

Spatial and Temporal Variability Regarding Forest: From Tree to the Landscape

Mapping the Lisbon Potential Foodshed in Ribatejo e Oeste: A Suitability and Yield Model for Assessing the Potential for Localized Food Production

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