José M. C. Pereira
University of Lisbon
232 Papers
910 Citations
José M. C. Pereira is an academic researcher from University of Lisbon. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vegetation & Environmental science. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 191 publications. Previous affiliations of José M. C. Pereira include University of Santiago de Compostela & Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
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Papers
Relationships between human population density and burned area at continental and global scales
Ioannis Bistinas,Duarte Oom,Ana C. L. Sá,Sandy P. Harrison,I. Colin Prentice,José M. C. Pereira +5 more
TL;DR: The large spatial variation in the relationship between population density and burned area is explored using continental-scale Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), which contributes to improved understanding of how human activities relate to burned area, and should contribute to a better estimate of atmospheric emissions from biomass burning.
Synergy between land use and climate change increases future fire risk in Amazon forests
Yannick Le Page,Douglas C. Morton,Corinne Hartin,Ben Bond-Lamberty,José M. C. Pereira,George C. Hurtt,Ghassem R. Asrar +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a fire model specifically parameterized for Amazon understory fires to examine the interactions between anthropogenic activities and climate under current and projected conditions, and found that if climate mitigation is not successful, land use contraction alone is very effective under low to moderate climate change, but does little to reduce fire activity under the most severe climate projections.
Assessing the extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using SPOT VEGETATION data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a set of multitemporal images from the 1-km SPOT-4 VEGETATION (VGT) sensor to assess the extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) in 2000, using four classification algorithms: quadratic discriminant analysis, simple classification trees, probability-bagging classification trees and k-nearest neighbors.
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Modelling fire frequency in a Cerrado savanna protected area.
Alfredo da Costa Pereira Júnior,Sofia L. J. Oliveira,José M. C. Pereira,Maria Antónia Amaral Turkman +3 more
TL;DR: Because fires in the Cerrado are strongly responsive to fuel age in the first three to four years following a fire, early dry season patch mosaic burning may be used to reduce the extent of area burned and the severity of fire effects.
An estimate of the area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite data
João M. N. Silva,José M. C. Pereira,Ana Cabral,Ana C. L. Sá,Maria J. Vasconcelos,Bernardo Mota,Jean-Marie Grégoire +6 more
TL;DR: The area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season was mapped on a monthly basis from May to November using SPOT-VEGETATION (VGT) satellite imagery at 1 km spatial resolution as discussed by the authors.
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