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)
7. Stakeholder information
8. Land use
9. Conservation measures and experimental setup
   1. Wildfire remediation
   2. Wildfire prevention
   3. Small-scale monitoring/experimentation
10. Monitoring activities

Wildfire prevention

Prescribed fire: the catchment of Vale Torto (near Góis, central Portugal) was subject to prescribed fire on February 20th 2009. A PhD programme is underway at ALTERRA (partner 1), and much of the background data (e.g. topography, soil depth etc.) has already been collected. This PhD is focusing on the hydrology of the catchment. UA (partner 7), ESAC (partner 18) and Swansea University (partner 4) have been collaborating between themselves and with ALTERRA concerning the installation and monitoring of the catchment both before and after the prescribed fire.