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Spain
Portugal
Greece
Turkey
Morocco
10
4
10
3
10
2
10
1
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
Years
Fig. 4.3
Progression of the number of fires (log scale) during the last several decades in different
Mediterranean Basin regions (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Morocco, Turkey) and in Europe. (Data
from national agencies of each country, modified from Pausas
2004
and Pausas
et al.
2008
.)
500
Area burned (ha/yr)
Fire frequency (#/yr)
15 000
10 0
10 0 0 0
10
5000
70s
1
0
19th C
20th C
Fig. 4.4
Average annual area burned and annual number of fires (log scale), from 1874 to 2003
by decades (except for three periods, 1954-1961 and 1968-1973, in which information was
available for a shorter period only) for Valencia province (1 080 600 ha, 54% of which is
wildland area). (Modified from Pausas
2004
and Pausas
et al.
2008
;
see Pausas & Ferna´ndez-
Munoz
2011
for further analysis of this data.)
