TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Fire regimes, fire ecology, and fire management in Mexico
JO  - Ambio
A1  - Rodríguez Trejo, Dante Arturo
SP  - 548
EP  - 556
VL  - 37
IS  - 7-8
N2  - I propose several broad fire regimes and provide an analysis of fire ecology for the principal vegetation types in Mexico. Forty percent of Mexican ecosystems are fire-dependent (pine forests, several oak forests, grasslands, several shrublands, savannas, palm lands, wet prairies, "popal" and "tular" swamps), 50% are fire-sensitive (tropical rain forests and tropical seasonal forests, tropical cloud forests, mangrove, fir forests, several oak forests, and several shrublands), and the remaining 10% fall into fire-influenced (such as several gallery forests) and fire-independent categories (shrublands in most xeric environments, very high-altitude prairies). I also present an analysis of current fire-management trends, highlighting the trend toward integral fire management, which merges prevention and control, community-based fire management, and ecological fire management.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0044-7447
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -