Site Implementation Plan: Macao and Gois, Portugal

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Site 1 (Caratão catchment)
4. Site 2 (Vale Torto catchment)
5. Site 3 (Camelo catchment)
6. Site 4 (Moinhos catchment)
   1. Situation
   2. Physiographic setting of the plots
   3. Annual rainfall and seasonality information
7. Stakeholder information
8. Land use
9. Conservation measures and experimental setup
10. Monitoring activities

Physiographic setting of the plots

Facing west, the burned area covers an entire slope/catchment in the Coimbra's Marginal Mountain range, overlaying schist and greywacke formations from precambric age, which forms steep linear slopes with a top convexity and often with no concavity at the slope bottom. The soils are humic cambisols, very disturbed due to the use of heavy machinery to prepare the soils for the tree plantations, which often includes the construction of earth terraces.

Figure 5 Moinhos view of the burned area, September 2009, shortly after the wildfire.