22 mayo 2019

On March 5, 2019, the staff of the Zaidín Experimental Station (CSIC-EEZ) met in the pilot area with CMAOT personnel to assess the severity of the fire after the prescribed burn and integrate sampling methodologies. Both groups exchanged in the field information on said methodologies, based on evaluating the standing fuel load after burning. CMAOT combines a destructive technique by cutting the standing fuel after burning (Photos 1 and 2) with the estimate of the global burned surface, while the CSIC-EEZ evaluates on permanent squares of 1 m2 (used for vegetation sampling). before burning) (Photo 3), the percentage of burned coverage (total and by species), plus an estimate of the range of severity of the burn (0 to 5) for the total of the square (Photo 4 and 5).